Historicity of Jesus - 2

[ramana]

X-posted from BRF...

Abhishekcc wrote:

Anti-Semitism is synonymous with the Christian religion. It is not something that 'happened' during the middle ages or during the modern period.



In the initial years, Jesus' followers were separate from orthodox Judaism. Roman empire, then occupying Judea, was facing a lot of trouble from Jewish nationalists. Jesus' followers tried to differntiate themselves from the other Jews by pointing out 'they' had killed their messiah.



This position laid the foundation of a much more visceral approach, when the Roman empire adopted Christianism (AND Sun worship AND Mithra-ism) as its official religions. History records Constantine as the 'founder' of Christianism, but ignores the fact that he also adopted the otehr two religions as well.



Anyway. The initial position espousing differences became the justification endless harassment. Much later, the Roman Catholic Church issued the decree that all Jews be either converted to xmism, or failing that - killed. (I got this from BRF member Kaushal - he even mentioned the decree number - I forget). And finally, the seperation of Jews from European life made possible the Holocaust.