Matthew D. Taylor
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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It is an idea of replacement, that Christianity takes over all the promises that God had made to the Jewish people.
So Jews become perceived within the late Roman Empire and then into the kind of medieval period in Europe as an enemy within.
And it's not really to be trusted.
And this refrain, this accusation, well, the Jews killed Jesus.
He was their Messiah.
And this charge of deicide then spirals out into all of this Christian animosity and fear towards Jews.
I mean, the other kind of psychological fixation that early Christianity has about Judaism, part of it is this fear, this animosity.
But part of it is also this attraction to Judaism.
right?
Because Judaism is still the religion of Jesus, right?
These are the practices we see Jesus participating in.
The stories of the Hebrew Bible are infused with the sense of Jewish identity, of Jewish practices, and of Jewish sensibilities.
And so that's all also baked in to early Christianity.
And so there's this other trajectory that emerges from that era of fracture between Judaism and Christianity that we ultimately come to call philo-Semitism,
a seeming love and embrace of Jews.
But again, because Christians are in the position of power, it becomes a kind of desire to control or direct Jews.
And it often throughout Christian history has manifested in elaborate efforts by Christians to convert Jews, to try to win over some of the chosen people
And then to hold them up as trophies and say, see, we got one.
We got one of Jesus' own people.
So that legitimates all of our claims and makes Christianity clearly superior and supreme.
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