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As to the history of Christians and Jews, I want to make one point that will
hopefully be remembered in every discussion of the subject. Christians
treated Jews better than any other religion and better than they treated
fellow Christians. That is a fact.
Worshippers of Odin and Zeus any other god or religion are completely gone,
exterminated, eliminated, whatever. There are none around to whine about
their treatment.
And many variations upon Christianity such as the Albegensians are
completely gone. In many cases they were eliminated in mass slaughter but by
slow attrition. The Inquistion got rid of many of those sects. While the
Inquisition may have been unpleasant for Jews, they still exist. There was
never any Christian attempt to eliminate Jews.
There were attempts to eliminate the church of England and Lutherans and
vice versa. They only survived by military strength. Jews in Europe never
has military strength but they survived.
This constant whining about how they were treated makes no sense at all when
put in context. In context they were treated better than any other religion
and better than Christian sects.
It does sound nasty out of context but in context it was the best possible
treatment available.
And the few records available of Jewish treatment of Christians was not
nearly as restrained.
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