Also, I wish I had a dollar for every person who assumed I was a hateful, mean, uneducated and ignorant bigot who has been horribly abused by Christians when I said that while I like Gothic styles, I won't wear anything with a cross on it because Christianity took our scriptures and teaches that we will all be converted to Christianity in the end and that they are the true followers of our G-d and historically has forced conversions of our people, so I feel I'd be letting them all down if I wore a symbol of Christian identity. I don't quite get how they can make the leap from "some Christians do this to Jews and this horrible thing happened in 1400 that was all an attempt to erase Jewish identity, so I won't give the impression of allowing my Jewish identity to be erased" to "Tiferet has clearly been driven insane by torture from individual Christians and now thinks we're all like that."
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Also, I wish I had a dollar for every person who assumed I was a hateful, mean, uneducated and ignorant bigot who has been horribly abused by Christians when I said that while I like Gothic styles, I won't wear anything with a cross on it because Christianity took our scriptures and teaches that we will all be converted to Christianity in the end and that they are the true followers of our G-d and historically has forced conversions of our people, so I feel I'd be letting them all down if I wore a symbol of Christian identity. I don't quite get how they can make the leap from "some Christians do this to Jews and this horrible thing happened in 1400 that was all an attempt to erase Jewish identity, so I won't give the impression of allowing my Jewish identity to be erased" to "Tiferet has clearly been driven insane by torture from individual Christians and now thinks we're all like that."