The aporia of Christianity is its claim that Jesus founded a new religion, despite his being immersed throughout his life in the practices and beliefs of Judaism. It is his historical reality as a Jew that must be eradicated by Christian theology if its claim to be a new religion is to have any meaning.--"Theology as a vision of colonialism: From supercessionism to dejudaization in German Protestantism" / Susannah Heschel. In Germany's colonial pasts / Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, Lora Wildenthal, eds; p. 159.

But the question of demonstrating a link between historical Jesus portrayals and the subsequent Holocaust would require a monumental investigation of its own and is so amorphous that the probability of success would be minimal. My own suspicion, merely to venture an intuition, is that the treatment of Jesus in scholarship, and thereby in churches as well, had an indirect influence in preparing people to think of Jesus as disconnected from Judaism and therefore to separate the two in making moral evaluations. The same could, of course, be affirmed of places other than Germany. The instinct of Jewish scholarship to attempt to reclaim Jesus was then not merely an exercise in recovering its own history, but a movement of self-survival as well.--The historical Jesus in the twentieth century, 1900-1950 / Walter P. Weaver, p. 256.