From Disruption to Dialog: Days of Judaism on Polish Twitter
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Background
1.2. The Evolution of the Church’s Communication with the Faithful through the Media
1.3. The Nature of Interreligious Dialogue
- Dialogue of everyday life—Christians share their joys, sorrows, problems, and worries with people of other religions in the spirit of friendship and openness;
- Dialogue of common endeavor—occurs when Christians, based on their religious needs, cooperate with the followers of other religions on social, economic, and political grounds to protect human rights;
- Dialogue of exchange of religious experiences—the faithful share the spiritual wealth and their own experience of God drawing on personal religious traditions;
- Theological dialogue—the faithful deepen their understanding of their own and other religions, appreciating spiritual and religious values in the spirit of humility and mutual understanding (Gądecki 2002, pp. 18–21).
1.4. Days of Judaism: History and Principles
- Explain and disseminate the nature of the Day of Judaism;
- Bring closer Church’s teachings on Jews and their religion after the Second Vatican Council;
- Make prayer an integral part of the Day of Judaism;
- Promote post-conciliar explanations of Scripture, which may have been interpreted in an anti-Judaist and anti-Semitic manner in the past;
- Explain the tragedy of the extermination of Jews to the faithful;
- Show anti-Semitism as a sin (John Paul II);
- Invite representatives of other Churches and Christian communities to common prayer on that day;
- Invite Jews to participate in Day of Judaism celebrations (Committee for Dialogue with Judaism at the 2008 Polish Episcopal Conference 2000).
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Visualizing Networks and User Rankings
@EpiskopatNews @CentrumDialogu @MiastoLodz @YouTube Zastanawiam się kiedy u przedstawicieli Judaizmu obchodzony jest dzień chrześcijan?[ENG: @EpiskopatNews @CentrumDialogu @MiastoLodz @YouTube I wonder when representatives of Judaism will celebrate the Days of Christianity]
Z uporem godniejszym lepszej sprawy cześć wpływowych hierarchów w Kościele Katolickim lansuje tzw. dzień judaizmu. Ta nierozumna praktyka trwa już 23 lata... (https://twitter.com/CzarnaLimuzyna/status/1215983702787928064, accessed on 30 January 2020)[ENG: With the stubbornness worth a better case, part of influential hierarchs in the Catholic Church promote so called day of judaism. This unreasonable practice goes back for 23 years…]
Dni judaizmu, islamu, protestantyzmu. A kiedy „dzień Tradycji” w Kościele? (https://twitter.com/KsKneblewski/status/1218270854821359616, accessed on 30 January 2020)[ENG Days of Judaism, Islam, Protestantism? When to expect “the day of tradition” in Church?]
Dzień Judaizmu, Dzień Islamu ... A gdyby tak sięgać po temat znacznie bardziej egzotyczny dla naszego duchowieństwa i urządzić w Kościele Dzień Tradycji Katolickiej? Biskupi z @EpiskopatNews celebrujący pontyfikalnie w swych katedrach po staremu, prelekcje ... Niemożliwe, co? (https://twitter.com/iktp_pl/status/1217709879755931648, accessed on 30 January 2020)[ENG: Days of Judaism, Days of Islam … And what if we take a subject much more exotic for our clergy and announce a Day of Catholic Tradition in the Church? Bishops from @EpiskopatNews pontifically celebrating in the old ways, lectures … Not possible, is it?]
RZYDZI2 [sic!] IDĄ NA CAŁOŚĆ. Dzień judaizmu: dzień bez Jezusa i Maryi w Kościele Katolickim. Czas zakończyć ten absurd. (https://twitter.com/MATYLDA__/status/1216099928537227265, accessed on 30 January 2020)[ENG: JEWS GO FULL STEAM AHEAD. Day of judaism: day without Jesus and Mary in Catholic Church. Time to end this absurdity]
2.2. Detecting Communities
Dzień Judaizmu przypomina nam o naszych korzeniach, a może jeszcze lepiej powiedzieć o tym, kim naprawdę jesteśmy. Każdy chrześcijanin jest w istocie duchowo Żydem. Jeśli nim nie jest, to nie rozumie ani własnej wiary, ani nie akceptuje Jezusa. Warto o tym—w tym dniu—pamiętać (https://twitter.com/tterlikowski/status/1350773421106364417, accessed on 30 January 2021)[ENG: The Day of Judaism reminds us about our own roots and can help us define who we really are. Every Christian is in fact, in his soul, a Jew. If one does not feel that way, one does not understand neither one’s own faith or Jesus. On such day, it is worth remembering it.]
Więc, powtórzę: przy okazji Dnia judaizmu nie opowiadajmy bzdur. Nie jesteśmy duchowo ani żydami ani tym bardziej w jakimkolwiek innym sensie Żydami. Duchowo jesteśmy uczniami i braćmi Jezusa, którego żydzi odrzucili.Mam też pytanie, czy judaizm obchodzi Dzień katolicyzmu? (https://twitter.com/RobertTekieli/status/1350783351792295939, accessed on 30 January 2020)[ENG: So let me repeat myself: on the occasion of the Day of Judaism let us not talk rubbish. We are neither spiritually nor in any other sense Jewish. Spiritually we are the disciples and brothers of Jesus, whom Jews rejected.I also have a question, does Judaism celebrate a Day of Catholicism?]
3. Results
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
1 | EpiskopatNews is a Twitter account founded in 2015 under the name @EpiskopatNews. The main purpose of this information stream is to promote in the media the teaching of the Polish Bishops’ Conference and to inform about current events in the life of the Church in Poland and in the world. The account is run by the Press Office of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, it is the most authoritative and influential source of information for Catholic and lay media, and is conducted in several languages. |
2 | The word “Rzydzi” (for Jews, correct spelling “Żydzi”) is most likely deliberately misspelled here in a derogatory fashion in order to raise the expressiveness of this most toxic of more than 1000 analyzed tweets. |
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Pisarski, M.; Gralczyk, A. From Disruption to Dialog: Days of Judaism on Polish Twitter. Religions 2021, 12, 828. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12100828
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