how do you deal with people who are blantly prejudiced towards others?

Question

these are my friends and they are prejudice towards jewish people , claiming that all jews are rich, and that they re all responsible for jesus' death, and how we cant say merry x-mas because of them, my friends are from iraq , i would have thought they would be more open minded.. anyways.. advice?

i failed to mention that they arent muslim and they are lutheran, not that that makes any difference

Answer 1

You have two choices; you can accept them as they are; or you can get new friends.

Answer 2

We live in a hateful world. I cannot stand prejudices!!! People miss out in some much, by being narrow minded about other races or cultures. Putting a label on some because of their race or background is just stupid. I currently live in the south and it is really hard for me to keep my mouth shut when someone says a prejudice remark. I usually say something so they know I don't agree with them and try to get them to realize how narrow minded their comment is.

Answer 3

I was in this same situation once and the person who made this comment was disappointed because I did not agree with him.Since that day he has been avoiding me.
What amazed me was that he was condemning Bill Gates for being Jewish,and I noticed his computer screen was running Microsoft/windows.
I have never come across any christians who hate Jews.

Answer 4

I would find a new set of friends to "run around with". They are definitely not the type of people that act like they care about others or themselves very much. To love another, you must first care about yourself! I am a Christian and I believe that there are others in your area that would not act in that manner. Spend time looking for them. You are worth the effort! GOD did not tell us to hate people. HE sent HIS SON to teach us the meaning of LoVe. We are to treat others as we would want to be treated. The Jewish Nation is not responsible for what their forefathers did as we are not responsible for the acts of our forefathers. We all need to be teaching and studying from GOD's WORD together so that we are all able to be in HeAvEn with the FATHER!! Have a great evening!
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Answer 5

That's an extremely difficult question. One strategy is to ignore them, but sometimes when you ignore fanatics, they grow in strength and just become more fanatical. If you challenge their opinion, they get to claim a debate exists and you've lent them credibility.

I think the best thing to do is to not specifically address their claims, which would create a debate, but instead just write them off as racists and bigots.

Answer 6

Get new friends. Muslims seem to love that bigoted ignorance and although they take offence at anything insulting Islam they dont mind insulting the jews. OH and draw Mohammed with a pig's nose and put it up in their houses.

Answer 7

Educate them! Teach them humility, tolerance, and appreciation for diversity. If they refuse to consider these things, then get new friends.

Explain to them how everyone has prejudices, but it can be dangerous if we act according to such prejudices (discrimination) without constraint. Show them that it is in their own best interest to do this.

Answer 8

From Iraq? Are they xian?
I think you are never going to change their mind unless they actually interact with nice jews. You can talk until u r blue in the face.

Answer 9

I had a christian friend once - it took awhile before I realized she was completely insane. You need new friends. Christians are trapped within their cult and will use God to justify their hatred of all things non-christian.

Answer 10

I don't know. I am spending an hour to pray specifically for these people here. This site is sickening:
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/