text: why did hitler hate the jews so much?   hitler did not all of a sudden say, 'hey, lets band everyone together by hating jews.' the hatred of jews in europe goes all the way back to the time it became christian. passages in the christian's new testament paint "the jews" as being the children of the devil, hypocritical, and interested only in money rather than in gd.   who wrote the following???  """but since i learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the christians, i have published this little book, so that i might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the jews and who warned the christians to be on their guard against them....now, in order to strengthen our faith, we want to deal with a few crass follies of the jews in their belief and their exegesis of the scriptures, since they so maliciously revile our faith. if this should move any jew to reform and repent, so much the better. we are now not talking with the jews but about the jews and their dealings, so that our germans, too, might be informed....our lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore, in john' 3:39 he states: "if you were abraham's children would do what abraham did.... you are of your father the devil." it was intolerable to them to hear that they were not abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.... for they are a heavy burden, a plague, a pestilence, a sheer misfortune for our country. proof for this is found in the fact that they have often been expelled forcibly from a country, far from being held captive in it....therefore be on your guard against the jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of god and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.......but then eject them forever from this country. for, as we have heard, god's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. therefore, in any case, away with them!"""  it was martin luther, one of the founders of the protestant movement in christianity! see:::  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1543-luther-jewsandlies-full.html  remember, germany was about one half catholic and one half lutheran, at the time of hitler.  church law and nazi law  1. prohibition of intermarriage and sexual intercourse between christians and jews - synod of elvira, a.d. 306  1. law for the protection of german blood and honor - sept. 15, i935   2. jews and christians not permitted to eat together - synod of elvira, 306  2. jews barred from dining cars - dec. 30, 1939   3. jews not allowed to hold public office - synod of clermont, 535  3. law for the re-establishment of the professional civil service - april 7, 1933   4. jews not allowed to employ christian servants or possess christian slaves - 3rd synod of orleans, 538  4. law for the protection of german blood and honor - sept. 15, 1935   5. jews not permitted in the streets during passion week - 3rd synod of orleans, 538  5. decree authorizing local authorities to bar jews from streets on certain days - dec. 3, 1938   6. burning of the talmud and other books - 12th synod of toledo, 691  6. book burnings in germany - 1933   7. christians not permitted to patronize jewish doctors - trulanic synod, 692  7. decree of july 25, 1938   8. christians not permitted to live in jewish homes - synod of narbonne, 1050  8. directive by goring providing for concentration of jews in houses - dec. 28, i938   9. jews obliged to pay taxes for support of the church to the same extent as christians - synod of gerona, 1078  9. jews must pay special income tax in lieu of donations to the party imposed on nazis - dec. 24, 1940   10. jews not permitted to