And further more Walstan consider this:
Questioner: "Statement made by Father Echert.This is a response to a recent post that was published on your web site “re: jews–lower case yours 11/26/04!). The Pope has made it very clear that we are to respect the religious faith of our Jewish Brothers and Sisters, that we are not to evangelize any member of the Jewish faith–in lay terms, hands off. Why is it that EWTN would publish the pseudo-scholarly ‘testimony’ of a person who does not have the courage to sign his name on the difficulty of “witnessing” to Jews, people whom this person alleges are his relatives?” One could assert with relatives like this, one would not need enemies. More disturbing is the Father Echert’s response that Moses and the prophets of the Hebrew Bible would sooner align themselves with us Christians than with the people who contiunue to learn and speak Hebrew and practice the faith of the forefathers of the Hebrew Bible? I think this kind of arrogance promotes hostility between Jews and Christians because it tacitly assumes that “we” know best. This kind of supercessionist thinking is rejected by all open-minded educated Christians who appreciate the fact that as Christians, we have much to atone for in our past treatment of the Jewish people. Let’s remember that Christian anti-semitism in Western Europe lay the foundation for passivity in the fact of terrible evil. In pax Christi.
Father Echert: If you have issues with what Jesus said about Moses, take it up with the Lord, not with me. Neither did you at all accurately represent what I wrote in my response, and you have assumed a posture of “arrogance” on my part. Please provide the quote of the Pope in which he teaches that we are not to evangelize Jews, and “keep our hands off.” Finally, you make an unwarranted move from the original subject, to an implicit charge of anti-semitism. You, sir, are a sophist–and not a very good one, at that!
