Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism

[Guno צְבִי]

Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews​

Christian influencers like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are rallying their followers against Israel — and Jews. And to do so, they’re also weaponizing a centuries-old concept that underlies many strains of Christianity.

It’s called supersessionism, and it’s the idea that Jesus’ existence supersedes all commands, laws and beliefs that came before it. Christians often say that Jesus’ death “fulfilled” God’s commandments, meaning that everything God said to Jews in the Hebrew Bible, all of the covenantal promises and laws, are obsolete.


Yet supersessionism has become a theme in Christian opposition to Israel. We hear it in the words of Carrie Prejean Boller, a recent Catholic convert and a now-former member of the Religious Liberty Commission, a Trump administration council on religious protections. After she used a panel on fighting antisemitism as a platform to declare that her religious convictions prevented her from supporting Israel — and was removed from the commission as a consequence — she doubled down. “The Catholic Church is the True Israel,” Prejean Boller declared in a post on X. “Christians are the spiritual Semites. We are the new people of God.”

Candace Owens, a Christian podcaster who often refers to Judaism as Satanist; avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes; and right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson have all similarly said that their Christianity prevents them from supporting Israel because Jesus has obviated the need for a holy land. “As Jesus says plainly in the Gospels, I am the Temple. I am the Temple now,” said Carlson in a recent video, explaining his religious opposition to Israel.

In their hands, supersessionism fuels not only opposition to Israel, but explicit antisemitism — Prejean Boller has said that she is incapable of being antisemitic because, she argued, since Catholics are the true Semites, she would have to be discriminating against herself. Owens repeatedly refers to Judaism as the “synagogue of Satan,” an age-old accusation that in rejecting Jesus, Jews have rejected God and become evil.

This ancient and controversial piece of theological history is increasingly becoming a bludgeon against Israel, and Jews more broadly.

Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism

Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews

forward.com

 

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In the supersessionist understanding of Christianity, now, Jesus’ followers — Christians — are the chosen people of God, overriding and replacing the Jews in covenant with God.

Scholar Susanna Heschel has referred to supersessionism as a form of colonization. “Christianity colonized Judaism theologically,” she writes in an essay on supersessionism in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, arguing that the newer religion usurped its central theological concepts while “denying the continued validity of those ideas for Judaism.”

Much of that differentiation involved rejecting the continued validity of Judaism. While Christians do consider the Hebrew Bible to be part of their holy texts, there’s a reason they refer to it as the “Old Testament” — because, now, it is obsolete, making anyone who continues to follow its teachings in some way backward and no longer in active relationship with God.

“It is this problem of having, in a way, consumed Judaism,” Kupfer said. “It’s part of their Bible. But it has to be preparatory, prophetic, some anticipatory stage to something more complete and true. More spiritual. So it’s at the same time taken over and rejected.”

 

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“On the American far right, this bifurcation into philosemitism and antisemitism are not opposites,” said Taylor. Instead, he said, they’re “two sides of the same coin — they’re often instrumentalizing Jews for Christian purposes.”

 

[Ichabod Stain]

Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews​

Christian influencers like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are rallying their followers against Israel — and Jews. And to do so, they’re also weaponizing a centuries-old concept that underlies many strains of Christianity.

It’s called supersessionism, and it’s the idea that Jesus’ existence supersedes all commands, laws and beliefs that came before it. Christians often say that Jesus’ death “fulfilled” God’s commandments, meaning that everything God said to Jews in the Hebrew Bible, all of the covenantal promises and laws, are obsolete.


Yet supersessionism has become a theme in Christian opposition to Israel. We hear it in the words of Carrie Prejean Boller, a recent Catholic convert and a now-former member of the Religious Liberty Commission, a Trump administration council on religious protections. After she used a panel on fighting antisemitism as a platform to declare that her religious convictions prevented her from supporting Israel — and was removed from the commission as a consequence — she doubled down. “The Catholic Church is the True Israel,” Prejean Boller declared in a post on X. “Christians are the spiritual Semites. We are the new people of God.”

Candace Owens, a Christian podcaster who often refers to Judaism as Satanist; avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes; and right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson have all similarly said that their Christianity prevents them from supporting Israel because Jesus has obviated the need for a holy land. “As Jesus says plainly in the Gospels, I am the Temple. I am the Temple now,” said Carlson in a recent video, explaining his religious opposition to Israel.

In their hands, supersessionism fuels not only opposition to Israel, but explicit antisemitism — Prejean Boller has said that she is incapable of being antisemitic because, she argued, since Catholics are the true Semites, she would have to be discriminating against herself. Owens repeatedly refers to Judaism as the “synagogue of Satan,” an age-old accusation that in rejecting Jesus, Jews have rejected God and become evil.

This ancient and controversial piece of theological history is increasingly becoming a bludgeon against Israel, and Jews more broadly.

Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism

Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews

forward.com

yes.

do unto others being the whole of the law means the golden rule supersedes all else.

this is basic Christianity.

you're free to be still be a jew anyway.

these are two different religions.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

"ancient Christian theology"..... what a silly retarded Zionist.

 

[Melchizedek=Tecumseh]

Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews​

Christian influencers like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are rallying their followers against Israel — and Jews. And to do so, they’re also weaponizing a centuries-old concept that underlies many strains of Christianity.

It’s called supersessionism, and it’s the idea that Jesus’ existence supersedes all commands, laws and beliefs that came before it. Christians often say that Jesus’ death “fulfilled” God’s commandments, meaning that everything God said to Jews in the Hebrew Bible, all of the covenantal promises and laws, are obsolete.


Yet supersessionism has become a theme in Christian opposition to Israel. We hear it in the words of Carrie Prejean Boller, a recent Catholic convert and a now-former member of the Religious Liberty Commission, a Trump administration council on religious protections. After she used a panel on fighting antisemitism as a platform to declare that her religious convictions prevented her from supporting Israel — and was removed from the commission as a consequence — she doubled down. “The Catholic Church is the True Israel,” Prejean Boller declared in a post on X. “Christians are the spiritual Semites. We are the new people of God.”

Candace Owens, a Christian podcaster who often refers to Judaism as Satanist; avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes; and right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson have all similarly said that their Christianity prevents them from supporting Israel because Jesus has obviated the need for a holy land. “As Jesus says plainly in the Gospels, I am the Temple. I am the Temple now,” said Carlson in a recent video, explaining his religious opposition to Israel.

In their hands, supersessionism fuels not only opposition to Israel, but explicit antisemitism — Prejean Boller has said that she is incapable of being antisemitic because, she argued, since Catholics are the true Semites, she would have to be discriminating against herself. Owens repeatedly refers to Judaism as the “synagogue of Satan,” an age-old accusation that in rejecting Jesus, Jews have rejected God and become evil.

This ancient and controversial piece of theological history is increasingly becoming a bludgeon against Israel, and Jews more broadly.

Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism

Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews

forward.com

"Many come in my name but they aren't mine"?

 

[Melchizedek=Tecumseh]

In the supersessionist understanding of Christianity, now, Jesus’ followers — Christians — are the chosen people of God, overriding and replacing the Jews in covenant with God.

Scholar Susanna Heschel has referred to supersessionism as a form of colonization. “Christianity colonized Judaism theologically,” she writes in an essay on supersessionism in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, arguing that the newer religion usurped its central theological concepts while “denying the continued validity of those ideas for Judaism.”

Much of that differentiation involved rejecting the continued validity of Judaism. While Christians do consider the Hebrew Bible to be part of their holy texts, there’s a reason they refer to it as the “Old Testament” — because, now, it is obsolete, making anyone who continues to follow its teachings in some way backward and no longer in active relationship with God.

“It is this problem of having, in a way, consumed Judaism,” Kupfer said. “It’s part of their Bible. But it has to be preparatory, prophetic, some anticipatory stage to something more complete and true. More spiritual. So it’s at the same time taken over and rejected.”

I see that too! Usually Evangical Republicans!
The Jews, were,are,always will be YHWH's Chosen People!
Gentiles, somewhere along the line, got blinded by Pride,and think they have replaced the Jews as the Chosen People!
They couldn't possibly be more Wrong!
The "Time of the Gentiles," is coming to an end!

 

[Ichabod Stain]

I see that too! Usually Evangical Republicans!
The Jews, were,are,always will be YHWH's Chosen People!
Gentiles, somewhere along the line, got blinded by Pride,and think they have replaced the Jews as the Chosen People!
They couldn't possibly be more Wrong!
The "Time of the Gentiles," is coming to an end!

christianity has a different teaching.

you're just not a Christian.

the Christian teaching is that the coming of Jesus marked a change in God's deal with humans.

Jesus brought the message that chosenness was for all people who accepted him, and that it was not race-based anymore.

I know its hard to let go of racism.

give it a try though, to try to stay out of hell.

 

[Melchizedek=Tecumseh]

christianity has a different teaching.

you're just not a Christian.

the Christian teaching is that the coming of Jesus marked a change in God's deal with humans.

Jesus brought the message that chosenness was for all people who accepted him, and that it was not race-based anymore.

I know its hard to let go of racism.

give it a try though, to try to stay out of hell.

Christianity is ,we are all dirty rotten sinners saved by the Blood of the Cross!

 

[Ichabod Stain]

Christianity is ,we are all dirty rotten sinners saved by the Blood of the Cross!

and Judaism is "we're the best, fuck the rest of you".

we can all make wild mildly accurate simplistic distillations.

 

[Ichabod Stain]

the ANCIENT THEOLOGY of basic Christianity.


lol.

so stupid.

 

[AProudLefty]

Luther was one of Hitler's favorites.

 

[Melchizedek=Tecumseh]

Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews​

Christian influencers like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are rallying their followers against Israel — and Jews. And to do so, they’re also weaponizing a centuries-old concept that underlies many strains of Christianity.

It’s called supersessionism, and it’s the idea that Jesus’ existence supersedes all commands, laws and beliefs that came before it. Christians often say that Jesus’ death “fulfilled” God’s commandments, meaning that everything God said to Jews in the Hebrew Bible, all of the covenantal promises and laws, are obsolete.


Yet supersessionism has become a theme in Christian opposition to Israel. We hear it in the words of Carrie Prejean Boller, a recent Catholic convert and a now-former member of the Religious Liberty Commission, a Trump administration council on religious protections. After she used a panel on fighting antisemitism as a platform to declare that her religious convictions prevented her from supporting Israel — and was removed from the commission as a consequence — she doubled down. “The Catholic Church is the True Israel,” Prejean Boller declared in a post on X. “Christians are the spiritual Semites. We are the new people of God.”

Candace Owens, a Christian podcaster who often refers to Judaism as Satanist; avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes; and right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson have all similarly said that their Christianity prevents them from supporting Israel because Jesus has obviated the need for a holy land. “As Jesus says plainly in the Gospels, I am the Temple. I am the Temple now,” said Carlson in a recent video, explaining his religious opposition to Israel.

In their hands, supersessionism fuels not only opposition to Israel, but explicit antisemitism — Prejean Boller has said that she is incapable of being antisemitic because, she argued, since Catholics are the true Semites, she would have to be discriminating against herself. Owens repeatedly refers to Judaism as the “synagogue of Satan,” an age-old accusation that in rejecting Jesus, Jews have rejected God and become evil.

This ancient and controversial piece of theological history is increasingly becoming a bludgeon against Israel, and Jews more broadly.

Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism

Supersessionism might sound like an esoteric theological concept, but it has clear repercussions for Jews

forward.com

“On the American far right, this bifurcation into philosemitism and antisemitism are not opposites,” said Taylor. Instead, he said, they’re “two sides of the same coin — they’re often instrumentalizing Jews for Christian purposes.”

This is why Israel has to put all Faith in YHWH! Self righteous Evangical Republicans who run the United States of Babylon government ,could turn on Israel in a New York Second (pun intended).
All this what you've wrote about is ,how YHWH IS using Trump!
The opposite of what MAGA Assumes! Trump is being used to
Bring an End to "The Age of the Gentiles" ! No "age of the Gentiles"!
No America as we know it!