The director of a survey which found that a majority of Christian respondents held Jews “most responsible” for the crucifixion of Jesus urged Catholic and Protestant clergymen yesterday to take a more active role in the fight against anti-Semitism.
Dr. Charles Y. Glock, director of the Survey Research Center of the University of California, made the report and offered his proposal at a meeting of 38 clergymen and educators at Loyola University, a Catholic school. The survey was a study of the views of 3,100 church-going Christians in the San Francisco Bay area. Dr. Glock reported that 58 percent identified the Jews as a group with the greatest responsibility for the crucifixion.
He told the participants that the findings suggested that “Christian leadership, Protestant and Catholic, must more actively undertake the mission of rectifying the centuries-old injustice of anti-Semitism” stemming from the deicide charge against the Jewish people. He said that this “notion” was “still distressingly alive and a critical factor in perpetuating anti-Semitic prejudice.”
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