Sure, New Testament is very anti Semitic but, from my observation, vast majority of Christians don't care what it says in the Bible, instead they care what some authoritative person told them what is in the Bible and throughout their lives they look for people that say similar things.
Now to the anti-antisemitism in the NT:
John 5:16 ("Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day"),
John 5:18 ("The Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal to God"),
John 7:1 ("After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry; because the Jews sought to kill him").
These three verses alone are sufficient to create hatred of Jews in the minds of Christians. But they are only part of a larger picture. In John 8:52 the Jews directly accuse Jesus of "having" a devil and according to John 18:35 the Jews are responsible for delivering Jesus to Pilate to be executed. Lastly, John 19:1-23 indicates that, along with the Roman soldiers, some Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.
The author looked upon Jews as the main enemy of Jesus and the primary force behind his demise.
In John 8:44 Jesus himself attacks the Jews by saying, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do." Imagine saying that the Jews are "of your father the Devil"! If that is not made to order for the production of antisemitism and Nazi thought, nothing is!
Of course Paul adds to the hammering by saying in 1 Thessalonians 2:15 that the Jews killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets. According to Acts 9:23 and 13:50 the Jews are accused of persecuting Paul and his followers: "After many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him [Paul]" and "The Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them." Even Peter enters the anti-Semitic attack by accusing the Jews of crucifying Jesus (Acts 4:10 and 5:30).
Now to the anti-antisemitism in the NT:
John 5:16 ("Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day"),
John 5:18 ("The Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal to God"),
John 7:1 ("After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry; because the Jews sought to kill him").
These three verses alone are sufficient to create hatred of Jews in the minds of Christians. But they are only part of a larger picture. In John 8:52 the Jews directly accuse Jesus of "having" a devil and according to John 18:35 the Jews are responsible for delivering Jesus to Pilate to be executed. Lastly, John 19:1-23 indicates that, along with the Roman soldiers, some Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.
The author looked upon Jews as the main enemy of Jesus and the primary force behind his demise.
In John 8:44 Jesus himself attacks the Jews by saying, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do." Imagine saying that the Jews are "of your father the Devil"! If that is not made to order for the production of antisemitism and Nazi thought, nothing is!
Of course Paul adds to the hammering by saying in 1 Thessalonians 2:15 that the Jews killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets. According to Acts 9:23 and 13:50 the Jews are accused of persecuting Paul and his followers: "After many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him [Paul]" and "The Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them." Even Peter enters the anti-Semitic attack by accusing the Jews of crucifying Jesus (Acts 4:10 and 5:30).
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
