Oh, one last thing that I forgot to add last night. Julius Streicher was the son of a Roman Catholic school teacher and followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming the same thing before the start of WWI. Where did he learn his hatred of Jews?
Hatred produces hatred. Irrationality produces irrationality.
I can think of some examples of that. Can you? No, I don’t expect so.
“Shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness ... avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.” (2 Timothy 2:16, 23)
True, as was Martin Luther, and both strayed outside the Catholic Church and became consumed with a poisonous hatred of the Jews.