From lloyd@bournemouth-net.co.uk Mon 

Sep 22 06:23:281997 

Newsgroups: alt.christnet 



>Actually, Hitler was a follower of Eastern meditational

>mysticism. 

>I'll follow up with the reference when I can dig up the book.

>Anyway, if it were not for the demonization of the Jews by the

>Church laying the foundation of prejudice, the Shoah (Holocaust)

>wouldnot have happened.

  

Not only that but the Church in Nazi Germany played a crucial

role in Hitler's plans for the Jews by co-operating with state

officials.





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"It is dishonest henceforth to refuse to face the fact 

that the basic root of modern antisemitism 

lies squarely in the Gospels and the rest of the 

New Testament." 





Rev. James Parkes in Davies A.T. (ed) 

"Antisemitism  and the Foundations of  Christianity", 

Paulist Press, New York, 1979,p.xi.







Early Christian Hardball     Gospel of John - Us and Them Thinking

Pharisees - a Loaded Term    Preferred Victim       Hate in Scripture!?


                    Later Christians -  Defense?     






anti-semitism 

   1.

 hostility towards Jews as a

religious or racial minority group often

accompanied by social, economic, and political

discrimination - compare RACISM 



2.

     opposition to Zionism : sympathy with

   opponents of the state of Israel.



     - Webster's Third New International Dictionary