Over 3,000 years ago a slave revolt took place that is repeated every year. It was not just a rebellion against a long since vanished pharaoh whose dynasty and people have been consigned to dust along with his treasure cities that the Jewish slaves had labored over.
The revolutions of the past come and go. Nations rise and fall, and then fall further into the history books. Passover however was a remarkable revolt not just against an empire, but paganism, and it remains relevant even all these thousands of years later. In a recent poll, only 39% said that religion was very important to them. That’s down from 62% a generation ago.
When faith in G-d leaves, what replaces it isn’t some abstraction of ‘reason’: it’s superstition (37% of adults under 30 believe in astrology), cults of personality, conspiracy theories and the conviction that we are now gods who can destroy the planet and change gender at will.
The story of Passover is a testament of faith: it’s the account of an absolutely degraded people still continuing to believe for centuries and later millennia that their salvation, passed down by tradition, would come from a G-d they had never seen or heard, but it’s also the revelation that slavery is not just physical, it’s spiritual. Just as true liberation comes from G-d, true slavery comes when we abandon faith and degrade ourselves under the soulless tyranny of paganism.
The latest World Happiness Report index rated Israel as the fourth happiest in the world. Or as Haaretz, a relentlessly leftist local paper skeptically put it, “Low Income, High Prices and Wars: So Why Is Israel One of the Happiest Countries in the World?” What’s there to be happy about?
To leftists who believe the world is fatally broken, nothing, to believers, everything.
Last year, a survey found that 96% of Israeli Jews are planning on attending a Passover seder. In America, it’s around 70%. Properly performed, the Seder is an emotional and historical journey that takes Jews back in time to the suffering in Egypt, the divine salvation and the realization that no matter their current circumstances, G-d has permanently set them free.
It was in this spirit that the Passover seder was marked during the Holocaust with furtive gatherings in the forest, in concentration camps with tiny matzos baked from hoarded grams of flour, and with wine made of raisins soaked in water, and in hideouts beneath ghettos, yet still declaring, “now we are free” and “next year in Jerusalem”. Such freedom transcends force.
Many liberal American Jews have lost sight of this. They pepper their seder meals for the first two nights of Passover with references to the civil rights and LGBTQ movements. They discard the personal power of their history and replace it with generic leftist politics. Is it any wonder that they’re so unhappy? The American Jew has come to be defined by neurosis and the Israeli Jew by autonomy. Happiness doesn’t come from comfort, but from a sense of meaning and purpose.
“As we recite the Haggadah, which retells the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, we have the strange feeling that, once again, we are living in Biblical times,” Elie Wiesel, the journalist and holocaust survivor, wrote.
Do we really want to live in ‘biblical times’? To live in biblical times doesn’t mean going without running water or medication, it’s the knowledge that G-d is active behind the scenes of the world. That is the faith with which the Jews embarked on their first Passover seder and then headed into the wasteland on the word of G-d to what they thought was likely certain death.
We can all live in ‘biblical times’. And whether we want to or not, we do anyway. G-d was not just active long ago, He is active in our world today. And so all our times are ‘biblical times’.
That is the true meaning of Passover.
Passover is not a celebration of the past, but a reunion of the past, present and future. The oppressions and redemptions of the past resonate in the present and foretell the future.
The tyranny of paganism tells us that we are animals, that life is short, cruel and purposeless, and that if there is a god or gods, they are as cruel and selfish as we are. This was the cold belief that united the Egyptians and the Nazis and Communists across thousands of years.
Long after Pharaoh had sneered, “Who is G-d that I should listen to Him?”, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev claimed that his astronaut had gone into space and not seen god. Both tyrants had a vested interest in convincing their slaves that there was no alternative to their regimes.
Paganism may occasionally promise freedom, but all it can ever offer is submission to a leader. That cult figure takes the place of the divine and he is worshiped through the rituals of slavery. His followers abase, sacrifice and erect monuments to glorify him. That was Pharaoh, but it’s every cult and radical leftist movement whose promise of freedom ends in blood and suffering.
And then the god-king falls, proves too human, leaving behind an even deeper despair.
But the tyranny of paganism is not just physical. Without faith, there is no possibility of escape. Powerless people trapped in what seems like a fixed course go mad and do monstrous things, they embrace apocalyptic beliefs, bring human sacrifices and destroy everything around them.
Farfetched? A quarter of American adults believe in global warming so fiercely that they are questioning whether to have children. Abortion is described as the best way to save the planet. As suicide rates, mass shootings, and accident rates skyrocket, we see for ourselves that ‘Moloch’ was not just some ancient cult, it is what happens when we lose G-d in our lives.
Passover was the original repudiation of the pagan mindset that still holds true today. It reminds us that we can all escape tyranny, no matter our circumstances, because true slavery and freedom take place on the battlefields of the soul. Slaves can triumph over tyranny if they believe and free men can fall to much weaker tyrants (or become them) when they do not.
Judaism has many holidays, but Passover is the first of them because without spiritual liberation, nothing else truly matters. Only those who are free in spirit can serve G-d. Freedom, like faith, is easy to preach, but difficult to attain. At the Passover seder, families, friends and strangers will come together to once again experience slavery, to taste salt water, bitter herbs, and the mortar that bound bricks together, and to drink wine and sing like free people.
Free people all too easily forget what freedom is and where it comes from. Only when we confront tyranny, when we experience the loss of what we had, can we truly appreciate it.
Passover immerses Jews in the tyranny of paganism and the liberation of G-d. It is not merely a memorialization of the past, or the anxieties of the present, but the promise of the future. Keeping the faith means knowing, as the Jews of Egypt or those in Auschwitz did, that there is more to the world than the power of any tyrant: to his chains, laws and social credit systems.
To truly keep the seder is to know, as they did, that there is a power above them all that knows, that sees and that acts even when everything appears to be going wrong and to be doomed.
As the slaves gathering in secret along Egyptian canals, whispering an impossible hope to each other, and as their descendants, sitting for thousands of years at the seder, feeling free no matter how much in chains, believed, G-d is coming, not just to liberate us, but to set us free.
Truly inspiring Daniel, thank you.
Chag Pesach Sameach to all readers who are Jewish.
For those who are Christian, it is important to understand that Passover is also part of your religious tradition as well. Liberation and personal freedom from any kind of slavery, whether spiritual or physical, is part of the rich tradition we share with Christians.
May we all have faith that to be holistically good human beings we need to fulfill our spiritual destiny even more than our material one.
I thank God for the Jewish people, for the miracle of Israel, and for the Great Physician, the Lamb of God who came to save us all.
We are all blessed because of Jesus and his people. John 4:22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know, we worship what we do know, for Salvaton is from the Jews.
John 2:9. Salvation comes from the Lord.
Genesis 12:2. “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you,
Daniel, as an evangelical Christian, I am glad to know you are a man of faith. As it says in Proverbs, fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom ( paraphrase).
As “evangelical Christians” we are to share the good news of Jesus Christ who fulfilled the purposes, symbols, and types of Passover as the Passover Lamb of God who shed His blood to redeems those who believe in Him.
True freedom is only found in Yeshuah HaMessiac as foeetold in Isaiah 61:1, “the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners.”
Jesus said, “He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him,” John 5:23, and “He who hates me hates My Father also,” John 15:23. Faith without Jesus is dead faith. If we care, we share.
The rapid paganism, of our once great country, has caused old testament has come alive. I no longer read the old writings and think, yea yea but that was then and this now and we’re above all that.
History DOES repeat itself.
The problem is that many folks are simply ignorant of the history of the Left from the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, then the Bolshevik coup in Russia, but they are all reading from the similar utopian blueprint , and if you are aware of this then the actions of the American DEms come instantly into clear focus. It was Lenin and Co who were the first Globalists
Moreover, in a broader sense this is exactly what happens when the idea of ”God” is undermined by science and the natural religious impulse is then shoe horned into secular Utopianism by fanatics burning with the zeal of the converted . Even wise pragmatic atheists know that if God never existed it would be necessary to invent God to provide a safe harbour for those potentially destructive crusading impulses ; moreover, If God doesn’t exist then there’s nothing above the almighty STATE
Ziessen Pesach.
Sameach v’kasher.
Wonderful essay … thanks. I may use part of it in my Seder …
Zeissen Pesach! Thanks for this lovely piece.
I had been having difficulty making sense of the nihilism and cruelty of the left. Towards children, especially. Also their rage and hatred for people they target. When you describe the deficits in paganism – and what is climate obsession, for example, but paganism?- it makes sense that their cruelty comes from the deficits in their beliefs. It causes a deficiency in their souls. Its an illness.
Sadly, some American synagogues are infected with this.
What is “paganism” precisely? Will you define it with precision?
Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Hypatia, Euclid, Euripides, Aeschylus, Epictetus, Parmenides, Plutarch, Cicero, Seneca, Thales, Galen, the list of what you would call “pagans”, who are the foundation of Western Civilization, is mighty long.
Judaism and Christianity are not Western, they are Eastern. Just like Islam.
The pagan Greeks gave us philosophy, math, science, history, literature, man glorifying art as opposed to the monstrosities portraying art of the Egyptians. When the pagan Aristotle and pagan Euclid were giving the world their methods of logic and geometry the Jews were living in the eastern lands of Judea and Samaria without little idea of systematic logic, mathematics, or science.
It reveals how little you know about any ideology that you believe geographic location has anything to do with ideas or religions.
The pagan Greeks gave us no wisdom of spirituality. I sincerely appreciate many of the ideas that came from those who happen to be Greek, but there is nothing that they have told us about spiritual life that I would use.
Your personality cult is Ayn Rand – a Jewish woman. Her wisdom, and she has some, is not any more fulfilling spiritually than the Greeks.
Objectivism does not revolve around Ayn Rand it is centered on discovering reality and the facts of reality by using the observation of reality and applying reason and Aristotelian logic to connect the evidence of observation correctly and arriving at objective facts about reality.
Ayn Rand was of Jewish ancestry but she was an openly declared intransigent atheist and did not practice Judaism. Euclid was a pagan Greek but his geometry is eternal and universal not because it comes from a pagan Greek but because his geometry is rational, it corresponds to the facts of reality.
“A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race—and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin…
Like every other form of collectivism, racism is a quest for the unearned. It is a quest for automatic knowledge—for an automatic evaluation of men’s characters that bypasses the responsibility of exercising rational or moral judgment—and, above all, a quest for an automatic self-esteem (or pseudo-self-esteem).” – Ayn Rand
Give it a rest for a change. You revolve around Ayn Rand to the point where it becomes boringly repetitive and predictable. It is no wonder that most people on this board do not like you.
No one cares about your desperate love interest.
The Greeks made up their own gods, more fickle, destructive, and impulsive than themselves.
The Hebrew Scriptures gave us true science. The Earth hung on nothing. The number of stars were as the grains of sand on the beach. Water goes in a cycle and returns to begin again. There are rivers or currents under the sea. Life is in the blood. Washing of hands and sanitation.
Pagans thought the number of stars not more than around 6,000. Washington was bled to death.
It took centuries for pagans to discover hand washing to prevent spread of disease.
The Greek world was hopeless. The descendants of Abraham and Sarah were full of hope, turning a desert into an oasis, replenishing the Earth with families, creating, building, and planning for the future. Thank God.
I knew it. You just couldn’t help yourself could you. The itch to insult Christians and Jews is so deeply ingrained in you it has become an obsession which makes up that narcissistic personality disorder of yours.
I guess no one will be inviting you to Seder tonight or to an Easter Sunday dinner. After all, who would want to. You would simply ruin the evening with your silly Objectivism and your unrequited Rand love.
Enjoy your Big Mac while sitting near your Festivus pole
He sits on the pole…you know, to feel centered.
Or more self-centered
Would it be possible to purchase your ideas map so I can circumnavigate the history of ideas and ideologies with utmost confidence? Who but you knew that the Parthenon, by the hidden powers of its geographical location, is architecturally superior to everything to the east? Who knew that all truth can be divined by identifying the essential meridians…while wearing long white robes and wreaths in one’s hair? Who knew that knowledge, much like real estate value, is all based on location, location, location?
You might want to bone up on Alexander the Great before you embarrass yourself any further. He conquered nations and empires in the East and brought back much of their learning, including mathematics, philosophy, etc. The Greeks learned much from nations to the east.
Many Americans, especially the young, think paganism is like a sexy Holloween costume. If they only knew how cruel it really is.
Judaism does not lead to the freedom and liberty of the individual, it leads to TRIBAL THEOCRACY. Judaism does not lead to Capitalism but to Tribal Collectivism.
The vast majority of modern Jews are practicing modern Judaism. A Judaism put through the ringer so to speak, diluted, tamed, and leashed by the Aristotelian Renaissance, the Aristotelian Age of Reason, and the Aristotelian Age of Enlightenment. The same is true of modern Christianity. Unfortunately, Islam, did not go through the same process where reason became dominant over Muslim faith and revelation.
If you want to experience Judaism in its pure form, or Christianity in its pure form, go join the Hasidim or join the Amish. You’ll quickly find out that pure Judaism and pure Christianity have nothing to do with individual freedom or the pursuit of individual, personal, happiness, on earth. Or the pursuit of personal, individual, capitalist wealth on earth. But everything to do with tribal collectivism, where the individual must submit his mind, body, and life to the commands and edicts of the rabbis or the priests. If you as an individual come to the rational conclusion that this or that edict, command, or practice is irrational, unreasonable, or outlandish, and you refuse to obey it, you will find yourself branded a heretic, an infidel, a blasphemer, and you will be ordered to recant and follow orders, or be thrown out of the theocratic collective.
You have yet to prove that God does not exist, what is taking you so long? Having second thoughts?
It is impossible to prove a negative. I’m not here to disprove a negative. I’m here to promote reality, the provable, the demonstrable. I’m here to promote the American way of life, which is freedom, liberty, and the personal pursuit of happiness on earth, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, while we are living. How do we achieve happiness, prosperity, and flourishing on earth? By discovering reality by using our reasoning minds, by obeying reality and the facts of reality.
I came across this quote today and it just about sums it all up, “I don’t agree with [Marjorie Taylor] Greene that America is a Christian nation. I don’t believe America is a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, an atheist nation — or an anti-Christian nation, either. America was supposed to be a free country; that’s all. Yet I don’t think she disagrees. I think people like her are simply trying to say that Christianity matters to them. It’s on the verge of being outlawed in America, along with just about everything else leftists dislike or loathe [including Objectivism]. – Objectivist Michael J. Hurd
Ah yes, Michael J. Hurd, one of the giants of American il-literature.
You aren’t here to promote anything but yourself and your ideology.
Every time you write something you prove a negative..
I doubt you personally know any Jews or Amish. All of your opinions are Objectivist carrion.
I’ve known plenty of both and neither fits your cartoon-like characterizations.
I have done business with Amish people and found them to be more honest and hard working than average. They are devout, which may explain why their kids are such good workers….very polite, and skilled for their age. Their faith seems to be a very beneficial influence. If only more American kids were like them.
I went to college in a school with a lot of Jewish students. They were quite rational, came from very successful families, and appeared to be happy. They were very goal oriented and I never saw one of them run in front of a speeding bus or jump off a tall building.
Your comment was rank and poorly written propaganda.
I’d like to run away with the Amish.
If I ever dated an Amish woman…I would drive her buggy!
Your most condescending comment ever. You are obviously a liar……considering all of the insults you have labeled at them
Your ‘knowledge’ of Judaism is embarrassing for you. Anyone who studies Judaism knows that it is not tribalistic – but universal. Our values are for everyone.
You have no idea what Judaism or Christianity is in its “pure” form. Your infatuation is with secular reason, not religions.
Don’t try to teach us about our religion. A child learning about Judaism knows more than you do.
Exactly.. He knows little about anything beyond his pathetic cult. and I don’t think he really knows anything about Objectivism. If he did he wouldn’t be promoting it.
Good to see you again, Yehuda.
Good to ‘see’ you again as well, truebearing.
I always enjoy your comments and wisdom. Have a wonderful Easter.
Balderdash! Reason produced communism/socialism/marxism/totalitarianism/darwinism . . .
You are a slave to your passions, your flaws, your misunderstandings and frustrations.
Look at the millions who ingest toxic medicines/drugs to escape their miseries because they see nothing but nihilism and hopelessness of atheistic dogmas.
You can’t even comprehend one living cell. You can’t even answer how your body knows when you are sick to make you well, how it knows how to stop the bleeding from a cut, how it knew there was color in the world to make rods and cones to distinguish color, or how it knew there was flavor in food to make receptors in the tongue . . . how your brain cells can store memories you can retrieve at will or imagine the future or create a song . . .
Believe me, the One in charge is a lot smarter than you will ever be.
Mr. Greenfield once again writes with beauty and power testifying to truth. There is no neutral ground. All is either the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Who is and always shall be King of Israel and all the earth or paganism which consists of many gods, all of whom are evil and deficient, varying only in their masks.
One day, all Israel shall be saved, her borders shall spread to its covenant promises, her people will know peace, prosperity and safety and she will see her blessed Messiah, Yeshuah Hamashiach. There will be no end to the earth’s joy when these promises are fulfilled. This is the prayer of all faithful people.
Ah! A magical Utopia will finally arrive on earth! One need not wonder where Karl Marx got that idea. He grew up in a devout Christian family. Marxism is religion masquerading as scientific philosophy.
Not true. Marx did not grow up in a “devout Christian family.” His father joined the Lutheran Church for social as well as economic reasons. This is very easy to look up from many reliable sources.
Marx was a leech and a scoundrel. He had no interest in Christianity whatsoever.
Marx was actually completely enamored by Satan—he could recite lines from Faust from memory was aligned with satanic values.
I see you are racking up the downvotes as usual.
What’s it like to be as miserable as you. How long have you been on this site. Any converts?
Yeah, I thought so.
We all await, eagerly, and with great anticipation for your great Objectivist utopia, where we all think alike and you are in charge. Constant lectures, struggle sessions and endless homework.
Can’t wait!
I’m not waiting. I’d rather dance on fire ant mounds.
Welcome back TB. It’s been a miniute, right?
It is apparent just how much you don’t value truth or honesty. You do value “the end justifies the means” however. Lying is the first refuge of those who constantly lose debates but are too lazy and obsessed to read anything but the poorly written drivel that justifies their various targets for hatred. You remind me of Marxists with every one of your word salads.
Beautiful piece. Thank you
Rebelling against a false religion and false gods the Jews did it and did it well
Thank you for the inspiration in these especially turbulent times.
Hag Peseach sameach!
Fantastic— Pesach Matok!
Such a relevant article, and well done in remembrance of Passover, and the bondage of the Hebrews by Pharoah. Today’s world is showing the similarities to bondage by elites, oligarchs, and potentates. I have to quote Charles L. Feinberg here: “The nations of the earth, in coming to destroy Jerusalem and the people of God, will only be positioning themselves for the stroke of God’s unmixed wrath upon them.” Jesus will return to rescue Israel and the Jewish people from their enemies, as He establishes His Kingdom on Earth.
God intends to provide more than physical deliverance, He intends to restore the Jewish nation spiritually as well: “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; “The Day of the Lord” refers to when God breaks through history in judgment. Zechariah 13:9.
The concise explanation in the article is remarkable and synthesizes what I’ve been feeling. It’s so true it left me breathless. I’m a Christian and very grateful for your insights. We’ve entered an age of G-d lessness and will pay the price.
What’s with the G-d? Why not write God?
According to some religious minds it’s disrespectful to spell out the word, maybe Jehovah will throw a bolt of lightning at you for disrespecting him. Or you’ll have seven years bad luck. No one really knows if God would be so offended because claims about the supernatural can’t be proven.
But if it’s in the Bible or the Koran it must be true, right?
Obviously, you haven’t read the Bible. In case you didn’t know, atheism is dead.
Your magical fairy dust theories of evolution are all frauds.
The irony is that you frauds spend more time obsessing over God than most Christians.
The other irony is that you believe your brain is a mishmash of chemicals but you are able to trust it to inform you that there is no God. My chemicals in my brain tell me there IS God.
My chemicals are as good as yours, so you can stuff your silly arrogance and get your nose down out of the air.
Making friends and influencing people I see. Your attempt at sarcasm drips off of you like stale melted cheese.
Beginning tomorrow, Maundy Thursday, and then Good Friday, and finally Easter Sunday, the churches will be packed. and there is nothing you can say or do that will change any of it.
The Cable providers will have endless showings of the various Easter movies. And there is always a showing of the Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston. One of the big cable hits is The Chosen.
I haven’t seen any recreations of those NY meetings in Ayn Rand’s apartment where they sit around talking about her books. There was, a few years ago, an Ayn Rand bio pic starring Helen Mirren and a couple of showings of Atlas Shrugged. No one noticed and no one cared. They are both mothballed now. It sort of gives you an idea about how much she (and you) matter.
Hebrews 4:12 For the Word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing bone and marrow; it judges thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothin in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.
2 Timothy 3:16. All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness so the Man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
Proverbs 14:1. The fool says in his heart, “there is no God.” Proverbs 23:7. The heart is the seat of reason and decision making, “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.”
The Lords words are words of Truth, Wisdom, Clarity, and Salvation.
A lot of Jews consider it disrespectful to write out the name of the Creator and King of the Cosmos.
Isn’t liberalism modern paganism!
The total absence of ETHICS!
The foundation of ETHICS is LIFE and the preservation of LIFE!
Yes. And the core is the two great commandments. You will love the LORD your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. You will love your neighbor as yourself. Upon these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. See Matthew 22: 35 – 40.
What if my neighbor is Ted Bundy?
Well, with any luck you would say the wrong things to him and you would….well, you know.
You turn him into the cops and then you pray for his soul.
He’d conclude that the neigborhood is really going downhill and would move.
Personally, I think he is a shut-in.
Yes. Psalm 2:1-2. “Why does the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The Kings of the earth set themselves up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed.” Jesus.
Isaiah 57:20 “But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. “There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.”
A beautiful testament to faith . . . both Jewish . . . and Christian. Thank you, Mr. Greenfield!
SUPERSTITION
PUTNAM: “Convention wears a double face.Truth, love, loyalty, honor, all that we most value in ourselves and others, are things fought for, slowly won, and preserved in ritual from one generation to the next. But these rituals, that represent the highest ideal, also represent the worst lie. (hypocrisy) The new first emerges not as satisfaction of these ideals, but as a contradiction in them. It emerges as hate.
Faced with the existing contradiction in existing rituals, the temptation is to view the contradiction at first not as problem but as mystery (superstition), not as error to be fought out, but as paradox to be revered and accepted.
But this choice is, of course, no choice, since to delay is but to increase the pressures forcing a turning into the contradiction.
But with it’s solution, (with an understanding of “the self” in neuroscientific terms), we return to the very rituals that we were forced to reject at first, and now they wear a very different face, symbolizing the highest ideal. After a man has been through suffering, on the other side, when he returns with a task needing implementation (a purpose in life), then the very rituals which first appeared as a mask of hypocrisy and lie, emerge as the avenues to a greater simplicity and accuracy of expression. They then feel at no point burden, but rather a needed means to economy and openness.”
He sits on the pole…you know, to feel centered.
I enjoyed reading this article. The Parting Of The Red Sea painting is an important choice for Christians and Jews because it challenges our belief in God’s Sovereignty. People like to limit God’s sovereignty by rationalizing God’s miracles to their own understanding and proudful knowledge. If God is not 100% sovereign for beleivers then we are limiting God as creator and denying His sovereign power. That’s an insult to God and an investment in foolish pride on our bahalf. God’s Sovereignty is expressed in Psalm 115:3 “But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases”.
“When faith in G-d leaves, what replaces it isn’t some abstraction of ‘reason’: it’s superstition (37% of adults under 30 believe in astrology), cults of personality, conspiracy theories and the conviction that we are now gods who can destroy the planet and change gender at will.”
Brilliant article, Daniel. It isn’t easy to put all of this in such clear focus. Faith in G-d is a light that guides one through darkness to a safe place. Astrology, tarot, etc. lead people to greater darkness, fear, and rage. The humanist nihilism invariably feeds on humanity. How many civilizations of the past have gone down that cannibalistic path?
Many think that what the Jews went through thousands of years ago is irrelevant to us. Hardly. What has really changed in our world that justifies that ignorant attitude? The recent 20th Century saw millions murdered by leftist despots and millions more ground into the dirt by slavery. There is nothing new on this planet, including the psychotic levels of denial we see everywhere today. People seem willing to play this Loser’s Lottery, hoping they will win while hundreds of millions will lose.
Part 1
“A statistic Jews should be ashamed of seeing it comes at the expense of an entire vulnerable People,including Palestinian Christians.”
Ah yes, the Jew Hating, anti-Christian bigot comes forth to condemn the imperfect in the name of the demonic, using the extremely thin skein of “Falestinian Christians” to justify it all.
It also echoes the thoroughly stupid, thoroughly immoral, miserabilist doctrine of happiness as a Zero Sum Game, where the happiness of some must come at the expense of others. Ludicrous. Especially when you realize that the happiness statistic for Israel comes from all its citizens, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics, and others.
Part 2
” I wonder where Germans would have placed on the Happiness Index in the heyday of Nazi Germany. But no fear of Jews feeling shame,here,given their narrative and agenda of DENIAL and Victim-blaming. Pity.”
This is disgusting for how it inverts reality. It is worth noting that the Falestinian dictatorships glorify the Nazis, justify the extermination of all Israelis and Jews both present and past (hence the fanatical attempts to justify and defend the extermination of Eastern Jerusalem’s Jews by the Transjordanians and local Paramilitaries), and so on, while glorifying a literal Nazi Collaborator in the form of Amin al-Husseini, a man who wished to open up an Auschwitz at Nabulus.
This is what “Falestinian Christians” tolerate, as well as the persecution of those who embrace Christ by turning away from Islam. Woe to people like you, who call evil good and good evil.
The words of Psalm 2:1-2 describe very accurately our times. “Why does the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers ban together against the Lord, and against his anointed. “Jesus.
I have discovered that practically all the Europeans have a little bit of Jew in them somewhere, especially the Jews.
To run a country is to own the people. Willing slaves (a.k.a. collectivists) have no right to object, especially because these something-for-nothing-artists think that submission, rule and parasitism (a,k.a. politics) are both natural and necessary for their very survival.
I object to your smear of ALL Pagans. As in any group of humans, there are both bad & good people. Christianity is a valuable religion, but it also has its horrific episodes. All religions can be misused to do the opposite of what their founders taught. Some religions are even constructed to be used to manipulate & use people instead of elevate them spiritually, or in any other way. Some founders have taught that anything is good IF it furthers the advance of the religion. That is an anti-ethic & is more appropriate in a grab of power ideology like communism. In fact, that particular founder did recommend the use of lies, intimidation, robbery & murder to establish his religious power. Yet his religion is now respected above all Pagan religions whether they have benign teachings or not. There are some very good people who manage to do good in the world under the teachings of this religion. They have risen far above the founder spiritually & in their actions.
You can promote and praise a religion without denigrating ones that others need to uplift themselves. One size does not fit all & fascism is not becoming in a religion.
The woke cult with its false deities of systemic racism gender fluidity clinal no warming and false gods of diversity inclusion and equity are the false gods of this generation
I agree. Living a Jewish life is a bit like quantum mechanics: With Torah as our guide, we are living in three places at once – past, present and future. And while doing this, the prime directive is, as we sing in “HaTikvah“ :
To be a free nation in our land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem.
Our memory goes back to when God created the heavens and the earth,
when God created man and not the other way around.