Blood libel (also blood accusation ) [1] [2] is an accusation [3] [4] [5] that Jews kidnapped and murdered the children of Christians in order to use their blood as part of their religious ritualsduring Jewish holidays . [1] [2] [6] Historically, thesis claims – Alongside Those of well poisoning and host desecration – have-been a major theme of the persecution of Jews in Europe . [4] Read More…
Oberammergau Passion Play is a passion play Performed since 1634 [1] as a tradition by the habitants of the town of Oberammergau , Bavaria , Germany. It was written by Othmar Weis, JA Daisenberger, Otto Huber, Christian Stuckl, Rochus Dedler, Eugen Papst, Marcus Zwink, Ingrid H Shafer, and the inhabitants of Oberammergau, with music by Dedler. [2] Since its first production it has been performed on open air stages in the village. The text of the play is a composite of four distinct manuscripts dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. [3] Read More…
Jewish deicide is a historic belief Among Some In Christianity That Jewish people as a whole Were Responsible for the death of Jesus . [1] The antisemitic slur “Christ-killer” was used by mobs to incite violence against Jews and pogroms , the murder of Jews during the Crusades , the Spanish Inquisition , and during the Holocaust . [2]
At the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the Roman Catholic Church under Pope Paul VI repudiated belief in collective Jewish guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus. [3] It declared that the accusation could not be made “against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today”. Read More…
Deicide is the killing (or the killer) of a god . The concept may be used for any act of killing a god, including a life-death-rebirth that is killed and then resurrected .
Also used in Freeman Dyson’s Disturbing the Universe in the essay “The Island of Dr. Moreau” when he is talking about JSB Haldane’s Daedalus; gold, Science and the Future . Read More…
Christianity and anti-Semitism deals with the hostility of Christian Churches , Christian groups, and Christians in general to Judaism and the Jewish people .
Christian rhetoric and antipathy towards Jews developed in the early years of Christianity and was reinforced by the belief that Jews had killed Christ and ever increasing anti-Jewish measures over the ensuing centuries . The action taken by Christians against Jews included acts of ostracism, humiliation and violence, and murder culminating in the Holocaust . [1] : 21 [2] : 169 [3] Read More…