Why We Are Doomed
Posted by Nathan in Uncategorized, tags: America, Christian, Holocaust, Petra, WorkToday is a bad day for Jews. Traditionally we are all sad because we lost our Temple. In general, the more, well, modern amongst us, see this as a time to be insightful and think about the big plan as manifested through events then, now and in the middle - we are talking about 2000+ years of history.
Today I would like to talk about how we are all doomed.
While we Jews cannot get along with our cousins the Arabs, I have real faith that we will figure out how to be friends someday - by we I don’t mean Americans I mean Jews.
But, the real enemy hates us both and that is what we should come to terms with. We both should fear the Christians. Yes, the Christians hate us both, my Arab cousin.
These are the people who brought us the original terrorism in the form of forced conversions, holocausts, inquisitions, crusades, etc… all because they hate true-blue monotheists like the Jews and the Muslims.
I am not certain exactly why they hate us both, cousin, but I think it has to do with the Trinity. Can you think of a larger pile of shit than saying, oh there are three g-ds, but really one, they are just parts of the same, equal parts, one the g-d part, one some kind of ghost part, and one a earthly man part. Um, what? That is a pantheon if I have ever seen one.
This isn’t even respectable Zoroastrian dualism, which is arguably monotheistic (well I will say I don’t know enough to argue either way). This is POLYTHEISM.
We, cousin, simply know how many times we are told by our prophets and by our historical rejection of adulteration by the Romans and Greeks that we are told to not only to eschew this notion, but to completely reject, dispel, and run away from this notion.
This is what I am thinking about on my 9th of Av. How come my cousin, who I share so much with, and I cannot get along, but my best friend is only waiting to off me in the name of his eternal salvation at the hand of his g-ds.
And the icing? I tell a tale:
Sunday morning I was at a local NJ diner having my eggs and toast. I was there with my friend Patrick. As I munched away I started to overhear the neighbor at the next table. Oh be warned, Tablemans are ever constant eavesdroppers! She was talking about how this lady she works with had perpetrated a series of unspeakable acts against her in the workforce as well as in their intersecting social lives. The issue at hand seemed to be that both parties were about to be fired for their inability to work together. The coup-de-christ? My neighbor diner lady made the following statement:
She acted in the most un-Christian way possible and I can never forgive that. I will never forgive that. I will make her life miserable for what she’s done.
*sigh* and I mean it, I almost said something to her. I almost did. But instead I thought about how so far her attitude is from the teachings of her lord and redeemer. About how much redemption she must need right now. About how probably no one has ever shown her what it really meant or felt like to act in a truly Christian, eg forgiving, way.
I realized just how fucked we are cousin.
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***my note: I removed the non-English version of this because I cant read it.
Dear Son of my paternal uncle (as we say in Arabic),
I thought it was the Arabs and the Jews that are cousins. A large minority of us are Christian. And even though I share your issues with conservative Christians here in the US, I myself don’t mind Eastern Christians and have learned a lot from my Christian Arab brethren (some of whom make me weak at the knees ’cause they be FINE!)
Anywho, my sister has her own plans to start peace in the Middle East. She has her eyes set on a nice American Jewish boy for sometime now. Can you imagine the wedding? There would be tons of guests, because we are ‘tribal’ people, and tons of awkwardness in the beginning. On the other hand, there would be the best food and people who knows how to dance!
Ah good point: Eastern Christians are very different than European and Western ones. I was generalizing which I know is bad, but sometimes it is easier to. I do have a lot of respect for Christians who are intellectually honest - just as I have a lot of dislike for Jews that are intellectually dishonest, for instance.
I would think a wedding between a Jew and an Arab should produce some great food and fun!!! Some day it may be come a more common thing, but in the meantime just being friends would be a great place to start!
Interesting perspective.