Today would have been Donald Sutherland’s birthday. Today’s scene that I love comes from one of my favorite Sutherland performances, as the professor who dislikes John Milton in Animal House.
“This is my job!”
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Through the Shattered Lens 
Throughout history, various Christian denominations have contributed to the spread of antisemitic attitudes and actions, creating a climate of hostility toward Jews. This includes theological teachings that portrayed Jews in a negative light and blamed them for the death of Jesus. The Nazi regime, though not the Vatican (the Pope looked on as the Nazis deported the Jews of Rome to death camps), maintained a close alliance with the Lutheran Church in Germany. The Nazis frequently cited Martin Luther’s racist statements about Jews. Christian churches in England and the USA failed to condemn the British White Paper of 1939, and in the United States, not a single Christian denomination opposed Roosevelt’s decision to close U.S. borders to Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi extermination camps.
Many argue that the historical role of the Church in fostering antisemitism is of immense significance. The formal apologies, educational initiatives, and interfaith efforts made by Christianity after the Shoah seem like cheap excuses—like teats on a boar: useless and too late. Historical antisemitism within Christianity contributed to the conditions that made the Shoah possible. The Church, as an institution, bears full guilt after over 2,000 years of blood libels, ghettos, and mass expulsions of entire Jewish populations. The words of the Gospel are tragically confirmed: “By their fruits you shall know them.”
The assignment of criminal guilt, especially in connection with historical events and religious groups, is the subject of this statement. Justice requires naming guilt—and, where necessary, advocating for extreme measures like the death penalty. Throughout history, all Christian denominations have played a role in solidifying antisemitic attitudes and actions, thereby contributing to systemic discrimination and violence against Jewish communities. This includes theological doctrines that justified the kidnapping of Jewish babies through forced baptism and war-crime-level mass expulsions.
Taxation imposed by the Church without political representation constitutes a form of European enslavement of the Jewish people. Religious Christian organizations must take full responsibility for the actions of their followers and for the ideologies of racial violence they spread. The failure of many Christian churches to denounce antisemitism and to take a stand against the atrocities committed during the Shoah reflects broader complicity in these historical injustices.
The lack of accountability can perpetuate cycles of hatred and violence—and points to the need for a deeper reckoning with history. It is essential to critique and hold Christianity accountable, both theologically and institutionally. Christian theologies which promote, Love as the greatest commandment, Fire and Brimstone Heaven Hell God Satan bi-polar emotional declarations – all expressions of Av tuma emotional spirits which indoctrinate mental insanity.
Impossible to not be under the Law and then unilaterally declare which of the multitude of T’NaCH and Talmudic commandments and Halachot qualifies as the most important of all Torah common law. This narishkeit nonsense compares to the 666 mark of the beast and the Church declarations that the Christ killer Jews bear the mark of Cain. Xtianity no different than Nazism. Both promote hate propaganda in the name of Love.
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