How Did Chrstian Anti-Semitism Develop?
Chrstian anti-Semitism did not begin until long after the death of Jsus. It was not until several hundred years later that the Church fathers decided that Jews as a group should be persecuted because they "killed Jsus."
Bernard Blumenkranz, author of "Jews and Chrstians in the Western World", is one of the authorities who documents that the intense and ongoing Chrstian persecution of the Jews did not truly begin until the advent of the Crusades - over 1,000 years after Jesus' death!
If the killing of Jsus is the true cause of Chrstian rage, why did it take so many centuries after the event for Chrstians to get really angry? Furthermore, once Christian hatred for Jews got under way, it became worse with the passage of time. Logically, time should have eased the strong feelings, as is the case in so many other situations.
