“It seems that love of the political enemy prompted Christianity to identify with those who had condemned and killed Jesus”

It seems that love of the political enemy prompted Christianity to identify with those who had condemned and killed Jesus: it totally assimilated the system and perspective of the Romans.  Eventually, it accepted their social, legal, and political systems and institutions, and came to perceive itself as the “Roman Church” and the guardian of the “Holy Roman Empire.”  Essential to this process of identification was removing the onus of the crucifixion from the Roman authorities and imputing it to the Jew, transfiguring the persecuted into a persecuting society and vice-versa.  Thus, muffling the cries of the Jews and hindering the persecutor from ever identifying with the persecuted.

José Faur, “Jewish and Western Historiographies: A Post-Modern Interpretation”, Modern Judaism 12:1 (February 1992), 33-34.