{"id":6313,"date":"2010-07-16T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T06:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2010-07-15T23:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T05:04:44","slug":"rabbi-lapin-on-american-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/rabbi-lapin-on-american-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Lapin on American Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbidaniellapin.com\/index.php\">Rabbi Daniel Lapin<\/a>, an interesting and sometimes controversial American orthodox rabbi, has a fascinating interview at the Jewish Press that touches on Christianity in America.\u00a0 He discusses\u00a0everything from the &#8220;threat&#8221; to Judaism of Christianity in America to his encouragement to wish Christians a &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; rather than Happy Holidays:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think America has provided the most tranquil, prosperous, and durable haven for Jews in the last 2,000 years <em>because<\/em> it is a [religious] Protestant country, not in spite of it.\u00a0 <!--more--><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMany Jews&#8230;need to understand that there&#8217;s never been a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/michael-weinstein-christian-bigotry-can-lead-to-genocide\/\">Protestant pogrom<\/a> in the history of the world&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn general, I also think it&#8217;s helpful for Jews to recognize that the only reliable group of friends we have in America, or in the world, right now are American Evangelicals. The main threat today is [radical Islam], and the one group standing alongside Jews and supporting the State of Israel is American Evangelicals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I think we should recognize that we have a stake in America. To not care about broader society is a lot like sitting in a lifeboat while somebody&#8217;s drilling a hole in the floor of the boat a few seats down, and you say, &#8220;Well, as long as my seat&#8217;s okay, everything&#8217;s fine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>[America is becoming increasingly more secular and] I think Europe is an extremely good model of what happens when secularism wins. Anti-Semitism is an inevitable accompaniment of secularism, and Nazism and communism are essentially the ultimate expressions of liberalism .<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI think America is better served by a religiously vibrant Christianity and that means that we have to be as ardent about fighting anti-Christianism as we expect Christians to be in fighting anti-Semitism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/pageroute.do\/44408\/\">Jewish Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Daniel Lapin, an interesting and sometimes controversial American orthodox rabbi, has a fascinating interview at the Jewish Press that touches on Christianity in America.\u00a0 He discusses\u00a0everything from the &#8220;threat&#8221; to Judaism of Christianity in America to his encouragement to wish Christians a &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; rather than Happy Holidays: I think America has provided the most tranquil, prosperous, and durable [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,742,44,39,744,743,10],"class_list":["post-6313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-daniel-lapin","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-pogrom","tag-rabbi","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}