{"id":5160,"date":"2018-02-26T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T11:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=5160"},"modified":"2018-02-26T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T11:24:33","slug":"christians-call-jews-nazis-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/christians-call-jews-nazis-in-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians Call Jews &#8220;Nazis&#8221;.  In Jerusalem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it must be pretty horrific for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/9af7d38ed96540e5852f5cd6c08ae50a\">this to be true<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Christian leaders responsible for the site issued a joint statement bemoaning what they called a \u201csystematic campaign of abuse\u201d against them, comparing it to anti-Jewish laws issued in Nazi Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what is the unspeakable horror visited on these Christians?\u00a0 Apparently, their church (not just any church) is being asked to pay taxes on its many non-religious business holdings, including hotels, &#8220;halls&#8221;, and a booming business in lease operations and real estate sales.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t care so much if this were just a struggle over taxes.\u00a0 After all, I do not know thing one about the Israeli Constitution, and do not know what freedoms may be enshrined there.\u00a0 \u00a0But for these church leaders to call Israeli government actions which sound fair enough to me &#8220;comparable to Nazi&#8221; depredations, as, shall we say, beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not impugning Christians at large, of course, for what sounds like a small squabble in a big meaningful place.\u00a0 Nobody here should feel criticized.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m willing to be educated out of my ignorance about how this all fits together.\u00a0 But it sounds like some bearded patriarchs just Jumped the Ark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5160\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5160\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it must be pretty horrific for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/9af7d38ed96540e5852f5cd6c08ae50a\">this to be true<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The Christian leaders responsible for the site issued a joint statement bemoaning what they called a \u201csystematic campaign of abuse\u201d against them, comparing it to anti-Jewish laws issued in Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>And what is the unspeakable horror visited on these Christians?\u00a0 Apparently, their church (not just any church) is being asked to pay taxes on its many non-religious business holdings, including hotels, &#8220;halls&#8221;, and a booming business in lease operations and real estate sales.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t care so much if this were just a struggle over taxes.\u00a0 After all, I do not know thing one about the Israeli Constitution, and do not know what freedoms may be enshrined there.\u00a0 \u00a0But for these church leaders to call &#8230; 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