Why do Christians and jews hate each other so much?

Answer 1

We don't. That is a generalized question.

Answer 2

I do not know any Christians that hate Jews or Jews that hate Christians. Only a bigot would ask a question like this.

Answer 3

Hating is not restricted to just Christian and Jews. The centre is not God. People generally are more interested in external designations. The external designations are I am Hindu, I am Christian, I am Jew, I am Muslim- this land belongs to me. If one begins to see the internal side this fighting will reduce.

Mostly people are interested in externals, the designations also can be I am a brahmana. One becomes a brahmana by qualities. If one is wearing a thread and going to a wine shop what kind of brahmana is he? Is it not external.

Qualities matter not the designations. When designations are given more importance then hate develops. That is the root cause of fighting. They do not want to fight with their bad qualities so they fight with others, because that is easy. Fighting is also quality in everyone, it is inevitable not to fight but how they are fighting that matters. Want to fight easy then fight with your neighbors for a normal cause, want to fight hard there should be a moral cause.
So why the Christians and Jews hate each other? It does not seem to be moral. It might be fanatism, might be that the strong condemning the meek. Then the cause is not moral. So the hating is not justified.

Answer 4

I'm Christian and I don't hate Jews. Besides to be technical about it, Christ died at the hands of the Romans. The Sanhedrin, the Jewish high counsel condemned Jesus because they were afraid that they (the Jews) would all follow Jesus and that they (the Sanhedrin) would loose the power and luxurious lifestyle they were used to. Jesus did not proclaim himself to be the King of the Jews, the Jews did. So, would you, like Hitler condemn an entire race for the actions of just a few?

Answer 5

I think the hate rests mainly in the indeviduals. Most modurn jews and christians that I know, don't hate each other, because they respect the fact that they are from different religious backgrounds. Most of the hostility in the middle east, is from jews and muslims, and in some cases, christians and muslims.

Answer 6

Better question, why do the Muslims hate Jews? Christians don't.

Answer 7

I think the qustion these days is "why do Muslims hate Christians so much?" I know very few Christians who hate Jews thats why leaders who say they are Christians always take up for Israel.

Answer 8

Pontius Pilate ordered Christ death on the cross, his soliders killed him, the Jews instigated. The point is...Pontius didn't have to listen to them. But this was God's plan anyway.
And I don't understand the hate part, if the hate part is true, I mean we both believe in God and God is Jesus. And Jesus is a Jew. So what's the deal. Christians love Jesus and Jews love God. They're the same but two different people. I don't get it.


Can't we all just get along?

Answer 9

If Christians hate Jews, then I'd question whether they are truly Christian. The New Testament says that Christians are grafted into the family of Jews, i.e., our belief in Christ as Messiah allows us to inherit the promises of eternal life as stated in the Old Testament.
Personally, I love my adoptive family.

Answer 10

I don't think Christians hate Jews, I do however think that the devil sends his bad spirits to whom ever he can to hate Jews and Christians For when Jews become Christians his time is up. there for he does all in his power to persecute both.

Answer 11

It don't think there is a lot of animosity except by groups like the KKK and the neo-Nazis who hate Jews. I think most of the hatred today coming from the Jewish community and the Christian community is directed at Muslims.

Just for histories sake though - Christians have persecuted Jews for thousands of years whether it was burning them on giant platforms for supposedly starting the Black Death during the 13th century, threatening to kill or exile them during the Inquistion if they refused to convert, or shoving them into gas chambers during WWII.