Christian Anti-Semitism

te that Jews are "Companions of the devil, race of vipers, informers,
             calumniators, darkeners of the mind, pharisaic leaven, Sanhedrin of demons,
             accursed .... " (2) St. John Chrysostom (354-407) urged Christians at
             Antioch to avoid the synagogue and curb their curiosity about Judaism:
             Brothel and theater, the synagogue is also a cave of pirates and the lair of
             wild beasts.... Living for their belly, mouth forever gaping, the Jews behave
             no better than hogs and goats in their lewd grossness and the excesses of
             their gluttony. (3) In 1095, the Crusades began when Pope Urban II called
             upon Christians to save the Holy Land from the infidels; he promised the
             remission of sins to all who participated. Huge armies gathered. For two
             centuries these armies, while making their way to the Middle East,
             persecuted or slaughtered any Jews they happened to encounter. (4) One
             mob, according to an eyewitness, "...decided to avenge Christ upon the
             pagans and the Jews. This is why they killed 900 Jews in the city of Mainz
             without sparing the women and children...." (5) The slaughter of Jews by so-
             called "Christians" is historical truth, not the invention of anti-Christian
             humanists and historical revisionists. Hal Lindsey, the fundamentalist Bible
             teacher and best-selling author of The Late Great Planet Earth, admits:
             When the Crusaders ... captured Jerusalem on July 15, 1099, they first
             entered the city through the Jewish quarter. A terrible slaughter took place.
             The surviving Jews were sold as slaves. The Jewish community of Jerusalem
             was obliterated. In all, tens of thousands of Jews were massacred in the
             name of Christianity as a consequence of the first Crusade. (6) Another mob
             of Jew-killers wandered from city to city in the German districts of Rottingen
             and Bavaria in the year 1298, burning Jewish communities and slaughtering
             any Jew who would not forcibly "convert" to Christianity. One historic...

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