Why are anti-Christian remarks so much more acceptible in our society than anti-Semetic ones?

Question

Skepsis - Excellent point!

Answer 1

It is hypocritical.

Answer 2

The Christians are an extremely powerful majority in this country. Many of us non Christians out there feel pressured and intimidated by some Christians, especially the ones that call themselves God's soldiers and see the world as us vs. them. They want political power and they want to force others to conform to their beliefs. I only make remarks against the intolerant Christians that act like non Christians are defective or less than human. If you've ever seen the movie "Jesus Camp", you'd see that some Christians are fanatics that have no respect for anyone that is different. I think that mellow, tolerant Christians are fine. I even married a Catholic. By the way, I've never encountered a Jewish person that told me I'm bad for being an atheist. They've just treated it as a non issue. Respect goes both ways.

Answer 3

Before the Holocaust anti-Semitic sentiments were commonly accepted. Afterwards we're faced with "remembering so it will never happen again". But their is a greater tragedy behind "The Final Solution".

The layman's take on the Holocaust is that Jewish people were the only ones who suffered. Of course any historian worth his weight in salt knows better. Five million (approx) non-Jewish ethnic minorities were also exterminated in Nazi death camps, many of those were Christian. To date, few of these victims are remembered, presumably because they weren't Jewish.

Christians, gypsies, scholars, homosexuals, artists, philosophers and countless others were among the forgotten victims so they're still relatively fair game when it comes to being the butt of someone else's joke.

But I do find some irony in the fact that Christians were persecuted along side so many others that today they (meaning some Christians) openly vilify. Homosexuals of course are the 1st to come to mind.

Answer 4

Christianity is a religion. Judaism is more than just a religion, but also a "race" or a culture, an entire people who have been labeled as Christ-killers. Anti-Semitic comments attack the person himself more than they do his religion. Christians can leave the faith, but even an atheist Jew will still consider himself Jewish. They have been oppressed in the past while Christianity was much more often an oppressor.

Answer 5

Because the Jews have been oppressed for awhile, and especially because of WWII. It's also hypocritical... kind of like how white people can't hate black people, but blacks can hate whites. It's all about what we've been taught; Antisemitism is wrong! Blacks are oppressed! Christian white people did the oppressing! Throughout public school we're taught these things, but never are we taught that it would be just as wrong the other way around. Thus we can bash on the white Christians all we want, but the moment we say a word against Jews or blacks, we're intolerant racists.

Answer 6

The West, at the present time, seems to be in a state of self destruction. The very thing that build western civilization, the Catholic Church, has been rejected by many.
Most people don't even know enough about Christianity. Public Schools have done their number here. The effects of Public School education bears negative fruit in relation to religion. Public Schools are not neutral.
A whole generation of resentment has grown up based on false ideas of religion in general, Christianity in particular.

Answer 7

It shows the the absolute truth of the bible. Christ taught that the world loves the dark, and hates the light, that the world would hate him so how much more so would the world hate us. This is the truth. Christ born into the line of David a Jew, was rejected by the Jewish people the original disciples where Jewish and they tried to teach the Jewish but they would not listen, so they went out into the world. Most Jewish people do not try to impact the world for their belief, Christians do.

Answer 8

I fully agree with what Graciela said. That whole us vs. them mentality is insanity. Jesus Camp is a perfect example of the type of Christians that are responsible for those remarks. In that movie the woman who ran the camp said that she was raising Soldiers for Jesus. She was using the model of hate that some fundamentalist Muslims are using in the Middle East. Sad scary things that people do to children.

Answer 9

Because Christians are a larger and less vulnerable "group" in our society. Similar in our society to more offense being taken by a slur against blacks rather than whites. Smaller or "minority" groups usually have more challenges to face and remarks that add to that are commonly seen as more unfair.

Answer 10

Because the king of the world, Satan, wants his minions to wipe out Christianity. Then he can just let the Muslims eat the Jews up.

Won't work I've read the end of the story. They both lose.

God Bless!

Answer 11

It is considered bad form to kick someone when they're down, and Jews were down for a long, long time. Christians, on the other hand, have been up since the days of Constantine, and the popular sterotype of the noisy, clueless, jingoistic Christian makes them attractive targets. The trick is to demonstrate some Christian humility and beat the stereotype.