A Passion Through The Ages

She asks, “Why the genocidal blood lust against the Jews?” She answers: It is a rejection of reason. A rejection of responsibility. And the Left is the handmaiden of the monsters. Why? Because you no longer have the ability or responsibility to make your own decisions. That will be handled by Top Men. Who on occasion will be women.

Since we are ruled by men we must question authority. Authority does not like that. Top men do not like it either.

Her forthcoming book:

The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East

Edward Snowden questions authority. He says at about 6:00 “You can wiretap the President, you can wire tap a judge.” What a great opportunity for blackmail. Also see how he came to his realization to blow the whistle at 22:00.

In the same vein: Stop The Smart Grid.


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6 responses to “A Passion Through The Ages”

  1. Randy Avatar
    Randy

    I respectfully disagree with Ms. Glick. It’s huge stretch to claim that the misfortunes of the Jews for the past 4000 years is due to their alleged embrace of reason from their beginnings and the rejection of reason by those who conquered or persecuted them.

    I would suggest that the misfortunes that Jews experienced from antiquity up to about 2000 years ago was due to them settling at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Persians, Greeks and Romans didn’t conquer the Jews because of any alleged embrace of reason by the Jews. They were conquered because they lived next to countries that sought empire and the land they occupied was strategically important to these empires. The Jews were powerless to resist the military might of these much more powerful nations.

    The persecution and bigotry experienced by the Jews the past 2000 years can be attributed to religious fear and bigotry from the practitioners of the two off-shoot religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

    The two later religions include many of the Old Testament stories about the Hebrews in their religious texts. They both share the ancient Hebrew belief that storms, floods, earthquakes, disease, losses in battle and so forth had divine moral agency behind them. They believed these calamitous events signified God’s punishment for one reason or another. The typical reasons given for God meting out his wrath was either the people losing faith or too much sin among the people.

    This shared belief that God was meting out judgment in the form of natural disasters and losses in war led Christians and Muslims to look at the alleged failings of the people to find the source of God’s ire, the same as the Hebrews. The unorthodox beliefs of the Jews towards Jesus and Mohammed were, by definition, heretical in the view of both Christians and Muslims. So Jews who lived in areas dominated by either Christians or Muslims were viewed with suspicion for their unorthodox beliefs and therefore were easy scapegoats for the majority when bad things happened.

    It’s sadly ironic, but it seems to me the Jews have been victimized these past two millennia, first by the Christians and later joined by the Muslims, due to those religions employing the same irrational belief the Hebrews had about how and why God allegedly chastises human beings. The irrational belief of the Hebrews was to assume that natural disasters and losses in war were punishments from their God and that these punishments were meted out by God because of the alleged failures of the faithful in one way or another. It’s not surprising these religions were wrong on the cause and effect here as they had no idea that nature works without any moral agency. They also believed that they could only fail in warfare if God allowed it. Modern scientific discoveries about nature and its workings along with the rational historical analysis of events of the past both show that the Hebrews (as well as Christians and Muslims) couldn’t have been more wrong in their cause and effect beliefs in this context.

    I think both of these explanations taken together adequately account for the political misfortunes, bigotry and persecution experienced by Jews these last 3500 to 4000 years to date.

    For full disclosure, I was once a Christian of the Southern Baptist variety who is now an atheist. I now view religion as organized superstition. The ax I grind here is against superstition and how it leads to erroneous beliefs and to the evil actions taken in the service of those erroneous beliefs.

    When you believe things to be true without evidence then anyone can believe anything to be true without evidence. (Sorry, I can’t recall who said this originally. Sadly, it wasn’t me.)

  2. Simon Avatar

    Randy,

    Good points. Thanks!

  3. Simon Avatar

    BTW Randy,

    You and Mrs. Glick are congruent for the last 2,000 year.

    Since the destruction of The Temple Jews are not required to believe in miracles. Reason is the highest value. And if reason contradicts God? So much the worse for God.

    The Jews do fulfill the epithet “A Godless people” these days. It makes believers uncomfortable.

    There are some highly respected (in Jewish tradition) Jewish atheists.

    Baruch Spinoza – was included in my Jewish education.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_atheists_and_agnostics

    That is a heck of a list. The good, the bad, and the very ugly.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_atheism

    One recent study found that half of all American Jews have doubts about the existence of God, compared to 10–15% of other American religious groups.[2]

    and:

    Much recent Jewish theology makes few if any metaphysical claims and is thus compatible with atheism on an ontological level. The founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, Mordechai Kaplan, espoused a naturalistic definition of God, while some post-Holocaust theology has also eschewed a personal God.[6] The Jewish philosopher Howard Wettstein has advanced a non-metaphysical approach to religious commitment, according to which metaphysical theism-atheism is not the issue. [7] Harold Schulweis, a Conservative rabbi trained in the Reconstructionist tradition, has argued that Jewish theology should move from a focus on God to an emphasis on “godliness.” This “predicate theology”, while continuing to use theistic language, again makes few metaphysical claims that non-believers would find objectionable.[8]

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    Me? I believe in “The Force”. Why? I have experienced it.

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  5. Randy Avatar
    Randy

    Thanks for your clarifying comments. I have no doubt that your knowledge of Jewish history is superior to mine.

    I was unaware that reason is the highest value for Jews. Unfortunately for Christianity, reason doesn’t seem to be the highest value. I’ve seen photos on the web of church signs from across the nation that all read “Reason is the Enemy of Faith”. Not too long ago, a local Lutheran church where I live posted this same message on its sign.

    I’m embarrassed to say I only watched the first few minutes of her presentation. When she brought up Egypt, the Pharaoh, and some other pre-Christian events and claimed that those misfortunes shared the same common denominator as the later misfortunes, the alarm bells in my head went off.

    I suspect that Greek and Roman culture influenced to some degree the learned Jews of the day and that may have helped usher in some of the changes in Jewish thinking you mention. I don’t know enough history to claim that with any certainty. With that said, wisdom is where your find it, as some Bible verse says.

    Now knowing that reason has been embraced by Jews for such a long time explains Jewish achievement and their proclivity to seek work in intellectually demanding careers, generally speaking. It’s true that Jewish achievement of the last several centuries has led to non-Jews envying the success of Jews. Conversely, I don’t think the Jews’ embrace of reason is the source of any envy, as everyone thinks they are rational beings, whether they really are or not.

    I don’t think envy has ever been the primary motive (secondary motive, yes) behind Jewish persecution and bigotry. It is likely that the more recent persecution of Jews in the West up to and through WW2 was fueled by a toxic combination of both envy and religious bigotry.

    May the Force be with you. And I hope the Force didn’t touch you in the “bad” place. LOL

  6. Simon Avatar

    Randy,

    Depends on what you mean by “bad place”. I’m outside the matrix. And it is very lonely.

    BTW your omission of the second half of the video even better makes your point.

    I had a Jewish friend tell me long ago that if he wasn’t Jewish he could be a Buddhist. I think that is about right.

    I liked the video here:

    http://classicalvalues.com/2014/02/he-found-the-force/

    Which is why I posted it.