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Flame » in reply to re: The church has a history of anti-semetism...

The fact is undeniable, yes.

But hardly exclusive. And hardly universal. Numerous Catholics risked their lives helping Jews escape and concealing Jewish children during World War II. The Pope wasn't one of them, but one can't have everything. (The future John XXIII was, though...)

Do you remember where the Jews fled when the Most Catholic Kings of Spain began their Inquisition? Why, to North Africa, to the Muslim lands where they could live unmolested. In fact, Jews continued to live peacefully among the Muslims until about 1947, which demonstrates that this isn't a religious issue, at bottom, but a geopolitical one. Solve the latter, and the former will not be so intransigent.

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