Religious Hatred

I was quite surprised when I saw the letters from R. Yehiel Ya'akov Weinberg published by Dr. Marc Shapiro in The Torah U-Mada Journal. In particular, his letter (p. 118) stating that "More than Christianity hates Judaism, Judaism hates Christianity" seems bizarrely divorced from reality. My bafflement was relieved somewhat when I saw that R. Nosson Kamenetsky was also taken aback by the statement and attempted to offer his own amateur analysis about the psychological state that could have led to such a statement (Making of a Godol, pp. 818-820). I will not repeat the entire analysis but will simply write that we must make allowances for the traumatization of a Holocaust survivor.