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#483 How Should a Catholic Think About Anti-Semitism - Joe Heschmeyer

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The Church's History With Anti-Jewish Ideas

In Vittenberg in Germany, there's a really offensive anti-Jewish depiction of a Jewish farmer with a pig. And after the church became Lutheran, they added the unspeakable name of God above it to make it more sacrilegious. This is not just a long ago sort of story that you can find this stuff much more recently. So I mean, in Poland, we have a thousand years of a better example than in much of the rest of the church. That's all that's to say that church's history with this is really nuanced in every age where you have good and bad figures.

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