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So in response to the evidence of Catholic antisemtism, you react with this? True to form.

I believe that I addressed Catholic persecution of, and failure to assist, the Jews. I hate all the unrighteousness done to the Jews over the centuries by Catholics, not to mention Protestants and others who claimed the name of Jesus. It is tragically dissonant. Blessed John Paul II walked to the Western Wall, his head covered, to offer a prayer for forgiveness for what was done, and what was not done. Should I not forgive ? I too must stand before the judgment seat of a Messiah, and I am a sinner. I forgive. As it is written. Go and sin no more. The passage of Paul you quote about wrath I only attribute to one generation, from the example here,

12Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? 13And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. 14So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. 15And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. 16Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. 17Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

as well as from this New Covenant prophecy

35 Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. 37 Thus saith the Lord; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord. I suppose, as certain of your own poets have said

Still, a man hears what he wants to hear. And disregards the rest. When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy ....

Any one of us can miss the mitzvot (good deeds) another actually does and focus on where we think he needs improvement. And then, I just had to click on that video of the young woman pleading for her life as ISIS stoned her to death for adultery. Her Arabic was very similar to the Hebrew phrase uttered on Yom Kippur or in the Lord's Prayer. I could hear her saying over and over, again, "slachni" where "ni" refers to just her, "forgive me" and her murderering cleric tells her to say it to "Allah" not to them (where she would have to use a different phrase). They showed her no mercy. Her father refused to forgive her and signaled the stoning to commence, with he himself smashing her head in with the final honorific blow. Right now, I can't get this video out of my heart and ask the LORD, the true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to grant this woman a place in his kingdom and to avenge and deliver all the victims of Islamic rapists and murderers.