I'm kind of a sucker for the big political fantasy epic style storytelling thing.

I was watching a show like that a while back and it did this thing that we were talking about yesterday where you flip sympathies by overreacting to something and there was a situation where there's a city full of people who are smug and controlling

and they promote bad policy and injustice and it's just generally kind of a symbol of

oppression and a really unlikable place.

But then later on in the show, somebody comes and they're like, I'm going to clean this town up.

And you're like, yeah, somebody is to do something. But then the cleanup gets a little bit out of hand and then a lot out of hand.

And at some point in that sequence where the cleanup gets way out of hand and the justice dishing out gets way out of hand.

You as a viewer start to feel uncomfortable and you're like, this is disorienting, what the heck is going on here?

Okay, that's enough.

It's one thing to be like that was wrong and we won't stand for it. It's another thing to do whatever the heck it is that we're doing here. Oh my goodness, I don't know what to think about anything anymore.

And if you go and take an honest

historical read on the relationship between Christians and the Jewish people over the

course of the last couple thousand years, what you will see is overwhelmingly peaceable and sympathetic

relations. That's the truth of the matter. Most of the time, stuff was just fine. People working together making each other richer, no big deal.

But if you look at some of those flare-ups and high points and institutional

conflicts, you will see something that starts out or you're like,

dang, those religious leaders, they really wronged Jesus.

It'd be nice to see them have to answer for that in some way,

or acknowledge that they got it wrong or what they did.

You'll see it go from that to a place where you're like I really want some justice to a

place where like it seems like it evens out to a place in the middle ages and beyond

where you're like oh wow I kind of feel some sympathy here for the Jewish

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