Fundie Follies: The Truth Comes Out
It's quite rare when a God-believer fesses up and admits the truth: Jewish Historian Admits Jews Have Played Minor Role in History.
Though many Israelis are convinced that the history of the human race revolves around Judaism and the Jewish people, in truth, Judaism has played a relatively minor role in the annals of our species. Unlike such universal religions as Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, Judaism is a tribal creed. It focuses on the fate of one small nation and one tiny land, and has little interest in the fate of all other people and all other countries. For example, it cares little about events in China or about the people of New Guinea. It is no wonder, therefore, that its historical role was limited.
I would consider this a plus. When dealing with Jews, you don't have to put up with all the God-bothering as they know how to mind their own business. They're not the ones trying to ram their belief system down your throat, or trying to enlist the government's guns to enforce their vision of rectitude. You want crab salad for lunch? Pork chops for dinner? Want to wear a shirt made of mixed fibres? Want to suffer a witch to live? Go ahead and have at it: not even the most orthodox of Orthodox Jews will tell you not to, let alone attack you, or campaign for the gov't to make crab and pork illicit substances.
This idea may shock and annoy many Israelis, who are educated to think that Judaism is the central hero of human history. Israeli children usually finish 12 years of school without receiving any clear picture of global historical processes. Though they learn about the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and World War II, these isolated jigsaw pieces do not add up to any overarching narrative. Instead, the only coherent story offered by the Israeli school system begins with the Hebrew Bible, continuous to the Second Temple era, skips to various Jewish communities in the Diaspora, and culminates with the rise of Zionism, the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel. Most students leave school convinced that this must be the main plotline of the entire human story. For even when pupils hear about the Roman Empire or the French Revolution, the discussion in class focuses on the way the Roman Empire treated the Jews or on the legal and political status of Jews in the French Republic. People fed on such a historical diet have a very hard time digesting the idea that Judaism in fact had relatively little impact on the world as a whole.
This pretty much debunks the notion that Jews are plotting to take over the world. They simply are not learning what they would need to know to pull off such a grand conspiracy. The whole idea is a contradiction. If anything, you would expect a universal religion to be doing this, not an exclusive one.
Many biblical laws copy rules that were accepted in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Canaan centuries and even millennia prior to the establishment of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. If biblical Judaism gave these laws any unique twist, it was by turning them from universal rulings into tribal codes aimed primarily at the Jewish people
The whole Bi-Bull was plagiarized and was not dictated by any sort of god. There is nothing within its pages that points to any special knowledge that the people of the time would not have known. Instead, it is choke full of Bronze Age ignorance: bats are birds, hares and rabbits are cud chewers, the existance of fantasy animals, π= 3.0, a flat earth, a geocentric solar system, &c, &c, &c ad infinitum. From the comments:
True enough, Judaism as such has played a minor role in world history, however, Jews have had considerable impact in world history...primarily in the area of finance and trade, and secondarily in the transmission of knowledge (mostly not that of Judaism) between civilizations. Jews occupied important roles as bankers, money lenders and financial advisors in medieval Europe. During that same period they also served as translators of Arabic and Greek texts into European tongues.
Xians do the same thing: Isaac Newton was a Xian, Michael Faraday was a Xian, Max Planc was a Roamin' Catlick, yada, yada, yada: claiming the achievements of individuals. Never mind that they were atheist in all but name, or, like Newton and Albert Einstein, had some very heterodox, idiosyncratic beliefs. When it comes to daily life, the believer lives no differently than the atheist. Both know that results are not achieved without working for them. Pray with one hand while shitting in the other and which one fills first. We all know the answer to that one.
This belief in fairy tales for adults has consequences. The desire for relevance leads to dedication to the false promises of leftist utopia. We've seen this before.
This summer, I had a conversation with a young woman about her Jewish identity. She told me how she grew up in a family that was very involved in her synagogue. She went to Jewish day school. She had been to Israel multiple times. But she felt very far from her Jewishness. She simply couldn’t find the relevance of Judaism as she was making her way on her own in the world.
Of course she couldn't. It's as relevant to the real world as Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny. These days, even a mediocre Fourth Grader knows much more about the world and how it works than the most brilliant Bronze Age sage. Rather than accept that reality, she, with this rabbi's encouragement, will try to find that relevance. And there will be those who will gladly supply her with her "fix".
Here is what that lefttard whack-o-bird, Tim Wise, wrote:
For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink.
And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor.
Whatever the case, and whatever your economic station, know this…
You need to drink up.
And quickly.
And heavily.
Because your time is limited.
Real damned limited.
So party while you can, but mind the increasingly loud clock ticking away in the corners of your consciousness.
The clock that reminds you how little time you and yours have left.
Not much more now.
Tick, tock.
Tick, tock.
Tick.
Tock.
I know, you think you’ve taken “your country back” with this election - and of course you have always thought it was yours for the taking, cuz that’s what we white folks are bred to believe, that it’s ours, and how dare anyone else say otherwise - but you are wrong.
You have won a small battle in a larger war the meaning of which you do not remotely understand.
‘Cuz there is nothing even slightly original about you.
There have always been those who wanted to take the country back.
There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude.
But they lost.
There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when children could be made to work in mines and factories, when workers had no legal rights to speak of, when the skies in every major city were heavy with industrial soot that would gather on sidewalks and windowsills like volcanic ash.
But they lost.
There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when women could not vote, or attend any but a few colleges, or get loans in their own names, or start their own businesses.
But they lost.
There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when blacks “had no rights that the white man was bound to respect,” - this being the official opinion of the Supreme Court before those awful days of judicial activism, now decried by the likes of you - and when people of color could legally be kept from voting solely because of race, or holding certain jobs, or living in certain neighborhoods, or run out of other towns altogether when the sun would go down, or be strung up from trees.
But they lost.
And you will lose.
So make a note of it.
Tweet it to yourself.
Put it on your Facebook wall and leave it there so you’ll remember that I told you so.
It is coming, and soon.
This isn’t hubris. It isn’t ideology. It is not wishful thinking.
It is math.
Not even advanced math. Just simple, basic, like 3rd grade math.
The kind of math that proves how your kind - mostly older white folks beholden to an absurd, inaccurate, nostalgic fantasy of what America used to be like - are dying.
You’re like the bad guy in every horror movie ever made, who gets shot five times, or stabbed ten, or blown up twice, and who will eventually pass - even if it takes four sequels to make it happen - but who in the meantime keeps coming back around, grabbing at our ankles as we walk by, we having been mistakenly convinced that you were finally dead this time.
Fair enough, and have at it. But remember how this movie ends.
Our ankles survive.
You do not.
Michael Meyers, Freddie Kreuger, Jason, and that asshole husband in that movie with Julia Roberts who tracks her down after she runs away and changes her identity-they are all done. Even that crazy fucker in Saw is about to be finished off for good. Granted, he’s gonna be popping out in 3-D to scare the kiddies, so he isn’t going quietly. But he’s going, as all bad guys eventually do.
And in the pantheon of American history, conservative old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.
Fine, keep it up. It doesn’t matter.
Because you’re on the endangered list.
And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving.
In forty years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around who actually remember that Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Opie-Taylor-Down-at-the-Fishing Hole cornpone bullshit that you hold so near and dear to your heart.
There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks around who actually remember them, and so therefore, we’ll be able to teach about them accurately and honestly, without hurting your precious feelings, or those of the so-called “greatest generation” - a bunch whose white contingent was top-heavy with ethical miscreants who helped save the world from fascism only to return home and oppose the ending of it here, by doing nothing to lift a finger on behalf of the civil rights struggle.
It’s OK. Because in about forty years, half the country will be black or brown. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Nothing, Senõr Tancredo.
Nothing, Senõra Angle, or Senõra Brewer, or Senõr Beck.
Loy tiene muy mal, hijo de Puta.
And by then you will have gone all in as a white nationalist movement - hell you’ve all but done that now - thus guaranteeing that the folks of color, and even a decent size minority of us white folks will be able to crush you, election after election, from the Presidency on down to the 8th grade student council.
Like I said, this is math. And numbers don’t lie.
Bottom line, this too shall pass.
So enjoy your tax cuts a while longer.
Go buy whatever you people buy when your taxes get cut: a new car or two, a bigger house, an island. Whatever.
Go back to trading your derivatives, engaging in rampant financial speculation that produces nothing of value, that turns the whole world into your personal casino. Whatever.
Play your hand, and for the love of God play it big. Real big. As in, shoot for the moon big. As in, try to privatize Social Security, and health care, and everything else. Whatever.
At least that way everyone will be able to see what you’re really about.
We’ve been trying to tell them, but nothing beats seeing it with your own eyes, so “Go big or go home,” Bubba.
“Git ‘er Done.”
“Cowboy up,” or whatever other stupid catch phrase strikes your fancy.
Just promise you’ll do more than talk this time.
Please, or as one of your celluloid heroes might put it, “make my day.”
Do whatever you gotta do, but remember that those who are the victims of your greed and indifference take the long view.
They know, but you do not, that justice is not for the sprinters, but rather for the long distance runners who will be hitting their second wind, right about the time that you collapse from exhaustion.
They are like the tortoise to your hare.
They are like the San Francisco Giants, to your New York Yankees: a bunch that loses year after year after year, until they finally win.
You have had this confidence before, remember?
You thought you had secured your position permanently after the overthrow of reconstruction in the wake of the civil war, after the elimination of the New Deal, after the Reagan revolution, after the Republican electoral victory of 1994. And yet, those you thought you had cowed and defeated are still here.
Because those who have lived on the margins, who have been abused, maligned, targeted by austerity measures and budget cuts, subjected to racism, classism, sexism, straight supremacy and every other form of oppression always know more about their abusers than the abusers know about their victims.
They have to study you, to pay careful attention, to adjust their body armor accordingly, and to memorize your sleep patterns.
You, on the other hand, need know nothing whatsoever about them. And this, will surely prove politically fatal to you in the end. For it means you will not know their resolve. Will not fear it, as you should.
It means you will take their greatest strength - perseverance - and make of it a weakness, called losing.
But what you forget, or more to the point never knew, is that those who lose know how to lose, which is to say they know how to lose with dignity.
And those who suffer know how to suffer, which is to say they know how to survive: a skill that is in short supply amid the likes of you.
You, who could not survive the thought of minimal health care reform, or financial regulation, or a marginal tax rate equal to that which you paid just 10 years earlier, perhaps are under the illusion that everyone is as weak as you, as soft as you, as akin to petulant children as you are, as unable to cope with the smallest setback, the slightest challenge to the way you think your country should look and feel, and operate.
But they are not.
And they know how to regroup, and plot, and plan, and they are planning even now - we are - your destruction.
And I do not mean by that your physical destruction. We don’t play those games. We’re not into the whole “Second Amendment remedies, militia, armed resistance” bullshit that your side fetishizes, cuz, see, we don’t have to be. We don’t need guns.
We just have to be patient.
And wait for you to pass into that good night, first politically, and then, well…
Do you hear it?
The sound of your empire dying? Your nation, as you knew it, ending, permanently?
Because I do, and the sound of its demise is beautiful.
So know this.
If you thought this election was payback for 2008, remember…
Payback, thy name is…
Temporary.
Better be careful for what you wish: if this nation ends permanently, what do you suppose replaces it? I don't know, but I guaran-DAMN-tee you it won't be a care-free land of sunshine, gumdrops, lollipops, and unicorn farts for all. Tim Wise, like all leftoids, is delusional. Certifiably, clinically insane. This is the kind of irrational thinking you get from the TrueBelievers™, especially when they go searching for relevance in a world that persists in a reality that denies the very existence of your MagicalSkyFairy™ at every turn. Their antics would be laughable, but these folks vote and their votes count as much as yours. They are the talking heads for the networks where you get your news; they teach your kids from K through post grad. (Remember: Wise is a kollidge perfesser.)
Make no mistake about this: for those seeking relevance, the Left is only too willing to offer you a grand Utopian vision. It will offer you opportunities to "do good", to save the planet. Jews even have a term for this: "tikkun olam" (literally: "repair the world"). I wonder what the the Hebrew for "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is. Since the Utopia of the far Left is unattainable, they'll give Jews plenty to keep them busy.
On the other hand, Conservatism, Libertarianism, and Strict Constructionism offer only the individual liberty to live your own life, make the best decisions you can, and to suffer the consequences of making bad ones: you are allowed to fail. There is no room for failure in Lefty La-la Land. It is liberty and free enterprise that actually come closest to building Utopia. Even though we are far from laissez-faire, more people live better now than at any previous time in recorded history. Of course, this doesn't offer anyone occasions for "moral", "intellectual", "spiritual" superiority and feels of warm fuzzies.
Xians aren't much better, however, they do believe in Hell, and we all know what paves the road to that particular destination. You still see the major denominations getting involved in Leftist Utopian schemes. Just have a good look at the HolyFather™ of the Roman Catholic Church, Ltd., Inc. Or the major Prod denominations, Inc. They are all suckers for the SJWs.
Don't think that this sort of nonsense is confined to the US of A, or to Europe.
[May] Golan tried to put the issue into perspective for an American audience. "Right now we have 150,000 immigrants and I have to explain... Israel is the size of New Jersey. Israel cannot take so many infiltrators into her. And the biggest problem is that those infiltrators are coming in thinking they should dilute the Jewish majority in Israel. They should change the Jewish character of this nation."
Building on this point, she claimed that the extreme left is helping the infiltrators as part of its efforts to end Israel's existence as a Jewish state.
"Those people do not believe that a Jewish country has any right to exist whatsoever. With the millions that are being funded by the NIF, that are radical anti-Zionist leftists in Israel, they are helping them to change every possible neighborhood and city in Israel."
Hannity asked if she has had much criticism for her strong views. Golan answered that she has faced such an unjustified backlash that "the word racist has just lost all meaning to me. I can see here what's going on with Donald Trump - they're calling him racist just for wanting to protect the borders of his country. This is the same thing in Israel. I think I, and the rest of the people in Israel, have the right to protect their homes and borders."
-- Text & Vid
CIA Fact Book:
USA:
Ethnic groups:
white 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.97%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.18%, two or more races 1.61% (July 2007 estimate)
Israel:
Ethnic groups:
Jewish 75% (of which Israel-born 74.4%, Europe/America/Oceania-born 17.4%, Africa-born 5.1%, Asia-born 3.1%), non-Jewish 25% (mostly Arab) (2013 est.)
Whites are just slightly less than 80% of the US population -- a majority edge over the number of Jews in the "Jewish" state.
Tick, tock.
Tick, tock.
Tick.
Tock.
Tick tock indeed, and that clock is ticking louder in Israel than it is here. The trendie leftie whack-o-birds, like Tim Wise here, are doing their damnedest to fill Israel with infiltrators (what they call their illegal aliens) in total disregard for what that means for the country's make-up, and what that will do to the culture. When Israel becomes a majority Moslem nation, how does it remain a Jewish state? Leftists are determined to commit cultural suicide, but that's OK. At least they feel virtuous and oh so morally superior to us mere mortals and our waysiss/xenophobic/homophobic/islamophobic/cis-normative/yada/yada/yada ways.
And lest we forget, incidents of antisemitism are on the rise, here in America, and especially in Europe. Who's behind all of this? On American campuses, it's Moslem student associations. It's the whack-o-birds and their "BDS" (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement that targets Israeli products and businesses. Jews who oppose ending the importation of rapefugees here in America, across Europe, and in Israel itself, are hurting themselves, first and foremost. Is it worth it to FEEL relevant? This is the very definition of "useful idiot", and we all know what happens to those idiots who cease to be useful. (Here's a hint: Moscow Show Trials.)
These SJWs would destroy entire nations so they can have their warm fuzzies. Religion may have had survival value in the distant past, but now it's time to grow up and set aside childish things. Religious lunacy doesn't have survival value anymore. To the contrary, it's the greatest threat to the continued existence of our nations, cultures, and species. Magical thinking begets magical thinking: we can't afford that anymore.
If you can't show it, you don't know it.