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— Constantine's Sword - James Carroll
==When Nazism defined Jews as the negative other, in opposition to which it defined itself, it was building on a structure of the European mind that was firmly in place before Hitler was born.
If nothing else is clear by now, it is that that structure of mind had its foundation in Christianity==, and moreover, that ==defining the Jew as the negative other had served as a self-protecting Church’s modus operandi down the centuries, from the Gospel of John to the sermons of Luther, from Saint Ambrose to the anti-Dreyfusards.
Antisemitism was a consistently exploited organizing principle, a pillar of Protestant and Catholic identity.
Individual Jews and whole Jewish communities were periodically sacrificed== to this principle.
We have seen that again and again.
And we have seen, too, the even more pathological turn in the European imagination when the Jew went from being the hated other to being the attached parasite that was attacking society from within.