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I am a student of the history of Christianity, but I am not an admirer of Augustine, Ignatius, or Luther.

I have particular disgust for such men because of their vitriol against all things Jewish. Their wild abandon of the Hebrew Scriptures led to their disloyalty, and shameful repudiation of the family of the Messiah they CLAIMED to follow.

BTW, I am not Jewish.

I have particular disgust for such men because of their vitriol against all things Jewish.

What are you reading of theirs? You will not find a "disgust" for all things Jewish in the history of the Catholic Church as there are many traditions and rituals held fast and carried over by Catholics - the same cannot be said of Protestants, but that is besides the point.

I also think you miss the first several hundred years of oppression and persecution of Christians by the Jews. Convenient isn't it? Christianity actually began as a Jewish sect and remained so for several decades until they received hostility from the Jews.

Matter of fact, if you read any of the Old Testament, the sentiment of the prophets almost mirrors that of the Christian Church: 1. God gaves the law to His chosen people, 2. they rejected it, therefore they stand condemned for rejecting the Lord and His covenant.

You might as well label Isaiah, Moses, David, Elijah, or even Jesus as "anti-semetic" too. Their opinion of faithless Jews is no different than Christianity's. The difference is, instead of Jews being faithless to the original covenant, they are being faithless to the new covenant. Its the same story either way and its very hypocritical to finger the Christians for this one. Those sentiments are all throughout the Bible.