Thank you for the historical perspective. Unfortunately our POS POTUS has followers who are White Supremists and Neo-Nazis. He refuses to condemn them. This perpetuates the hate and allows mass murderers to function. This will continue till we have a true leader who stops the hate.

The author's point that Christianity has tended to hold Jewry collectively responsible as "Christ killers" is interesting because the concept of corporate guilt and punishment is a strong thread running through Christianity, and ironically, appropriated from the Jewish Torah. The deity would, if a tribe was collectively disrespectful and non-compliant enough with his demands, punish them AS a tribe. This was the basis for Jehovah's commands of genocide against the Canaanite peoples. It was the basis for the supposedly Jehovah-caused diaspora in Babylon, where the entire Israeli population was sent into bondage, and considered collectively culpable, even totally innocent individuals. The best thing you can say, if you believe the legends, is that the best of the best (e.g., Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego) were miraculously spared torture and death -- but even they remained in exile.

Once you accept the notion normally limited to power-crazed despots that you don't just punish an individual, but torture and execute his entire family while he's forced to watch and listen and THEN kill him, all sorts of bad things flow from that. It makes it exponentially easier to lump entire groups together and attempt to wipe them out AS groups.

If there's a better example of "what goes around, comes around" then I don't know what it is. The Jews promoted this kind of thinking, and a religion spawned from that, gained greater power and mindshare, and now uses that to persecute and kill Jews. This doesn't of course make it right or something that we should allow, that is not my point. My point is that religion is the "gift" that keeps on "giving" and people should be more careful what notions they advocate, as they have a way of coming back to bite you in your nether regions.

I lay some of the fascistic paranoia against immigrants in the US on human nature but I also lay a lot of it at the feet of fundamentalist Christianity, which through its concept of collective guilt and entitlement, amplifies tribalism, even elevates it to a virtue. And evangelicals are the main apologists and enablers of Trumpism and white nationalism.