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Originally Posted by fugazifan
then shouldnt you thank the jews for killing him instead of holding it against them?
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A lot of assumptions.
You ask about Catholics and then put a "you" into the question as if the reader is likely to be catholic. Not too many of them here, despite Thurston's upbringing.
Then there's the implication that the core of Catholic belief is that Jews killed Jesus. While I don't doubt that a lot of Catholics have probably had that prejudice in history, there is nothing in their belief system that says so. The tradition is that the Romans crucified Christ and Catholocism is the historical Christian church of the Romans.
Now, I'm sure that the inherent guilt that Catholics feel for having killed their savior has led many to look for somebody else to blame. Since the belief is also that the Jews didn't stop them from crucifying their leader and turned on him, they became easy scapegoats.
But of course all of this has nothing to do with the world we live in some 2,000 years after the mythic event. People of different religions tend to have animosity for each other the way that different gangs do, and usually over the same things like turf and bragging rights. The gangs are just a bit more honest about it.