Posted by
Mark S. Rader on Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:00:00 AM
James W. Von Brunn, who opened fire inside the US National Holocaust Museum this week, is defiantly an anti-Semite. However to categorize him as "right-wing", inferring that the religious right is anti-Semitic, is purely leftist rhetoric and is indeed Christian bigotry to its core.
The reality is that the vast majority of the religious-right are among the most vocal and ardent supporters of the Jewish people and the Jewish nation. Every political extreme has it's crazy anti-Semites, Rev. Wright and Joseph Farrakhan are two who are extreme left politically. Having grown up in the south I was never really exposed to and was actually shocked by the anti-Semites I witnessed on a visit to Detroit Michigan during a United Auto Workers street rally I stumbled upon in 1989. Since then I have seen it in many people but none of them serious Christians.
Think about it... the founder of Christianity was a Jew, all the apostles were Jews... Christianity is indeed a Jewish religion. If someone claims to be a serious Christian and at the same time hates Jews they are extremely dysfunctional in their beliefs. The Jew, Jesus of Nazareth's primary teaching was love for all men and the only hatred that he tolerated was the hatred of oppressive sin. People who hate Jews are just haters regardless of their political bent. But for the record, the Conservative right is a far stronger supporter of the nation of Israel than is the liberal left in this country. The press is going to try and convince you that anti-Semitic and right-wing walk hand-in-hand... but that is simply a lie.
By-the-way, we do not need a special "hate crimes" law to send this guy to the electric chair... he is a murderer and the first degree murder laws should do just fine.