Any thoughts on review of Salvation is From the Jews?

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Maybe it’s just well-thought-out anti-semitism but it is well-thought out. I don’t intend throw in anti-semitic (well-Jew) literature in here for kicks by rattling people’s cages. I read Fatima Crusader’s global politics analysis and their bitter feelings started turning me off, but that’s not to say they don’t see some things correctly–just not necessarily reliable. If it is anti-Jew or ant-Protestant. sorry. It may be something to examine closely. Maybe the reviewer draws the wrong conclusions. Maybe you can tell me if it’s wrong and why. It may even be risky to read if you can get hooked on conspiracy theories (I’ll keep my eyes open regarding political events, but I don’t see average Jew as perfidious or anything whether or not there were elders of Zion who planned the takeover of the world) and you may not see certain people or history the same way or in the right way. I read opposite viewpoints about Pres. Bush. If you do read it, don’t just get turned off by the tone and say it must be anti- this or that.

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it your link is to Fatima Crusaders I won’t even waste my time, I have none to spare for anti-Catholic, anti-magesterial rants.
 
I read part of the review and stopped due to some of the terminology used there. I, however, have read the book and enjoyed it immensely.

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I found an interesting geo-political coverage of the devil in modern history using human agents. It was stuff you don’t read in history books. Maybe it’s true; maybe its some or all to support a premise and so has a lot of wishful thinking. I was looking for signs of Fatima Crusader and sure enough. I put it back on the shelf. Still, I don’t know if it was all wrong, but the uncharitable attitude of contributors and some things I’ve read that contradicted Michael Davies’s “I Am With You Always” has me questioning any of it. I do read alternate history and politics to try to make sense of it all and so, not hearing of this website amongst ultratraditionalists, I thought I’d read it and run it by any political science or history people here because there are events I’ve never heard of.
I have prayed for Sharon so I’m not anti-Jew (anti-semite is misused because Arabs are semites and many can’t stand Jews or at least Zionist Jews). I do have my misgivings about Zionist Judaism. As Abel was vs Cain and the son of perdition was pitted against the Son of Man, I had to wonder if Messianic Jews and Christian Gentiles (spiritual Semites, if you will) in the true Church of Christ, the Catholic one headed on Earth by the Pope, may not be pitted against some Jews definitely not on Christ’s team . Of course, as I said, I would not hold this info against the average Jew if proven true. I don’t believe Michael Medved or Bernard Goldberg are out to help the destruction of the Church. I’m just saying, could it not be remotely possible that those working hardest to do so may not at least, nominally, be Jewish (possibly a perverted form of it)?
 
I gave up on this review about half-way through because its author was confusing his own opinions about Jewish-Christian relationships with the contents of the book.

I’ve read *Salvation is from the Jews * and found it to be very insightful and respectful of faithful Jews. The author of the book does not associate Satan with Jews who do not accept Christ. In fact he believes they continue (and will continue) to play an important role in Salvation History.
 
I don’t know how they can be an important part in salvation history. Catholicism is an evolution of Judaism. Biblical Judaism ended after the temple was burned down by Titus. The most they can contribute outside the Church is a cultural context for the Bible stories unless they are like Chesterton was before becoming Catholic and defend our Faith and encourage us to keep our Faith. Otherwise, did the writer of Hitler’s Pope contribute to Salvation History? Not all like our Faith and not just because of the sack of the Jews by rogue crusaderds
The point of a book review is to have opinions. Movie reviewers have opinions that they don’t hide from their movie reviews.
 
I did read the info. on the back of a book by a Jew that said the Jews attacking the “Passion” were not acting on their religion (I’m sure, especially Foxman, who, I was told by a credible source, actually was a Christian once). Still, there is a good reason that the pre-Vatican Church told people not to read books with false teachings. It irritates me that Catholic bookstores sell books by non-Catholics. The Protestant stuff may have good stuff in there, but it can give some the false impression the others are ok too and even “Bringing Up Boys” by James Dobson could have errors.
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You know, while it's true that other religions share some truths with us, it is a diservice of the post-Vatican 2 optimism that we are not told that the devil speaks in half-truths and lies.  While the writers and speakers may not be lying for all they know, their religion/faith tradition contains things that are not true or that are incomplete in light of the understanding given Christ's Church by the Holy Spirit.  This is dangerous stuff.  Not even all books labelled "Catholic" should be sold at Catholic bookstores.  We don't need to read Greeley or Matthew Fox or universalist stuff to open our minds to new ideas.
Most are not new ideas anyway, but old heresies, and are brought up in books by Thomas Aquinas and others who were well aware of competitive views about tenets of our Faith and who give intellectual and correct responses that could open the mind of the “open-minded” if they truly are open-minded and not just simply troublemakers mad at their church about something and want to, consciously or not, drag others down with whom to share their misery.

Not all non-Christians have our best interests at heart and some wish to hurt our Church through us or us through our Church and it is not impossible they could be Jews, in ethnicity only as many may be. It is likely angry ex-Catholics (or practically ex-Catholics) could be the preparers for the anti-Christ, or ex-Catholic Jews (we all are spiritual Semites, right?). I’m just saying, is it not impossible that, as Cain and Abel were the earliest non-Eden-borne Semites in conflict followed by a certain 2 mothers with children that were in conflict in the Bible that there could be a showdown between spiritual Semites and certain Jews who may or may not hold to their own faith or be in a very liberal sect of Judaism?
 
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