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vincentML -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/16/2010 8:10:42 AM)
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Personally I think people use it, to justify their hatred toward others.
Yes, there is a lot of truth in what you say. Unfortunately, it is only a half truth because of your use of the generic word "people." Unintentionally, I presume, or maybe because you don't know the truth of the matter, you gloss over the history of the persecution of the Jews by the Christian Church and so absolve it from its crimes. We were all taught about the Jews of Spain who were forced to convert or emmigrate.
That was not a one off, however. There were many pogroms against the Jews by Christians especially in medieval times, and the charge of deicide has run the course of the history of Christianity. The first Jewish ghetto was constructed by Pope Paul IV in the 16th Century near the foot of Vatican Hill on the Tiber River. The Jews lived in misery in that walled enclosure, required to wear an identifying patch on their clothing, forced to attend lectures by Churchmen and coerced into baptism.
"In 1543, Martin Luther wrote On the Jews and Their Lies, a treatise in which he advocated harsh persecution of the Jewish people, up to what are now called pogroms. He advocated that their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated."
Throughout the history of Christian Europe most occupations were proscribed to Jews. The seeds of the Twentieth Century Holocaust were planted in the long persecution of the Jews by the Christians. That's why, to answer your first question, people get so worked up about it.
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What I don't understand is why people get so worked up about it.
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