To: E who wrote (9204 ) 3/20/2001 2:41:39 PM From: Neocon Read Replies (2) | Respond to All right, I will make a final attempt on this one. There have been two strands to the argument: one, my assertion that Nazi anti- Semitism was much more virulent than traditional Christian anti- Judaism; and two, my assertion that Christian anti- Judaism, though given to outbreaks of violence or more aggressive persecution, was not ordinarily driving Christians to such activities. For example, the point about the Spanish Inquisition was that it was almost universally reviled, and resisted in territories like Genoa, under Spanish control; that Jews per se were exiled but not subject to the Inquisition; that the targets of the Inquisition were conversos, and comparatively few were killed. (Incidentally, Torquemada was a converso). This bears upon the difference between an egregious event in the annals of Christian persecution, and the Nazi program of genocide. No genocide was attempted, and the point was not extermination. Also, the Spanish Inquisition was unusual in its ferocity, and was viewed unfavorably elsewhere.
