For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus

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The fact is - the church has said many things - and changed them to suit themselves at time - that they repudiated the Jewish Guilt is worthless - when the christ is a fictional being anyway.

Whether Jesus existed or not is irrelevant here. Have you ever considered how the story affected Christians' attitude towards Jews over the centuries?

Barabbas

The story of Barabbas has special social significances, because it has historically been used to lay the blame for the crucifixion of Jesus on the Jews,and to justify anti-Semitism—an interpretation, known as Jewish deicide

Christian-Jewish Reconcilliation

Reconciliation between Christianity and Judaism refers to the efforts that are being made to improve understanding of the Jewish people and of Judaism, to do away with Christian antisemitism and anti-Judaism. There has been significant progress in reconciliation in recent years, especially by the Catholic Church, but also by other Christian groups.

The Second Vatican Council, commonly known as Vatican II, which closed in 1965, was instrumental in producing the document called Nostra Aetate, which read in part:

True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ; still, what happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today. Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures. All should see to it, then, that in catechetical work or in the preaching of the word of God they do not teach anything that does not conform to the truth of the Gospel and the spirit of Christ. Furthermore, in her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel's spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.