Re: Harvard's intellectual culture discourages identification with Christians...

In a message dated 4/21/2006 7:55:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rich.blinne@gmail.com writes:
What does this have to do with religion and science? They're smearing
MacDonald's work because it scientifically identifies the processes of the
anti-Semitic cycle and the true nature of the old covenant (I would think this would be
of vital interest to this group) and explains how it is that Christianity is
on the defensive in the West.

You totally lost me here. This is such a non sequiter my hair hurts. What
does this have to do with religion and science? If you push an agenda into the
ground, it is neither good religion nor good science.

So you think these two scholars are railing against Jewish influence simply
over the war?
And that they would skew their entire paper to push that "agenda?" And that I
am pushing that "agenda."
I gave you the link but you don't see any connection between well placed
academics in the Human Behavior and Evolution Society refusing to take studies of
Jewish behavior seriously and Jewish academics refusing to take the
Mearsheimer/Walt paper seriously? You don't see any connection between the name calling
in either venue?

It may be me. If you read the link I gave you on MacDonald's web site, you
know that I arrived at his conclusions independently and he has now posted my
understanding of the significance of his work on his web site.

Now, I will drop the matter.

I just wanted to get out the message that this stifling of any criticism of
Jewish behavior or interests is stamped out by organized Jewish groups as a
matter of course because as Dershowitz says in Chutzpah, they now have the power.

The United States has just passed from a republic largely of Christians of
European stock to a universal state that belongs to all the peoples of the
world. How do you think that has happened?

MacDonald quotes prominent Jewish social scientist and ethnic activist Earl
Raab:
     "The Census bureau has just reported that about half of the American
population will soon be non-white or non-European. And they will all be American
citizens. We have tipped beyond the point where a Nazi-Aryan party will be
able to prevail in this country. We [Jews] have been nourishing the American
climate of opposition to bigotry for about half a century. That climate has not
yet been perfected, but the heterogeneous nature of our population tends to make
it irreversible -- and makes our constitutional constraints against bigotry
more practical than ever."

In The Culture of Critique, Professor MacDonald writes: "In the ancient world
through the Middle Ages negative views of gentile institutions were
relatively confined to internal consumption within the Jewish community. However,
beginning with the Converso turmoil in fifteenth century Spain these negative views
often appeared in the most prestigious intellectual circles and in the mass
media. These views generally subjected the institutions of gentile society to
radical criticism or they led to the development of intellectual structures
that rationalized Jewish identification in a post religious intellectual
environment.
     Faur (1992,31ff) shows that Conversos in fifteenth and sixteenth century
Spain were vastly overrepresented among the humanist thinkers who opposed the
corporate nature of Spanish society centered around Christianity. In
describing the general thrust of these writers, Faur (1992,31) notes that "Although
the strategy varied -- from the creation of highly sophisticated literary works
to the writing of scholarly and philosophical compositions -- the goal was
one: to present ideas and methodologies that would displace the values and
institutions of the 'old Christian.'" C of C, pages 6-7

David Sorkin, in his editor's preface to Sephardi Jewry, A History of the
Judeo-Spanish Community in the 14th-20th Centuries, writes:
     "Until late in the nineteenth century, the Sephardi Jews constituted a
unified 'cultural sphere' in the multi-ethnic polyglot Balkans that long
remained the possession of the Ottoman Empire. The demise of that empire and the
rise of nation-states spelled the decline of this cultural sphere." Sephardi
Jewry, A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community in the 14th-20th Centuries, David
Sorkin, editor (Benbassa & Rodrigue, U of C Press, 1993) preface

     If you accept Sorkin’s explanation for the demise of the Sephardic
Jewish cultural sphere, then you must conclude that the multi-ethnic polyglot
Balkanization toward which this country (a nation of states) is headed, is
precisely that environment in which self-segregated Jewish communities thrive.

This is so much more than the war.

You see sodom and gomorrah and the tower of babel all around you but you
can't make the biblical connection. It's the old covenant at work. You are arguing
a young earth and ID and can't see that the God of the Hebrew bible is a god
of fertility and war.

rich faussette
Received on Sat Apr 22 10:44:21 2006