Queries & Comments

Opening Up a Can of Worms or Performing a Service?

Open Discussion

In opening your pages to a discussion of anti-Semitism (Queries & Comments, BAR 17:04), BAR is performing an important service to the world in general.

Mentality of a Bully

Vernon Holst’s letter (Queries & Comments, BAR 17:04) adds a new, vicious dimension to the discussion. He writes: “How one can read of the early persecution of the Christians by the Jews of that day and not be more or less anti-Semitic is hard to see.” Not anti-Italian or anti-Greek, but only anti-Jew, after 2,000 years of continuous punishment for whatever it is that he reads in his New Testament. Not anti-Arabic or anti-Muslim for 1,300 years of conquest and destruction of the existing Christian nations and churches throughout the Middle and Far East. Not even the Buddhists or Taoists who do not recognize Jehovah as the Creator. This is the mentality of the bully, who speaks bravely when the victim is small and defenseless but shuts up when facing an equally tough opponent.

Mr. Strugnell and Mr. Holst have never met me, yet they know enough about me to condemn me and possibly approve of anything that may be done to me. My God has said, “Vengeance is mine” (Deuteronomy 32:35). What has their God told them?