--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/20/07 9:31:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > It was a *huge* surprise to me that Luther had such a negative > > attitude towards Jews! > > Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing for Protestants. > > > > But Martin Luther was taught the Replacement Theology by the Catholic Church > who was responsible for the anti Semitism of his day. The Catholic church > murdered Jews in the Crusades and on through the Spanish Inquisition where > they also confiscated the wealth of Jews who were alive and even put on > trial > dead Jews.
Brazil is loaded with the descendants of Crypto-Jews--Jews who converted to Christianity to escape death during the Portuguese Inquisition (less known that the Spanish) and then migrated to Brazil so they could continue to practice their religion with little fear of persecution.
