Twice this week, people have told me that Jews and Arabs both came from Chaldea and therefore share a bloodline.
I say big deal. What matters is values not blood nor pagan origins, but the consequence of what was produced. The Bible takes pagan rites and stories and gives them a profound moral spin.
By contrast, the Seventh-Day Adventist church is an exercise in irrelevance. It is obsessed with sexual sin and theological beliefs and health rituals. If all SDAs disappeared from the world tomorrow, it would not be more affected than if all Sri Lankans or all Vietnamese disappeared tomorrow.
Nice people, many of them, but not influential as a culture.
By contrast, throughout history, and in the world today, the Jews are uniquely influential.
At a party last night, a beautiful woman with big fake breasts asked me what Judaism has to say about what happens when we die.
I told her that while Judaism has always affirmed a belief in the Afterlife, it’s primary focus is on this life. Jews focus on this life. That’s why they get so passionate about what happens in the here and now. That’s part of the reason why Jews are so successful. They’re not waiting around for the much much better world to come. They are not concerned with other people’s theological beliefs. Unlike conservative Christians, they are not obsessed with sexual purity above all other moral questions.
