murdered by people who worship a Jewish man as their savior: the

Christians. Why did Christian anti-Semitism, a seemingly illogical belief

given that Jesus himself was a Jew, develop? How did it evolve, and why has

it persisted for centuries? In the Biblical gospels, despite three of the four

being ostensibly written by Jews, enemies of Jesus are referred to as "the

Jews." Early Christians found themselves in a quandary. The savior they

worship, himself a Jew, supposedly was killed by Jews. Since at least the

fourth century, some groups of Christians have actively practiced anti-

Semitism, taking revenge on Jewish people for "murdering" the God of

Christianity. Christians have called Jews devils, demons and antichrists.

Persecution by church officials, both Catholic and Protestant, was consistent

and deadly for over a thousand years. Hundreds of thousands, possibly

millions of Jews, were massacred by so-called Christians centuries before the

Holocaust. Emperor Constantine the Great converted to Christianity in 312

A.D. Attributing his military successes to God, he issued the Edict of Milan,

making Christianity the Roman Empire's official religion

things, reports that Identity churches are in thirty-three states as well as

non-human race. "True" Israel is the white, Anglo-Saxon peoples, who

Press, 1965), p. 25. 3. Ibid. 4. Vogt, p. 36. 5. Quoted in Poliakov, p. 52. 6.

became increasingly venomous. Gregory of Nyasa, a Cappadocian bishop,

Explaining Identity can be somewhat like nailing Jello to a tree. Identity

God; that black people are animals without souls; and that Jews are

America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 101. 16. Glen

Movement (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994),

third-party presidential candidate Gerald L.K. Smith (1898-1976), who

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