You forgot to include Judaism in your list... Today's Judaism, which is the false religion passed down from the Pharisees who rejected Our Lord, is antichrist. As far as a Jew who is a commie not being a real Jew goes; you're deluded.
Yes, because those talmudic Jews have such power. Just today, I was stopped and asked where my yellow Cross was on my clothes.
Please. Talmudic Judaism is no enemy in actual practice. It is an enemy of Truth, sure. I don't recall ever defending the Jewish religion as it exists now.
You're basically setting up the "Christ killers" argument, it seems.
And a communist could not be any more a Jew than the Jews who have gone to Baal worship, or anything else not pleasing to God. Communism is atheistic. What you are left with is an ethnic shell of a man, not anything remotely "Jewish".
A communist Jew is no more a Jew than a communist of Italian-Catholic origin is Catholic. The only difference is we tend to still let the Jew keep his ethnic identity as a society. But they are by no means a real Jew. That's the beauty of Catholicism- it doesn't really care about ethnicity.
As for my opinion of modern Judaism, I'd just have to refer you to Romans 11.
I don't think the Jewish people are going to heaven en masse for simply rocking a circumcision. They will have to accept Christ. I actually feel the best way for this to happen is through the Catholic Church. Especially the TLM. It is, after all, very "Jewish" in origin and symbolism. Christianity is fullfilled Judaism after all. Contract ended and a new one was laid on the table. A lot of Jews didn't like the terms laid out. They're not signatories. But they are no more damnable than you or I.
It would behoove you to quit combining what are conflicting entities to better serve your argument. An argument which seems to focus on Jews as if they have global telepathy and unity in action and thought. They simply don't. No more than, say, there is an international Indian conspiracy to take over call centers.
In a lot of ways, this is like arguing islamic action versus the actions of despots in traditionally islamic countries. Sometimes the lines blur, but, ultimately- the despot is at odds with the religious and often is no more muslim than I am muslim, which is to say not at all.
The difference is, the Jews and Christians agree on the literal portions very text which can lead to showing Jews how Jesus is the Messiah and they need to get with the program. Muslims are a lost cause in terms of witnessing via scripture and tradition, for the most part.
I have a friend completing his PhD in Israeli studies. I asked him once about the Jewish Orthodox and their views of Jesus in light of Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri's visions and note regarding the Messiah (Rabbi Kaduri confirmed Jesus as the Messiah to the horror of his students, though he used the Hebrew name, Yehoshua.) My friend stated that he thinks a lot of devout Jews actually believe in Jesus as the Messiah. The problem comes in bringing them into the fold, away from what amounts to Messianic Orthodox practices.
I guess the end all be all is why the heck this is such a topic worthy of discussion in light of the bigger problems we face. You're simply not going to win Jewish souls to Jesus this way. If it came down to "who was historically most correct" versus "who claimed to be correct historically", I'd venture to guess the answer is: who the heck cares if the only prize to be claimed is furthering the distrust Jewish people feel of the Church.
There was much potential for progress to be made in bringing in the Jewish people after ww2. But, this attitude of pure hatred is just ridiculous and serves no good at all.
I bet we could rebuild the railroad tracks into Auschwitz with all the logs in our eyes.
Maybe we would see a Saint by the name of Edith Stein pass by as we waited for a new load to get "what they deserve".
I can visualize the day we're staring out those box cars, or hiding in those woods, because at the end of the day- the same arguments have been, and are, levied against Catholics and the Church.
Somehow, though, I can't see practicing Jews being the causation of such a possible reality.
