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To: jjotto
Brushing the foam off the beer, I would summarize your three links as:

St. Justin Martyr criticized Jews and Judaism in an apologetic work in the form of a philosophical dialogue with a fictional Jewish scholar. Nothing there quite so dramatic as calling for pogroms. The theoretical Jewish scholar disagreed with St. Justin Martyr but that is not anti-Catholicism any more than St. Justin Martyr is an example of anti-Semitism. The fictional scholar was considering conversion at the end which was obviously a literary device.

St. Augustine disagreed with Judaism. Nothing more of relevance. I am somewhat aware of Augustine but not of the authors of these three references.

St. John Chrysostom was not referenced in the original argument. It was he who also observed that the floor of hell was paved with the skulls of bishops but we do regard that as likely truth and nhot as anti-Catholicism.

The other two were Origen and Martin Luther. I defended Origen and said nothing of Luther as is my habit here. I leave his defense to his co-religionists. You will recall that he was no longer Catholic when he came to public attention.

45 posted on 10/22/2011 12:32:26 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Burn 'em Bright!!!)
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To: BlackElk

Links were just FYI. I was wondering if someone else was confusing Augustine with Chrysostom.

Thanks for the tips on Malachi Martin.


46 posted on 10/22/2011 12:51:16 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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