Down with the Jews, into the Queues

[Require_love]

I find antisemitism interesting. In the end, all three religions concerned (Islam, Judaism, Christianity) are Abrahamic. So.... why fight??? And why does everyone hate Jews so much? Christ himself was a Jew!!

Speaking as a non Abrahamic religions follower, please fill me in.

 

[SVEN]

I've no idea, I didn't know that "everyone" did hate them. When I worked in a Jewish owned warehouse there were more of us gentiles than Jews and no one seemed to care.

 

[obligatoryshackles]

Well nevermind Jews, Christians and Muslims had blood feuds among their own sects historically. The obvious ones today are Protestants and Catholics, or Shia and Sunni Muslims, but long before that were splits in the religion that tore apart empires and kingdoms, like the Monophysite schism that nearly tore apart the eastern Roman empire, or the Arian heresy which very much contributed to the fall of Rome.

So is it really surprising that there would be even more of a negative reception to people who, forget a debate on the nature of Christ or the ethics of the church, entirely rejected the paradigm shifting doctrine of the New Testament or the Quran? Then on top of that add over a millennium of stereotyping and prejudice and you have modern antisemitism. It certainly doesn't help that the Jewish population is very much smaller than that of the other Abrahamic religions.

Beyond that, if you want to look at antisemitism in Nazi Germany or the more recent Neo Nazi movements, it is typically because Jewish people have historically been an easy scapegoat for poor economic conditions. When there's a plague, blame the Jews who angered God. When you lose a cataclysmic global conflict, blame the Jews who sold out your country. When your paycheck isn't even enough to cover rent, blame the Jewish bankers who control the economy. When you feel like your global hegemony is collapsing, blame the Jewish globalists. It's easy to point to a group of obviously distinct people with historical prejudice against them to distract from the complexity of the real cause of problems.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

A club you can only yoin by birth is a little racistic. No wonder that this club isn't loved by all the excluded.

 

[BreakBone2BreakBond]

Jews unlike Christians and Muslims are a race as well as a religion, so antisemitism often has little to do with religion and everything to do with race.