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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">StoneHands</strong> said:</div><div>You're right, of course religion is a major element. But its the chicken or the egg question - would anti-Semitism spring up in Europe regardless of religion? I think it would. A migration of an entrepreneurial nation into one's homeland causes jealousy and resentment, plus the whole "fear of the other" thing. Would something else be used to justify these already existing feelings? The nature of human beings tells me there would. Either way, I was originally talking about theism as a philosophical concept, more than institutionalized religion, so I definitely don't disagree with your points completely...</div></blockquote>
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	Um... "entrepreneurial nation"?  Really?  You think the Jews just showed up in Germany one day en masse and got all "entrepreneurial" on the Germans, and that's what caused the resentment?<br />
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	That's just not what happened, and it carries a stench of anti-Semitism all by itself.  <br />
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	I don't think it's possible to separate European anti-Semitism from the dominant Christianity of the region and time.  Let's remember that it was only recently that the Catholic Church declared that the Jews were not to blame for killing Jesus.  That was the dominant view of Jews among Christians for centuries.

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