Jews were hardly "persecuted" at that time; but, yes, I think the fact that Jews were hated throughout Europe at a time when European nations hated each other more than they hated the rest of the world says quite a lot.Do you think Christians at that time just randomly decided to hate Jews when their own book tells them to all but worship Jews?Again, it was about Europeans hating Jews, not Christians.So you think that there was a legitimate basis for Christians hating Jews?
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The same countries that gave the world the Enlightenment hated Jews.
It was about Christians hating Jews.
Christian leaders invoking Christ as a pretext to blame Jews for everything.
So you think that there was a legitimate basis for Christians hating Jews?
Please go on
The stereotypes that have lasted for hundreds of years are still around today for a reason.
And again- Do you think that there was a legitimate basis for Christians hating the Jews in the Middle Ages- when Jews were persecuted in much of Christian Europe?
'hardly persecuted'?
Since you quoted Wikipedia- I will do so also
Persecution of Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
n the Middle Ages Antisemitism in Europe was religious. Though not part of Roman Catholic dogma, many Christians, including members of the clergy, have held the Jewish people collectively responsible for killing Jesus. As stated in the Boston College Guide to Passion Plays, "Over the course of time, Christians began to accept … that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for killing Jesus. According to this interpretation, both the Jews present at Jesus Christ's death and the Jewish people collectively and for all time, have committed the sin of deicide, or "god-killing". For 1900 years of Christian-Jewish history, the charge of deicide has led to hatred, violence against and murder of Jews in Europe and America."[3]
During the High Middle Ages in Europe there was full-scale persecution in many places, with blood libels, expulsions, forced conversions and massacres. An underlying source of prejudice against Jews in Europe was religious. Jews were frequently massacred and exiled from various European countries. The persecution hit its first peak during the Crusades. In the First Crusade (1096) flourishing communities on the Rhine and the Danube were utterly destroyed, a prime example being the Rhineland massacres. In the Second Crusade (1147) the Jews in France were subject to frequent massacres. The Jews were also subjected to attacks by the Shepherds' Crusades of 1251 and 1320. The Crusades were followed by expulsions, including in 1290, the banishing of all English Jews; in 1396, 100,000 Jews were expelled from France; and, in 1421 thousands were expelled from Austria. Many of the expelled Jews fled to Poland.[4]