>I love my enemies so I love the jews. just like christ did.
I agree and I like Dr. Jone's, but the Church doesn't get a free pass, nor should they ever be allowed to become a theocracy again.
The Pharisees came to ask Christ, "Master, Teacher, tell us who is my neighbor?" They didn't ask him, how does one behave to one's neighbor? They asked him, point blank, the question: Who is the guy whom you call neighbor? And he, as a story, told them a man (a Jew) was going down to Jericho, fell among robbers, was beaten up and left wounded. A teacher walks by, a priest walks by, sees him and walks on. And then an outsider comes along, the traditional ethnic enemy, and turns to the wounded man and experiences an “internal turning” (compassion from the heart), and picks him up, takes him into his arms and brings him to the Inn. Everyone understands the “moral of the story” - that we should be kind to others, but what most people have overlooked is the deeper, more powerful revelation revealed. Without using words, Christ answers them in this way, "Your neighbor is whom you decide, not whom you have to choose." There is no way of categorizing who your neighbor ought to be. It’s a decision that can only be made by (((YOU))) through a personal experience. This doctrine about the neighbor which Christ, “the logos” incarnate, brought into the conversation is utterly destructive to the categorization of people by their “group identity” (ethnos) and to realize this today is probably as shocking as it was more than 2000 years ago.
Much of the corruption of the modern West today can only by understood as the outcome of the Church's depersonalization and institutionalization of the freedom to choose one’s neighbor as promised by the Christian gospel. During the centuries that followed, the Church would transform its self into what a later church council called "a perfect society," an independent, legally constituted, bureaucratically organized state exercising a dominion of an entirely new kind over the lives of the faithful. It was from this transformed Church that the corrupted seeds of the modern state took root. Our vast institutions of charity, education, and health, our economic and technological dynamism, and the relationship we take for granted between the citizen and the state all can be traced back to the misappropriation of Christ’s teachings by the Church.
http://www.davidcayley.com/podcasts/2014/12/11/the-corruption-of-christianity