re: manik- we need more programs please
Snooker where on those items u wrote says to murder the jews because they r jews?
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Ever heard of incitement? And then let the rabble do what they think they're being told to do....by men of god?
Want more?.......read the parts in bold......and then come back with an intelligent comment.
John Chrysostom (344 - 407 C.E.)
The strongest attacks on Jews and Judaism by the Church Fathers are to be found in the Homilies of Chrysostom in his Antioch sermons. He is considered to be among the most beloved and admired in Church history.
His name translates in Greek as St. John the Golden Mouthed.
His discourses were prompted by the fact that many Christians were meeting on friendly terms with Jews, visiting Jewish homes, and attending their synagogues.
"The Jews sacrifice their children to Satan....they are worse than wild beasts. The synagogue is a brothel, a den of scoundrels, the temple of demons devoted to idolatrous cults, a criminal assembly of Jews, a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ, a house of ill fame, a dwelling of iniquity, a gulf and abyss of perdition."
---"Homilies Against the Jews" in Patrologia Graeca (Paris: Garnier, 1857-1866
"The Jews have fallen into a condition lower than the vilest animal. Debauchery and drunkenness have brought them to the level of the lusty goat and the pig. They know only one thing: to satisfy their stomachs, to get drunk, to kill, and beat each other up like stage villains and coachmen."
---"Homilies Against the Jews" in Patrologia Graeca (Paris: Garnier, 1857-1866
"The synagogue is a curse, obstinate in her error, she refuses to see or hear, she has deliberately perverted her judgment; she has extinguished with herself the light of the Holy Spirit."
---"Homilies Against the Jews" in Patrologia Graeca (Paris: Garnier, 1857-1866
Chrysostom further said that the Jews had become a degenerate race because of their "odious assassination of Christ for which crime there is no expiation possible, no indulgence, no pardon, and for which they will always be a people without a nation, enduring a servitude without end."
---"Homilies Against the Jews" in Patrologia Graeca (Paris: Garnier, 1857-1866)
"I hate the Jews because they violate the Law. I hate the synagogue because it has the Law and the prophets. It is the duty of all Christians to hate the Jews."
---"Homilies Against the Jews" in Patrologia Graeca (Paris: Garnier, 1857-1866
Chrysostom's Homilies were to be used in seminaries and schools for centuries as model sermons, with the result that his message of hate would be passed down to succeeding generations of theologians. The nineteenth century Protestant cleric R. S. Storr called him "one of the most eloquent preachers who ever since apostolic times have brought to men the divine tidings of truth and love." A contemporary of Storr, the great theologian John Henry Cardinal Newman, described Chrysostom as a "bright, cheerful, gentle soul, a sensitive heart...".
---Prager, Dennis, "Why the Jews?" (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 94.
In his exegesis on Psalm 106:37, Saint John Chrysostom wrote that the Jews had "slaughtered their progeny with their own hands to serve the accursed demons, who are the enemies of our life."
---8 Orations Against the Jews, I.6
"Here [in the synagogue] the slayers of Christ gather together, here the cross is driven out, here God is blasphemed, here the Father is ignored, here the Son is outraged, here the grace of the Spirit is rejected. Does not greater harm come from this place [than from pagan temples] since the Jews themselves are demons?"
---8 Orations Against the Jews, VI.3.
In a stunning passage, John Chrysostom went so far as to assert that because Jews rejected Christ, they therefore deserved to be killed. Like other obstinate animals, the Jews "are fit for killing. And this is what happened to the Jews: while they were making themselves unfit for work, they grew fit for slaughter."
---8 Orations Against the Jews, I. I.1. Chrysostom called Jews "inveterate murderers, destroyers, men possessed by the devil. . . ."
---8 Orations Against the Jews, I.4.
'God hates you.' These words of Chrysostom popularized Jew-hatred for centuries to come. Thus, to quote one historian: 'The popular Christian doctrine has always been that anyone, whether pagan or Christian, who has at any time persecuted, tortured or massacred Jews has acted as an instrument of Divine wrath.
---Quoted in Malcolm Hay, The Roots of Christian Anti-Semitism, Liberty Press, New York, 1981, p.27, as cited by Michael L. Brown, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the "Church" and the Jewish People, Destiny Image Publishers, Shippensburg, 1992, p.11
