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To: Fred Levine who wrote (68867)	3/19/2003 9:39:20 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

The debate about the book started out of Cary's comment that hatred of Jews is fundamental to Christianity. Your discussion of the book--the support for Christianity's need for distinction and the title of the book having Constantine's name in it--all went into supporting Cary's point. My point however is that anti-Jewish sentiments came at a much later date, perhaps around 1000 - 1300. Early Christianity had no need to try to be distinct from Judaism because it was very distinct to begin with. At some point in time (and I will have to do some research to find out when) Christianity made an effort to come very close to Judaism. Not the least of such effort was whole sale acceptance of Old Testament. My guess is that this was done to create deeper history and more mystique for Christianity. However, this move also meant that later on there would be a need to undo the ties by making Christianity un-Jewish and anti-Jewish. Not having read the book, I cannot be certain, but I have strong suspicion that the premise of the book is based on recency effect and survival bias. We are debating the timeline and the extent of anti-Judaism in Christianity, not whether the Church was anti-Jewish 600 years ago. As a side line, note that Islam has accepted both Judaism and Christianity as being the words of God. But it never accepted Torah or Bible to be accurate enough. This is in contrast to Christianity's inclusion of Old Testament in Bible. This, I think, is one of the reasons why Jews were not under as much pressure in the East over the centuries. ST