Possibly the most pathetic display of racism ever.

[Idaho]

You forgot the eastern euro's and different gypsy groups....

It's only 40 years ago since we stole gypsy children from their parents and put them in special camps to "remove their inferior culture" here in Norway....

Indeed I only picked the top few from a long and varied line in one country. People in all countries have spread the hate in all different directions over the years. Some people on this board seem to think that it's "really different this time, honest"...

[Megas Methuselah]

Some people on this board seem to think that it's "really different this time, honest"...

They're only sheep, bleeting sheep!

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Indeed I only picked the top few from a long and varied line in one country. People in all countries have spread the hate in all different directions over the years. Some people on this board seem to think that it's "really different this time, honest"...

There are reasons all those people were victimised, and they are actual reasons. That doesn't make it right at all, but it makes your point; it isn't different this time.

[HoreTore]

There are reasons all those people were victimised, and they are actual reasons. That doesn't make it right at all, but it makes your point; it isn't different this time.

So............

The Jews did control the world....?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

So............

The Jews did control the world....?

No, they were deicides and often political dissidents. No one thought they controlled the world in 1300, they thought they killed children. Whether that was true or not is an entirely different issue.

What is true is that by refusing to even superficially convert they placed themselves outside of society.

[Banquo's Ghost]

No, they were deicides and often political dissidents. No one thought they controlled the world in 1300, they thought they killed children. Whether that was true or not is an entirely different issue.

What is true is that by refusing to even superficially convert they placed themselves outside of society.

I don't think you meant the above statements to be as categorical as they read.

For example: deicides? Even if one accepts the Christian deity, any one of the few hundred that may have called for His death were very, very long dead by the 14th century.

So I assume you were talking in the mindset of the times?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I don't think you meant the above statements to be as categorical as they read.

For example: deicides? Even if one accepts the Christian deity, any one of the few hundred that may have called for His death were very, very long dead by the 14th century.

So I assume you were talking in the mindset of the times?

Sorry, I forget that sometimes I'm not speaking with that as a given.

In the context of the time Christianity was the accepted norm, to the extent that anything else would be considered the "lunatic fringe", just a flat-Earthers and Creationists are today.

It is a matter of record that Jews were considered Deicides and child-murderers. What's more, the argument for deicide was logical given the assumptions of the time. That argument runs:

If they were alive at the time they would have given up Our Lord as a Heretic too.

At the time, that was considered important.

Today, Muslim extremism is considered important.