Christian Anti-Semitism
For sixteen hundred years, the Jewish people have been persecuted andmurdered by people who worship a Jewish man as their savior: theChristians. Why did Christian anti-Semitism, a seemingly illogical beliefgiven that Jesus himself was a Jew, develop? How did it evolve, and why hasit persisted for centuries? In the Biblical gospels, despite three of the fourbeing ostensibly written by Jews, enemies of Jesus are referred to as "theJews." Early Christians found themselves in a quandary. The savior theyworship, himself a Jew, supposedly was killed by Jews. Since at least thefourth century, some groups of Christians have actively practiced anti-Semitism, taking revenge on Jewish people for "murdering" the God ofChristianity. Christians have called Jews devils, demons and antichrists.Persecution by church officials, both Catholic and Protestant, was consistentand deadly for over a thousand years. Hundreds of thousands, possiblymillions of Jews, were massacred by so-called Christians centuries before theHolocaust. Emperor Constantine the Great converted to Christianity in 312A.D. Attributing his military successes to God, he issued the Edict of Milan,making Christianity the Roman Empire's official religion
Hal Lindsey, The Road to Holocaust (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), p. Anti-Jewish riots in Norwich led to the murder of one of the city's prominentJews. Alleged child murders led to theburning at the stake of thirty-eight Jews in Blois in 1171; twenty years laternearly one hundred Jews were burned at Bray-sur-Seine. (28) Unfortunately, Christian anti-Semitism did notend with Hitler's defeat; even today, vicious anti-Semitism persists amongsome Christians. The 1930s, for example, was a period ofrising international anti-Semitism which ultimately resulted in the Holocaust,and nominal Christians were active participants. In all, tens of thousands of Jews were massacred in thename of Christianity as a consequence of the first Crusade.
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