What is wrong?
A summer as a college student, I work in a binding factory our days start at 6:00 a.m. and half hour for lunch at 11:00 a.m. Our lunch had very spirit full discussion to politics, but as reflection of US a self segregated society, where African Americans were not invited to our lunch group.
The disparate make me to ask a question if US society we have obligation for reparations to African Americas and implicit to the first nation inhabiting the continent when first European settler come to US shores. The answer always was no, since many my Fellow Workers claim they grant parents when come did not own or beneficed directly from the slave trade or the first nations. My contention was from the first settlers to late arrivals, since first nation where here had an economy, an exchange of goods by first nations show a wealth in the land and from the slave trade wherever was rice, tobacco or cotton later was base to row wealth transfer to ship builders in Philadelphia and Rode Island, to the Financial Capital New York. What ever was port enter to the new land from Ellis Island or other port enter, the new comer will find buildings, farms, plantations, industries build on labor and capital from slave trade, even today Aetna Insurance recognize they lend money to the plantation owners against their slave stock. Which urge the question how we got here, the mythology of Pilgrims escaping religious persecution from England and they impose their own religious tyranny, where Jews were exclude and Christmas was band for twenty years in the new freedom land, beg question how mosaic was create, and to do we need to follow the path of the myth.
Myth of Hebrew?
In the Talmud, the eyes are the windows of the soul and the story Rabbi Johanna Ben Zakkai was smuggle out Jerusalem during siege by Romans under Vespasian shows the soul, but history of two thousand years soul. The zealots control the city and even the death where not allot leave the city contrary of Jewish law, since the death need to be laid down the same day. But since Rabbi Johanna Ben Zakkai name had weight his body was allot to leave the city.
The siege by the Romans, which controlled the exits from Jerusalem, in the case of Rabbi Johanna Ben Zakkai was detainee under normal circumstance will mean torture. When Rabbi Johanna Ben Zakkai meets Vespasian he greeting was hail Caesar. Vespasian holds Johanna Ben Zakkai and in the same evening Vespasian was recall to Rome to become Caesar. Titus his son took over siege of Jerusalem and eventually the destruction. In case Rabbi Johanna Ben Zakkai, Vespasian offered him anything and what Rabbi Johanna Ben Zakkai requested Talmudical Academy in Yavne.
When Theodore Herzl show Zionism is alternative question, the Orthodox Rabbis where against and in even today in their hearth Orthodox are against, even today and from beginning of Zionism religious nationalist and US modern Orthodox Jews today accept the state of Israel . But the reason why the Orthodox Jews gave for the rejection is only God can give what took away.
The base of the argument in the Talmud Baba Kama, explain in the Salomon song of songs where the daughters of the world will not beat Israel so bad, but after the Holocaust all beats are off according n Orthodox who are supporting Zionist moment, on the other hand the Orthodox only God can give and take. Where this conviction come from well the reason Saul lost his crown and Kingdom was not because his war conduct or family scandal, because he refuse to completed genocide. According to the Law (Torah) Remember Amaleq mean the Hebrews needed genocide the nation, because they attack in desert Amaleq when after the weak, the children, women and elderly. Only God is the absolute Truth, black and white only he has the certainty. Here is the core of conflict with Israel and contradiction. Zionism said to the Jews you are Western and not the absolute from East and the Orthodox said our forefathers like Rabbi Joanna Ben Zakkai made a choice, not to plead for Jerusalem, the land, but Talmudical Academy. The reason of his choice the Law is absolute and God given.
In the 60’s a parallel conflict appear between Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss. Both German Jews both obtained PhD one in Freiburg and the other in Hamburg under influence of Ernst Cassirer, one under Nazi Philosopher Martin Heidegger and the other had conversations with the Nazi Smith who was thinker for the Jurist Prudence for the Nazi ideology. Strauss conversation with Smith deal with the noble lie and the right of an elite-philosopher king to divine right to government. Strauss and Hanna come to different conclusions from the holocaust experience one felt in home with Machiavelli and the other can be categorize with Isaiah Berlin. Hannah enter US late when the genocide of Europe was in progress, the only reason why the Spanish guards in the border let her pass to Spain was because his famous colleague Benjamin hang himself in the border out despair. Strauss immigrate to US in late 30’s before the full fledge holocaust was unfolded.
Leo Strauss, Philosopher, but his Jewish Education an appearances they can read Torah his school famous for Saturday night reading like the Orthodox the section of the week, but ignorant of Talmud. The nature of Talmud required dedication, time and slow process. Strauss school took the pride in ignorance. Strauss believes are base on Socrates the Philosopher King a men in their description wealth making righteous to them the noble lied is necessary for the common good, since Philosopher King has the best Judgment. Some aspects in Strauss outlook can be compare to Calvinist believe the God given the money and power because we are righteous.
Strauss second Source is Maimonides. Maimonides was the first one to take Greek-Aristotle and under influence of Ibn Rushd (1126--1198 A. D.) better known as Averroes and trying to Judaizer their thoughts, in the Arab world, towards the close of the 10th century A.D. in Basrah flourished a Philosophical Society known as Ikhwan-al-Safa (Brethren of Purity). They tried unsuccessfully to reconcile religion with science. Their encyclopedic work consisting of 51 treatises contain the idea of goodness and moral perfection. In the end a strain of purist took in place. In Maimonides case the Rabbinical Authority the Western Jews (Ashkenazy) ex-communicate him because his love with western philosophy.
In any case his attend to reconcile Judaism with the seeds of secular world a world with world with out any God created a vacuum, which German Jews called the Enlighten, where they try to get Secular culture absorbed is Jewish culture since they saw Christianity absorbed the secular world where the secular world was separated from any religion.
Hannah Arendt stop pretending the Zionism idea Jewish eyes to western soul, she was German Jew; her PhD thesis was about Augustine. Like Berlin in his Hedgehog: the fox is categorize as the one who knows many things and the hedgehog know only one thing. Strauss knows one thing his philosopher king and Hanna knows many things, where Strauss reject Heidegger calling relativism and Strauss embrace the German Romanticism, where in the 18 century and 19 century create a reactionary view a back to Feudal society and consequences of this romanticism combine with pseudo-scientific Anti-Semitism taken strength from the long Christian tradition of Anti-Semitism, the consequences was in 20 century WWI, WWII and the holocaust. Hannah like Martin Buber in roads Utopia laid a base to question since creation of civilization religion was part of humanity as instrument to give hope and for the elites was instrument of order, but the 2,000 years exiles combine with the world events put a conflict to Jewish identity where being outsider, mischief and rejected, the Jewish by holding to intellectual tradition challenge the status quo, and after the holocaust where the identity was challenge brought a question what is to be Human?
The Israel conflict is base an to be want to be secular with East-Tribe mentality, but to accept to be secular means the 99.5 % our DNA and work in molecular biology say our relatives are primates, pigs complete against the idea we are chosen just because Every Jewish male or in US most the males are circumcise if I need a transplant, does not matter if is a Black men or Arab or Asian, the rejection is due to my own immune system, and not concussion made you especial.
If Israel is secular then Orthodox can’t control, who is Jew or marriage and hold any matter because values are independent of the tribe of the absolute God, on that case a secular state, but if the eyes are Jewish then Orthodox are right and God is God, here is the conflict in Leo Strauss Empire a cynical empire and Hanna Arendt case for Israel just another nation where people can practice their believe, but the believe is not the nation.
Myth of Christianity?
The ex-Nazi now Pope Benedictus XVI referring to his formed ideology relationship regarding the Holocaust, where pagans what he forget to tell was the first identity to recognize the Nazi regime was the Vatican and the reason was Hitler recognize because in Mein Kampf wrote: "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." and that was not a single quote from his master work but one can be found in his work, that did not escape eyes of the Vatican, but hate and intolerance ends Ruanda run a Roman Catholic priest or the fact in WII: Croatia and Slovakia government was Catholics and the last Pogrom in Europe was 1968 in Poland or Polish population participated with the Germans in WWII to killing Jews. Or the fact German fact in his recent visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, he ask why God let this holocaust to happen, but he did ask why German people let this to happen, not acknowledge of the population direct or indirect, passive or active involved, more over did not acknowledge the Roman Catholic church creation of Anti-Semitic, which this religion of intolerance not only applied to the Jews, because the Jews are base of the new belief, its not just a rejection from father to soon, but the right of being outsider and history shows being outsider has a price in the monotheistic religions in the case of Christianity list from Wicca believers, first nations, homosexuals, secular, atheist, pretty much anyone does comfort to Christianity of Authority and depend on that authority can be cruel from one on other.
The Religion of hate was codified in Nicea 325, when two rules we put in place which changes history: No Christian needed to be circumcised and the second not Jew was to own slave. The first law separated Christianity and Judaism and the second had unattended consequence, the original intent was in slave in Judaism have the option to free slaves and slaves will be a Jew. Christianity will not stand a Christian be slave of a Jew or worst the Christian to become a Jew. Rome economy and for the next few hundred years was base on slaves and serf. Not Jew land owner can compete with fact he will need to pay wages after hundred years in Poland Jews were able to own land again, in the mean time profession who had standard licenses or not need membership to a club like University to 19 century you need to be a Christian to enter University, when that restriction was lift, access, but even that was not enough, many gate keepers trying to keep religion pure. In some ways the liberation and beginning Europe a secular society away from the church was Napoleon. Napoleon created in France the famous 120 sages and passed laws for the idea of the French Citizen and the Jewish Citizen, first the law of the nation, religion-church second.
The Creation of the Christian Myth
For the next hundred years to the 10 century when Urban II call the Crusade in the re-capture of Jerusalem in hands of Islam since Byzantium lost, before Crusade when in her way, they first infidel victims where the Jewish communities in the Rhine in the French and German sides. In the long run the Jews were able to escape to the East trough Prague, even there the Jews where expulse twice from the city, due to the fact in Prussia many saw Jews Problem is a creation of the Papist and where more tolerant then Roman Catholic Church. The effect of the historical is reflected in Kafka where the Czech, Slaves, Germans and Jews leave in their own Ghetto-Castle separated from each other, suspicious of each other, in the same small place not just a geographic separation by neighborhoods, languages but distinct culture.
The new settlements of that fringe of land name the Pale (Borders Settlement) consisted of 25 provinces that included Ukraine, Lithuania, Belorussia, Crimea, and part of Poland (which had been partitioned between Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1772). The invitation of the Jews by Krakow and the acceptances of the population by Sweden, when Catherine the Great of Russia gained the fringe of land after Sweden lost the land claim at when to Russia. Catherine the Great decree not Jews were to leave behind the Pale the opposite the Jews specifically expelled from Moscow and St. Petersburg and forced into the Pale. Later they were also expelled from rural areas within the Pale and forced to live only in shtetls.
With Introduction Ghetto in Italy under sanction of the Vatican in medieval Europe completed the cycle. Sixteen years before the expulsion of the Jewish form Spain the Bishop Seville said the only way to deal with the Jewish was Genocide and when time come the king and queen of Spain in cleaning Spain from infidels, the Jews and Muslims hand to go. The first mass conversion on the reconquest was in Seville in 12 Century creating the seeds for inquisition, since Jewish family maintain contacts. The next person to suggested Genocide was Martin Luther.
Later years Luther disappointed the Jewish refusing to following for a few kid words given by him towards them and some ways the Jewish refute him. After that experience Martin Luther wrote Jewish can not be converted and hence his solution was similar to the Bishop of Seville: Genocide. In both case many apologetic to the Bishop of Seville and Martin Luther they actually did not mean what they wrote, said or suggested or they are only border line Anti-Semitic or idea pure blood in Spain was not really a call for Genocide of the Jews. They reality is open the door to the Holocaust by built in intolerance by Christianity show to the Cathars, the massacre by Catherine de Minice against Huguenots’, the conquest of the New World and use of the religion again to slave Africa, which is no unique to Christianity, but also to Islam.
The creation of the Myth of: US?
US built on wishful thinking, amnesia and ignorance. A good example Prescott Bush fortune was involved in Thyssen Company. The company asset were involved in Hitler Germany, the National Archives (Holocaust Memorial in Washington D.C has actual records now) containing the following documents in October 20 1942 the alien property custodian seized the assets of the UBC, of which Prescott Bush was a director. The Government having gone through the books of the bank, further seizures were made against two affiliates, the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American Company, another of Prescott Bush's ventures, had also been seized.
Another set documents in the location contained in the files on IG Farben, who was prosecuted for war crimes. A report issued by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in 1942 stated of the companies that "since 1939, these (steel and mining) proper ties have been in possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort".
Homer Jones, the chief of the APC investigation and research division sent a memo to the executive committee of APC recommending the US government vest UBC and its assets. Jones named the directors of the bank in the memo, including Prescott Bush's name, and wrote: "Said stock is held by the above named individuals, however, solely as nominees for the Bank voor Handel, Rotterdam, Holland, which is owned by one or more of the Thyssen family, nationals of Germany and Hungary. The 4,000 shares hereinbefore set out are therefore beneficially owned and help for the interests of enemy nationals, and are vestible by the APC," according to the memo from the National Archives reported by the Guardian in 2003.
Jones recommended that the assets be liquidated for the benefit of the government, but instead UBC was maintained intact and eventually returned to the American shareholders after the war. Some claim that Bush sold his share in UBC after the war for $1.5m. The Story does not end there two holocaust survivors are suing the Bush family for $ 40 Billion.
The Myth the country was created in Taxation without representation, was the last straw on slave owner society and economics of slaves. After the French Indian war England promise the first not nations not expansion to the west.
Thomas Jefferson suggested in 1812, "The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on Halifax, the next and final expulsion of England from the American continent." The belief that the United States was destined to control the entire North American continent would later gain the name Manifest Destiny, when the new taxes where impose, given a huge incentives for independence.
Benedict Arnold could not take Quebec City in 1777 and later USA under the leadership Governor of Indiana in 1812-1813 try invaded Canada from Fort Detroit. USA saw his right to be an imperial power, to open the west and not doubt the north. After the civil war threat against Canada force Canada into confederation.
The Slave trade is not new, after all the Athenian Empire and Rome was maintained by slaves, what is unique is to use race using religion, the course of the son of Noah and reduced into a value. In Virginia Common Wealth in 1800’s a law was pass the son of slave will be slave even his father was bough his own freedom, perpetuate servitude, was the second innovation created in US.
In the 1863 civil war, the war of the union, Lincoln saw the only way to brake the South back was to emancipate the slaves, since the south was Agriculture society and slaves were the engine. James Town Virginia, which their crop was Tobacco, used the economic exploitation of human slaves. The South Carolina rice crops use slaves, and cotton the most important export in the 1840's was driving by King Cotton. The industrial north economic wealth was driving by the investments of the south, many loans and investments were support by firms of the time, J. P. Morgan, for example accepted 10,000 slaves as collateral for loans, when the loans defaults, the slaves where sold to the market. In the eve of the civil war New York City major with city hall wanted to subside from New York and subside from the Union, because the entire financial district had invested in South.
The lack of conviction by US government of equality of the former slaves let to a situation in the late 1888 in Missouri the creation of Jim Crows laws, separation of the races, the most compels aspect of the story was in 2005, the US Senate apologize the part rotunda of the Congress was built by Southern Gentlemen’s donate Slaves time in the construction and the value of Southern Gentlemen in the constitution is ¾ more the average white proprietary who does not own slaves. Despite of Black America were in Indian Wars, WWI and especially WWII the benefits for most GI return from the war when to white race.
During WWII the tradition of some men are least then others applied when the Jews needed a place to escape Europe, the USA close the doors in dramatic as in 1938 where the Spirit of San Louis carrying 960 refugees, where deny port in New York or actively encourage others by pressure to do the same, case in point was the same ship ask port in Havana Cuba and USA pressure Cuba to do the same. The significance in 1942 the existences and the events happen in the concentration camps were known. Due to the fact the Polish resistance inform the British, moreover the Nazis made a proposal to save the Hungarian Jewish for 1,000 trucks all deny, by the British, because they did not wanted the Jewish from Europe or USA did not destroy the lines to Auschwitz-Birkenau after, the Jewish communities beg. Auschwitz-Birkenau was divided in many sub-camps, and one aspect of the camp was the slave labor for the industry used for the war effort in Germany, the need result the factories where destroy and crematorium stand.
Creation of Myth of Islam?
After the Basrah a Philosophical Society tried unsuccessfully to reconcile religion with science in the 10 Century, Islam relationship towards the Secular World is least hostile. Islam kept some of the East-Autocratic, Paternalistic and despotic attitudes and puritan Islam born in the 18 century.
The use of Puritan Islamic law in Saudi Arabia or puritan Shiia law in Iran, as contradiction with Islam has been period of tolerance toward females and even homosexuality. In the case of homosexuality puritan attitudes bring in the process of colonization by West cry of tolerance by the West.
How were able from the beginning to maintain purity, by deny the Hebrew Law (Torah) to be truth, like Luther later on, Mohammad believe he being the Messiah and by argument will have the Jews to convert. What Mohammad did not understand because Jews maintain the religion hermetic-exclusive their traditions will never accepted outsider. From the Jews side, by not recognized Mohammad as the Messiah, by taken sides with enemies and the enemies losing to him 900 heads were lost. Mohammad wanted to destroy all Jews, but since they were behind his had, well they about 35 Shuras dealing with them, from Jews are hostile to Muslins 5:82, to warning not Muslins be friend to Jews. Christianity does not better about 25 Shuras some from errand in old ways and Belief 5:77 and the most positive close to feel affection for Muslins 5:88.
In some ways the believers of the people rules was in believe, the Islam is a political solution, and the non-believers whether belong to people of the book or not will be under Islamic Rule. What entitle being under rule, is difficult question, because the despotic nature of the regime was in Mercy of the ruler. The first expulsion of the Jews of did not happen in 1441, but in 12 century when a revival of Islamic fundamentalism force the tolerance experiment in Granada to hold. Under their rules, Christian and Jews had many restrictions like color yellow for Jews and Blue for Christians. Donkeys were transportation and mules for Christians, since not believer could be taller then a believer camels were reserve for believers, and horses were instrument of war. Professional restrictions were from Iran only Christian where to take care the death, a believer can’t be impurity with the death and case of Medical Doctors in many case were Jews since they were expose to other threats though, since Islam try to Isolated from any foreign influence, many Vicers over role religions Authorities and created in resentment towards the Jews and yes there was pogroms in Islamic lands. In the personal level restrictions when the Jews using public bath needed to have a yellow string around them, since Muslins and Jews are need to show who is believer, other restriction In Iran Jews were not allot to leave their house in snow and raining days, since the water will touch the skin of the non-believer and if the water which has touch the non-believer will go in to the well or water system will impurity the believer, but the most significant was the ceremony of paying the Poll-Tax, witch the Vicer can hit the non-believer to show who is in control.
What is wrong?
Secular Europe is having a hard time to swallow the US exceptionalism view of himself, in part for US is seeing his world in religious revival- US view towards Israel to fulfill Prophesy of the second come of their Messiah- the Rapture, where half Jews will die and the other half will convert to Christianity, some American Jews seeing this a beanie wishful Messianic group, but so was Hitler, just a beanie dictator become a mass murder, even the signs were in his written and Hitler action in the Spanish revolution his intent was conquest of Europe, they are not beanie religious Zealots, they want a religious utopia. Israel is in the same situation were the Nationalist Religious groups are pushing for Messianic confrontation also expect a catastrophic event, and Islam for his part not different from any these groups.
We can not say all history has nothing to do with the working class our problem is working class in Kansas are the ones who are supporting with their political, body and soul and worst by vote other action are voting against their own interest. The working class in Kansas because Protestant background and the poor low middle class about 60% believe the Rapture will happen in their life time or the next 50 years, the fact they have give out any desire for the fight for the right of health care or education, they feel so powerless the let religion is suppose be instrument of power for elites to define the masses.
In 50’s Eisenhower introduce God to pledge of the legions to separate to the Godless Soviet Union and created the emotional instrument to pacify the masses by creating a sense of hope, Strauss believe the religion should be use to pacified the masses, as opium to relax the masses.
Not enough say Evolution and the Evolutionary molecular biology which is creating molecular medicine and benefit all us, because like the Darwinian survival we also have need community, belonging and our angel of solidarity, we need to appeal to desire our sense solidarity to over come our religion drug relaxes. Religion appeal the ideal of the individual specially the version Protestant of US and is the drug, still solidarity is the only angel of salvation.