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The East, please!
Posted by Dean (Guest) - Saturday, September 11 2004, 3:50:55 (CEST)
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Tony,

Thanks for the reply but must have missed part of my original post. I asked for examples east of Bet Nahrain. You gave me examples in the west.

-Dean

Tony wrote:
>Overview:
>Relations between Christians and Jews have traditionally been horrific. Christians have a past history of exterminating large numbers of Jews and/or forcibly converting Jews to Christianity.
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>The Christian church taught for many centuries that all of the Jews in 1st century Palestine were responsible for deicide -- the execution of Jesus. Further, they taught that each successive generation of Jews shared equal responsibility with their ancestors.
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>In the 10th century, Christian Crusaders systematically exterminated uncounted thousands of Jews on their way to and from the Holy Land.
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>In 1492, Spanish Jews were given the option of converting to Christianity or being expelled from their own country.
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>The Spanish Inquisition was established, in part, to ferret out any Jews that had not sincerely converted.
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>The predominately Christian American colonies frequently denied Jews the right to hold public office.
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>Pogroms (organized persecution and massacre of Jews) in Czarist Russia and in eastern Europe resulted in the deaths of countless Jews.
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>During the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, approximately 6 million Jews were exterminated by citizens of various European countries; the vast majority of the murderers considered themselves to be Christians; all were volunteers.
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>Anti-semitic attacks on individual Jews, their property, cemeteries and synagogues continue today worldwide, and are increasing in frequency.
>More horrific details.
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>A main point of conflict between Jews and Christians today is the attempt by many conservative Christian groups to convert Jews to Christianity through persuasion. This is viewed by many Jews as an attack on their religion.



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