The Atheist Obsession with Insulting Christians

[Jenny A]

A while back, I read a paper written by a professor at Gonzaga University in Spokane, a Catholic school.

From what I remember, his thesis was, the multi-century persecution of the Jews by Christians throughout Europe was very much a factor in the Holocaust. Martin Luther's On the Jews and Their Lies read like a playbook for the Nazis as one example. It was endemic in the culture and while multiple complex factors were at play, Jewish marginalization by the Christian majority was certainly a contributing and important factor.

Now, I can't find the paper on line any longer.  I thought it was odd such a paper would come from a Catholic school as it painted a bleak picture of European Christian culture and its complicity in the Holocaust.

Luther was convinced that once the NT was translated into good German, the German Jews would accept Jesus.  On Jews and Their Lies, was his cry of disappointment.  What it meant was that Protestants would treat the Jews no better than Catholics had been and would in future.

Certainly, that prejudice was why the holocaust was possible.