These new Jews were even more different from the average German, and it didn't help matters that they brought cholera to the country in 1892. In other words, these Jews were not hated because of their actual religious beliefs and actions, but because of Germans' reluctance to accept diversity. This lends itself to the larger debate between racial antisemitism and religious antisemitism. Since the phrase anti-Semitism was coined by a "secular anti-Semite", Wilhelm Marr, it is reasonable to conclude that the rational side of anti-Semitism was perhaps a more important factor than the irrational one. Due to the growing popularity of Darwinism and other similar scientific theories, people began to believe in the superiority of the Aryan race. The transition to scientific anti-Semitism made the assimilation of Jews even more difficult; they could be as German as they wanted, but they would always be treated differently because of their ancestry. The Jews could not win under any circumstances, as they were told to become more like everyone else and when they became upstanding members of German society, they resented this. Ultimately, Jews were not hated for what they believed or did, but simply because they were Jews. Anti-Semitism was just a symbol of right-wing ideology and a code word for everything that was hated by conservative Germans, from socialism to liberalism, and “hatred towards