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"Then how come Jews were called Christ killers for centuries?"

How the hell should I know--or care? What I DO KNOW is that the Church has never declared Jews "Christ killers" as you say. Besides, Jews and Christians had mutual animosities of all sorts having nothing to do directly with religion, but having to do with cultural differences. This is not unusual. It happens everywhere. Jews are not special in this! Do you think Catholics weren't persecuted and killed for centuries in England? Do you think Christians are tolerated in countries like Pakistan and Egypt even today? Do you wring your hands over the 300,000 Catholics in a single province who were slaughtered in the French Revolution; do you fret over the hundreds of thousands of Christians killed and enslaved even today in the Sudan? Give me a break--it's the human condition for ALL people to suffer these persecutions--not just the Jews. People of one religion for the most part don't especially like people of another--unless they are enlightened and true to the tenets of what they believe. But to take a leap from this virtually universal situation to a condemnation of the Catholic Church over two millenia, or to go even further and to blame Christianity itself for setting-up the Holocaust, is sheer slander. It is bigotry, pure and simple--and it elicits anger and hostility, rightfully so.