Posted by Sigismund on December 28, 2008, at 16:07:06
In reply to Blocked for a week » Dena, posted by Deputy Dinah on December 28, 2008, at 8:32:05
>> All one has to do is read some of Luther's or Calvin's writings, to see how antiSemitic they were.
I was thinking of this.
I've never read Calvin or Luther, but Luther at any rate is famous (in history books) for at least some antisemitic remarks.
I don't think there is much point in judging the past by the standards of the present, but it might be true to say that Christianity at that time was, by and large, antisemitic. This is what you might expect from a belief system that had fissured and was at war with the other part, with witches, peasants, and whoever else.
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