re: #54 The Ghost of a Flea
Intense Christians rreeeaaalllyyy like to deflect from a millenium of elaborating on how bad the Jews were. And the subsequent legal system to contain them, moral panics, and pogroms.
Going to and reading about Prague really drove that home.
Some among the Church Fathers were seriously awful anti-Semites. Religious fanatics going apeshit over the Christ-killer thing and going downhill from there.