# How do Jews regard Christians? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 19, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617 "2016-01-19T20:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/41 "2016-01-20T19:50:52Z")
As a Jew, I don’t need to worry about whether gentiles are “wrong” or “mistaken” or even “delusional.” They’re gentiles. They do their own thing and my own belief system is frankly disinterested in the rightness or wrongness of their belief systems. I have no mandate to try and convince anybody to think the way I do, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/42 "2016-01-20T20:19:43Z")
I work with many Jewish people in an industry more or less dominated by Jewish people who up until approximately 10 years ago voiced no opinion on Christians at all, and may not have held any. Since then, there has been a general and increasingly vocal underlying sentiment of what I consider caution tinged with a bit of… maybe fear is a bit too harsh, perhaps discomfort or mistrust. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/43 "2016-01-20T20:25:35Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > up until approximately 10 years ago voiced no opinion on Christians at all, and may not have held any. Since then, there has been a general and increasingly vocal underlying sentiment of what I consider caution tinged with a bit of… maybe fear is a bit too harsh, perhaps discomfort or mistrust. I wonder what happened to alter that. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/44 "2016-01-20T20:27:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I wonder what happened to alter that. I am thinking the political climate; that’s definitely the case for me. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/45 "2016-01-20T20:55:00Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I’m a nonbeliever myself, but I always find Jesus’s struggles with the Jewish establishment interesting. As I understand it, the Pharisees were the ones who committed to the letter of the law and thus had strict and exacting methods of ritual. An unnamed Pharisee in [Luke 11:37-54](http://www.biblestudytools.com/luke/passage/?q=luke+11:37-54) invited Jesus to dinner, and chided Jesus for not washing up beforehand. This opened a floodgate of issues Jesus had, as he unloaded on the Pharisees’ lack of empathy for the poor and their upholding of burdensome laws. Awkward. Yeah, washing before you eat. What a stupid, primitive idea. It’s like they didn’t realize that disease was caused by demons, not this “germ” stuff. Next thing they’ll want doctors to wash before operating. Silly Jews! ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/46 "2016-01-20T22:19:23Z")
Living in the south, I see a lot of Christians who talk the Jesus talk but don’t walk the Jesus walk. They judge others, but don’t see their own hypocrisies. > [@Alessan](#): > > Also, we have a hard time telling them apart. We know that there are Catholics and Protestants, but anything more specific than that and our eyes start glazing over. Truth. ---
**Author:** ![Jayhawker\_Soule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@Jayhawker\_Soule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayhawker_Soule)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/47 "2016-01-20T23:18:00Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > I work with many Jewish people in an industry more or less dominated by Jewish people who up until approximately 10 years ago voiced no opinion on Christians at all, and may not have held any. Since then, there has been a general and increasingly vocal underlying sentiment of what I consider caution tinged with a bit of… maybe fear is a bit too harsh, perhaps discomfort or mistrust. Where do you live? ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/48 "2016-01-20T23:19:20Z")
Any non-Jew who obeys the Seven Laws of Noah as most Christians do is righteous. He/she will live in eternal bliss. But a Jew who keeps 613 Laws will get much greater eternal reward. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/49 "2016-01-20T23:32:21Z")
> [@Jayhawker\_Soule](#): > > Where do you live? Currently Northeast US. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/50 "2016-01-20T23:35:41Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > In short, a “righteous” Christian = a “righteous” Jew, according to Judaism. A Noachite who keeps the Seven Laws is righteous, but the reward of a Jew who keeps 613 Laws is much greater. Keeping the Seven Laws is easy. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/51 "2016-01-20T23:41:36Z")
Briscoe and Logan seemed to get along just fine. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/52 "2016-01-21T00:28:28Z")
> [@ElderSign](#): > > Many Jews I’ve spoken with don’t want the goyim (gentile) to marry their children, but they don’t BLOW THEM UP, CUT THEIR HEADS OFF, or SHOOT THEM. Thank you. Orthodox Jews respect gentiles who obey [The Seven Laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/53 "2016-01-21T03:33:59Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Any non-Jew who obeys the Seven Laws of Noah as most Christians do is righteous. He/she will live in eternal bliss. > > But a Jew who keeps 613 Laws will get much greater eternal reward. Where will you find a red heifer? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/54 "2016-01-21T03:35:31Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Where will you find a red heifer? :dubious: Only the ~400 Commandments applicable today. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/55 "2016-01-21T03:54:06Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Only the ~400 Commandments applicable today. Is there a specific list of the ones which aren’t applicable? ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/56 "2016-01-21T03:58:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Is there a specific list of the ones which aren’t applicable? All the Commandments dealing with the Temple and sacrifices are not applicable. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/57 "2016-01-21T04:52:01Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Briscoe and Logan seemed to get along just fine. Briscoe was raised Catholic. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/58 "2016-01-21T10:35:07Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Jesus doesn’t fit their criteria for Messiah, most notably because he strayed from the original word of God and declared it null and void. No, that was Paul. Jesus said (Matthew 5:18) that the Law would last until heaven and earth passed away. Yet Christians would rather believe Paul than Jesus. One of the many reasons I don’t understand Christians. But I don’t understand Jews, either. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/59 "2016-01-21T13:26:56Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > No, that was Paul. Jesus said (Matthew 5:18) that the Law would last until heaven and earth passed away. Yet Christians would rather believe Paul than Jesus. > > One of the many reasons I don’t understand Christians. But I don’t understand Jews, either. A couple of verses later he says “For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” That could be taken to mean that he thought he was more righteous than the Pharisees, as evidenced by his outburst at the Pharisee’s dinner. Evidently the Jews couldn’t stand his holier-than-thou attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Jayhawker\_Soule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@Jayhawker\_Soule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayhawker_Soule)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617/60 "2016-01-21T13:42:27Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > No, that was Paul. Jesus said (Matthew 5:18) that the Law would last until heaven and earth passed away. Yet Christians would rather believe Paul than Jesus. > > One of the many reasons I don’t understand Christians. But I don’t understand Jews, either. Neither do we. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-jews-regard-christians/743617.md?page=4)