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A little while ago I was attending college in a small city in Indiana... I was infact, they only jew I knew.

Eventually one day someone came up to me who was one of the goodly christian folks.

This person came up to me, asked me if I was really jewish and then proceeded to tell me that I was forgiven for killing Christ.

I thought for a second on how to respond to "I forgive you and your people for causing the death of our Lord and Savior"

so I looked at them and smiled, thanked them and mentioned how I'd do it again if it helped.

the person narrowed their eyes and walked away, and I of course, declared victory.

Anyone else here run into a dumb statement that they had a snappy answer for?

Eh, usually if some fundie decides to bug me about worshiping Jesus, my standard (and fairly lame) response is just a basic "If worshiping a Jew is your thing, whatever floats yer boat, I prefer to worship God" or something along those basic lines, rubbing in that Jesus was in fact a Jew, and they are in fact worshiping a Jew.

Yeah, but I'm referring to their fantasy thing that Dante described, which they are referring to as well. blaugh

I've been told before that Jews killed Jesus. Normally, I point out to them that I've read their Christian Testament, probably more often than they have. The text clearly states that the Romans did it. True, they asked their (subjugated, practically enslaved, conquered) subjects, "Should we do it?" and we said, "Yes, of course. He's broken our laws and he's broken your laws, and both demand the death sentence." But whether we replied yes or no, they'd still have done it. Romans didn't take their orders from Jews. They had conquered the land of Israel. They had taken over the government. They took especial pains to make it hard for us to live as Jews. We had no rights in our own land. They viewed us in much the same way that certain areas of the US viewed Blacks, enacting laws very similar to the Jim Crow laws (ask your history teacher) that kept us segregated and degraded constantly. They may have asked our opinion, but really, it was a rhetorical question.

There was one kid I was really irriated with because he's a dumb s**t. He asked me if I was Jewish.

Now let me explain this to you, I advertise the fact that I am Jewish; during the Christmas concert I sang a prayer, in Hebrew, as a solo. I have the Israeli flag on my binder. Almost everyone in my class was invited to my Bat Mitzvah.

Okay so he says, "OMG you're Jewish, I've never met a Jewish person before!"

At that point I felt like grinding my head, or better yet, his head into the table for being such an idiot, so I said in my normal ssarcastic drawl, "No, I'm not Jewish - I have the Israeli flag on my binder. I sang a prayer during the holiday concert, I keep kosher. I am not Jewish. - OF COURSE I'M JEWISH YOU DUMBSHIT!"

That made me lol with a mouth full of chips. xD <3

The Catholic Mexicans don't really bother me at all, I find it's the Christian boys who are the most non understanding. In biology when we got to talking about Creationism and Evolution, some kid was like,"Better not talk about Creationism with the Jew in here." I don't know what he meant by it, but it sounds pretty uneducated if you ask me.

It's a combination of boys just being boys, and not being taught anything except negative criticism of other religions.

It's like this bs going on with Muslims. Not all Muslims are jihadists who hate everyone except Muslims. I find it annoying when people feel the need to stereotype a religion because of what they see on Fox News or Comedy Central.

lol, sweet comeback! The worst I've ever had was a "Hey look! That kid has a little hat! I want one too!!", shouted by a little kid in a baseball game I went to a few years ago... sweatdrop