The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1920-03-26

Hg1ous conceit that would not forgive
the Jews irreconcilable separatism
This is the real source of all the
prejudice and animosity against the
Jews these 1900 years. The Jew
would not become a Christian, or,
in other parts of the world, Moham-
medan. He would not surrender his
own faith, his own doctrines, and
become merged in the surrounding
vast majority. And for that the theo-
logians of the dominant faith, begin
ming with the Church Fathers, nay
even with the writer's of the Gospels,
down to the era of modern religious
liberalism, have fastened a curse and
a Gains brand upon him that have
made him the worlds outcast. Given
a religion that stamps the Jew as
decide, as the crucifier of the
worlds Redeemer, and that teaches
that the Jew must expiate this awful
crime by endless misery and suffering
until he experiences a change Of
heart, accepts the God he has cruel
fed, and what treatment can you ex-
pect for the Jew in world that has
made this religion it's own? Nor were
the church authorities, the preachers,
propagators, and guardians of this
religion, satisfied with the mere in
culcation of this Jew-branding doc
trine. They have all through
medieval times, with but few and rare
exceptions, by preachment and ap-
peal, instigated their followers to visit
upon the Jew the punishment which
according to their theology God had
decreed against him; to act as the
in ctY me r1tc Of fho al ohfy in hrir,
ing degradation, sorrow and suffer
ing upon him. To make such preach
ment and such appeal more effective,
to produce quicker results, the most
slanderous and malicious stories about
the Jew were invented and given cur
rency in world STEPPED in super
stition and darkness, ready to believe
almost anything, especially if it bore
theological stamp. Jews were &C
cused of desecrating the host of mock
ing and reviling the Christian sacra-
ments, of Strengthening Christian chill
dren for ritual purposes, of poisoning
wells to bring plaques upon Christian
humanity, of every heinous and
hideous crime imaginable. Add to it
the natural selfishness, malevolence,
cruelty, rapacity, and blood thirsti-
ness of human beings brutalized by
constant warfare, as was the case in
Europe throughout the centuries past,
and you will comprehend how easy it
was, for such calumnies, libels and &C.
cusations to spread and gain Gre
dence, thus furnishing barbarism,
ferocity, and lust an ever-ready vic
tim.
All this having gone on for about
1900 years, you can readily see what
a heritage of hate and prejudice
against the Jew there has come down
to the modern world, in spite of all
it's tolerance and enlightenment. The
Jew is disliked, feared, and suspected
as matter of heredity in the Chris
tian world. 1t is now in the blood,
as it were, and it will take more than
a few decades of liberalism and toler-
ance to stamp it out, especially since
the Jew-branding theology is still be-
ing taught and is still having it's be-
levers by the millions. The child in
many Christian. Sunday School is
still, even though unwittingly and I'M
Intentionally, inoculated with the
germs of Jew-hatred. Whenever the
story of the passion and crucifixion
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