Why were the Christians anti-Semitic?
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The first Christians such as Justin Martyr, the Church Fathers such as Augustine, the Reformers such as Luther were all anti-Semites. Why was that so?
Here are some quotes:
> Luther: "Accordingly, it must and dare not be considered a trifling
> matter but a most serious one to seek counsel against this and to save
> our souls from the Jews, that is, from the devil and from eternal
> death. My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues
> be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulfur and pitch; it
> would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire. That would
> demonstrate to God our serious resolve and be evidence to all the
> world that it was in ignorance that we tolerated such houses, in which
> the Jews have reviled God, our dear Creator and Father, and his Son
> most shamefully up till now but that we have now given them their due
> reward."
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> John Chrysostom: "Again the Jews, the most miserable and wretched of
> all men. But today the Jews, who are more dangerous than any wolves,
> are bent on surrounding my sheep; so I must spar with them and fight
> with them so that no sheep of mine may fall victim to those wolves.
> Isaiah called the Jews dogs and Jeremiah called them mare-mad horses.
> This was not because they suddenly changed natures with those beasts
> but because they were pursuing the lustful habits of those animals."
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> Pope Clement VIII: "All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews,
> their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people
> into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people
> and the very poor. Then, as now, Jews have to be reminded
> intermittently that they were enjoying rights in any country since
> they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their
> ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to
> be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live."
https://www.jpost.com/blogs/the-jewish-problem---from-anti-judaism-to-anti-semitism/the-jewish-problem-adversus-judeaos-against-the-jews-376333
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