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Entry: Thoughts on the the Antichrist: Part I, The Inversion of Values Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/thoughts_on_the_the_antichrist_i_the_inversion_of_values#617 Post contents: This is like reading contemporary Thomist philosophers--there's just nothing there but theological nostalgia, not a new idea anywhere, just a desperate effort to recycle the stuff in the ideological attic hoping that old junk will turn out to be a lost masterpiece of political thought. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6509127.stm The Jewish-named director of an art show in New York is "confused" about the Catholic reaction to a frontal nude sculpture of Jesus done in chocolate. Last time it was the Virgin Mary done in sacred elephant dung. Ha, Ha! I love this Jewish sense of humor. They can provoke Catholics, but Catholics can't retaliate because they'd be charged with anti-Semitism, and they themselves took up the "anti-Semitism" cause in defiance of their own scriptures under Jewish pressure and in a state of muddled Catholic discourse. What do they get for their "tolerance"? Years of endless humiliations at the hands of Jewish satirists. Very Christian of them to put up with it, wear their crown of thorns, and bear their cross. More reason to chuck everything Jewish out of Christianity other than the plain historical facts of Christian origins. Jes' thank--they ustabee a great church. Past tense. Anybody Jewish looking at Jesus sees a "Greek," that is, a Hellenized Jew who retains Jewish traditions but conceptually belongs to a quite different realm of culture. He's a Jew from Galilee, but the areas where he grew up (if there ever was a single Jesus) were basically Greek and Hellenized "Greek" settlements--and Judaism had already been Persianized before that--viz. the "Pharisees" or "Farsis" if you used the modernized term. Their opponents, the Sadducees, were "Hellenistic," or Graeco-Roman rather than "Persian," even to the point of claiming common descent or ancestry with the Spartans. They lost out when Rome in a fury sacked the place and ordered Jews into exile, praying to Jupiter that they'd just die off. It was a little hard to be a Roman ally after that, especially when the rabbis fled to Babylon under the rule of the Graeco-Persian Kings, inveterate enemies of Roman expansion in the Middle East. Jews should be "Persians" and Christians should be "Greeks" and never the twain should have prayer breakfasts. I'd be more impressed by a Christian movement which purged itself utterly of its Judaean attachments and pointed out systematically that the Christ myth can be regenerated just about completely from the traditions of the Hellenistic, non-Jewish, and Persian world. Sent at: 2008 10 06