Monthly Archives: September 2011

Conference on Christian Responsibiliity in the Nazi Genocide,1947 from wikipedia

Seelisberg Conference

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Seelisberg Conference (International Conference of Christians and Jews) was an international conference that took place in the small town of Seelisberg in Switzerland from 30 July to 5 August 1947 in order to study the causes of Christian antisemitism.
Among the 70 participants from 17 countries were:

At the time of this conference, the Christians undertook a re-examination of Christian teaching with regards to the Jews and Judaism. They measured the extent of Christian responsibility in the Nazi genocide and understood that Christian teaching had to be urgently corrected. They prepared ten points, largely inspired by the eighteen proposals of the historian Jules Isaac to eradicate prejudices against the Jews.

The 10 Points of Seelisberg

In 1947 the ICCJ published a document containing the following 10 points:[1]

  • Remember that One God speaks to us all through the Old and the New Testaments (see divine simplicity and monotheism).
  • Remember that Jesus was born of a Jewish mother of the seed of David and the people of Israel, and that His everlasting love and forgiveness embraces His own people and the whole world. (see Dual-covenant theology and Judaism’s view of Jesus)
  • Remember that the first disciples, the apostles and the first martyrs were Jews. (see Apostle (Christian))
  • Remember that the fundamental commandment of Christianity, to love God and one’s neighbour, proclaimed already in the Old Testament and confirmed by Jesus, is binding upon both Christians and Jews in all human relationship, without any exception (see Ethic of reciprocity).
  • Avoid distorting or misrepresenting biblical or post-biblical Judaism with the object of extolling Christianity. (see legalism and pharisees)
  • Avoid using the words Jews in the exclusive sense of the enemies of Jesus, and the words The Enemies of Jesus to designate the whole Jewish people. (see Jew (disambiguation))
  • Avoid presenting the Passion in such a way as to bring the odium of the killing of Jesus upon all Jews or upon Jews alone. It was only a section of the Jews in Jerusalem who demanded the death of Jesus, and the Christian message has always been that it was the sins of mankind which were exemplified by those Jews and the sins in which all men share that brought Christ to the Cross. (see Passion play and deicide)
  • Avoid referring to the scriptural curses, or the cry of a raging mob: His Blood be Upon Us and Our Children, without remembering that this cry should not count against the infinitely more weighty words of our Lord: Father Forgive Them, for They Know no What They Do. (see blood curse)
  • Avoid promoting the superstitious notion that the Jewish people are reprobate, accursed, reserved for a destiny of suffering. (see Wandering Jew)
  • Avoid speaking of the Jews as if the first members of the Church had not been Jews. (see Council of Jerusalem)

Dark red roses

Rain drop

falls

off

a rose petal

eye moves

slowly

down

to earth

then up

to flower

dark red

beauty

I love

this

moment.

your voice

calls to me

through

the air

my heart

vibrates

in

a new rhythm

like music

from

a guitar

high

on

wine

high

on

these red roses.

Sometimes I am more

Sometimes I am more

or less

the same

person

as yesterday

if dreams

paradoxical

insights

sing my soul

awake

somehow

it’s now

and you are here

in this garden

I hear your melody

on the southerly wind

singing gently

you affect my eyes

with

dew,like

the rain on

my dark red

roses

whispers.

CJ Stone….thanks

Oh,CJ Stone,I’m so glad
that you have written
about the riots
and about the recent history
of British politics.
I’m so happy I
found you on Hubpages
I’ll visit you often
because you write so well
and I promise to write a letter
with a pen this week
and post it in the red pillar box
on the corner of my street
like I used to.
Oh,it’s so good
to find someone like you
I hope everyone else
will read you too.
And we may learn a little more
about what to do.

go to C.J.Stone.hubpages.com asap

Geometry and/or love?

A man, who instead of enjoying feeling a woman’s body,
spent his time working out her complex geometry
would probably be thought to have
something wrong with him,
like Asperger’s syndrome,
but look where it got us…..
atom bombs,
nuclear power stations,
missiles,
er,er,er…..
let’s make love instead.
though one can do both
but keep your lips sealed
in case
we get annoyed when you write equations
on us
with your indelible pen.
your geometry is not so comvoluted
but we are happy with it
mostly
after all
what’s the alternative?

I dreamed about you last night

I dreamed about you
last night
First I found an old and wrinkled letter
Then I saw you with your cat
You took her to a cattery.
Why didn’t you let me feed her
In my dream?
One night I woke up
Because I was laughing while asleep.
Now I get the same laughter
When I’m writing a poem
Which wasn’t meant to be humorous when I began
But it is and my laughter starts before the poem
Has come into my conscious mind.
I hear it’s good for the heart to laugh,
So I’m pleased to amuse myself
Completely free.It is
One of the best things in life
Which are mostly free.
Like love and daisies and buttercups,
And birds flying across a blue sky,
And people smiling.
Going to the hairdresser is not free,
but sometimes I go,though with my hair
Sometimes it seems pointless!
I could just cut it very short like a man
But my body is not like man’s body.
So my hair would not look very pleasant.
Though I could always wear a hat!
I saw one today which fitted me.
It was grey felt like we wore at school!
I hated mine then.
But maybe I could glue a bright feather on it!
Or a little parrot [stuffed}!