Students chant 'you killed Jesus' at game against school with many Jewish students

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. It is a very stupid taunt, as the Jews were chosen to be the deicides, not

because they were the worst of mankind, but because they were the best of mankind. They had, after all, been prepared for 2000 years plus to be the bearers of Christ in his humanity.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work that one out. We are told in the Gospel that Jewish law forbade crucifixion, whereas the Gentiles, we are told, were a byword among the Jews for their cruelty. It is said that the soldiers who crucified him would have been Thracian troops, known more generally as particularly cruel and specially chosen on that account.

As for his killers, the evil religious leaders of that day in Israel.... well, the Devil's own, Jew or Gentile, are cut from the same cloth ; the Jewish leaders of that day having plenty of rivals in wickedness in the history of the Roman Catholic church, right up to modern times - though I am nevertheless proud to be a member of it, warts and all, today.

On the other hand, Gentiles didn't provide Jesus or his Holy Family nor number too prominently among the Apostles.