For "never again" to truly mean "never again"

A paper for my Judaeo-Christian Heritage class:

Christian anti-Jewish rhetoric has often been cited as the culprit that paved the way for the racist anti-Semitism that swept through Europe, culminating in the Holocaust. Without Christian hatred and persecution of the Jews, there would have been no precedent set that the Nazis could have adopted as their modus operandi. The sordid past of Christian-Jewish relations laid the bricks for the gas chambers, the execution walls, the Nazi guards’ watchtowers.
We are now sixty-some years removed from those horrific events, and the mantra “never again” has been championed by Jew and Christian, survivor and student, the heavily involved and the formerly apathetic. But how can we ensure that this will never happen again? What is it about Christianity that allowed for hatred of the Jews to happen in the first place? Scholars have discussed the blood libel charge, the accusation of deicide, the charges of ritual murder of Christian children, and on and on as the events which instigated hatred of Jews. However, today most of these past reasons for hating the Jews have been invalidated such that they carry much less weight than they used to. But even those Christians today who know that such things are untrue, who concede that “the Romans killed Jesus”, or “the Jews no longer practice animal sacrifice, and never murdered children”, may still, however, be highly skeptical and suspicious of Jews. Why is this, and what can be done to change it? Christians may no longer believe fantastical myths about Jews, but the current Christian attitude toward Jews (as well as towards Muslims and other religions) is no less dangerous. I trace the Christian suspicion towards Jews, and towards all other religious traditions in general, back to something quite basic: the presupposition of Christianity’s uniqueness.
Let’s follow the presupposition through its logical extensions. If Christianity alone is unique, good, and true, then no other religion is worthy of study, recognition, or respect. All religions are less the Christianity, anyway. Why give a single one more than a cursory nod, a name, and damnation to the fires of hell? To deny other religions legitimate recognition and genuine respect is to deny them the possibility of tolerance and acceptance. If a religious tradition other than Christianity isn’t respected in its own right, but only described in terms of its failings and flaws when placed next to Christianity, then, inevitably, Christians will begin to regard the other tradition with suspicion, which will build to intolerance, leading finally to hatred or complete disregard, either of which will result in murder. If a tradition and its adherents are disregarded as unnecessary, ‘lesser-than’, incomplete, wrong, sinful, and on and on, do Christians, the only possessors of truth, really have any option other than to eliminate the pestilence from the Earth? Thus the presupposition of uniqueness is inherently problematic and will only breed ideas that lead to an evil end.
To dismiss the blood libel and deicide charges as incorrect and historically unfounded is good and necessary—of this there can be no doubt. However, I don’t think this pushes the matter far enough. What is needed is a breakdown of the myth of Christian uniqueness. Only when Christians are willing to concede that theirs is not a tradition untouched and unaffected by history, that their religious tradition is not alone in speaking of a loving, redemptive God, that theirs cannot possibly be the only bearer of truth when other traditions hold the same core values and have the same core teachings, can the (dare I say) haughty and conceited pro-Christian bias start to break down. And once Christianity is no longer held to be unique or the sole bearer of truth (while Christians may still of course hold it is the best bearer of truth) can study and earnest inquiry into the nature of other religions begin, eventually leading to genuine respect and eventual love for other religions and religious peoples.
“Never again” doesn’t require just a new understanding of history, but a new vision of the future. We can rework history until we understand the birth, life, and death cycles and re-cycles of every idea that has ever lead to hatred and violence, but this will only get the historian and the person of faith so far. A new reading of history can only affect the future so much! Only a breakdown of the “I’m better and more worthy than you, and you are far less good than me” ideology of those who hold Christianity to be unique will ensure that never again truly means never again.