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those who follow Jesus the Nazarene. In fact, nothing more abominable
can be imagined than what they have to say about Christians. They say that
they are idolaters, the worst kind of people, much worse than the Turks,
murderers, fornicators, impure animals, like dirt, unworthy to be called
men, beasts in human form, worthy of the name of beasts, cows, asses,
pigs, dogs, worse than dogs; that they propagate after the manner of beasts,
that they have diabolic origin, that their souls come from the devil and
return to the devil in hell after death; and that even the body of a dead
Christian is nothing different from that of an animal.
1. IDOLATERS
Since Christians follow the teachings of that man, whom the Jews regard as
a Seducer and an Idolater, and since they worship him as God, it clearly
follows that they merit the name of idolater, in no way different from those
among whom the Jews lived before the birth of Christ, and whom they
taught should be exterminated by every possible means.
This is best demonstrated by the names they give Christians, and by the
unmistakable words of Maimonides which prove that all who bear the
name of Christian are idolaters. And anyone who examines Jewish books
which speak of the ‘Worshippers of the Stars and Planets,’ ‘Epicureans,’
‘Samaritans,’ etc., cannot but conclude that these idolaters are none other
than Christians. The Turks are always called ‘Ismaelites,’ never idolaters.
2. CHRISTIANS WORSE THAN THE TURKS
Maimonides in Hilkoth Maakhaloth (ch. IX) says: ‘It is not permitted to
drink the wine of a stranger who becomes a convert, that is, one who
accepts the seven precepts of Noah, but is permitted to gain some benefit
from it. It is allowed to leave wine alone with him, but not to place it
before him. The same is permitted in the case of all gentiles who are not
idolaters, such as the Turks [Ismaelites]. A Jew, however, is not permitted
to drink their wine, although he may use it to his own advantage.’
3. MURDERERS
In Abhodah Zarah (22a) it says: ‘A Jew must not associate himself with
gentiles because they are given to the shedding of blood.’
Likewise in Iore Dea (153, 2): ‘An Israelite must not associate himself with
the Akum [Christians] because they are given to the shedding of blood.’
In the Abhodah Zarah (25b) it says: ‘The Rabbis taught: If a Goi joins an
Israelite on the road, he [the Jew] should walk on his right side. Rabbi
Ismael, the son of Rabbi Jochanan the nephew of Beruka, says: if he
carries a sword, let the Jew walk on his right side. If the Goi carries a stick,
the Jew should walk on his left side. If he is climbing a hill or descending a
steep incline, the Jew must not go in front with the Goi behind, but the
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