An Ugly Face Unveiled

Here's something.

According to The Toronto Star, the new Pope is allowing priests to use an old Latin liturgy that prays to the God of Abraham to wipe the veil from the eyes of Jews to let them see the godliness of Jesus.

VATICAN CITY – A prayer for the conversion of the Jews sidelined from Roman Catholic liturgy in the 1960s may stage a surprise comeback on Saturday, when Pope Benedict is expected to allow broader use of the old Latin Mass.

Well, here's something else.

Any religion that badmouths Jews, or seeks to convert them to some new world flakiness -- particularly when that so-called religion feeds off the Jews like blow flies at a dungfest -- is garbage.

It's about time that we fixed a gimlet eye on this kind of anti-Semitism.

What, exactly, is going on here?

A bunch of Johnny-come-lately slackers swoops down to scoop up someone else's religion, gussy it up with some Messiah jazz, then call upon their newfound God to wreak holy hell on the original holders of the religion, who are, in blissful ignorance, just going about their business of being good Jews according to their books as they understand them.

Pu-leese.

Why don't you go get your own religion? Is it too much trouble to think for yourselves? Does it hurt your little Roman heads to puzzle out a Jesus who isn't a Jew? Or a Mohammad who isn't sucking away at the Jewish faith as fast as his little lungs can suck?

People of the Book, be damned. There is but one book, and it belongs to the Jews. And that just chews your socks off, doesn't it?

Both of you derivative religions -- and you know exactly who I mean -- should know this. You can browbeat, denigrate, humiliate and try to eliminate all the Jews on earth, but that won't change the fact that you stole and soiled their religion because you were too damned stupid to think up your own and too damn arrogant to acknowledge the truth of theirs.

The bottom line is that God spoke to them. He did not speak to you.

Kill them or convert them. It will do no good. The fact remains that Abraham was Jewish, and the Book is Jewish.

So get over it and move on. And maybe have another look at that stupid prayer of yours. The truth probably goes the other way, you know. Maybe you should ask the God of Abraham for the insight to understand his people.

And while you're talking to their God, maybe you should ask for forgiveness. While you have the chance.