Paul's Writings Underpin Western Thought

[Angrboda]

I think, reviewing my comments that Steve was responding to, that he may have simply misread and came away thinking I was laying the blame for the holocaust at Paul's feet. That was not my intention, and whether greater Christianity can be blamed for the holocaust raises some questions that I'm not all that clear about. Steve seems to be waffling back and forth on whether we're simply considering the contributions of Paul to Western thought, or the combined impact of Paul and the theological movement which he helped shape, which we now know as Christianity. I had assumed the former, but given recent comments from Steve, especially concerning the so-called deutero-Pauline epistles, I'm not so sure, and hope he will clarify. Either way, I think that Steve was not explicitly denying the link between Christianity and antisemitism so much as objecting that it wasn't essentially a result of Paul's letters.