Anti - Christian Semi

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ewish communities and slaughtering any Jew who would not forcibly

"convert" to Christianity. One historical count suggests that they killed as many as 100,000 Jews.

Beginning in 1320, a group of peasants in northern France, led by friars, set out for the

Holy Land in what would become known as the Shepherd's Crusade. Pillaging as they went, they

spilled Jewish blood throughout the province of Aquitaine. Hundreds were slaughtered at the

village of Verdun-sur-Garonne. One priest, Peter of Cluny, wrote, "God does not want them to be

destroyed, but like Cain, who murdered his brother, they are to continue to exist under great

suffering and in great shame so that life may be more bitter for them than death."

In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council of Pope Innocent III institutionalized the Inquisition,

issuing the following decree: In the countries where Christians do not distinguish themselves from

Jews and Saracens by their garments, relations are maintained between Christians and Jews or

Saracens, or vice...