If I'm permitted, I'd like to chime in with an indulgent, spiritual perspective (or testimony, rather) on how the conditioning was broken for me, and others like me. The autistic sort of ramblings of a mother in her mid-twenties. Nothing I'll say is going to be all that new or funny, but I don't know where else to say it. I have to get it off my chest.
All growing up, I heard from my betters that Israel is full of God's chosen people, so while they may detest the Messiah and Christiandom as a whole, we must never speak ill of them. Naturally, this confused me. Like, what does that even mean? Is that really what the Bible says?
I remember asking my father if Jewish people went to Heaven by default because of their chosen status. He said no. I asked other believers and they also said no, that they had to accept Christ as their savior like everyone else. It still confused me.
Christian here; I do not describe myself as antisemitic, though your post struck a chord with me. December 2024-January 2025, I got sucked into for lack of a better term a "Jew rabbit hole", and yeah growing up watching Christians on Youtube (I grew up in a secular home) saying the "God curses those who curse Israel" verse, I always thought you as a Christian were not supposed to judge them at all. But with this rabbit hole and reading the Bible as an adult after being backslidden for eight years, the dam finally gave away when I took these mental steps:
- Biblically, good is objectively good and evil is objectively evil.
- All people will be judged the same.
- I asked myself this: Are Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky in Heaven right now?
This was also around the time I had to deal with a pretty nasty and far left atheist Jew on Facebook who went out of his way to be abusive because I am a Christian, and I figure dealing with that guy plus all of the listed stuff here is what did it. I don't want to wipe out all Jews, but that's not what a Boomer Evangelical thinks when you say something like "I don't like the Israeli government's relationship with America/Western Europe" or "Jewish people are overrepresented in production of degenerate Hollywood movies". - Because to some extent a large amount of these Boomers worship 1945 instead of Jesus Christ. And I am not in favor of Palestine whatsoever, partially because I'm not locking hands with Muslims for any reason.
So because of what these people believe, because you have pigeonholed a sole verse in the Old Testament, you're going to give Jews a pass. So with that being said, never say anything about Trotsky or Harvey Milk ever again - because that line of thinking taken to its fullest extent would include that. These people are so vain they think they can force God to speed up Bible prophecy by breeding red heifers to ship over to the Holy Land, but the Bible itself teaches man cannot stop, speed up, or slow down prophecy being fulfilled. I am of the mind God is far more concerned with the land itself than the people, given Jesus twice uses the phrase "synagogue of Satan".
And this isn't getting into the far right stupidity I see attacking the Bible itself (when a lot of these same people claim to be Christian?) to the point where they are making apologia for actual paganism, pagan religion being something which made God irate enough to wipe out whole races of people in the Old Testament. Because imagine crying about Rome collapsing a millennia and some centuries ago in order to comb through everything and anything to whine about Jews. Because that isn't historical literacy, theological literacy, or nuance, it's becoming so mentally warped with hatred you become an idiot. - You want to "preserve your race" to the point where you want members of your race to embrace something which puts a target on your back.