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  • Have you ever watched christian TV? They are anti-everything except themselves, money, and sex behind the scenes.
  • No. Most recognize Judaism as the source of their religion. The Evangelicals in particular are strong supporters of Israel.
  • inherently, no, but historically it has often been. The Catholics have a long history of it and it is well documented that the founders of protestantism were anti-semitic. From childhood I have heard the term "christ killers" used by many christians. The fact that Jesus was jewish creates a bizarre love/hate relationship with the faith their religion is based on.
  • Many passages in the Bible make it seem so, but when you take them all together is becomes both obvious and undeniable that when the New Testament condemns "the Jews" it is referring to the Jewish LEADERSHIP of the time. You don't need to take my word for this; just get a concordance (that's an index to every word in the Bible) and look up every place in the New Testament where the phrase "the Jews" occurs. You won't even have to read all the occurrences in John's Gospel to be convinced. So the answer is no, Christianity is not anti-Semitic, though some misguided Christians have been. It's too bad that most American Jews think American Christians are as anti-Semitic as many European Christians were. In fact, American Christians are just about the only friends that Jews have in the whole world--animists, Buddhists and Hindus ignore them, and most Muslims and many secularists hate them. Before Christianity, Cicero said that the Jews had the odium totius generis humanis--the hatred of the entire human race.
  • No. Christianity is not inherently anti-Semitic. If that were the case there wouldn't be a worldwide population of 15-25 million Arabs who call themselves Christian. When you get into individual sects of Christianity and, more importantly, individual Christians the answer becomes more complex. There are Christian sects, groups, denominations, individuals, etc. that have, throughout history and continuing to the present day, reviled the Jews as "Christ-killers" and for not accepting their view that Jesus was the prophesied Jewish Messiah. On the other hand there are groups of so-called evangelical Christians that are supporters of Israel. I personally find their reasons for doing so suspect. They are not altruistic or based on any love for Jews, per se. These groups support Israel because they want to hasten what they believe will be Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_15_122/ai_n14872490
  • My understanding as an Atheist based on what I've heard and otherwise seen here, is that Christians love to kiss the Jews' asses because they consider them as their 'god's chosen people'
  • Christianity is not. unfortunately there are some Christians who are.
  • Not when they stop and think about it.
  • lol, funny question. no comment.
  • In some Christian churches, I think we are more apt to be anti-_______ (Fill in the blank) than we are pro-God.
  • the religion isn't, but some people are..
  • Not when it is truly Christian. "It is impossible for a Catholic to be an anti-Semite; spiritually all of us are Semites". -- Pope Pius XII The Catholic Church officially teaches: When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People, "the first to hear the Word of God. The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ"; "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable." Neither all Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with the crimes committed during the Passion of Jesus Christ. The Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from Holy Scripture. For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 597 and 839: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt2art4p2.shtml#597 http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.shtml#839 With love in Christ.
  • No, Christianity is not anti-semitic.
  • Christianity would be less Christian if it were to be anti-semitic. After all Jesus was a jew and much of the Christian religion's teachings evolved from the Judaic tradition.

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