Rabbi: Tebow Super Bowl Win Would Lead Christians to Burn Mosques & Banish Immigrants
- Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:02am by
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The Tim Tebow debate took a bizarre turn this week when a Connecticut Rabbi wrote a scathing, Onion-like article for Jewish Week, a newspaper serving the Jewish community in New York City.
The piece, which was written by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman and seems more like a parody than a literal proclamation from a religious leader, claims that a Tebow Super Bowl win would lead to total and utter Christian-led chaos. And we’re not just talking angry football fans engaging in verbal outbursts — we’re talking mosque-burning hatred (among other purported antics).
A screen shot from the Tim Tebow article in "Jewish Week"
Hammerman, the head spiritual leader of Temple Beth El in Connecticut, leads the article by writing, “I’ve got a Tim Tebow problem.” After setting the 24-year-old football player up as “a poster boy of the Christian right,” Hammerman says, “Now tiny Tim has grown and is on track to possibly appear in this season’s Super Bowl – on the field – and that is what scares me.”
As the rabbi continues, he claims that the game of football is more popular than even God here in America (a point that many Americans would likely debate). His semi-lighthearted words quickly devolve. “When you combine the religion that is football with the religion that is religion, the mix can be dangerously flammable,” he writes.
Of course, he manages to slip in some leftist statements about Republican presidential candidates as well. He writes:
When supposedly well-educated candidates publicly question overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change and evolution and then gain electoral traction by fabricating conspiracies about a war on Christmas, these are not rational times.
Here’s where a bizarre turn is made. Hammerman writes that, should Tebow win the Super Bowl, the faithful (i.e. Christians) will “do insane things.“ The rabbi goes on to explain that a win would ”buoy [Tebow's] faithful” and lead to mosque burnings, gay bashing and the banishment of immigrants.
Yes, that’s correct: A legitimate religious leader contends that Tebow’s open faith and a subsequent Super Bowl win would lead to violence and discrimination. Here were his exact words:
If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants. While America has become more inclusive since Jerry Falwell’s first political forays, a Tebow triumph could set those efforts back considerably.
This commentary was so startling that the Blaze decided to hold off on writing about Hammerman’s article until we could speak with him further to verify his views. Unfortunately, he was unresponsive to e-mail and phone messages.
On Human Events, JWF writes, “It appears this Hammerman is merely a far-left crank who happens to be a rabbi. He diminishes the good work of non-political rabbis and pretty much anyone of faith. He should be ashamed.” Many on the right, it seems, agree.
Even Fox News’ Bob Beckel, hardly a conservative, slammed Hammerman’s views:
Ironically, Hammerman writes a column for Jewish Week entitled “Hammerman on Ethics.” Yes, ethics. As of Thursday morning, it appeared as though Jewish Week had removed the offensive piece.
On his blog, the rabbi confirmed that the article was removed, writing, “The piece has been taken down and I apologize to all those whom it has offended. Some additional reflections will be forthcoming. Thank you.”
We’ll be looking forward to seeing what these “reflections” will include.
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kickagrandma
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:32amTo the Rabbi: sir, if you don’t KNOW JESUS, you don‘t know nuthin’, Honey.
So, get an whole BIBLE and read it front to back to know the AUTHOR’S KID…. you’ll be glad (eternally) that you did.
Report Post »andrewleiner
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:31pm11. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, {This happened in 70 A.D. when the Roman General Titus destroyed Jerusalem and burned the Jewish Temple.} and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, {This happened in 691 A.D. when the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim shrine, was built on the Temple Mount.} there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. {The wise know that these “days” are years. So, 691 + 1,290 = 1981. What happened here on Earth in 1981? Not much that I know of. But my guess is that this is when Satan was cast out of Heaven. {Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Revelation 12:12}
12. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. {Ok, 691 + 1,335 = 2026. No one knows the day or the hour, but, it looks, to me, that this is the year of the Second Coming, when Jesus returns, not as the Lamb of God, but, as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Psalms 2:9.}
13. But go thou way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Daniel 12:11-13
andrewleiner@comcast.net
Report Post »robert
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:38pm“The piece, which was written by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman and seems more like a parody than a literal proclamation from a religious leader, claims that a Tebow Super Bowl win would lead to total and utter Christian-led chaos.”
What is so unusual about paranoid rants like this coming from the Jewish community? I mean, these charges are similar to what Abe Foxman utters quite often.
All of it is anti-Christian hate that is quite common from one despicable hater or another by the Jewish fringe.
The disgusting Ben Stein screamed “anti-Semite” at Ron Paul for simply criticizing Israel.
This evil rhetoric needs to be cleaned up by the Jewish community. If it is not, they have no business claiming any kind of discrimination against themselves.
Its absolutely nothing but pure unadulterated hate speech, and if an apology isn’t forthcoming this disgusting Rabbi should be charged with a hate crime.
Cesium
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:43pm@kickagrandma.. You need an education on why jews reject christ as the messiah defined by god. please get one.
Report Post »Yeah_Buddy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:05pmhey the rabbi has a point…but do we have to wait for the superbowl to burn mosques, bash homosexuals and ban (llegal?) immigrants? I mean there is still two weeks left in 2011…lets get ta da pilagen too! yeehaaa!
Report Post »Mgindi26
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:10pmAs an orthodox jew I can say that this “rabbi” DOES NOT represent jewish thought at all. First of all his saying that there is a problem with people who don’t take evolution on faith (because there really isn’t any evidence for it) is antithetical to Torah thought and understanding. The problem is that most conservative and reform jews (even their supposed rabbis) are uneducated as to the truths and beauty of the jewish religon as it has been practiced throughout the ages. Conservative and reform judaism are both man made versions of true judaism. Unfortunately they don’t accept or practice many of the basic tennets of judaism. Without being attached to the wisdom of the ages of the Torah and our sages this leads them astray o make really silly statements.
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:14pmWhat a complete and utter moron. Words fail…
Report Post »lantzh
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:29pmThe bible was written by men lady. Not GOD. The authours kid?
Report Post »cherigc
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:47pmThis “Rabbi” sounds like a UBERliberal Obama lover idiot!!!! I am Jewish and Tebow is the best thing that has happened to belieers in a long time! Shaame on this ”Rabbi!’ What an ass!!!!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 2:08pmI have see on the Blaze that some think Liberalism/Progressivism is a mental illness and I laughed. Now, I believe there is something seriously wrong with their thought process. By their own words, they come across intolerant, bigoted, crude, and frankly, just plain crazy. There was a time when everyone let everyone else believe what ever. Now, Liberals just cannot help themselves, they just must denigrate anyone they can in the worst way possiblle. I do now believe it is a mental illness that is spreading like wildfire. They lack any shred of common sense and decency.
Report Post »Warrior4Zion
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 2:14pmSome of this flippant language of God’s chosen people is rather worrisome. Remember what God said in Genisis. Considering what people have done in the name of Christ over the past 2 or so thousand years Jews have a right to be concerned over this Teebow craze. Remember God has chosen the Jews to rule the world and we are to bless them and protect them.. Sounds as if some of you have not been reading your Bibles or anti-semitism is spreading in America.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 2:33pmBegin here:
Report Post »http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/index.cfm
Faith1029
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 2:57pmLANTZH: “The bible was written by men lady. Not GOD. The authours kid?”
2 Timothy 3:16-17
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
1 Corinthians was written by Paul. Paul said in Chapter 14: vs. 37 that the thing I write to you are the Lord’s commandment. The Holy Spirit spoke thru the prophets. The Word of God is God Breathed. God didn’t physically write it but used his people to write His message inspired by Him.
The Jews are God’s chosen people but sadly they do not recognize Christ as their Savior. They are still waiting for their Messiah when in fact He has already come. I love the Jewish people and pray their eyes will be opened to the truth.
Report Post »OklahomaMike
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:11pmSome rabbis and Jews are foolish. Some pastors and Christians are foolish. Some of every group are foolish.
Many Jews have a phobia–an unreasonable fear–of contemporary American Christianity, based on historical facts of their ancestors being persecuted by European Christians for centuries. Their mistake is not realizing that American Christians for the past many decades have been the most religiously tolerant and open-minded of any religious majority in any major country in history.
This particular rabbi who wrote the anti-Tebow column is, in my view, blind to the reality of current American Christianity…and really being extreme in his dark suspicions. Yes, there’s historical reason for his fears, but history on another continent is one thing, and here and now is another.
For the rest of us, I think it helpful to keep in mind that although many American Jews are fearful and critical of Christianity and conservatism, it’s also true that many leading conservative voices, who tend to be supportive of religious and Christian rights, are ethnically, and often religiously, Jewish, too. For just a few examples: Mark Levin, Charles Krauthammer, Michael Savage, and Mark Steyn, the Canadian guy who often fills in for Rush Limbaugh.
Report Post »John_The_Beloved
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:26pmI have no idea why but 2066 I keep seeing come up. Isaac Newton prediction is 2060.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:39pmI think the Rabbi might be Rabid!
Report Post »The_Hut_In_Co
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:04pmThis guy comes from the same group of Jews that keeps voting demoncrat. Hey I’m thinkin too much mogen david wine!
Report Post »Like the Lady said, “if you don‘t know Jesus you don’t know nothing” Amen to that.
Unix
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:06pmSilly rabbi kicks are for treads, and your littel outburst belongs on the sole of my foot…what a putx and a dumb freaking arse that guy is. I’m a Christian, and no I won’t burn mosques and temples becaues Tim wins a Superbowl…I can’t believe the world today, it is upside down…man we need a reset button or something? eh?
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:14pm(Won’t let me post, just respond.)
So the Jewish Week took a week off bashing Orthodox Jews to bash a Chrtistian Conservative. And we have people generalizing to all Jews. Should we assume all Christians think like Jeremiah Wright, because he’s a Christian minister? Some of you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
I look at Human Events. The comments are full of Jews attacking this guy.
Report Post »dolagibb
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:23pmAMEN I am sure glad I did! Love DG <
Report Post »lemmings4obama
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:41pmIt’s pretty obvious to me that the Rabbi is…… a patriots fan. He’s just scared about this weekend.
Report Post »jmccain
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:48pmHey come on – Obviously the Rabbi is a Jets fan.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:56pm@LEMMINGS4OBAMA Amen! I mean, Shalom! Well, you know what I mean.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:22pm@andrewleiner
Report Post »HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The abomination is not the dome of the rock it first of all was not built on the right spot to even be in rational consideration and second there will be another temple.
If the tribulation has already happened there would be NO DOUBT ABOUT IT!!!
I am not sure why you are thinking the way you are but your premise is horribly flawed.
Yes we are living in the last days but the last seven years of “history” will be FAR to obvious to be up for debate. There will be a global govt. that will control GLOBAL currency in the form of a physical mark without witch you can neither buy nor sell. Freedom of religion will not exist ANYWHERE on this planet and mas be-headings will be the penalty for believing in Jesus or any one exept the Antichrist or “global dictator”.
If these things have already happened on a truly GLOBAL SCALE then they are TOTALLY hidden from ALL history books and God is a lair because He is the one that said that is how this whole thing will go down.
Your whole post is confusing because either you have not read the bible or are for some reason misrepresenting it….Try again.
KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:30pm@Andrew
Christ was present with God when he cast Satan out of heaven. (John1:1) The casting out occurred before the creation of Adam and Eve.
Report Post »LiberalOverload
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:42pmApparently it’s possible to be a rabbi AND a stupid jackass at the same time.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:13pm@OklahomaMike
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:11pm
The word Christian is folded in with those who proclaim they are but are not. Protestant Christians and Catholics are not the same, so everyone can get off that horse it is dead.
America’s core beginning was Protestant Christians who are not anything like Roman/European Catholics, NOTHING LIKE. Only around 1400-1500 did you see the PROTESTANT Christian start to come alive. Who was the first? A Catholic priest named Martin Luther who found some original text the Pope had not been able to hide or burn.
We are Protestants because WE did not approve of the Popes teachings yes we rebelled against the Pope and Rome. England’s Queen ended the Catholic Inquisition and brought the first forms of faith liberation to England thus the world. The Protestants left to come establish America and we are a completely different people and moral background.
They used their pagan statues to establish Constantine’s’ little Roman band. The Inquisition murdered as many Christian’s descendants of the ORIGINAL Apostles teachings as they did anyone else.
Catholics and Christians are not the same people or group. The Catholics killed Christians and their Black Ops Crusaders are the ones that killed Muslims in the retake of Jerusalem. They are the ones that have killed Jews not Protestants.
The American Protestant Christian has helped even our enemies and more so the Jew than anyone on earth. The Jew is ready to take our Go
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:40pm@lantzh
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:29pm
The bible was written by men lady. Not GOD. The authours kid?
JUST HOW STUPID ARE YOU lantzh
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:42pm@cherigc
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:47pm
This “Rabbi” sounds like a UBERliberal Obama lover idiot!!!! I am Jewish and Tebow is the best thing that has happened to belieers in a long time! Shaame on this ”Rabbi!’ What an ass!!!!
Cher, Pregressive is a Reform Jew as a matter of fact. There are making a lot trouble in Israel
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:45pmWait, so lemme get this straight: 2+3+6=11? (11+11)/11+9=11 This, I know.
Seriously. You’re taking a tiny snippet of Revelation (Daniel too) which totals 3 and a half years, and is known as the Great Tribulation. You’re missing the first three and a half years (the Tribulation), the treaty with Israel that kicks off the Tribulation, the attack that is supposed to precede even that, *and* the math you put forth added up to 1981. The only thing that happened in ‘81 was that Reagan took office.
Unless you’re one of those “Ronald Reagan was the Anti-Christ because his first, middle, and last names all had 6 letters! 666!” kooks, 1981 means nothing at all.
How about this: rely on another part of the Bible: No man knows the day or the time. Don’t even go down the “My guess is…” road. Just stop.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:52pm@robert
If anyone has ever had a good reason to be paranoid that the world is out to exterminate them, it’s definitely the Jews, would you not agree?
That said, I *do* agree that some groups (among them are Jews, Catholics, and Mormons) overplay the “I’m being persecuted” card, sometimes. A critical word doesn‘t mean there’s hatred in the heart of the person speaking the word.
Now, while I disagree with the Ben Stein remark about Ron Paul being anti-semitic, you can;t disagree that Paul is in any way a friend to Israel. The guy has said he’d allow Iran to get the bomb. We all know what they’d do with it, and we all also know that if they got it and Israel was attacked, Paul would sit on his hands.
Bottom line: As it is said in Genesis, God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. If you want to bear that, go ahead, me and my house will support Israel by not supporting Ron Paul.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:12pmBurnt mosques (terror indoctrination centers) and banished illegals? Sounds like a good start to me!
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:18pmWhy all the endless speculation about Christians being pushed over the edge to violence(which has yet to happen) when we have a “religion of peace” that has a proven track record of doing just that and always gets a pass from these leftist loons? I’d like to asks the good Rabbi who it is burning churches and synagogues the world over?
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:17amJust some historical corrections. (Of course what this Rabbi said is idiotic.)
Martin Luther said some of the most vicious, literally unprintable, things anyone ever has said. He knew Judaism centers in the home, and said Jews should be kept in stables. He said that if a Jew was given to hin to be baptized, he would tie a rock around his neck and dump him in the river.
After the reformation, Catholics and Protestants equally persecuted (as in killed, despoiled, anything you can imagine) Jews. And of course the Orthodox Christians not only persecuted Jews, but in many cases deny they did anyhing wrong.
This is history. The US today is perhaps the least anti-semitic country in the world. I myself was the victim of quite a bit of anti-semitism (in NYC) in my youth, including a classmate who was murdered. In these cases it was Catholics; today it is more from Blacks, who are generally Protestant. But I appreciate the attempt of the Church to aplogize for its history, and the close relationship between Jews and Catholics in New York. I appreciate that evangelical Protestants (well, many of them) are Israel’s best friends, and that many in both groups are trying to do something about the horrible moral decline of the American legal system, especially the Abortion holocaust.
Liberal Christian and Jewish theology are remarkably similar, which is why they keep on trying to force it on the rest of us. As for myself, my Dad taught me that we are better off in a religious co
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:50pmDid the mosques in San Antonio get burnt when David Robinson’s Spurs won the championship and he proclaimed his love and gratitude to Jesus Christ immediately following the win?
Did the mosques in St. Louis get burnt when Kurt Warner’s Rams won the Superbowl and he thanked Jesus Christ?
I guess all of us crazy Christians have been holding out for Tebow to signal the next crusade to wipe out muslims?
Report Post »agameofthrones
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:13pmThat is an ignorant and inflammatory statement. Christians do not tend to behave this way in the modern world. Please tell me the last time you saw Christians burning mosques and banishing immigrants, Rabbi? If you will cast your mind back, I think it was during the Crusades, in the 11th, 12th & 13th centuries. That’s quite a stretch there, Rabbi. I think Christians will just rejoice with Tebow and congratulate him, and maybe praise God that a faithful young man has been successful because of, not in spite of, his faith.
Report Post »OklahomaMike
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:15pmUSA Today tells a little more of the story: It explains that Jewish Week apologized in a statement on its website Thursday. The apology adds:
“Rabbi Hammerman is a respected spiritual leader and longtime Jewish Week columnist whose writing over the years has been exemplary. This column, however, was more inciting than insightful, and we erred in posting it, which we deeply regret. ”
“Rabbi Hammerman also apologizes to Tebow in a statement reading:
“I have spent my entire career engaged in dialogue with people of all faiths while speaking out passionately against intolerance and extremism. I have the deepest respect for those who are committed to their faith, including Mr. Tebow. I realize the way in which I attempted to make my points was clumsy and inappropriate, calling to mind the kind of intolerance and extremism my article was intended to disparage. I sincerely apologize to Mr. Tebow, his family, the Broncos and Patriots and all those whom I may have offended.”
“Hammerman’s column was posted Dec. 14 — and yanked from the site the same day”
It comes down to this: The guy wrote some offensive and idiotic things, the website yanked them the same day, and the guy apologized for them almost immediately, too. He still deserves to be roundly criticized–as he was even by his own paper. But if only all people who make idiotic and offensive statements apologized for their inappropriateness almost immediately…we would have a far better society.
Report Post »robert
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:43pm@leftfighter
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:52pm
@robert
‘If anyone has ever had a good reason to be paranoid that the world is out to exterminate them, it’s definitely the Jews, would you not agree?’
No. There is no justification for paranoia. Caution, yes, but there are too many leftist Jews who are so paranoid they see a white supremacist behind every tree, and also, they have some distorted idea that only Jews have suffered persecution.
“Now, while I disagree with the Ben Stein remark about Ron Paul being anti-semitic, you can;t disagree that Paul is in any way a friend to Israel.”
Paul is as he should be: A protector and promoter of the United States. He doesn’t believe protecting Israel is in the best interests of the US and says so. I believe the same. It has nothing to do with being a friend or enemy to anybody.
“Bottom line: As it is said in Genesis, God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. If you want to bear that, go ahead, me and my house will support Israel by not supporting Ron Paul.”
Sorry, but I don’t subscribe to the notion that a universal deity cares one whit more about Israel than he does about anybody else. If there is a deity, he’s non-partisan. Of that I’m positive.
I’m glad we are seeing Jewish Americans coming over to the rght, but I’m disappointed to see so many still in the radical leftist camp, like those in Hollywood and the media.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 4:59pmare jews going insane…
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:46pmFor all of you Blazers and good Christians who can’t figure why a Rabbi would say this about Christians, all I can tell you is to Google Kevin MacDonald PhD the author of “Culture of Critique”. He is a GENIUS who does a great job of explaining the “why” of this behavior from the Jews.
The Jews are NOT our friends. The Jews HATE Christians. The Jews ALL believe that if they allow us Christians, yes that’s right ALLOW us Christians to sing too many hymns in the public square then we will all morph into High Inquisitors and break the front windows of all their storefronts. The Jews do NOT blame the Germans for the Holocaust. The Jews do NOT even blame the Nazis for the Holocaust. The Jews, ALL JEWS BLAME CHRISTIANS FOR THE HOLOCAUST. Wake up!
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:57pmOKLAHOMAMIKE said: “It comes down to this: The guy wrote some offensive and idiotic things, the website yanked them the same day, and the guy apologized for them almost immediately, too. He still deserves to be roundly criticized–as he was even by his own paper.”
Sorry, OKLAHOMAMIKE, but no, it does not come down to “that”. It comes down to “The Jewish Week” is now being read by us Goyim as well as its regular Jewish audience. This is due as much to The Great Whitey Awakening that is taking place as it is due to the Internet making heretofore obscure journals available to the general public as well as the niche audiences that they are designed to serve. You don’t just ACCIDENTALLY accuse an entire FAITH of being two steps away from monstrous behavior by accident. This was not a little slip of the tongue. This was not even a Freudian slip. This was the genuine sentiment of a Rabbi about the Goyim spoken when that Rabbi thought that no Goyim were listening. Stop making excuses for enemies of Jesus Christ. It can only mean one of two things: 1. You are a LYING shill for ZOG or 2. You are too foolish to see the TRUTH.
Report Post »Truthurts
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:32amHell must be freezing over if Beckel says something most conservatives can agree on. Slow down, now. We got a few people up here that deserve to taste the fire before that day arrives.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:39am.
Report Post »Geaux Bronco’s……………..
smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:45amI thought that the Steelers were God’s team.
Report Post »texasfireguy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:51amNo smack, that’s the cowboys. That’s why there was a hole in the roof at old Texas stadium, so he could watch his team play.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:57amThis just goes to back up my claim that Jews and Muslims alike will hunt Christians when they have no more Nazis to prosecute from WW2. They all have antichrist in common.
smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:59amI was told that God used the old Texas Stadium for a toilet, and that the cowboys plopped in. Of course the source was Bum Phillips.
Report Post »grudgywoof
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:00amIt must be because I agree with the ACLU on the national defense bill NDAA and just signed there petition against holding American citizens without charge indefinably. If you are in the Tea Party as I am the department of homeland security considers us a terrorist group. Me and the ACLU…..the world must be coming to and end.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:02amI love the nickname they have for him in Denver “The Mile High Messiah”
Report Post »drhunt
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:05amWhat a bunch of bull. While Tebow is a great story, the rabbi, obviously, is not a sports fan, is jaded by his ideology/religion and takes himself WAY too seriously. BTW…does he also speak out against rap music?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:06amThey wouldn’t be so mad about drinking water having crustaceans in it if they had listened and learned from Jesus the son of God 2000 years ago. How’s that bed of brimstone feeling now?
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:06amTEXASFIREGUY
What are you syanding next to in your pic??
Report Post »texasfireguy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:08amSmack, if there was any doubt before about how much I dislike you, it has been erased. You sir are officially a godless commie and deserve to roast in whatever version of hell god reserves for those who dare to oppose or insult one of favorite creations, the Dallas Cowboys. I will pray for you.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:10amApparently this Rabbi doesn’t watch football. Even if the Broncos made it to the Super Bowl, you think they could beat the Packers??
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:13amI’ve always heard that these news commentators go on with a pre written agenda…and it is not always written by them..I once heard Beckel say that he was too sick to write one so the opposing side did it for him..it’s just argument for the sake of argument..but as for Hammerman…really..I think most liberals are just so lost…and if I didn’t know better…I would say …”don’t drink and write.”
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:17amRiddle me this: if I have 12 children, and the one I love more than any of my other children, what will the other 10 do to that one child?
Report Post »texasfireguy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:19amStoic it is pic I found on the net. It is two GI Joes standing over a dead squirell holding a hunting rifle. The pic got cropped I guess and you can’t see the whole thing. It is a funny pic though.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:22amAll of this talk proves that humans are not very evolved. LEAVE HIM ALONE, His faith is personal and he isn’t bothering anyone. It should be a none issue. Those who make it an issue are profoundly stupid! Nothing he has done is offensive. What is offensive are religious leaders who tell people to go kill others. Especially non combatant women and children. What is offensive is religious leaders who tell people that stoning a women to death because they were raped. Given the EXTREME danger we face from radical Islam, if you are concerned about Tim,YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. STFU and stop showing your stupidity.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:24amYou really have wonder what planet people like this are from…
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:27amSooooooo, now Broncos fans are the same as Canucks fans?? Yikes….. Guess Denver will turn into Vancouver, eh?
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:29amTex, if it’s written, it must be true:
Report Post »http://wonderfulwickedwiles.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/and-then-god-created-the-pittsburgh-steelers/
old white guy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:44amhammerman has a hammer for a brain. jeez it gets more sureal every day.
Report Post »MySacredHonor
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:50amThat idiot is just a PROGRESSIVE in Jews clothing.
Report Post »Keggs1961
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:59amAmazing… One more attack on Christianity by the Jews!! He is correct at some point we will tire of the Jews and Muslims always slamming Christians.However I do not think it will be over a football game.
PATTY HENRY
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:03amMUSLIMS do NOT worship the GOD of ABRAHAM . They are a cult of Satan begun 700 years after Christianity….taking bits and pieces from OLD and NEW TESTAMENTS in hopes that they can control their people like they felt the Christians and Jews were “controlling” their people but didn’t get it (how this was being done). They thought that threatening death is how Christians and Jews controlled their “people”… they didn’t get it about LOVE, LOVING GOD, LOVING CHRIST, Learning from GOD and CHRIST and wanting to be the person God Created.
Report Post »GOD wants us because we “GET HIM” and we want to come to Him….the opposite of what Muslims do. GOD named the JEWS His chosen people in part, I think, because he wanted us to NOTICE the vast differences between people who Believe in HIM and those being used by Satan. WHY this RABBI chooses to engage these people in an attempt to “communicate with them’ eschewing Christians is amazing to me. THEY do NOT want to be friends, Rabbi…they want to kill all of us. What part of that can’t you get? PS: YOU ghouls don’t get to come after TEBOW, not this time, not now… THE LINE is DRAWN in the sign. LEAVE this DECENT, TALENTED, GOOD young man alone. YOU don’t like him? Don’t watch….but you don’t get to do the typical Media Smear on this young man. Write to this RABBI: rabbi@tbe.org demand a loud apology and let him know that you will not tolerate THIS YOUNG MAN being abused like this – ever again.
DrFrost
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:06amRadical muslims are out killing jews and christians TODAY but this clown is worried about some insane scenario about what christians might do if Tebow wins the super bowl?
1) If his priority is saving jewish lives then maybe he should concentrate on dealing with radical muslims… or does he honestly want to suggest that jews are in greater danger from christians than muslims?
2) Jesus was a jew. Christians know this. Most christians realize that God loves Israel. Most christians love Israel.
3) Is he really trying to make a connection between football and church? Really?
Ok ok…. I admit it…. the portion of christians that are anti-semitic, big football fans AND big Denver fans with a tendency to merge their fanaticism for church, football and antisemitism…. MIGHT increase their level of antisemetism if Tebow wins the super bowl. So if Tebow goes to the super bowl I guess we should identify all ten of these people and keep an eye on them….
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:11amWe all know if Palestine becomes a nation, Jews everywhere will kill Christians, burn churches and kill Christian children. Why would they do this?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:24am“Riddle me this: if I have 12 children, and the one I love more than any of my other children, what will the other 10 do to that one child?”
Where’s child 11, taking a powder?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:31amSilly Rabbi.
Report Post »tbeachhead
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:58amHe clearly has this wrong. None of this will happen until the Browns win…but it will have nothing to do with Christianity.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:00pmPATTY HENRY, a lot of misinformation.
Factually, there are 3 Abrahamic religions, and Islam is one. The Sun is hot. That’s a fact.
Fact, Jews did kill to control their people. The most obvious case would be the killing of the Galilean from Nazareth. His name was Jesus. That was not love, or love of God, as you state.
Fact, God did not name Jews his chosen people. He named the descendents of Abram his chosen people. Most Jews today are not the descendents of Abram. Most were converts from Khazaria, converts for secular reasons:
Report Post »http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars#Conversion_of_the_royalty_and_aristocracy_to_Judaism
andrewleiner
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:24pmDANIEL 12:8-13
Report Post »8. And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9. And he said, Go thy way Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, {This happened in 70 A.D. when the Roman General Titus destroyed Jerusalem and burned the Jewish Temple.} and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, {This happened in 691 A.D. when the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim shrine, was built on the Temple Mount.} there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. {The wise know that these “days” are years. So, 691 + 1,290 = 1981. What happened here on Earth in 1981? Not much that I know of. But my guess is that this is when Satan was cast out of Heaven. {Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Revelation 12:12}
12. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. {Ok, 691 + 1,335 = 2026. No one knows the day or the hour, but, it looks, to me, that this is the year of the Second Coming, when Jesus returns, not as the Lamb of God, but, as the Lion of the Tribe of Jud
PATTY HENRY
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 3:23pmSMACKDOWN: I can see why you are so unpopular on this site. First of all . YOU CANNOT READ.
So try reading it again. I never said JEWS kill people. I said: MUSLIMS believe the only way they can keep people under control is to threaten death. CHRISTIANS and JEWS don’t do that. GOD doesn’t want that. HE wants people to come to Him of their own volition.
THEN: JESUS came to die. STUDY WHY. NO one “KILLED HIM”…He came to die.
THEN: THE DESCENDENTS of ISAAC are the CHOSEN PEOPLE. (ISAAC being son of ABRAHAM when his name was ABRAHAM. GOD knows who they are, where they migrated to. This is NOT RE: Ishmael who’s descendents are (loved but) not considered inheritors of this covenant . NONE of that negates the fact that ISLAM is not from the GOD OF ABRAHAM. But, SMACK…this is ALL YOU GET FROM ME. ENJOY IT.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:37pm@Eliasim
Report Post »First of all, 12-1 = 11, not 10. What happened to the other scorned child? Secondly, God’s ways are not our ways, the hammer doesn’t ask of the craftsman that made it, ‘why hast thou made me thus’, so who are we to question God’s logic on why he chose Joseph over all the other children?
KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:47pm@Patty
Sorry, you’re wrong. Ishmael and Isaac were brothers, Ishmael the father of the Muslims (God told Haggar that she would be a mother of nations) and Isaac the father of the Hebrews.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:51pm@Patty
Enough with the caps, you look like a lunatic. Also, explain this, if what you say, that God only wants us is true: ‘For it his will that not any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.’
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 8:15pm@Patty
Also wrong on Isaac’s decendents… ‘For Jacob have I loved, and Esau I have hated’ Both were descended from Isaac… Where‘s Esau’s blessing? Oh yeah… he sold it for a plate of food… to Jacob, afterwards renamed “Israel”.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:36pm@Eliasim
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:57am
This just goes to back up my claim that Jews and Muslims alike will hunt Christians when they have no more Nazis to prosecute from WW2. They all have antichrist in common.
You speak the truth and it is getting worse by the day. I do feel surrounded sometimes, Muslilm, Jews, Hindus, Buddhist, Green, Professors, Politicans, Lawyers. Now some of those occupy the same pair of shoes. ie, pawyer, politician, Jew for instance…jus sayin
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:39pm@Eliasim
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:57am
This just goes to back up my claim that Jews and Muslims alike will hunt Christians when they have no more Nazis to prosecute from WW2. They all have antichrist in common.
ABSOLUTELY, they fight us in our home town and people want us to protect Israel, I dont know how much longer I can take this insult
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:53pmEliasim
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:17am
Riddle me this: if I have 12 children, and the one I love more than any of my other children, what will the other 10 do to that one child?
WHO CARES? how did you end up with 10
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:14pm@smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:00pm
You have no facts in this matter. It is spiritually decerned,
Jesus had to die to end the blood offering and bring Salvation and He did. He healed the Hebrew Priests ear to prove that point.
History shows the dead came out of their graves that day and walked among their friends and neighbors. The Curtain was torn in into so man could go to the throne boldly by themselves.
He preached to those that died up to and including the flood while he was supposed to be in the tomb. all those that believed were saved.
Report Post »You still have a chance if you dont die. He will not offer that again, those that have heard the Gospel, the good news and deny it have no more options, no more freebies
kimberlyjesus
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:31amLet me tell you rabbi, GOD will burn your synagogue and all the others that do not worship him and JESUS next year not us christians! GOD will have the final say on your man-made churches that do not give GOD or JESUS any GLORY!
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:38amJews are, and have been, the source of the anti-Christian movement. Nothing new.
Report Post »SEPARATENOW
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:11am@Smackdown
Report Post »If you mean secular, cultural, non-practicing, Jews who are now leftists, I agree. If you mean regular temple goers and mainstream Rabbi’s, not so much. Please be careful with blanket statements like this.
smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:33amSEPARATENOW, you are spot on… I thought it was self-evident, my fault. It should be noted that many of these secular Jews still hangout in the synagogues… appearances?
Report Post »Mgindi26
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:26pm@ Kimberly. Perhaps you are a little bit ignorant of history. Your comments about G-d burning down our synagigues is especially offensive and is what leads people like the rabbi to fear christians. Like it or not for most of the past 2000 years christianity has a particuliarly bad record when it comes to the treatment of jews in the diaspora. We are only 70 years out from the holocaust, where for the most part jews were killed by christians. and most of the sunagogues of eastern Europe were burned to the ground.
That being said. Jews do very much appreciate the freedom to practice our religon that we have in America. Mostly in the diaspora we were forced into ghettos and were many times over killed for being jewish or forbidden from practicing our faith and worshipping G-d.
Unfortunately many jews carry the history of the past with them and have a fear of an overly zealous Church going back to the practices of the past.
Personally I’m more worried about militant atheism because without G-d there can be no true morals.
But please I respect your right to believe in Jesus if that helps to bring you closer to G-d and doing his will. You should respect my right to not believe in Jesus and to do G-ds will in the ways of my forefathers for the past 3500 years.
OklahomaMike
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:23pmAlthough I believe this particular rabbi is way off base in his fears of contemporary American Christians, it is ironic and sort of proving his point, when someone says in response to his fears that God will burn his synagogue down!
I think in this case what we have is an overly Christian-phobic rabbi, and now an overly Jewish-phobic Christian commenter. Most American Jews and Christians neither believe nor say that Christians will create hateful chaos if a Christian football player wins, nor do they go around saying or believing that God will burn synagogues.
Report Post »RBJ
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:06pmLast time I checked many my extended family and countrymen died fighting Hitler. Many of us also died fighting other European tyrants, King George included.
Last time I checked, America welcomed and welcomes Judaism to worship freely. Yes, we could have done better at welcoming Jewish Immigrants. The Irish, the Italians, and any other numbers of groups each had a tough time in their new country too.
My ancestors who settled Utah had a pretty tough time in a new land too. We were persecuted in many ways and still, America (with all its faults and good point), is the land that protects my religion. Both football loving Americans and Judaism are facing a new existential threat in the form a nuclear Iran AND a radical militant Islam.
So, where’s the problem here? The Rabbi is quite justly concerned with a irrational people doing irrational things.
We fought the Nazi’s, welcome Judaism to the Land of the Free as well as any other group was ever welcomed here, help protect Israel and fight wars against Radical Militant Islam.
Radical Militant Islam has no such track record of standing with Israel.
Hey Rabbi, WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS HERE, our common enemy is OVER THERE.
Just exactly what other group is a better friend to Judaism and Israel than football loving Americans and has shown this by several generations of behavior?
I think we are friends and should build each other up and bring out the best in each other, and even more so in the face of common threa
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:55pmI think the rabbi has Christians confused with the Occupy protestors. I have no clue as to why he came to this insane conclusion. I doubt very seriously, any of this has crossed the minds of American Christians. Maybe he is thinking of baseball, because this is certainly coming from “left field”. Get a grip, rabbi, and get down on your knees!
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:38pm@Smack:
“SEPARATENOW, you are spot on… I thought it was self-evident, my fault. It should be noted that many of these secular Jews still hangout in the synagogues… appearances?”
Yes, they ‘pray’ to be seen of men.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:44pm@Mgindi26:
Report Post »So how do you feel that your forefathers crucified the saviour of the world? His blood is on your hands, according to those forefathers you revere so much. Do you read the Talmud too? The Kabbalah? Do you agree with your forefathers that wrote those books, that Christ is in hell, boiling in a pot of his own excrement?
Mgindi26
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:12pm@KAdams
Report Post »First of all, Jews have never used crucifiction as a form of punishment, that is a well known fact. So Jews did not crucify anyone.
Second if you believe that Christ died for your sins as your religon tells you then whoever it was that did crucify him actually did a good thing for the world by having him die for YOUR sins. (how exactly someone dying 2000 years ago can atone for your sins doesn’t seem to make much sense but hey if you belive it and it makes you a better person then good for you)
Third As for his blood being on my hands well that doesn‘t make any sense unless you would like to also take responsibility for the millions of jews that were killed in Jesus’s name over the ages.
Fourth. If you believe Jesus is G-d then you must also believe that G-d is mortal and can be killed based on your accusation that Jesus who you believe is G-d was killed by my forefathers so I guess you are an atheist because you believe that G-d is dead (G-d forbid of course) but hey you keep using excuses to hate jews.
Fifth: According to my forefathers who you can‘t quote because you don’t have the oral tradition of my faith Jesus was a person of little consequence. What people did in his name however well some good but you gotta admit some bad.
Sixth: the messiah is not the savior of the world he is the redeemer of the jews (check your old testament the one that was written by prophets) and since the Jews weren’t redeemed by Jesus I find it hard to think he is the mes
Mgindi26
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:29pm@ Kadams part 2
Report Post »Seventh : No I don’t read the Talmud I STUDY it I have been doing so for about the past 20 years and plan on doing so for many more. Now how much of the Talmud have you studied or even read? Of course when we say study the talmud we mean in the original aramaic and hebrew. And which of the hundreds of commentators to you use to understand the Talmud when you read it? I have been studying it for 20 years and use many commentators. Of course you asking me if I read it I must assume you know it well so tell me what are the ways to do kiddushin? How is bishul performed? Who is older tosafot or rashi? Now if you know none of this then you having an opinion on the Talmud is as legitimate as a 2 year old having an opinion on nuclear physics and string theory.
Eighth: No i don’t read the Kabbalah . There is no such book in judaism called the Kabbalah. There is a study of Kabbalah that comes from a certain set of books can you tell me the name of the set? If not then once again you are unqualified to give an opinion. despite my years of studying the Talmud and The bible I am still not qualified to understand it. Any Kabbalah being presented to the masses is not true Kabbalah.
By the way here is a question for you. Do you study the new testament? Maybe you can tell me how many years after Jesus was it written? Who wrote it? You should study your own religon get closer to G-d and stop your blind hatred for Jews.
Mgindi26
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:59pmNow, All that being said. I think the rabbis comments were dumb. I think in this country especially jews have had the most freedom to worship than we’ve had in 2000 years of diaspora. And i appreciate it. I think my fellow citizens for the most part are a blessing. And I respect their right to worship and love G-d in any way that gives them peace.
Report Post »But please do not malign all jews for the comment of one. And please respect our right to worship G-d as we see fit. And I don’t tell me I am a sinner for not accepting Jesus as my lord. Jews have miraculously survived for 2,000 years as a small persecuted minority of the world. It is only withG-ds grace that we are still in existence.
We appreciate America and May G-d Bless America with prosperity, peace, and success.
Bearfoot
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:49pmMgindi,
If I may offer something that Jesus himself said about his sacrifice and whether or not the Romans or the Jews put him to death.
At John 10:17-18, he said “This is why the Father loves me, because I surrender my soul, in order that I may receive it again. 18 No man has taken it away from me, but I surrender it of my own initiative. I have authority to surrender it, and I have authority to receive it again. The commandment on this I received from my Father.””
So Jesus’ death was not a murder, it was a sacrifice, to redeem mankind from the sin we all have inherited due to the original sin of Adam (and Eve).
Anyone who would reject that gift is disrespecting God’s arrangement for our salvation. Something to think about, no?
Report Post »Mgindi26
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:21am@ Bear
Report Post »Well I’m not sure exactly what you meant by your post it could be readt 2 ways.
1. It could be read that you are basically telling KADAMS that according to her own scripture Jesus wasn’t murdered but rather gave his life willingly and that the neither the Jews nor the Romans bear any responsibility for his death.
or
2. You are using that quote to say that as a Jew who does not believe in Jesus I am rejecting a gift from G-d and am disrespecting G-ds arrangement for salvation.
To answer that I would say that verses in the new testament bear no meaning to my religon at all. As a Jew we have what you would call the old testament, as well as the oral tradition handed down from Sinai and codified in the writings of our sages.
We also believe that G-d is omnipotent and omniesent. meaning he know all and does all. As such where we have a clear commandment not to believe a “prophet” that contradicts the Torah. By saying that the laws of kosher for instance, or of the Sabbath, or that he does not blame the son for the sin of the father (or Adam and Eve the parents of the human race ) or the festivals or any of the other laws have changed would mean that G-d is fickle and didn’t know that Israel would sin and that He would have to have his people cast into a diaspora. But as He said we are the eternal people. Which is why beyond any logic the Jew has survived for 2000 years with no land and plenty of persecution. But I still respect the Christians who belive in the 1
no_more_harkin
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:17am@Migindi – Responding to unreasonable remarks does nothing to support your position. Citing that in the holocaust “for the most part jews were killed by christians” is a bald-faced lie. And thousands of Rabbi’s and historians agree with me. Stating that KimberlyJesus’s statements are offensive to you, then stating Christians are the killers in the holocaust is the height of hypocrisy.
Report Post »Your remarks sound rather forgiving to a so-called Rabbi Hammerman who is an obvious unhinged leftist creating his own hatred toward Christians.
I very much respect your right to practice your faith, but please label Christians as responsible for Hitler’s holocaust.
guntotinsquaw
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:31amHe’s right..the last time a Christian won a football game..they flew 2 planes into buildings and shot soldiers at a military base..wait!! I think I got that wrong didn’t I. OK the last time Christians won a football game… they rioted in the streets, shutting down ports and crapping on cop cars…No that’s not right either…I’m sure the last time Christians won a football game…something happened…Because a lefty said so, it’s gotta be true! I bet the Creator is just tickled pink to know that “evolution” created man…because a “rabbi” said so…it’s gotta be true!
TEA 2012
Report Post »One If By Land
MidWestMom
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:10amWe won! We won! Let’s celebrate by burning up a mosque or two! And don’t forget the marshmallows, chocolate & graham crackers. Can’t have a bonfire without s’mores!
Report Post »/end sarcasm/
HumbleCitizen
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:13amROFL, thanks for the chuckle, I needed that.
Report Post »ZomBrad
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:20amIt’s good to see the Pharisees are still lying about Jesus after all these years….
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:53am@GUNTOTINSQUAW ..
Thanks for pointing out the TRUTH on who is violent in this society ..
TEA!
Report Post »jado1981
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:19pmWell, there go my plans for celebrating a Denver win…
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:30amHmmm Bronco fans are just like Lakers fans? Who would of thought?
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 2:36pmDid Lakers fans burn down mosques and synagogues? I know they don’t engage in discriminate let alone indiscriminate banning of immigrants.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:28amThat putz can go shmuck himself….
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 7:55pmShalom!
Report Post »BoomSlander
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:28amIt sounds to me like the Rabbi has been reading the Comments section to Blaze articles recently.
Report Post »DeepintheHeart
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:45amBoy, you hit that nail on the head.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:56amSounds like the Reb is voicing a consistent theme that has been at the center of social change. Nothing influences a modern society more than it’s entertainment industry, and our entertainment industry has had a constant anti-Christian theme for quite sometime.
Report Post »The industry is not an inanimate object. It is people. These people, not because I say so, but because they say so:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19
hillbillyinny
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:02amNot everyone who reads or comments on the THE BLAZE is a true Christian–present company excepted?
Report Post »BoomSlander
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:24amIf the commenters on the Blaze aren‘t real Christians than terrorists aren’t real Muslims and this Rabbi isn’t a real Jew. It’s easy to play that game.
I’ve seen so many bigoted, racist, hateful remarks on this site and not ONCE has a “real” Christian stood up to the bigot and told them they were wrong.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:11pmI HAVE SEEN others correct those who advocate violence. However, since I can’t read your heart, I don’t know whether you are a REAL CHRISTIAN or not–the question was worded for the individual to answer.
God = LOVE, Jesus real name = LOVE, Holy Sprit guides in LOVE Judgement is for another place, time and Person!
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 2:38pmThen you aren’t paying attention. They are often rebuked, more often reported.
Report Post »BoomSlander
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:11pmI’ve seen anti-gay hate speech, anti-gay hate speech, anti-Muslim hate speech, and anti-Jew hate speech. I‘ve only been reading this site for a few weeks and I’ve noticed a very common trend at the way many people view the world around them.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 8:04pmIt’s very simple, Boom. It‘s called ’righteous indignation’. “Be ye angry, and sin not”.
Christians read and study the Bible. We understand that a lot of what they rail against, is against the will of God. We don’t do it for personal gratification, or even personal justice, for ‘Vengeance is mine, saith the LORD’… We can only pray and hope that the LORD allows them to see the truths as they are made evident. “If ye follow me, then are ye my disciples in deed, and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” We know the truth… the Holy Spirit indwelling makes that evident. People who haven‘t accepted Christ can’t even BEGIN to know what it’s like, having that Spirit constantly there, guiding us, teaching us.
Report Post »GeorgieBaby
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 10:33pm@KAdams – Wow, was that ever a self-righteous comment. Try the below scripture on for size. They are from the King James version of the Bible, and contradict your justification for “righteous indignation” and the constant companionship of the Spirit in my book.
Galatians 5:22-25
Report Post »22 But the fruit of the Spirit is clove, joy, epeace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
skiz
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:28amI guess the “rabbi” doesnt know Christians very well! He’s a lefty no doubt!
Report Post »ZomBrad
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:27amWow.
Allow me to use the Rabbi’s own words for this one, “…these are not rational times.”
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:34amYa got that right.
Report Post »matthewhester
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:25amThe world is seeming to get crazier and crazier! The core of the Christian faith is love. Why is love such a treatening force to the world? I guess if we used hate to push our message and lifestyle, the world would somehow embrace us! What drives people crazy is that Tebow is a Christian first before he is anything else.
Report Post »DoseofReality
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:33amIf you take a few minutes and look at the posts on this site from christians do you see Love? I sure as hell dont, I see anger, hatred and judging….anything but love.
Report Post »aLinedog
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:57pmLove does not provide methods of control. Hate allows for control through direction. It’s much easier to convince people to give up their freedom and liberty to defeat a hated enemy. If you wish the people to give themselves over to the System, nothing motivates like fear, anger, and hate. ((hrmm, am I channeling Yoda again?))
Report Post »Love accepts. The Way is Love. Not the pseudo-emotion that makes people feel they are ‘more’ than others, but the genuine feeling that ALL men/women are created equal. The sure knowledge that loving yourself and your creator is as much import as loving your neighbor as if he was yourself.
If you wish to direct the people as a mass you need a target, and for that you need hate. There is no place in that ideological mindset for true acceptance and forgiveness. Therefore, Christ has no place in their worldview.
Just as men have twisted historical facts to suit their political agenda so too have men twisted religion.
To the non-believing reader: Look back at every example of alleged Christians behaving in a decidely anti-Christ fashion. Then compare their actions to Christ’s teachings ((New Testament)) Do this, and you will understand. If you choose not to check for yourself, my explaining it would be merely, ‘he said, she said.’ Anyway, I’m done. Ya’ll have fun.
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OklahomaMike
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:57pm@Matthewhester: You’re correct that this particular rabbi is out of touch with the inclinations of the great majority of contemporary American Christians.
But it also sounds like you may not be aware of the terrible history–over many long centuries–of Christian hate and persecution, especially of Jews, in Europe. This particular rabbi is apparently a crackpot, but his wildly exaggerated fears do have a small basis in truth.
Even though the Christianity you know focuses on love, the simple facts of history are that Christianity, not only its laypeople, but its clergy and highest religious leaders, including many popes and even Martin Luther, were time and time again openly in favor of persecuting, even banishing, non-Christians–and yes, burning down their houses of worship, too.
For this rabbi to fear such things happening in today’s America–especially in reaction to Tim Tebow winning–is a little nuts. But anyone who knows their history would not be so naive as to be astonished at how people could possibly fear that Christianity might spawn intolerance and violence.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:23amThese days there are many wolves in sheeps clothing and this guy is one of them.Sure there may be violence after a win but it wont be by christians it will be by numb nuts like you rabbi……………..
Report Post »2SENSEWORTH
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:21amSo what does this irrational Rabbi think we need to do with Tebow? Crucify him, crucify him?
Report Post »stoptheliesbho
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:44ambaaaaaahahahahahahahah!! oh wait, i mean…bad form. bad form….
silly Rabbi. Tebow is a HUMAN who publicly displays love for his heavenly Father. that’s all. he isn’t the Messiah, and people will NOT be led in a revolt against gays and immigrants if he wins a superbowl. this is just a shock-piece meant to incite fear amongst non-believers. GO BRONCOS!!!
Report Post »rush_is_right
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:19amyeah we’ve just been WAITING for tebow to win the superbowl…then we were gonna show em all!!! its been planned for centuries……its why the ILLUMINATI and the MASONS were formed….
shhhhh don’t tell anyone….
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:24amGreat post! Love it!
Report Post »texasfireguy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:54amDon’t forget the fake moon landing and 9/11. It’s all tied together with JFK and Area 51. Now if you will excuse me I have to adjust my tinfoil hat.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 8:08pm@Texas
Are you another Illuminati denier? Sounds like someone needs to read up on a few things. Might take a few years, but after that you can pitch your tin foil hat.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 8:19pmJust remember, the Titanic was ‘Too big to sink’… yet the Jesuit captain did just that. A lot of prominent world bankers that didn’t agree with the 13 families of the Illuminati were aboard that ship, whose journey was doomed even before the hull was laid.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:16am.
If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants.
All I can say is Geaux Bronco’s…………
Report Post »Gzeee1969
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:57amTrue Dat!!!
Report Post »Sean In LI
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 6:35pmOr, if they’re Christians, they’ll actually follow Christianity and spread the gospel and do good deeds, as Christ commanded.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:16amOne can only hope…
Just kidding!!
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:15amThey will try anything to shut him up.This Rabbi is a very sad anti-christian.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:26amAll Tebow has ever done is vocalise his love for Christ and he gets more criticism for it than a serial rapist like Roethlisberger or an animal torturer like Vick ever got. It really shows where America’s heart is in 2011.
Report Post »RedheadTexan
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:15amYou will see a key difference here between Muslims and Jews. When a Muslim leader makes a crazy anti-christian statement, he gets cheered and/or his craziness is rationalized. Jews, on the other hand, will denounce this crazy mess.
Report Post »OklahomaMike
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:46pmThat’s true. The overwhelming majority of Jews think that it borders on insanity to truly believe that (any significant number of) Christians will turn violent if Tebow wins….just as the overwhelming majority of Christians think that the Christian church in Kansas is crazy when it teaches (and protests at soldiers’ funerals) that American soldiers deserve to die because Americans tolerate homosexuality. And you are correct, unfortunately, that today’s Muslims, by contrast, will in too many countries, gather by the thousands to support and cheer on bigotry and paranoia and hate.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 8:30pmTechnically, we all deserve death and hell…. Westboro’s slightly correct on that. But for Christ, who was the lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world for our sins, everyone gets death and hell. When they(Westboro) make a distinction on why soldiers deserve to die, they are incorrect. We Christians aren’t better than anyone else…. period.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:15amThis guy is a radical left wing nut job, and what is frightening is that he is not only the spiritual leader for his synagogue but a contributor to a magazine. How in the world could anyone with a lick of common sense come up with the conclusions that he has jumped to? Were I a member of the synagogue I would either start worshiping elsewhere or start trying to get this clown out of his position as spiritual leader.
Report Post »raderby
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:14amthe leftist-Jewish connection continues…… I do not get it. Silly comments, Rabbi! Go and talk to some people like Tebow and figure what reality is, Okay?
Report Post »Wyratt
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:14amMust be a Jets fan..
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:14amThis sure doesn’t help Becks Cause.
Report Post »Whats this Rabbi smoking..? Making a hell of a case for Ron Paul .
UlyssesP
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:28amYou and the Rabbi should have lunch together. I’ll cook…
Report Post »drago
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 10:10am@Sawbuck
Report Post »“This sure doesnt help Becks cause…”. If you recall, Beck went to Isreal to speak to the Jews there, not the Jews here in America. Big difference in the two countries, and the Jews who populate each…..
Solzhenitsin
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 2:33pmHow can this rabbi’s ridiculous calumny do anything but shame him? It’s statements like yours which do Ron Paul no favors. Because of the ugliness of his supporters, should he somehow get the nomination, I will write in Michelle Bachmann. Even if I didn’t, with a Ron Paul nomination my state will go to Obama anyway.
Report Post »go2mikerenzi
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:17pmthere is no case for RonPaulGeorge&Ringo on planet Earth
Report Post »go2mikerenzi
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 4:24pmRon Paul needs a surname, Bill works fine… Ron Paul Bill.. maybe add Bob too… Ron Paul Bill Bob, now that has a ring to it!
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 8:11pm@Drago
Yes, I sent Glenn‘s producer Stu an email regarding the fact that they can’t differentiate between Zionists and actual Hebrews… Beck going over to Israel was a waste, the same ‘Jews’ are there that are here.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 12:50amThis sure doesn’t help Becks Cause.
Whats this Rabbi smoking..? Making a hell of a case for Ron Paul
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I just found out something about myself today .!
When going on a twelve hour fast and not having my coffee w/cream and sugar ,
then going on the blaze and briefly skimming a story and posting a comment.
Then quickly heading off to the Hospital to get blood work done and
go about my day.
Only to come back later this evening to look at my wording ,and how it came across .
To most people here including myself, this was beyond a brain fart.
I put this right up their with shingling a roof in the dead of winter.
My apologies to Glenn Beck and all that I have offended .
This Rabbi is some kind of a Jewish Version of maybe Jim Wallis
And my comment about Ron Paul, had to be concerning the
The followers of him, that cant wait for marijuana to be legalized .
Which bring me to only part of my comment, that to me makes sense.
What’s this Rabbi smoking…?
and kadams
Christians defend Israel because “God” tells us to period .
I will bless, those that bless Israel, and I will curse those that curse Israel.
And ANY.. Jew, Muslim ,Christian Hindu or Any other person including Atheist ,
Report Post »that says other wise is calling “GOD” a liar .
And if a person doesn’t like it ,they all can take it up with “Him”
when they get to have that One on One talk.
They can tell GOD how he changed his mind.
progressiveslayer
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:13amSounds like the Rabbi isn’t to fond of Christians or football,he also believes in the myth of man made global warming,and for that one he is a moron.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 11:00amPROGRESSIVESLAYER
Report Post »I thought you were going to say the myth about
the BRONCOS going to the Super Bowl.
GO BRONCOS
rosegrower
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:01pmLike most leftists, this rabbi is a liberal FIRST and a Jew second. People need to understand that the dogma of liberalism trumps everything – even G_d. And yes, I’m Jewish, conservative politically and religiously and I know that global warming has no scientific validity. G_d bless Tim Tebow!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:13amJust pathetic; another lib hating on a God-fearing human being–a saved, God-fearing human being. Rock on Tebow–Broncos rule and we in Colorado love ya man!
Report Post »nappy
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:09amhaving the word “rabbi” attached to your name means absolutely nothing to me. not a damn thing. he’s just another schmuck with an attitude.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:14amLock him in a rubber room and throw away the key.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:08amThat’s insane. Christians don‘t believe that God is a Bronco’s fan, and whatever happens with Tebow it won’t make a difference. Christians are not violent, but there are those that are violent towards Christians.
Report Post »cwrink
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 9:42amYou took the words right out of my mouth. The rabbi evidently needs to study the teachings of Jesus. I admire Tebow for his boldness and courage in thanking God for His great works and His protection.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 1:38pmExtremist Jew?? I question his credentials… and motives.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:27pmI will quote from the “rabbi”’s blog: “This Sunday, I’ll be a guest speaker at St Francis Episcopal Church on Long Ridge Rd., discussing Jewish views of the Messiah. Their service begins at 10 AM, and guests are welcome.”
Left-wing Jews, Left-wing Christians. Same religion.
The Jewish Week is not exactly friendly to the Orthodox Jewish community, believe me. And that stuff stays up.
Report Post »Link8on
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:42pmI guess this rabbi go out on his own to burn down a few just to prove his point.
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