re: #352 Lawrence Schmerel

It is interesting that Bobby Fischer’s antisemitism was clearly the Christian form.

Interesting, because early on he was quite anti-Christian:

Fischer wrote of Nature’s Eternal Religion in a 1979 letter to Benko, “The book shows that Christianity itself is just a Jewish hoax and one more Jewish tool for their conquest of the world. … Unfortunately the author is an extreme racist and this somewhat spoils the book.”

It could be like Hitler’s m.o. - he would say strong words about Christianity as a religion, but would hail Christ as someone who “stood against the Jews” at the same time.