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...