Nazism has suffered a defeat, but the process of eliminating the Bible from the consciousness of the western world goes on. If is on the issue of saving the radiance of the Hebrew Bible in the mindsof man that Jews and Christans are called on to work togetrher. None of us can do it alone. Both of must must realize that in our age anti-Semitism is anti-Christianity and that anti-Christianity is anti-Semitism.
[What unites Christians and Jews:] A commitment to the Hebrew bible as Holy Scripture. Faith in the Creator, the God of Abraham; commitment to many of His commandments; to justice and mercy; a sense of contrition, sensitivity to the sanctity of life and to the involvement of God in history; the conviction that without the holy the good will be defeated; pray that history may not end before the end of days; and so much more."
Quoted in "Beyond Contempt: Removing Anti-Jewishness from Christian Worship" by Tony Stroobant. Published by the Faith and Order Committee, Methodist Church of New Zealand, 2009, pages 13-14.
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