I can only quote the Bible, Matthew 27:25, "Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children".
This is called the blood libel against the Jews, and for 2,000 years the Jews were called deicides, that is, the killers of the deity.
And the holocaust was justified by ordinary christians, who said of the Jews that, "They are Christ killers".
[MENTION=15744]CreativeCait[/MENTION]
You are using that quote out of Matthew, out of its original context and applying C20th historical events and contexts onto it.
You need to interpret the bible in the context it was written in and the purpose it was written for. If you read the rest of the passage in whole, you will understand it is not about followers of Christ hating Jews for killing Jesus. It is about the fact that given the chance almost all of us would kill God. Many Christians attest that if they were in the crowd, in the context of that time and place not knowing what they know now, that there is a great possibility that they would call for Jesus to be crucified too. And that passage relates to the rest of Matthew 27, contrasting with the end, when after Jesus dies the temple is torn, the earth shakes, the rocks split, tombs were open, saints were raised from the dead and people realised, uh, he actually is the Son of God, ooops. Matthew 27:54 “When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!â€
The holocaust was initiated by Hitler, not any Christian church. Yes, some of the perpetrators of the holocaust and Nazism were Christians and some didn’t believe in God. Nazi-ism was a racist and ideological war not a “cruisaide†to avenge Christ’s death. DUH. As for the fact that there were some Christians who supported the holocaust saying that Jews were ‘the Christ Killers’ all I can say is there are crazies everywhere...some of them happen to be religious and use religion for their own agendas.
A) Why would any Christian logically be anti-Semitic when Jesus was Jewish??
B) Why would any Christian logically be anti-Semitic when they are God’s chosen people??
C) Why would any Christian logically hate Judaism, when half our Bible is from the Torah and we have great reverence for so many of the same people, stories and values??
The fact that Jewish people killed Christ has not really been a big issue for Christian Churches since it happened. And if you read into the blood libel thing further, you will see that it in its first instances it was some weird mythology that happened in a few isolated places, unconnected to each other, where people mistakenly thought Jewish people were killing Christians. The Nazis created all kinds of hype and hysteria in their propaganda using whatever was at their means of disposal and so it makes sense they would pounce on some ideas of ‘blood libel’ previously heard of and spin them up into a big slight against Jewish people, to further their campaign. They were just using Christianity as an instrument for their own Puritanic agendas, which obviously spun out of control. Nazi-ism and the Holocaust was about racial Puritanism, anti-Semitism and Hitler’s power-hungry thirst for power and the creation of his personal utopia not about the fact that Jewish people killed Jesus. To link someone like Jesus who cared for some of the most disadvantaged people in society with genocide committed almost two centuries later by an Authoritarian Regime without any real affiliation to Christianity is offensive to Christians as well as just plain ridiculous when you take into account the evidence.
Since WW II and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, Christians have not accused the Jews of being Christ killers.
The only ones accusing Jews of being Christ killers today are Islamists.
And so it is no wonder that 57 Islamic States have openly and publicly rejected the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
You are getting terribly off-topic from the OP. If you want to debate stuff like this start a new thread instead of derailing this one by bringing up The Holocaust.