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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2010 9:36:56 GMT -8
People are people and Nurture trumps Nature any day of the week and twice on friday, saturday, sunday or under the Bodhi tree. Why do people hate the Jews? Because they have nurtured a strong sense of achievement and contra a strong sense of meeting what fulfills the monetary sense of achievement. They get the game; maybe it is a matriarchal structure that has led to this. I think it's also that they were money lenders at a time when medieval Europe considered the profession to be "dirty". They made easy targets because if there was unrest, they could be taken out by those who owed them. Remember that people hated bankers during the American depression too, thereby making heroes out of the likes of John Dillinger until innocents began being killed. As to the Jews, the "money-changers" were primarily the Rothschilds: www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?gtrack=pthc&ParagraphID=kah#kahHowever, they weren't the only bankers who engendered hatred in Europe. One of my history professors said that the modern "f-word" wasn't just derived from the acronym For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, a crime on English ships. On the continent, it was a bastardization of the name Fugger, which was a German Christian banking family blamed as the Rothschilds were for taking advantage of the economically downtrodden. In any event, as discussed in the link, it is a common misconception of anti-Semitism began with the Nazis. Rather, it had been ongoing in Europe for centuries and also had much to do with religious bigotry (see Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ), fear of intermarriage and in many cases, just plain jealousy. |
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Post by monty on Aug 16, 2010 9:58:51 GMT -8
I think it's also that they were money lenders at a time when medieval Europe considered the profession to be "dirty". They made easy targets because if there was unrest, they could be taken out by those who owed them. Remember that people hated bankers during the American depression too, thereby making heroes out of the likes of John Dillinger until innocents began being killed. As to the Jews, the "money-changers" were primarily the Rothschilds: www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?gtrack=pthc&ParagraphID=kah#kahHowever, they weren't the only bankers who engendered hatred in Europe. One of my history professors said that the modern "f-word" wasn't just derived from the acronym For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, a crime on English ships. On the continent, it was a bastardization of the name Fugger, which was a German Christian banking family blamed as the Rothschilds were for taking advantage of the economically downtrodden. In any event, as discussed in the link, it is a common misconception of anti-Semitism began with the Nazis. Rather, it had been ongoing in Europe for centuries and also had much to do with religious bigotry (see Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ), fear of intermarriage and in many cases, just plain jealousy. Christians set up some of the first modern banking in the middle ages; and, anti-semitism does crop up in the church in the middle ages and earlier. And, the reason that many figured the Passion of the Christ would have an anti-semitic slant (And to some extent it does) is the reliance on john, by which time in the gospel progression Pilate and the Romans had become good dudes that were just misled by their paganism, but really wanted to release Jesus (Ecce Homo: Behold! Man), it was that damn orthodox Jewish leadership that wanted to punish him and they pulled all the strings on Pilate's puppet. Which, is what the Gospel's and Joe's favorite John's Apocalypse are: they are a struggle by a splinter group against the leadership of the jewish church. |
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