The Claw of Satan

[stilltrucking]

I have no wish to give aid and comfort to israel's enemies. And I wish they would not give aid and comfort to mine.

Did you know Jesus was born in East Texas?

"My own personal experience, too has led me to recognize that the Jews have very good ability in agriculture...and my efforts shall show that the Jews have not lost the agricultural qualities that their forefathers possessed. I shall try to make for them a new home in different lands, where as free farmers on their own soil, they can make themselves useful to that country."

--Baron Maurice de Hirsch in The Forum (August 1891)

[tinkerjack]

AFTER STRANGE GODS

...more important is unity of religious background; and
reasons of race and religion combine to make any large
number of free-thinking Jews undesirable. T.S. Eliot

Santayana’s God

In his incredibly wrong-headed and antisemitic address “After Strange Gods’ delivered in the 1930s, T.S. Eliot may well have been thinking of Spinoza and condemning him as a threat to Christian civilization when he offered the view that no viable European civilization could allow the presence of too many “free-thinking Jews”



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[jackofnightmares]

I saw the claw of Satan strike that child´s soul and try to kill the idea of God in it. Why should I mind that? Was the idea of God alive at all in me? No: if you mean the traditional idea. But that was the symbol, vague, variable, mythical, anthropomorphic; the symbol for an overwhelming reality, a symbol that named and unified in human speech the incalculable powers on which our destiny depends. To observe, record, and measure the method by which these powers operate is not to banish the idea of God; it is what the Hebrews called meditating on his ways. The modern hatred of religion is not, like that of the Greek philosophers, a hatred of poetry, for which they wished to substitute cosmology, mathematics, or dialectic, still maintaining the reverence of man for what is superhuman. The modern hatred of religion is hatred of the truth, hatred of all sublimity, hatred of the laughter of the gods. It is puerile human vanity trying to justify itself by a lie. Here, then, most opportunely, at the railway station returning from Paestum, where I had been admiring the courage and the dignity with which the Dorians recognised their place in nature, and filled it to perfection, I found the brutal expression of the opposite mood, the mood of impatience, conceit, low-minded ambition, mechanical inflation, and the worship of material comforts.

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