Nazi Hatred Of Jews Fueled by Long Tradtion of Christian Antisemitism And Neopaganism

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Nazi Hatred Of Jews Fueled by Long Tradtion of Christian Antisemitism And Neopaganism

 

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Anti-Semitism as a Christian Problem: Examining the Church's Past and Future​

 

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Historical Roots of Anti-Semitism in Christianity

 

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Antisemitism in History: From the Early Church to 1400
Read it all here> Antisemitism in History: From the Early Church to 1400​

 

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Anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism Table of Contents <Click to view it all from the Jewish Virtual Library here

 

[Basil the Great]

As I have said numerous times on Christian Forums, it was the famous Catholic theologian Hans Kung who stated that the Holocaust would probably never have happened but for the history of Christian anti-Semitism.

 

[JackRT]

If it were within my power to erase a single verse from every Bible which has ever existed it would be: "His blood be on us and on our children" (Matthew 27:25). More prejudice, more persecution, more murder, more genocide can be blamed on that one little sentence than on any other sentence in any language at any time in human history.

 

[The Gryphon]

If it were within my power to erase a single verse from every Bible which has ever existed it would be: "His blood be on us and on our children" (Matthew 27:25). More prejudice, more persecution, more murder, more genocide can be blamed on that one little sentence than on any other sentence in any language at any time in human history.

Romans 11 ►
New International Version
The Apostle Paul says:

1I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: 3“Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me” a ? 4And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” b 5So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

7What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, 8as it is written:

“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.” c

9And David says:
“May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

10May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.” d

Ingrafted Branches

11Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 12But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!

13I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 14in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

17If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

22Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

All Israel Will Be Saved

25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 26and in this way e all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

“The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

27And this is f my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” g

28As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. 30Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 31so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now h receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. 32For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

Doxology

33Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and i knowledge of God!

How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!

34“Who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has been his counselor?” j

35“Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?” k

36For from him and through him and for him are all things.

To him be the glory forever! Amen.

 

[EJ M]

Very much a contradiction in terms,
Christians are not anti-Semitic at all and never were.
1 John 3 sums up Christian responsibility to each other and Christians also know Romans 9-10-11,
God's dealings with the Jews.
Christians are not high minded but fear, knowing that if God spared not the natural branches, niether
Christians believe Jesus' words, "Why call ye me Lord, Lord and do not he things that I say".
Christians believe, follow and adhere to all of the New Testament and nowhere is there a licence to be Antisemitic. Quite the opposite, we are to love even our enemies.
Christians also believe Jesus' words in Matt 7,

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Christians never persecuted anyone, last of all, God's chosen people.
I fear people who persecuted those with whom they disagreed, got a horrible shock within an hour of taking their last breath.
John 16:1-2, These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

 

[JackRT]

Christians are not anti-Semitic at all and never were.

For how long have you been living on that desert island?

 

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Derek Prince - The Christian Factor in Anti Semitism

 

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Why Christian Antisemitism?

 

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Replacement Theology

 

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The Source of Antisemitism: A Biblical Perspective

 

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No one is like unto our G_d
Holy is our Lord of Glory
Worthy, You alone are worthy​

Antisemitism in the Church

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

Does not Nazism represent the greatest secular attempt at anti semitism? Using perhaps the old Christian antisemitic memes for it's initial basis but becoming a completely different beast later on? Few would take the gospel to indicate we ought systematically exterminate the Jew like hte Nazis did who were fueled by an ideology of racial purity, radical nationalism (in which only the German was the rule Europe).

I'm not denying centuries of Christian persecution of the Jews but I would contend that the nature of Nazi Anti antisemitism is different than that of Christian Anti-semitism. The former of which seems to deny the very humanity of Jews.

 

[The Gryphon]

Randall Price - Rebuilding the Temple: Prophecy, Politics and the Future of Jerusalem

 

[The Gryphon]

Does not Nazism represent the greatest secular attempt at anti semitism? Using perhaps the old Christian antisemitic memes for it's initial basis but becoming a completely different beast later on? Few would take the gospel to indicate we ought systematically exterminate the Jew like hte Nazis did who were fueled by an ideology of racial purity, radical nationalism (in which only the German was the rule Europe).

I'm not denying centuries of Christian persecution of the Jews but I would contend that the nature of Nazi Anti antisemitism is different than that of Christian Anti-semitism. The latter of which seems to deny the very humanity of Jews.

No their were many centuries of Anti-Semitism such as the Spanish Inquisition especially established inside the Christian faith since the Jewish believers became the minority within the faith. If you study the history of the Catholic Church and the Popes' edicts as well as writing of church theologians you will discover a very anti-Jewish bent throughout its history and writings. In fact much of what the Nazis based their anti-Jewish propaganda was founded on long held Christian anti-Jewish sentiment and teachings.

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[The Gryphon]

Does not Nazism represent the greatest secular attempt at anti semitism? Using perhaps the old Christian antisemitic memes for it's initial basis but becoming a completely different beast later on? Few would take the gospel to indicate we ought systematically exterminate the Jew like hte Nazis did who were fueled by an ideology of racial purity, radical nationalism (in which only the German was the rule Europe).

I'm not denying centuries of Christian persecution of the Jews but I would contend that the nature of Nazi Anti antisemitism is different than that of Christian Anti-semitism. The former of which seems to deny the very humanity of Jews.

According to all I have studied and read it was in fact not different but simply carried out to a larger degree and on a grander more concentrated degree. If Rome for instance had resisted Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini it is doubtful he could have achieved the control of Italy he did.

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

According to all I have studied and read it was in fact not different but simply carried out to a larger degree and on a grander more concentrated degree. If Rome for instance had resisted Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini it is doubtful he could have achieved the control of Italy he did.

Christians did persecute Jews throughout history but never to the level of systematically exterminating them. There were pogroms, there were expulsions, there were great massacres of Jewish towns but they all pale in comparison to the atrocities of secular WW2.

You mentioned the inquisition which didn't seek to find Jews in of themselves but sought to find those Jews who pretended to be Christians when in reality they were not. The conversos were, to be sure, were badly discriminated against and this isn't to justify the expulsion of the Jews by the Spanish crown, but it is simply not on the same level of carnage and cruelty that Nazi Germany displayed.

Christians, even if they hated the Jews, could not deny their humanity, could not suggest without implicating the Apostles, Christ and all the biblical Patriarchs that all Jews everywhere must be killed without exception, experimented on, tortured and deprived of even the most basic joys.

So I don't buy your line of Nazi antisemitism being more or less the same as Christian Antisemitism. The Nazi unlike the Christian is not constrained by his religion in treatment of Jews. The Christian even if he hates certain people must remember Christ called them all. Who truly represented Christianity, Bonhoeffer or Hitler?