{"id":120755,"date":"2018-03-01T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120755"},"modified":"2023-08-20T12:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T20:40:41","slug":"americas-surging-anti-gentilism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120755","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Surging Anti-Gentilism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when some Jews find &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; a useful term because it welds the much smaller Jewish population into a unity with the majority Christian culture but when incentives change so that it becomes more important to be aggrieved and separate, then Jews hate the term &#8220;Judeo-Christian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My view is that the term is sometimes useful to describe a common culture where Jews and Christians generally get along and look at the world similarly. It is not ever a correct theological term but few Jews care about theology.<\/p>\n<p>I find that when I want something from someone, I look for things we have in common. When I hate someone, I look for ways we are different. There are days when I want to get close to the very same person that on other days, I want to distance myself from. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/judeo-christian\/\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Senator Rubio is feeling blue and philosophical:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The debate after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Parkland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Parkland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw']);\">#Parkland<\/a> reminds us We The People don\u2019t really like each other very much.We smear those who refuse to agree with us.We claim a Judea-Christian heritage but celebrate arrogance &amp; boasting. &amp; worst of all we have infected the next generation with the same disease\u0012<\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_2'  wcount='5' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_2\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >&mdash; Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/968829963007864834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/968829963007864834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw']);\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_3'  wcount='34' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_3\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >But Reform Rabbi Ruttenberg, author of the recent <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a title=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/washington-post-this-year-we-are-all-esther-in-americas-own-purim-story\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/washington-post-this-year-we-are-all-esther-in-americas-own-purim-story\/\" >op-ed<\/a> about how the DACAites morally require that we be <a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A6zqu_9Sb7w\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A6zqu_9Sb7w\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A6zqu_9Sb7w']);\">getting Purim on Trump&#8217;s ass<\/a>, is not having any of Marco&#8217;s philosophizing:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MY JEWISH HERITAGE TEACHES THAT WE DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO SAVE LIVES. \u0012<\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_4'  wcount='18' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_4\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >Get my tradition out of your mouth while you\u2019re taking that blood money. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TwolPFavYl\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/t.co\/TwolPFavYl']);\">https:\/\/t.co\/TwolPFavYl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_5'  wcount='6' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_5\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >&mdash; Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRaDR\/status\/968837400209195008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRaDR\/status\/968837400209195008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw']);\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_6'  wcount='61' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_6\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >Reading the <a title=\"http:\/\/danyaruttenberg.net\/about\" href=\"http:\/\/danyaruttenberg.net\/about\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/danyaruttenberg.net\/about']);\">bio<\/a> of Rabbi Ruttenberg, a Religious Studies major at Brown, is exhausting. I had this naive assumption that being a rabbi was the last of the pleasant sinecures for non-self-starters, like being a curate in an old English novel. But intense <a title=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/are-tiger-daughters-taking-over-the-sjw-racket\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/are-tiger-daughters-taking-over-the-sjw-racket\/\" >Tiger Daughters<\/a> like Ruttenberg are taking over the rabbi racket too, just like all the other SJW jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_7'  wcount='23' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_7\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >Anyway, Marco&#8217;s rather affecting lament merely reminds Rabbi Ruttenberg that gentiles using the phrase &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; just drives her crazy with anti-Christian animus:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This might be a good time to note that \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d is not a thing and we Jews would like you to stop conflating our tradition with your American Christianity.\u0012<\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_8'  wcount='6' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_8\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >&mdash; Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRaDR\/status\/968858393191514112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRaDR\/status\/968858393191514112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw']);\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_9'  wcount='17' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_9\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >I looked up the use of the term &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; on nGram (along with its rival &#8220;Angl0-American&#8221;):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-351367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unzcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screenshot-2018-03-01-03.14.57.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2018-03-01 03.14.57\" width=\"1251\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_10'  wcount='34' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_10\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >&#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; is occasionally used in the 19th Century, such as by Nietzsche as a term of abuse, but it really takes off in the nice, tolerant American late 1940s as a term of inclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_11'  wcount='108' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_11\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >The Coen Brothers&#8217; most recent movie, <em>Hail, Caesar!<\/em> about a movie studio making a Biblical epic around 1950 has a scene in which the studio&#8217;s Irish Catholic fixer (Josh Brolin), whose main job is networking with Catholic cops to let movie stars off on drunk driving charges, hosts a meeting with representatives of Los Angeles&#8217;s four major religions to get their approval of a Bible movie. What&#8217;s striking is how much less than maximally satirical the Coens are in this scene: you get the impression that Coens basically are impressed with the 1950 clerics&#8217; characteristic commitment to &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; ecumenical goodwill and the filmmakers&#8217; outreach to organized religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KJEiDRi4Itc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p  class='container'  id='p_1_12'  wcount='30' ><span  class='links' ><a  class='xlink'  title='Anchor Link to This Paragraph'  href=\"#p_1_12\" ><\/a><\/span><span  class='contents' >The naked expression of anti-gentile animus that motivates Rabbi Ruttenberg would have been considered in bad taste in 1950. But that era of goodwill and self-restraint appears to be slowly ending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>COMMENTS:<\/p>\n<p>* Rabbi Danya, that Frappuccino you had while tweeting in perfect emotionalese cost you more than a donation to save a third world child\u2019s life would have.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of ethics is complicated. If it isn\u2019t complicated then it isn\u2019t an ethical problem. That\u2019s why a tendency to hysteria and moral leadership should never be mixed.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t you be better off in an actually caring role? One where your need for emotional and compassionate validation, which in your heart or hearts you know is your real motive for this outburst, isn\u2019t confused with a real world set of policy prescriptions or call to action?<\/p>\n<p>Your father would take you no less nor more seriously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DXKV0kcX4AEuWB-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DXKV0kcX4AEuWB--225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-120763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DXKV0kcX4AEuWB--225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DXKV0kcX4AEuWB--768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DXKV0kcX4AEuWB-.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* The rabinette is a not particularly attractive female. I think it would be interesting to find a correlation between physical ugliness (esp. female) &#038; the level of frustration and unpleasantness \u2026<\/p>\n<p>* This might be a good time to note that \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d is not a thing and we Jews would like you to stop conflating our tradition with your American Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>* And don\u2019t you ever mention Christmas without mentioning Hannukah.<\/p>\n<p>And never mention that it used to be a pretty minor festival until we got tired of eating Chinese food on Christmas Day, and decided it deserved equal billing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we reserve the right to conflate our tradition with Christianity whenever we choose, so that everyone is made to understand that the Ashkenazim have been a big part of the Western tradition and the Enlightenment. Maybe even the central part, since the Enlightenment. Except when we don\u2019t want to be under the \u0336k\u0336l\u0336i\u0336e\u0336g\u0336 \u0336l\u0336i\u0336g\u0336h\u0336t\u0336 spotlight. Because that sometimes feels like anti-Semitism. Because it is.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, don\u2019t include us in your stinkin\u2019 tradition. We\u2019ll do that ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>* This is really an astonishing, not to mention unexpected, development. It was only a few years ago that some Southern Republican politician was admonished for omitting the obligatory \u201cJudeo\u201d from an off-the-cuff public remark about the foundations of the American regime.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunes of the right went into a panic over it, lest the bald assertion of a merely \u201cChristian\u201d heritage offend. To his credit the pol stuck to his guns, unapologetically affirming that he had said precisely what he had meant. (I can\u2019t recall who this was, but I don\u2019t expect he has advanced much in the party since then.)<\/p>\n<p>Now we see an aggressive rebuke of Christians\u2014and Steve is right to call it a hateful one\u2014from the Judeo-Left, demanding the de-coupling of that tired but polite coinage. It says to me that something really has changed\u2014and not primarily in religious terms. The insistence on \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d started out as a gesture of benign inclusion on the part of the powerful towards the weaker. It persisted (as shown in the story above) because the once-powerful feared the unraveling of a necessary alliance with, and reprisal from, a rising and influential counter-power.<\/p>\n<p>But now it looks like the power relation has been completely inverted\u2014at least in the thoughts of Rabbi Ruttenberg (herself an anointed rising star of the prevailing power, as her CV shows). She feels so secure in the invincibility of her power that she sees no further use for the alliance, expresses no residual gratitude for past and present generosity, and feels free to dump, and dump on, the Christian part of Judeo-Christian altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, she chooses to flaunt her power against the weakest of potential opponents, when the latter is expressing his personal fragility. What a nasty bully. If the word still had any meaning she\u2019d be a genuine bigot. Anyway, folks, the knives are really out.<\/p>\n<p>* As long as Christians recognize the revelations of the Old Testament and (on a human level) the Jewish origins of Christ and the Church, it seems to me that Judeo-Christian is \u201ca thing\u201d and the opposition of some Jews, even rabbis, to the term shouldn\u2019t deter my use of it. It\u2019s possible to over-emphasize the Old Testament elements, but I think that\u2019s more of a problem with some Protestant denominations than with the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>* You are exactly right about how women are taking over all of the social justice warrior rackets. But this has been going on for a long time in Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>The father of one of my best friends is a minister in the United Church of Christ. This guy is definitely a Democrat, but almost all of his time is centered on serving the people in his congregation. He is an exemplary human being in many respects.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, on the other hand, is an intense social justice warrior. She marched with Martin Luther King in the 1960s, the whole 9 yards. At some point in the 1980s, she decided that she would have more authority if she also became a minister. She did so, and to my knowledge never did one whit of pastoral care of a congregation. Everything she did was politically related.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years ago, I went to their daughter\u2019s ordination ceremony. Over the course of this two hour long event, three or four senior members of her Divinity school took the podium, and acerbically reminded her that being an ordained minister means talking about Jesus and being a pastor to a congregation, not doing solely political work. Everyone laughed, because everyone knew that the only reason she became a minister was so she could engage in social justice warrior activities. As far as I know, she has no interest whatsoever in caring for the needs of a congregation or even talking about religious matters.<\/p>\n<p>In the last church that my wife and I attended, the pastor was a very interesting and deeply involved guy who spent a lot of his time attending to the needs of his flock. However, he moved to another congregation, and the woman who took over as the pastor for this church is, guess what, an intense social justice warrior. Even my wife cannot stand this woman, and we left.<\/p>\n<p>* For those who are rooting for an end to Judaism, this is how it happens. It\u2019s men and women together who uphold religious traditions, and when women drop their obligations it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<p>I know a number of Jewish men whose wives divorced them, taking the children and most of the money, and you cannot imagine their consternation and dismay. Do you think their sons are going to sit still and be good Jewish husbands?<\/p>\n<p>5778 years is a long run, but the end is in sight for Judaism, and it is the women who will bring it down. Feminism and leftism are more potent forces than any of us imagine.<\/p>\n<p>* She\u2019s not at her best here. Purim tends to bring out the very worst in a Jew.<\/p>\n<p>The three high holy revenge-holidays of Judaism, Hanukah, Passover, and Purim, are all repulsive in their own ways, but there\u2019s something especially disgusting about the the fiction of Purim, which Bibi now uses to sell war against Iran. No doubt this repellent creature is fully on board with that agenda and quite happy to have \u201cAmerican Christians\u201d do the fighting and dying for Eretz Israel.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I was always under the impression that the popularization of \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d was, like \u201cJesus the Jew\u201d a largely Jewish meme with the intention of showing how much Christianity \u201cowes\u201d to Judaism and Jews.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that, like the Hanukah bush, that bit of faux-assimilationist propaganda has served its purpose and now there is no longer any reason for the Jew to cloak his fundamental hatred of Christianity and Christians.<\/p>\n<p>So who did promote the term starting in the 1950s\u2013suicidal, genteel WASP academics on their way to oblivion or conniving Jews looking to subvert institutional Christianity?<\/p>\n<p>* [Lilith] It seems odd to name an ostensibly religious Jewish magazine after a demon.<\/p>\n<p>* Most jews I know happily go along with the \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d thing\u2013it made US support for Israel that much more solid\u2013but this next generation see no benefit as Christianity loses its heft in the 21st century. As things stand, \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d is neither good nor bad for the jews, but I\u2019d be selling it short in the decades ahead. Why be affiliated with something so obviously in decline?<\/p>\n<p>And it really is an idiot expression\u2013the two religious are ridiculously different in their doctrinal foundations.<\/p>\n<p>More important, what about the intellectual and cultural foundations of Western civilization is jewish? I prefer \u201cHellenic-Christian.\u201d That much better captures the individualistic striving and curiosity of the West.<\/p>\n<p>* Ironic how the rabbi\u2019s opinion appears to align with the opinion of Joe Sobran, who wrote the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly, it is futile for the Church to try to mollify a hatred so ancient and so deep as the Jewish animus against Christianity. Despite all the sentimental rhetoric to the contrary \u2014 such as pious nonsense about \u201cthe Judaeo-Christian tradition\u201d \u2014 Judaism and Christianity are radically opposed over the most important thing of all: Jesus Christ, who commands us to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, and to love our enemies, which does not mean mistaking them for friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* She looks sort of like a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg and soon she will look like an old Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n<p>* When the Jewish brand was down (think the Rosenbergs), it appears they were fine w\/ the conflation, but now that \u201cChristian\u201d is considered declasse, white and downscale, it\u2019s time for the Rabbi and her peeps to begin the disassociation procedure, as it has served her people for what it was supposed to do.<\/p>\n<p>* Self-restraint for Jews would be anti-semitic, self-hate. They can say whatever they want, cross any boundary at least as long as it serves them. No Lenny Bruce to call out Jewish establishment. \u201cSpotlight\u201d with Jew investigating misdeeds in Catholic community is good. Catholic investigating misdeeds in Jewish community would be anti-semitic.<\/p>\n<p>* Her attitude is enlightening. \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d is a polite fiction. The kind of pleasant, getting-along cultural thing that comes from Euro-gentile high trust societies. Jews had essentially nothing to do with America\u2019s creation or why America became a huge successful, highly prosperous nation. But they showed up, and so politicians found a polite phrase to include them in a nod to our Christian values.<\/p>\n<p>And Rabbi Ruttenberg hates it.<\/p>\n<p>Not \u201cweird\u201d i guess, because people believe what suits these interests and self-conception, but i still find odd this tikkun-olamy self-conception about \u201cJewish\u201d values as opposed to Christian ones.<\/p>\n<p>Obvious as the sky is blue, is that Christianity is the a universalized God-loves-us-and-be-nice offshoot of Judaism. This Christian universaility and \u201cbe nice\u201d message had at least something to do with why Europeans were able to develop these very nice, \u201ceveryone\u2019s on board\u201d, high trust nation states.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast Judaism, is a much more primitive God-is-on-our-side-gave-us-this-patch-and-helps-us-smite-our-enemies tribal religion, of which there must have been hundreds back in the day. It\u2019s no doubt accreted all sorts of stuff over the ages. But it really stands out only in that it has been so successfully tribal in resisting universalized religions\u2013like Christianity\u2013that Jews still exist down to this day, while pretty much all the other tribes that worshiped their particular tribal god were swept away. Of course, if you\u2019re a Jew you can plausibly argue that just shows Jews are indeed the chosen people with God on their side. Fine.<\/p>\n<p>But i find this Jewish preening about the superiority of the humanizing, universal, world-healing values of their obviously tribal religion compared to actually inclusive\/universal Christianity\u2013which helped build high-trust, super-pleasant European civilization\u2013rather ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>* Her looks range from goblin to raptor. Mostly goblin. Although in some youthful shots, when she smiles brightly, I\u2019ll concede \u201cfresh-faced goblin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now some gentle souls here on Unz may rush in and say, \u201cHey now, why are you judging her appearance? Uncouth!\u201d Here\u2019s why: Understanding comparative human aesthetics is an important part of sussing out why someone, or some people, have certain views\u2014from the personal to the global. A lot of resentment\/envy on an elementary biological level manifests in endless cries of \u201cPrivilege! Supremacy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* Since most Jews prefer Muslims over Evangelicals, Judeo-Islamic is closer to the mark.<\/p>\n<p>But the real alliance is Judeo-Homo-Afro.<\/p>\n<p>Judeo-Christian was useful to Jews long ago when christian power and identity were crucial factors in America. Christianity is now dead.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Judeo-Diversity alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there is a link between Judaism and Christianity, but there is also a break. It\u2019s like Anglo and American. America developed as continuation of Anglos but there was also separation.<\/p>\n<p>Christianity, as developed in the West, is Christo-Pagan or at least Euro-Christian, which is different from Arab-Christian and Afro-Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Some say culture is product of race, but it\u2019s closer to the truth to say culture is molded by race.<\/p>\n<p>Consider how whites and blacks practice the same religion of Christianity differently.<br \/>\nConsider how blacks took white music and made it into black music and how whites took black music and made it in to white music.<\/p>\n<p>So, regardless of the culture\u2019s origins, it is reshaped by racial tendencies of those who adopt them. This is why Japanese Buddhism is different from the original in India. Different races digest even the same culture differently.<\/p>\n<p>* I\u2019ve noticed that women, being removed from men\u2019s games, have only a dim understanding of the pecking order or the rules that determine status. And likewise women\u2019s pecking order is somewhat of a mystery to men.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this woman senses the power shift and has decided to run with it, but she has outrun her blockers, so to speak, if she really wants to pit Jewish men against Gentiles. In literature anyway, women are notorious for starting fights between men. She is either cluelessly or maliciously making prickly remarks to stir things up. However, if push came to shove, her side would lose so she should probably put a sock in it.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Hegel was saying; remarks like hers are not merely statements of fact, they are actively oppositional and they will engender opposition. An Engineer would say that her statements x is this, y is that are not merely expressions or equations of scalar quantities but are vectors. They have magnitude and direction. The are barbed arrows.<\/p>\n<p>* The term Judeo-Christian seems primarily confined to the United States.<br \/>\nIt has never been popular in Europe. In any case, in Religious Studies<br \/>\n\u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d is being slowly replaced by \u201cAbrahamic,\u201d as in \u201cAbrahamic<br \/>\nReligions,\u201d referring to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Theologically speaking, I\u2019ve always found the term Judeo-Christian to be<br \/>\nabsurd, an oxymoron of sorts, as in many ways, although not all, Christianity<br \/>\nis practically the opposite of Judaism. For example,<\/p>\n<p>1. In Judaism, unlike in Christianity, there is basically no concept of Original<br \/>\nSin, and therefore there is no need for a Redeemer. Judaism shares this view<br \/>\nwith Islam;<\/p>\n<p>2. Ben-Gurion famously said, \u201cWe Jews don\u2019t believe in hell \u2013 to us hell is<br \/>\nmediocrity.\u201d Hence, culturally speaking, the pursuit of wealth, power, fame,<br \/>\ninfluence, and sexual pleasure is emphasized much more, especially among<br \/>\nsecular Jews, than among Christians. There is a saying, \u201cJudaism makes it<br \/>\nmuch easier to live, and Christianity to die.\u201d In other words, Judaism<br \/>\nin practice emphasizes the expansion of the ego, Christianity \u2013 transcendence<br \/>\nof the ego.<\/p>\n<p>3. Judaism says \u201cEye for an eye\u201d whereas Christianity tells us to \u201cturn the<br \/>\nother cheek.\u201d As Gandhi said, \u201cEye for an eye means that soon we\u2019ll all be blind.\u201d<br \/>\nWhile those statements are obviously metaphors, there is no question that the<br \/>\nconcept of forgiveness is much more developed in Christianity than in Judaism.<br \/>\nIn contrast to \u201cLove your enemies,\u201d I was surprised that in Judaism one is<br \/>\nsometimes morally required to abide by the rule, \u201cHate your enemies.\u201d<br \/>\nThis was explained by a learned rabbi years ago in an article in \u201cFirst Things,\u201d<br \/>\na highbrow Catholic monthly;<\/p>\n<p>4. Judaism can be summarized as \u201cIt\u2019s the deed, not the creed,\u201d whereas<br \/>\nChristianity, esp. in the Protestant version, as \u201cIt\u2019s the creed, not the deed.\u201d<br \/>\nCatholicism, with its rejection of Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide, is in this sense<br \/>\nca bit closer to Judaism;<\/p>\n<p>5. In Christianity God is very close. We are encouraged to call Him Father, even<br \/>\nDaddy, as Jesus did. Theosis or deification is a venerable tradition in Christian<br \/>\ntheology. In Judaism God (or G-d) is very distant, in fact totally other. Judaism<br \/>\nin this sense is similar to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Judaism, esp. Orthodox Judaism, is in practice much closer to Islam than to<br \/>\nChristianity. Both religions require circumcision (circumcision is virtually unknown<br \/>\nin Europe, and declining in the U.S.), have similar dietary laws, both are sex-positive,<br \/>\nunlike Christianity which values chastity, both are ritualistic, etc. It would make<br \/>\nmore sense to speak of the Judeo-Islamic value system than the Judeo-Christian one.<\/p>\n<p>In Judaism, esp. Reform Judaism, a rabbi (literally, a teacher), is the<br \/>\nequivalent of a college professor. Hence rabbis make a lot more money<br \/>\nthan Protestant ministers or Catholic priests (although Catholic priests<br \/>\ntypically get free lodging and free food, and at least in the U.S., typically<br \/>\nthe use of a car). In consequence, the membership fees at a Jewish temple<br \/>\nare often very high. As a result, in contrast to Christianity, relatively few<br \/>\nJews belong to a temple compared to the membership numbers at Protestant<br \/>\ncongregations or Catholic parishes, where membership is technically free<br \/>\nalthough donations are collected and tithing is sometimes encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>* We men in the West are so enlightened that we\u2019ve created a wide variety of make work jobs for professional bitching. <\/p>\n<p>* My take is Jews of the 40s, 50s and early 60s deeply desired to become Americans. You can see this with their obsession with Folk and Blues music. Bob Dylan is the archetype of this phenomena. Then there was the Phillip Roth\u2019s and Joseph Heller\u2019s that were practicing Hawthorne like \u2018self awareness\u2019 literature with a big smear of Freudian explanation. Somewhere in the late 80 Jews decided they preferred to be masters of the universe instead of Americans. This Jewish supremacy now pervades a vast swath of Jewish thinking. They no longer wish to be American, they wish to be masters.<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cWe are not hyphenated Jews; we are Jews with no qualifications or reservations. We are simply aliens; we are a foreign people in your midst, and we emphasize, we wish to stay that way. There is a wide gap between you and us, so wide that no bridge can be laid across it. Your spirit is alien to us; your myths, legends, habits, customs, traditions and national heritage, your religious and national shrines, your Sundays and holidays\u2026They are all alien to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dr. Jacob Klatzkin, Krisis und Entscheidung im Judentum: der Probleme des modernen Judentums (Berlin: Judischer Verlag, 1921).<\/p>\n<p>* Female pastors are heretical, and churches and synagogues have signed their death warrants by employing them. Who wants to go to church and be hectored by an angry woman?<\/p>\n<p>* Judeo-Christian was an attempt at being nice and inclusive. Jews were not outside of the American tradition like Buddhists or Mohammedans or Hindus but were part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course devout religious believers on both sides always rejected this because Orthodox Judaism is not very much like devout Catholicism. Even though they share some scriptures, the traditional Christian view of what they call the Old Testament is that it was all foreshadowing of the coming of Jesus. \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d was rejected from the right, especially the Catholic right which traditionally viewed Jews as \u201cthe enemy\u201d who killed Jesus and whose stubborn refusal to accept the new religion was an affront. Christianity is like the rebellious teenager who rejects his parents\u2019 values and so to be conflated with them is galling \u2013 he is NOTHING like them (the narcissism of small differences). Whenever \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d got mentioned around here there were always a few from the Christian right to pounce on it and say that it doesn\u2019t exist \u2013 Judaism and Christianity are apples and oranges.<\/p>\n<p>But for mainstream (Leftist) clerics it was pretty palatable. Since leftist Episcopal clerics and leftist Jewish clerics all believe in \u201csocial justice\u201d more than they actually believe in that old time religion stuff, it was a comfortable fit. Until maybe last week, mainstream (Leftist) Reform Rabbi types were totally down with \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d. When our local Reform synagogue was being renovated, the services were moved to a nearby Presbyterian church (ideal setup because the holy days don\u2019t overlap \u2013 I\u2019m surprised that there are not more permanent setups like this \u2013 you could cut your fixed costs in half) and our rabbi and the Presbyterian minister got along swimmingly because they both believe in mostly the same stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But now we have the flight from Judeo-Christian on the (Jewish) left \u2013 same idea as the flight from white.<\/p>\n<p>* Jesus committed suicide by cop.<\/p>\n<p>* Another point in favor of the Catholic Church. Women may testify to their faith, as Sts. 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