Is there any evidence that this administrator is a conservative? There is substantial anti-semitism on the progressive left, especially among progressive African-Americans. And school administrators are much more likely to come from the left.
Where are you getting this from? I have attended many evangelical/baptist churches, and never heard this. What we were taught is that the Jews are God’s chosen people, and Jesus came to Earth to extend the promise of heaven to non-Jews through accepting Jesus into their heart. Jews are the only ones who get to go to heaven by following the Old Trstament (Torah).
Why would you think that? First of all, not a lot of white supremacists make it to be administrators in the public school system. Second, Black people are much more likely to be anti-semitic:
—Evangelicals adhere to a Christian school of thought called pre-millennial dispensationalism. According to this philosophy, the second coming of Christ is an imminent event that will take place in several stages. In the first stage, Jesus will reappear in heaven, but will not descend to earth. In heaven, he will meet the true believers—those who were “born again” by adopting Christ as their personal savior. In an act known as “the rapture,” these believers will be miraculously drawn up to Jesus from the earth, while true believers who died prior to the appearance of the Messiah will be resurrected from the dead and join Jesus. All of this is expected to happen in the near future, although evangelical writings do not provide a specific timeframe in most cases. For Jews, this will be “a time of trouble for Jacob” (Jer. 30:7). Despite returning to their homeland, prior to or during this period, Jews will be considered “lacking in faith” because they will not have accepted Christ as their Messiah (Boyer 1992, 254–90).
I went to evangelical chirches through my entire childhood and early teen years, including bible study classes and all the rest, and I have never heard that. Maybe this is some southern US local thing, or some subset of evangelicals I don’t know.
I have seen a lot of bigotry against various groups from those people, but never anti-semitism. Jews were God’s chosen people, and off limits.
In fact, almost all the anti-semitism I have personally run into came from the progressive left, as a byproduct of their support for Palestinians and dislike of Jews for their more capitalist nature. The Democrats tolerate open anti-semites in Congress such as Rashiba Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley. The Nation of Islam and the Black Hebrew Israelites are examples of explicitly anti-semitic groups that are still tolerated as allies on the left.
And given that the school system now is about 90% Democrats, and that black anti-semitism is much more widespread and common than white anti-semitism, I’m not sure why anyone would assume that a school,admimistrator hinting at anti-semitism would be a white supremicist.
That said, this particular guy could be on the right or the left. I haven’t seen any evidence suggesting his poliitcal orientation, and group characteristics should not be applied to individuals.
It wasn’t Omar or Talib chanting “Jews will not replace us!”, or praising those who so chanted.
Us Jews know who the real threat has been. It’s always and overwhelmingly been from the right. It wasn’t leftists that my grandmother and her family were running from when they escaped Germany in the 30s.
There is some antisemitism on the left, but it’s utterly dwarfed, both in quality and quantity, by that in the right.
I mean, even if this was demonstrably true - I don’t dispute that there are black anti-semites - by sheer proportion of population and socio-political impact, it’s virtually impossible that I have more to fear from a black anti-semite than a white anti-semite. And I have a personal history of violence both with the latter as well as pro-Palestinian anti-semitism.
Not only are teachers overwhelmingly Democrats (or liberals in Canada), when polled on the issues they are not only to the left of the average American, they are also to the left of the average Democrat. They are, in fact, one of the most left-wing large cohorts in America. Still beat by humanities professors, but not by much.
So a right wing think tank and the people that make a baby-naming app say so?
edited to add: made a baby-naming app. That article is from 2015, and Verdant Labs doesn’t seem to exist any more.
IIRC antisemitism is heavily correlated with a lack of education; without some strong actual evidence, claims that educators are more likely to be antisemitic are just random internet noise.
That’s a decent gloss of the belief, but it’s not very deep. The thing is, nothing you said actually contradicts what I said.
Yes, they believe that Israel are God’s People. But they also believe that salvation comes through Jesus alone. The idea with the Old Covenant is that the most diligent and faithful followers of Judaism will eventually accept Jesus as the Messiah when he comes back. They’re looking forward to the Messiah rather than back.
That’s the exception. The idea that the Old Covenant is keeping them doesn’t work because these Christians believe the blood sacrifice is necessary for salvation. So, without the Temple sacrifices, Jewish people have no way to have their sins cleansed.
It’s only because of promises in Revelation about the tribes of Israel that they believe that Israel will be saved. And, even then, not necessarily everyone. They no more respect the more liberal branches of Judaism than they do the more liberal branches of Christianity. Plus they have no problem attempting to convert Jewish people, so they clearly do not think their salvation is assured by any of this.
I didn’t just go to churches. I grew up in this mindset. I was one of these people. I’m telling the stuff I myself was actually taught. I only use third person because I don’t believe this anymore, even though I am still a Christian.
Judaism is seen as inferior to Christianity by these people. It’s just that a Jewish person may possibly wind up saved due to God’s promise to Israel.
I grew up in it as well. I even taught Sunday school for a while, and my family is full of pastors, missionaries etc. Half of them went to Christian colleges and got degrees in religion.
I’m now an atheist. I don’t have any axe to grind here, and am not defending the church. One of the reasons I lost my faith was the shitty behaviour of some of the church leaders.
I don’t doubt your experience. But mine was that Jews were considered to be God’s chosen people, and they definitely did not need to come to Jesus and be saved. They were the only people on the planet granted entrance to heaven without being ‘saved’. God so decreed. Jesus came to Earth to extend God’s offer to Gentiles, so long as they accepted Jesus.
So… I got curious and did some reading, and hoo boy Christians are all over the map on this. The Catholic church caused some controversy in 2015 by saying that Jews could get to heaven without believing in Jesus. The fact that it was controversial indicates that many Christians disagree.
And the bible is contradictory, as usual. The common attribution for the special place in Heaven for Jews is Romans 11, verses 25-27:
I take it that means that all Israel will be saved because the Messiah (not Jesus) will open the hearts of all Jews and make them believers and God will take away their sins so they may enter heaven.
Other sects on the other hand, can point to other passages in the New Testament that say no one may enter heaven except through Jesus, and some passages about Pharisees and money changers destined for Hell.
So ot looks like we are both right, amd it depends on the church.
Which is in effect, what you said, @Sam_Stone. The way it was explained to me is that the original Covenant between God and the Jews was never revoked, and that it is still in effect for the Jewish people. The rest of us have to go the Christian route for salvation, as we’re not part of that original Covenant.
Another thing for people to consider is that Evangelicals aren’t even as organized or coherent as Southern Baptists, much less more hierarchical denominations like Catholicism, Lutheranism, Episcopalianism, etc… So it’s entirely possible and likely that individual churches run the gamut of attitudes toward Jews and Israel.
While the whole post was a spectacular example of trying to hijack a thread and make it about oneself, this sentence really stands out for the way that it tries to tie “the Left” with both desiring and enabling the Holocaust AND with hating capitalism. What is really interesting to me, tho, is the part that I bolded.
The part I always found hard to accept was that Jews were determined to grind down the world under the bootheel of unrestrained capitalism while simultaneously committed to communist revolution.*
It’s a construct not of the Left, but of fringe wackos without any coherent political philosophy.
*akin to believing that vaccines are central to a world depopulation scheme which somehow inflates the profits of Giant Corporations.