You continually conflate Christianity with Judaism, but they are fundamentally different things. The Hebrews did not proselytize on behalf of Christians. Christians spent a century after the death of Christ attempting to build their church under the rabid persecution of Rome. Take Nero, for instance. The martyrdom of early Christians was extensive, which should shed light, even before all other considerations, as to the difference in nature between Jews and Christians. If you refuse to recognize these two as fundamentally different categories, then I say you don't understand either of them, and there is no worthwhile conversation to be had here. There are several absurd claims here that don't make sense logically or historically. The pharisees became Catholic priests? Further, the way we ought to understand 'chosen people', as in God's chosen, happens at two levels: the level of covenant, and as the people of Israel and those within the Davidic kingdom. From the covenantal perspective, we are simply pointing out that the Jews were the members to several chosen epochs of covenant from the Adamic to the Noahide to the Mosaic. In terms of Israel, of course we mean the twelve tribes. However, Christ, as the bearer of the keys to the kingdom of heaven, was the fulfillment of covenantal law, the eternal lord of the Davidic kingdom, and made Israel the spiritual kingdom of all people who would come to the Father through him...effectively a new covenant for all of mankind. But things are not so simple as to be exhausted by a Poal comment. The relationship between Jews and Catholics has always been complicated. But on the whole, the Church of Rome has always affirmed that the Jews were condemned by God; however, and for various reasons, the Church also said that Christians did not have the right to abuse or slaughter them. This hardly makes Catholicism a Jewish religion. See the Christian language on Jewish perfidy. As far as the claims about the Inquisition, @PS addressed them. The conversos were a matter of major controversy in the Renaissance. Christian Catholics had for decades been attempting to gain an understanding of the old testament which was commensurate with the Jews', not for the least reason that Jews were tremendous debaters and Catholics wanted to beat them. With time, they actually began to and legitimately converted a number of Jews. However, the Jew rarely lets any crisis go to waste. Jews within the Catholic Church proved to be pretty troublesome. On your claims about a Jewish pantheon, this doesn't even make sense. Neither Judaism or Christianity worship a pantheon. The Jews recognize a succession of prophets and elect people, but only one God. Christians recognize the same patriarchs, with the defining addition of Christ as messiah and a succession of his apostles and saints. The elevated status Catholicism affords to Mary, for example, doesn't even figure theologically, morally or culturally into any possible Jewish religion. Moreover, I barely need to speak about the difference in the dispersive effects of these two worldviews, meaning the difference that happens in culture between Christianity and Judaism. You need only look to the intellectual and artistic explosion that came into Europe, particularly as a result of Christianity with a Platonic lens - after the Renaissance. The Europe so many people here speak fondly of as the father or mother of the West's inheritance would not have happened without Christianity. Stop pissing on that legacy by calling it Judaised. It's unwarranted self-flagellation.