If you were on Twitter yesterday, you might have seen Christ is King trending.
The controversy stems from something Andrew Klavan said on his show that is being deliberately misinterpreted.
First of all, Andrew Klavan isn’t Jewish.
He was born unto an ethnically Jewish family, but wasn’t practicing. He converted to Christianity as an adult, and us very open about his Christianity.
But this has metastasized on the internet into, “the Jews want to ban us from saying ‘Christ is King'” or “the Jews are saying Christ is King us antisemitic.”
No, it’s not.
I can assure you, we are not trying to ban Christians from having an affirmation of faith, and saying “Christ is King” as an affirmation of faith isn’t antisemitic.
The problem is the way Groypers LARPing as Christians use Christ is King.
This is a perfect example:
Or perhaps this from Candace Owens, who has been playing footsie with neo-Nazis, when lashing out at Ben Shapiro in a passive aggressive way.
This use of “Christ is King” is in the same context as a Southern woman might use “bless your heart.”
It’s not said in niceness.
It’s not an affirmation of faith, it’s “fuck you, Jew.”
It’s a blasphemy.
This is the ugliness of Groyper-Christians. They are not Christians. They claim to be, but they don’t act very Christian.
Groyper-Christians are not feeding the hungry, helping the needy, or doing good works.
They are not volunteering at church or building hospitals.
That is hard work.
Hating people is much easier.
They believe that being a good Christian is to hate Jews for rejecting Christ.
I can’t tell you how many times this is happened to me on Twitter.
Some Groyper wil fill my replies with absolute Jew-hatred. Post antisemitic memes and quotes that are supposedly from the Talmud about how Jews hate Christians which are as fake as the Protocols of Zion, then end their rant with “Christ is King.”
These people have latched onto certain aspects of Christianity for the sane reason they latched onto Palestinian rights, to give legitimacy and a veneer of righteousness to their Jew-hatred.
They were Jew-haters first, and discovered they could use the theology of Christian Supersessionism (which no major sect of Christianity adheres to anymore) to make their Jew-hatred seem virtuous.
It’s not virtuous. It’s ugly. It’s using Christ’s name in vain. They have turned an affirmation of faith into an insult to hurl at Jews.
Now that they are being called out for it, they are retreating to a defensive position of “the Jews are trying to stop us from being Christians.”
No, we’re not, and they were never really Christian to begin with.
If you’re a Christian, you are absolutely entitled to your affirmation of faith.
We have no desire to take that from you.
And of you’re a Christian, you should be equally offended at these Groypers LARPing as Christians, who will end an antisemitic rant with an affirmation of faith used an as insult.
It’s not Jews vs. Christians.
It should be Jews and Christians vs. Groyper-Christian LARPers.
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