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" Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. "

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" At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. "

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