There is also a strong secular, rational, intellectual trend in Jewish society. If you couple this with their monotheism, in some ways I think the Jews were the first modern humans.
Perhaps dislike of Jews is based in atavism.
"American creation of Israel".... ????
Whatever do you mean?
C.
Yes, perhaps this was not the most appropriate language. I wanted to say that post-WWII, Israel was established and protected as a state in 1949 to give Jews a place of refuge. Is this right??? This was my general understanding of how Israel the modern state came to be formed. American military force helped established Israel's Air Force as the second largest in the world, so I see American support of Israel as one of the reasons we are hated in other parts of the world.
There ARE some Christian leaders who are taking an active interest in supporting Israel. Take a look at this guy:
http://www.gardjola.org/
#A_Meeti...ng_of_Brothers_
and
http://www.gardjola.org/
#Israeli...dent_meets_Pope
Support for the Jews and for Israel, I argue, is the only logical stand for Christians who truly believe that Jesus Christ, a Jew, is their God.
By the way, congratulations for an excellent blog. I enjoy taking a peak every now and again. I find the link on LGF.
Interesting, and thanks for the feedback!
Anti Semitism has been called a 'disease of the mind.' I think the DISEASE is an inability to take responsibility for one's own failures; the SYMPTOM of this terrible weakness of the soul and mind is Anti Semitism.
It is also evidence of a crippled intellect, one that explains the world in terms of an anger filled conspiracy.
Societies and people who embrace anti Semitism are on their way to the trashbin of history. Unfortunately, they can cause a lot of suffering to innocent people, before their end.
May I suggest a very different view? Medieval anti-Semitism was sometimes religiious, sometimes a form of economic resentment, sometimes just superstition.
Religious? Tracts and sermons provide the evidence.Economic resentment? Jewish bankers created liquidity, which undermined the barter-and-obligation system we now call feudalism. If the king could fight wars using paid mercenaries, he had less reason to give grace and favor to his knights. The superstition part is less well known. Rumors abounded, of almost supernatural powers of Jews and withches. The Jews poisoning wells slander, for example, grows from a belief that someone, whoever it was, caused pestilence by creating potions, poisons, more or less supernatural concoctions, to achieve this foul end. Some of this nasty folklore probably survived into the nineteenth, maybe even the twentieth century. But Nazi anti-Semitism was a very different animal. The Nazis sought to destroy bourgeois civilation. In Central Europe, the Jews absolutely were the bourgeoisie, as the Huguenot were in France, the Quakers and other Nonconformists were in England. Indeed, after the fall of Communism, many Central Europeans commented that their attempts at rebuilding private enterprise suffered from a lack of Jews. If you understand a bit about Nazi thinking, all that "dignity of labor, especially German labor" stuff, then solidly middle class, excruciatingly respectable Jews could be painted as the enemy. As Joseph Goebbels descended into Hitler's bunker in 1945, he crowed about seeing "the wreckage of nineteenth century bourgeois culture" all around him.It's very useful to remember that Rousseau set up the problem, the bourgeoisie, that various nineteenth and twentieth century thinkeres offered sollutions for, e.g. Nietsche, Marx, Proudhon,Hitler, Lenin, Romanticism(debatably)I wish I could find my Early Writings of Karl Marx. In it he offered as his own "final solution" that, as the bourgeoisie disappeared, the Jews would disappear.
Interestingly enough, I have heard Evangelicals and Charismatics on television preaching fiery sermons against ant-Semitism, while leaders of at least one of the several Presbyterian denominations have called for boycotts and other sorts of hostility to Israel.
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