The Christ-killer charge is a theological problem for all Christian traditions

Evidence

Christian scholars have been addressing the problem of the Christ-killer theme in the New Testament in light of the Holocaust and its implications for Christian anti-Semitism. The use of a Christ-killer motif in the Bosnian context poses a theological challenge not only to the Serb Orthodox tradition. The silence of self-identified Christian leaders in many parts of the world in the face of the Bosnian genocide makes it clear that the issue demands attention by the wider Christian community as well. If many Serbs have either supported or remained silent in the face of religiously motivated genocide, the same can be said for most nations. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 248

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the ‘genocide as love/stabilizer’ theme from the sacrifice essay into the Christ-killer charge’s long European history.

Related

• The anti-Muslim genocide reused the Christ-killer myth once aimed at Jews (similarity 0.83)
• Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.82)
• The Bosnia genocide was religious in four distinct, compounding senses (similarity 0.81)
• Serb clergy escalated from specific complaints to rhetorical genocide charges (similarity 0.80)
• Resisting genocide requires first confronting one’s own traditions’ crimes (similarity 0.79)
• Serb Church leaders publicly sanctified the architects of genocide as following Christ (similarity 0.78)