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Walter L. Newton5/16/2009 8:31:43 am PDT

re: #681 Killgore Trout

It wasn’t long ago that fights over this stuff would get really viscous here.

They still will. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t take much study to understand that most anti-semitism was fuel by the various christian sects, starting with the Roman church. Luther was a well know anti-semite.

Islam built on the existing anti-semitism, and turned it into literal doctrine. That wouldn’t have been possible if the rest of the civilized world at the time didn’t agree.

Nope, it’s only been the last 150 years or so where the various christian sect have reexamined their stance on Jews and their relationship to the church and the world.

Even Vatican II had to address the problem. If the problem didn’t exist, then how come the largest christian sect had to correct it at a major church conclave?