Day 125: Birth of Antisemitism

Unfortunately there is a strong element of theology in the background of Christianity that is very powerfully anti-Semitic. And whether you are aware of it or not, over the centuries the church in Europe has been the leader in anti-Semitism. In fact, it wasn’t the Nazis that introduced anti-Semitism. They simply capitalized on what the church had already sown. The church sowed the harvest, the Nazis reaped. They could not have changed the thinking of the Germans and the Poles over night. That was the product of seed that had been sown for many centuries. And in many ways the responsibility of the Holocaust lies at the door of the professing church in Europe.