[Cronos]

When Catholics can demonstrably show that Jews have systematically tortured, murdered, "converted" them (cultural and religious genecide), then you can turn the tables... until then, there has no people persecuted as ruthlessly by another as Jews have been by Catholics.

Sigh, you play the blame game and someone will point out Saul of Tarsus and the Sanhedrin's suppression of early Christian communities. The blame game doesn't work. Can you demonstrate any where where the Church now persecutes Jews?

[safisoft]

Sigh, you play the blame game and someone will point out Saul of Tarsus and the Sanhedrin's suppression of early Christian communities. The blame game doesn't work. Can you demonstrate any where where the Church now persecutes Jews?

Sanity on this thread? You are correct. Although they were not distinct from the other Judaisms of the First Century, Jews of "the Way" were indeed persecuted by the Jewish authorities. Later on however, they gained great acceptance (Acts 21). By the time James was murdered, the Pharisee party was so intertwined with the movement that they sent emissaries to Caesar to complain against the illegitimate High Priest who had arranged for the murder of James.

By the early Second Century, Gentiles outnumbered Jews in the assemblies, and they had to create theologies to distance themselves from Jews because the Jews were suffering from Roman persecution. Those theologies eventually became dogma and justified the "Church's" systematic persecution of Jews. A brief perusal of the ante-Nicean fathers' writings will reveal a vile hatred of all things Jewish.

Where you are confused is on who the parties were in the First Century. The early followers of Jesus were all Jews. The "your side, our side" was not "Christian against Jew" - it was Jew against Jew. No Sanhedrin ever made rulings against Gentiles.