hatred

"Jesus loves all of us, even those that hate him..." This was posted on Facebook by an acquaintance of mine, and I wondered: "Does anybody really 'hate' Jesus?" I'm a skeptic and polyatheist, but I hate Jesus no more than I do any other deity or fictional hero: Thor, Zeus, Krishna, Santa...

I've been thinking about this, and I think those who believe it is due to the resurgent of the old antisemitism of pre-WWII (which Hitler gave a bad name to temporarily) is part, but not the most important part, of the answer. Europe both created and was ravaged by that most horrible of...

...is that a). it exists, and b). is not Arab. Proof? Consider the Berbers in Algeria, the black Sudanese in Sudan, the Kurds in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, the Christian and Druze in Lebanon, the Copts in Egypt, etc., etc., etc. In all these cases--in fact, in the case of *every* *single*...