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To: Clemenza

yes.. anti semitism he lovingly learned at the knee of the Roman Church


19 posted on 01/01/2020 2:27:03 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: Mom MD; Clemenza

Both of you wrote non-sense.

Martin Luther was not an anti-semite.

Did he hate Jews for their “race”? NO

Did he hate a person whose parents were Jews but who was a follower of Luther? NO

Did he call for killing and persecution of people who followed the Jewish religion? YES — with the option of convert and die.

That was bad, but it was NOT anti-semitism (race based) - more misanthropic.

Anti-Judaism was more a reaction to local authorities using Jews as middle-men.

In each country it had different root causes:
> In Spain the fact is that Jews helped Moslems with the conquests and did collaborate (probably with no choice). The expulsion was mostly political
> in the UK this was due to politics and money (similar to Henry 8’s grabbing of church funds centuries later)


47 posted on 01/02/2020 2:28:40 AM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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