A few weeks ago a study was conducted into Israeli Jews' attitudes towards Christians and Christianity. It all stemmed from the controversial rehabilitation by Pope Benedict of a bishop denied the extent of Jews killed in the Holocaust. What was fascinating was how the opinions of people fell completely along secular/religious lines on almost every issue.
I was going to make a nice table with the results, but since Blogspot apparently doesn't like the HTML coding for tables I tried using lists instead which also was a Blogspot!fail. So I'm just typing out a sample of the questions and you can go read the rest for yourself if you're interested.
All percentages are people who agreed with the statement.
- Christianity should be taught in schools.- Christians should be allowed freedom of religious exercise in Israel.- The sight of a person wearing a cross disturbs me.- All or most Christians are missionaries towards Jews.
Now imagine you're the government and you have to represent the interests all of all these people at once. Go!
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