I just don't understand where anti-semitism comes from, and this is a mystery which engages me often. My post-catholic father thinks modern anti-semitism is honestly rooted in anger for them killing Jesus. But I think nowadays we tend to think that the Romans killed Jesus. Other theories seem to revolve around their being an exclusive, conservative culture, but EVERY ethnic/religious group was exclusive and insular in the days before christ anyways.
Interesting tidbit: I was doing some reading on Zoroastrianism the other day, which was the first monotheistic religion, and likely the origin of Judaism and therefore Christianity and therefore Islam. They don't marry outside of their religion and they do not convert, so they are pretty inbred these days, and number in the thousands worldwide, mostly Iran and Los Angele. They are the true Aryan race, as in the people who brought the Vedas to India. And they don't have blonde hair and blue eyes either. They also count King Cyrus as one of their own. He is noted as having rebuilt the temple of Jerusalem in like 600 BC, allowing the Jews to move in there and settle down enough to compile the Torah and therefore start the "Judeo-Christian" ball rolling.
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Interesting tidbit: I was doing some reading on Zoroastrianism the other day, which was the first monotheistic religion, and likely the origin of Judaism and therefore Christianity and therefore Islam. They don't marry outside of their religion and they do not convert, so they are pretty inbred these days, and number in the thousands worldwide, mostly Iran and Los Angele. They are the true Aryan race, as in the people who brought the Vedas to India. And they don't have blonde hair and blue eyes either. They also count King Cyrus as one of their own. He is noted as having rebuilt the temple of Jerusalem in like 600 BC, allowing the Jews to move in there and settle down enough to compile the Torah and therefore start the "Judeo-Christian" ball rolling.