Enantiodromia (basically, pychological projection) is a sad thing. Center for Countering Digital Hate is, of course, just like the SPLC, the biggest H8TERs around.
I had a neighborwoman who had one of those "Hate has no here" yard signs. She was the biggest H8TER I have ever seen. She had a horrible car accident, so we would go over and cook for her and her husband, now their lawn in 100F temps, check on her after she recovered but was still at home, etc etc etc.
The result? She still hated us because we were Christian and conservative (husband was ok)
Priceless commentary, Thomas, thank you. This Jew is appalled at the bizarre leftward lurch of the ADL and this nonsense is just more of the same absurdity.
In every generation they rise up against us and in every generation, the Holy One thwarts their genocidal intentions. Jews everywhere are celebrating this during Pesach this week. Our seders are the living reminder that the transition from a state of slavery to one of freedom is the work of every individual in every generation.
We have a long history of self-hating Jews from Josephus to Spinoza to Marx to Boomer fools like Chomsky who all have so loathed the rich heritage whence they sprung that they have courted disaster for the Jewish people.
Sadly this idiot Greenblatt is just one more - albeit a highly inferior, weak version - link in the chain of deluded fools hoping to "save" the Jewish people by abandoning the principles of Torah which are focused on individual responsibility and adherence to the same, enduring universal moral guidance provided in the Torah and given clarity in the Talmud and the writings of our Sages.
He is, in short, an idiot who in clinging to woke nonsense and eschewing free speech, is doing absolutely nothing to help anyone on earth, never mind the Jews.
Good post. Thanks. But "Christopher? (viz., "Christ bearer" for a name?) :-) I forget who wrote this, but he said that something like 3 our of 4 Jews had no interest in God, faith, the Torah, anything. Thus we see so much destruction from Jews (who are not really practicing Jews0, in addition to the self-loathing, that you discuss. We see that same dynamic in the the Christian church today, too.
As as a Christian, I worship a JEWISH Messiah, BTW.
No idea where the 75% figure comes from or what it means.
With all due respect, as a Christian, you worship a Jewish man who died at the hands of the Romans who claimed to be the Begotten Son of the Almighty and who apparently rose from the dead after his crucifixion. He was NOT the Jewish Messiah.
Χριστόφορος is the specific word. I am definitely not saying anything other than the translation. Still a nice name. I am sorry you took it in a negative way. I have two years of graduate level Greek, along with one grad degree in linguistics from a major university, another grad degree in philosophy/psychology/theology from another, yet the word enantiodromio was still new. And yes, I also took He brew as well.
Relative to the 75% figure, as I noted, I don't remember who it came from, but it was a figure that I respect. Unfortunately the name escapes me. And it doesn't really matter, as maybe it was 67%, or 78%... or something else. The point being that a large percentage of American Jewry is secular. That's hardly debatable, n'est pas?
But I did look it up now. Pew says "12% of U.S. Jewish adults say they attend religious services weekly or more often, compared with 27% of the general public and 38% of U.S. Christians. And 21% of Jewish adults say religion is very important in their lives, compared with 41% of U.S. adults overall and 57% of Christians."
I understand as a Jew you reject Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah. But I am simply stating an historical fact, that Jesus was Jewish, and ALL the first followers were too. Last I looked, there were no Swedes or Japanese in 40 AD! Messiah? Isaiah 53, respectfully, would bear a review. To whom is this referring? Moreover, there are many Jews who call themselves "messianic Jews," who do in fact claim Jesus as the Jewish, and gentile, messiah. E.g., I often listen to Michael Rydelnik, professor of Jewish Studies and Bible at Moody Bible; Shia LaBeouf is a current messianic Christian in Hollywood, as is the famed Bob Dylan (he has been cryptic sometimes more recently about just about everything); speaking of music, Gustav Mahler and Felix Mendelssohn were Jewish Christians; or in science Fritz Haber, of the famed Haber-Bosch process, allowing us to have modern fertilizer, is another. Also Lise Meitner who was part of a team that discovered nuclear fission (her partner, Otto Hahn, won a Nobel Prize for this), She was from a Jewish family in Vienna, but later converted to Christianity. She was only the second woman to achieve a doctorate in physics at the University of Vienna and the first woman professor of physics in Germany before she was forced to flee the country during WWII. Fun fact: the chemical element Meitnerium is named after her. Or going to philosophy, Mortimer Adler.
Suffice to say, there are many who have Jewish genes that nevertheless find Jesus appealing, after having had the intellectual honesty to actually read the primary literature.
Again, I am sorry you took umbrage at remark about the name. It truly was meant innocently, and just as an intriguing observation from a linguist... nothing more. It is a NICE name for sure, and no insult was meant or implied.
Enantiodromia (basically, pychological projection) is a sad thing. Center for Countering Digital Hate is, of course, just like the SPLC, the biggest H8TERs around.
I had a neighborwoman who had one of those "Hate has no here" yard signs. She was the biggest H8TER I have ever seen. She had a horrible car accident, so we would go over and cook for her and her husband, now their lawn in 100F temps, check on her after she recovered but was still at home, etc etc etc.
The result? She still hated us because we were Christian and conservative (husband was ok)
Quod erat demonstrandum
Priceless commentary, Thomas, thank you. This Jew is appalled at the bizarre leftward lurch of the ADL and this nonsense is just more of the same absurdity.
In every generation they rise up against us and in every generation, the Holy One thwarts their genocidal intentions. Jews everywhere are celebrating this during Pesach this week. Our seders are the living reminder that the transition from a state of slavery to one of freedom is the work of every individual in every generation.
We have a long history of self-hating Jews from Josephus to Spinoza to Marx to Boomer fools like Chomsky who all have so loathed the rich heritage whence they sprung that they have courted disaster for the Jewish people.
Sadly this idiot Greenblatt is just one more - albeit a highly inferior, weak version - link in the chain of deluded fools hoping to "save" the Jewish people by abandoning the principles of Torah which are focused on individual responsibility and adherence to the same, enduring universal moral guidance provided in the Torah and given clarity in the Talmud and the writings of our Sages.
He is, in short, an idiot who in clinging to woke nonsense and eschewing free speech, is doing absolutely nothing to help anyone on earth, never mind the Jews.
Good post. Thanks. But "Christopher? (viz., "Christ bearer" for a name?) :-) I forget who wrote this, but he said that something like 3 our of 4 Jews had no interest in God, faith, the Torah, anything. Thus we see so much destruction from Jews (who are not really practicing Jews0, in addition to the self-loathing, that you discuss. We see that same dynamic in the the Christian church today, too.
As as a Christian, I worship a JEWISH Messiah, BTW.
I know Greek etymology, thanks.
No idea where the 75% figure comes from or what it means.
With all due respect, as a Christian, you worship a Jewish man who died at the hands of the Romans who claimed to be the Begotten Son of the Almighty and who apparently rose from the dead after his crucifixion. He was NOT the Jewish Messiah.
Χριστόφορος is the specific word. I am definitely not saying anything other than the translation. Still a nice name. I am sorry you took it in a negative way. I have two years of graduate level Greek, along with one grad degree in linguistics from a major university, another grad degree in philosophy/psychology/theology from another, yet the word enantiodromio was still new. And yes, I also took He brew as well.
Relative to the 75% figure, as I noted, I don't remember who it came from, but it was a figure that I respect. Unfortunately the name escapes me. And it doesn't really matter, as maybe it was 67%, or 78%... or something else. The point being that a large percentage of American Jewry is secular. That's hardly debatable, n'est pas?
But I did look it up now. Pew says "12% of U.S. Jewish adults say they attend religious services weekly or more often, compared with 27% of the general public and 38% of U.S. Christians. And 21% of Jewish adults say religion is very important in their lives, compared with 41% of U.S. adults overall and 57% of Christians."
I understand as a Jew you reject Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah. But I am simply stating an historical fact, that Jesus was Jewish, and ALL the first followers were too. Last I looked, there were no Swedes or Japanese in 40 AD! Messiah? Isaiah 53, respectfully, would bear a review. To whom is this referring? Moreover, there are many Jews who call themselves "messianic Jews," who do in fact claim Jesus as the Jewish, and gentile, messiah. E.g., I often listen to Michael Rydelnik, professor of Jewish Studies and Bible at Moody Bible; Shia LaBeouf is a current messianic Christian in Hollywood, as is the famed Bob Dylan (he has been cryptic sometimes more recently about just about everything); speaking of music, Gustav Mahler and Felix Mendelssohn were Jewish Christians; or in science Fritz Haber, of the famed Haber-Bosch process, allowing us to have modern fertilizer, is another. Also Lise Meitner who was part of a team that discovered nuclear fission (her partner, Otto Hahn, won a Nobel Prize for this), She was from a Jewish family in Vienna, but later converted to Christianity. She was only the second woman to achieve a doctorate in physics at the University of Vienna and the first woman professor of physics in Germany before she was forced to flee the country during WWII. Fun fact: the chemical element Meitnerium is named after her. Or going to philosophy, Mortimer Adler.
Suffice to say, there are many who have Jewish genes that nevertheless find Jesus appealing, after having had the intellectual honesty to actually read the primary literature.
Again, I am sorry you took umbrage at remark about the name. It truly was meant innocently, and just as an intriguing observation from a linguist... nothing more. It is a NICE name for sure, and no insult was meant or implied.
Who'd'a ever thunk the ADL would trans-form into an organization that's "Bad for the Jews"?