Preacher’s ‘Today’s Jews Aren’t Real Jews’ Message Getting In Way Of His ‘The Jews Killed Jesus’ Message

No ready answer to, “If today’s Jews are fake, then why do we call them Christ-killers?”

St. Louis, August 19 – A congregational leader dedicated to exhorting his flock to nurture hostility toward members of the Hebrew persuasion for deicide has found it difficult of late, he acknowledged in an interview yesterday, to pivot to the idea that the adherents or descendants of the Hebrew tradition are imposters, which, if established, undermines the notion that they bear any responsibility that the “genuine” members of the Hebrew persuasion bear for deicide in ancient Judea.

Pastor Devon Jones of the Beale Street Presbyterian Church told a reporter that his flock has had difficulty adjusting to his sermons in the last several years that have taken on a more explicitly pro-Palestinian character, in particular the popular pro-Palestinian talking point that the vast majority of today’s Jews descend not from actual ancient Jews but from Central Asian or European converts, and thus not “real” Jews. However, his longtime railing against the Jews as the eternally-guilty killers of Jesus Christ have rendered the “imposters” message a hard sell.

“Some of my congregants, bless them, they think there’s a contradiction,” he lamented. “One of them even said to me, ‘If today’s Jews are fake, then why do we call them Christ-killers?’ I had no ready answer. I had to fall back on one of our old standbys, the deviousness and perfidiousness of the Jews. For some reason the folks haven’t found that satisfying, even though I do.”

“It’s not a contradiction,” he insisted. “They’re devious. They can be both imposters and people who went from Khazaria to Palestine two thousand years ago to murder Jesus and bring a curse on their descendants who wouldn’t convert to Judaism until eight hundred years later, but also on the real Jews, because we don’t care about such distinctions anyway. Unless it comes to Palestine, where it matters whose genetic ancestors lived there as of a cutoff date that I determine by how much it supports my political positions.”

Congregational figures have noted a decrease in attendance since the shift in tone. “It must be the Jews’ fault,” argued Stephanie Powers, an active lay leader. “I don’t care which Jews, the fake Jews or the real Jews. But definitely not the Black Hebrew Israelites, who are the real Jews. But not real enough for us to accuse them of killing Jesus. I don’t know why people think this is inconsistent or hard to follow. I don’t have a problem with it.”

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