Terrible Parts Of The Bible: Part 6 – Anti-Semitism

For centuries Jews have been the victim of bigotry and hatred for allegedly being responsible for the killing Jesus. This hateful lie has led to widespread discrimination and pogroms culminating in the Holocaust. But where did this murderous idea come from? The answer is none other than the so-called “Good Book”, the Bible, the book that is supposedly full of nothing but peace and love.

It is unnecessary to recount all the hatred the Jews have faced throughout history. It is well known and I don’t have near enough space for it. This hatred came directly from the Bible itself and it was usually the Church that led the attacks. The justification usually came from Matthew 27:25. It describes how when Plate tried to avoid the blame for Jesus’ execution claiming he didn’t want blood on his hands, the following supposedly happened: “Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.” This was used to claim that the Jews accepted responsibility for Jesus’ death and any punishment arising from it. To me this seems like a forgery used to justify later pogroms. After all why would anyone claim they wanted blood on their hands? Why would anyone agree to have their children punished for their own actions? So I believe Matthew 27:25 is a lie, and a lie that had horrendous consequences.

The New Testament (remember this is supposed to be the kind loving part of the Bible) contains several accusations that the Jews in general are responsible for Jesus’ death.


There is no ambiguity here. The Jews (not just some of them, all of them) have killed Jesus. God is angry with them and they will be punished. They are contrary to all men. Here, in the supposed message of love, we find the seeds of hatred and anti-Semitism that led to centuries of terrible consequences.

There is more. Acts 2:22-3 addresses the “men of Israel” ad tells them of how Jesus was sent by God to do his work, the man “ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain”. Just in case this wasn’t clear, it is spelled out: “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.” (Acts 2:36) Saint Peter the founder of the Christian Church denounced the Jews for having “killed the Prince of Life.” (Acts 3:15) Acts 10:39 also blames the Jews for the death of Jesus (though it says he was hung from a tree?)

There is a particularly sinister line in Titus 1:10-1 “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision [Jews], Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s [money gained in a dishonourable way] sake.” Here we have anti-Semitism at its most virulent. Jews deserve to have their mouths stopped (the Nazis would be proud). Here we can also see the beginning of the stereotype of the greedy money grabbing Jew with the words “filthy lucre”. There are also described as “defiled”, “abominable”, and “reprobate” [unprincipled] (Titus 1:15-6)

But surely Jesus never got involved in that? Surely Jesus with his message of love would never agree with such bigotry and hatred. However according to John 8:44 (which could be lying) Jesus denounces the Jews declaring: “Ye are of your father the devil”. I was completely stunned when I saw this. I never expected Jesus (who after all was a Jew) to come out with such anti-Semitism that would be at home in a speech by Hitler.

(On a side note this happens straight after the famous story of adulterer when Jesus said let he who has not sinned through the first stone)

Alas this is not the only anti-Semitic utterance by Jesus. In Matthew 23:31-5 he again denounces them “Ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up the measures of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generations of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” I would have expected this hateful rant to come from a Nazi not from the Prince of Peace.

So there we have it. One of the most disgusting forms of racism, hatred of the Jews, has its roots in the book we are supposed to worship as inspired by God that is supposed to be holy and perfect. I refuse. I cannot in good conscience worship a book with such hateful words that only the Nazis could be proud of.

Terrible Parts Of The Bible Part 1 – Genocide

Terrible Parts Of The Bible Part 2 – Sexism

Terrible Parts Of The Bible Part 3 – Homophobia

Terrible Parts Of The Bible Part 4 – Slavery

Terrible Parts Of The Bible Part 5 – Racism

Terrible Parts Of The Bible Part 6 – Anti-Semitism


18 thoughts on “Terrible Parts Of The Bible: Part 6 – Anti-Semitism”

  1. I’d also like to point out the massive contradiction your article points out, to the final words of Jesus on the cross “Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.”

  2. It’s difficult to believe that a book, supposedly the Scriptures of Jews, in OT times and in NT times, can also be Anti-Jew. But it is as you say.

  3. Actually, if you read the prophets like Jeremiah and Isaiah you’ll see that the words attributed to Jesus are rather tame. Take a look at Isaiah 59, for example:

    “1 Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear;

    Have a taste of Jeremiah, Chapter 4:

    “22 For My people is foolish, they know Me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

    and Chapter 7:

    “30 For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight, saith the LORD; they have set their detestable things in the house whereon My name is called, to defile it.
    “32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, for lack of room.
    “33 And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

    It’s not for nothing that the rabbis worked hard to make sure that every reading ends with something uplifting. Sometimes those pick-me-ups were hard to come by.

  4. Luke 18:32

    He will be handed over to the *Gentiles*.
    *They* will mock him, insult him, spit on him, flog him and kill him.

    Paul was a Jew. He knew his people. The Jewish people, even HaShem describes as stubborn.

    It is what it is.
    you want to change God, huh?
    😀 Lol hahaha.

  5. IMHO, I don’t see these texts as anti-Semitic. The majority of early believers in the church were Jews. In my understanding Paul was speaking about the local group of Jews that opposed the Christians (who were also mostly Jews) as they saw the Christians as heretics.

    You also have to understand the criticism of Jews in the Bible is always by other Jews. Most people would not interpret a criticism of your own people group as being “against” them as that would mean you are against yourself. Most of what the prophets spoke about could be called constructive criticism.

    People that read this texts (typically in a historical context as I am not aware of any groups that do this today) as meaning that Christians should be against the Jews are cherry picking to make the Bible say what they want it to say instead of seeking a genuine understanding of the text.

    Also, you’re not supposed to worship the Bible, you can worship God though. If you were to worship the Bible that would make it an idol for you which is something God prohibits in the Bible.

    All the best.

    1. As I tried to make clear in the article I think the argument is quite weak. However you cannot deny that it was used for centuries to persecute the Jews.

      The early followers had left Judaism to become Christians and the fiercest arguments are often between people who once agreed.

      Well seeing as the Bible is supposed to be the word of God, so thy’re more or less the same regards worshiping.

      1. ‘The early followers had left Judaism to become Christians ‘

        Jews do not have to ‘leave’ Judaism.
        IF a Jew decides that Jesus is the anointed, they are just Jews that believe in Jesus.

        Jews have not been innocent. Their far left wing ways have helped royally mess up many nations since May 1776 in EU.

        Jews are not innocent, Christians are not innocent. No one is good, no one but God, even Jesus said so

          1. The New Testament is a continuation of the old, which is why a proportion of the early church were Christians. It is easily possible.

  6. All religion is intrinsically evil because it requires one to abandon rational thinking with believing, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. Believing is the antithesis of thinking. Basing your lives on a book of oral history filtered through thousands of years of superstition and mythology by people who had no concept of the universe, nature or science, who believed the flat earth was the center of the universe is insane and evil. There is no empirical evidence that believers are more moral than non-believers. There is some evidence that the opposite is true.

  7. Debt is todays religion. The Arab commoner fights over religion because they have no money, the westerner fights over money because they are not allowed religion due to the left and liberal agenda taking over.

  8. Jesus was a power threat to the Jews at the time. Challenging their politics, money, and faith and suggesting they had basically gone astray. They had their messiah in Moses, so Jesus being billed as King of the Jews didn’t go down well with them at all. Through political deviance and collusion much like today’s politicians, the Jews campaigned for his death to the Romans, who obliged when he actually broke Roman laws by declaring himself a King, sort of duped into it. It was ok though because Jesus knew he was the sacrificial lamb of God and if there were no crucifix there would be no Christianity. Religion isn’t evil, it is redemption, It is human, It is life and death and all in between. It’s sad that today’s ultra leftists and neo liberals are so easily upset by these adult themes that these kind of topics can’t be debated in public anymore and anyone who does, is labelled homophobic or anti-semetic or islamaphobic etc. just to save the embarrassment and blushes of the person doing the persecuting. Stephen fry for example.

  9. What a bunch of lies. The jewish Bible and Talmud are the most racist books in existence. Acording to Bible jews were killing entire nations, women and children. All of this in the name of their racist god. Anti-Semitism is fully justified. There were about 150 thousands jews in Hitler’s army, there were thousands jews in Soviet NKVD who killed dozens of innocent people.

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