The Nazis actually jailed many Catholic clergy. Though they signed a peace treaty with the Vatican, Hitler ignored it. He also established a national protestant church. Most of the Nazis who went to trial professed to be Protestants.
Two points- 1) anyone can claim to be Christian, but it doesn't make them Christian, and 2) don't go believing everything you read
If you listen to Eric Jon Phelps, Alberto Rivera and some other. Vatican plan to make holocaust used Hitler.
Hitler kill about 2500 priest from the North Germany is order from Vatican, because North Germany catholic doesn't accept the doctrine of the infallibility of Pope.
Catholic has history of antisemitism
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[h=3]During the 1[SUP]st[/SUP] and 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] century CE:[/h]Circa 30
CE, the primitive Christian movement was one of about two dozen different Jewish religious/political movements, along with the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Zealots, followers of John the Baptist, etc. The immediate followers of Jeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) looked upon themselves as
a reform movement within Judaism. Confrontation between the early Christians and various Jewish groups are recorded in the Christian Scriptures (aka New Testament). There are references to instances of persecution of Jewish Christians and Pauline Christians by Jewish groups. The Gospels, particularly the Gospel of John, contains many passages in which the authors condemn "
the Jews" as sons of Satan and accuse them of murdering Jesus.
Justin Martyr (circa 100 to 165 CE) and Irenaeus of Lyon (circa 130 to 200 CE) developed the concept of "
supercessionism." This is sometimes called the "
theology of displacement" or "replacement theology." They taught that the Jews were partly responsible for Jesus' execution. Through this act, and by rejecting Jesus' teachings, the Jews were seen as losing their favored position as God's chosen people. Christianity replaced Judaism in God's eyes as the chosen people. The Christian Church became regarded as
the 'true' or 'spiritual' Israel.[SUB]4 [/SUB]Later, Milito of Sardis (circa 160) "
through his misreading of the gospels still more bluntly than Justin held the Jews responsible for the death of Jesus..." [SUB]
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Supercessionism: (a.k.a. Replacement Theology): The belief that God had rejected the Jews, unilaterally cancelled his covenants with them, and now favored Christians as the new chosen people.[/FONT][/TD]
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Translated responsibility: Holding all Jews, from the first century onwards, responsible for Jesus' execution circa 30
CE. This includes Jews who lived throughout the Roman Empire in the first century CE who never heard of Jesus, and Jews who were born as much as 19 centuries after Jesus' death.[/FONT][/TD]
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During the 4[SUP]th[/SUP] century CE:[/h]From 315
CE, (when the Roman Empire extended freedom of religion to Christians) to 395 (when Christianity had become the state religion) Christians were able to initiate programs of discrimination and oppression against Jews. Some early examples were:
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306 CE: The church
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315: Constantine's
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325: The
Council of Nicea decided to separate the celebration of Easter from the Jewish Passover. They stated: "
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337: The marriage of a Jewish man to a Christian woman ecame punishable by death.[/FONT][/TD]
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339: Conversion to Judaism became a criminal offense.[/FONT][/TD]
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367 - 376: St. Hilary of Poitiers referred to Jews as a perverse people who God has cursed forever. St. Ephroem referred to synagogues as brothels.[/FONT][/TD]
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379-395: Emperor Theodosius the Great permitted the destruction of synagogues if it served a religious purpose.[/FONT][/TD]
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380: The Bishop of Milan initiated the destruction of a synagogue, which he referred to as "
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[h=3]During the Middle Ages and Renaissance:[/h]During this period, there were
dozens of other instances of persecution of Jews by the church, including exiling Jews from cities, dioceses and entire countries; destruction of synagogues; denial of the right to own land or to hold office; and their reduction to serfdom and slavery. Perhaps the worst instances during these centuries were genocides during the Crusades. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered in cold blood by Christian armies on their way to and from Palestine.
Some of the other acts of oppression included:
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1205: Pope Innocent III wrote to the archbishops of Sens and Paris that "
the Jews, by their own guilt, are consigned to perpetual servitude because they crucified the Lord...As slaves rejected by God, in whose death they wickedly conspire, they shall by the effect of this very action, recognize themselves as the slaves of those whom Christ's death set free..." i.e. they would be slaves of Christians.[/FONT][/TD]
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1227: The
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1478: The Spanish Inquisition was organized by the Church in order to detect insincere conversions of Jews to Christianity.[/FONT][/TD]
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1516: Venice forced Jews to live only in one parish, called the "
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1555: A Roman Catholic Papal bull, "
Cum nimis absurdum," required Jews in Vatican controlled lands to wear badges, and be confined to ghettos. Over 3,000 people were crammed into about 8 acres of land. The public health problems were horrendous.[/FONT][/TD]
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1648-9: Massacres of Jews occurred in Nemirov, Polonnoye, Tulchin, Volhynia, Bar, Lvov, and other cities in Ukraine. About 100,000 Jews were murdered and 300 communities destroyed.[/FONT][/TD]
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