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[quote=Anonymous]If these had all been in different sermons, I wouldnt have thought that much about it (except for the greedy Jewish tax collector one - using the "Jewish" part was unnecessary to get descriptive meaning). But three times in a sermon seems a bit excessive.

I go to a very liberal church, and I'm pretty sure these things would have been handled differently. To deal with the change is philosophy, we probably would have pointed out that Jesus was protesting the legalistic style of the elders at the time, would probably have not mentioned the alignment with the Hebrew elders (in fact, that was in this week's readings, so that part of the Gospel must be up, and I dont recall the reference to her being anything but a "sinner"), and would have referred to the tax collector.

But is it hugely anti semitic? I'm having a hard time getting there. The historical Jesus' major beef was with the elders of his own religion, and to stop mentioning "jews" when teaching Jesus' life and works would be revisionist history. Where Christianity went off the rails was to blame all Jews throughout the ages for causing Jesus' death. Any trace of that thought going through teachings is harmful and closed minded.[/quote]

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