Excerpt from The Crucifixion and the Jews
The following essay, on a subject which has so painfully affected the whole house of Israel, cannot be otherwise than interesting to the serious inquirer, who cares more for the truth of history than the triumphant rule of a party, and, strange as it may sound, Christianity is as yet but the latter, not catholic or universal as it generally vaunts to be. The death of its founder has been the theme on which millions of sermons have been delivered, and innumerable books written, and seldom is the subject touched but a denunciation, direct or implied, is uttered against our people, either for having knowingly rejected their redeemer or messiah, or with the crime of having murderously and treacherously put him to death. For either cause the Israelites are then condemned, - for the first to eternal perdition and unquenchable hell-fire, and for the second to the hatred and malice of their fellow-men. Now, it has happened strangely that under both causes we have been slaughtered without mercy, at times under the plea that our bodies must suffer for the purification of our souls, and again that we, the descendants of the early culprits, might make atonement for the guilt of our fathers.
Now, with the progress of a more enlightened policy on the part of all religionists in nearly all portions of the civilized world, it has become unusual to persecute for a simple difference of opinion on disputed points of theology; but thus far the world has not progressed to lay aside this difference as a matter which should not influence the feelings of one man towards the other. It is thus that writers and preachers, though they cannot well bring about a renewed indiscriminate massacre and plunder of Israelites, still succeed in keeping up a frightful amount of popular prejudice against those who are descended from the men who, more than eighteen centuries ago, are said to have urged Pontius Pilate to execute the founder of the popular belief. It was, no doubt, with the view of exhibiting the wrongfulness of this procedure that Dr. Ludwig Philippson, the celebrated editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, during the past year, wrote this treatise in detached portions for his paper, and as they naturally attracted attention, he issued them later in a pamphlet, for better preservation.
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