Real Violent Anti Semitism does exist, and may be a motive for the Douglas High School Shooting. says Natalie Lifson on Medium.
Indeed, it is terrible, and worse than useless in every way.
Does it justify the dispossession of another people from their land and sovereignty? No, of course not.
It deserves exposure and denunciation, and in cases like this...the maximum sentence.
It also shows the general need for...greater love. For everyone and always.
I was greatly put off recently reading someone opine that when Jesus said "Love your enemies," he didn't mean ALL enemies.
Of course I'm no historical or theological expert on Jesus, nor a Christian, but I do respect my version of "christian" ethics in which Enemies means All Your Enemies including your Worst Enemies.
I think it's worse than dangerous to start excluding from your love. Soon it's restricted to the house next door, then not even that.
Love does not mean always mean a particular set of things, in some cases love may require killing people or things like people or pre-people like fetuses. Unwanted fetuses Should Be terminated. People seeking death due to terminal illness should be terminated. Excess animals need to be terminated. However, I believe life without parole is better than capital punishment for crimes, even war crimes and terrorist ones.
Love means prisoners should not be treated as slaves, and deprived of books and the like.
Real anti-semitism may or may not use "conspiracy theories." I don't think that casts doubt, necessarily, and conspiracy theorism. I don't believe that conspiracy theorism, unless it explicitly makes sui generis anti-semitic racial claims, qualifies as anti-semitism. Real violent anti-semitism might occasionally use logic too, though it seems to me more lacking in it.
I denounce all such violent acts, have never injured any person, nor even wrestled anyone for decades. It horrified me when a best friend was accustomed to weekly fights with his older brother, accepting that as normal.
I can see, in principle, in true times of war and when revolution is inevitable immediately, violence may be called for. But I do not own a gun and would not own a gun. I'd rather have my own life taken than be responsible for the unjust death of another person...or my same person (a majority of shootings is suicides).
This, however, is not a time of war, except by imperial designs. We could end this war mainly by unilateral military withdrawal from the rest of the world. And that's what we should do, now.
It shows the moral bankruptcy of one and all political identities that others are distanced, rather than brought in.
That, accompanied by a shift to radical socialism, would end real violent anti-semitism more than anything else.
Sometimes the best outcome comes through seeking to love, rather than confront.
In fact, it is my belief, that seeking to love always has the best outcome.
Which is also, as I understand it, what the Torah of Judaism always commands. Actually, Jesus saying was not at all unique. Many major religions made the same commandment.
It's the Zionists who want to have the Jewish ethnic identity, for socially corrupt reasons, without the commandments of Judaism itself--which tend to discourage such corruption and encourage partnership rather than domination. I think the anti-Zionist Orthodox are sticking with the real Judaism, and I applaud them.
And I should know, because I'm the expert in Everything!
Indeed, it is terrible, and worse than useless in every way.
Does it justify the dispossession of another people from their land and sovereignty? No, of course not.
It deserves exposure and denunciation, and in cases like this...the maximum sentence.
It also shows the general need for...greater love. For everyone and always.
I was greatly put off recently reading someone opine that when Jesus said "Love your enemies," he didn't mean ALL enemies.
Of course I'm no historical or theological expert on Jesus, nor a Christian, but I do respect my version of "christian" ethics in which Enemies means All Your Enemies including your Worst Enemies.
I think it's worse than dangerous to start excluding from your love. Soon it's restricted to the house next door, then not even that.
Love does not mean always mean a particular set of things, in some cases love may require killing people or things like people or pre-people like fetuses. Unwanted fetuses Should Be terminated. People seeking death due to terminal illness should be terminated. Excess animals need to be terminated. However, I believe life without parole is better than capital punishment for crimes, even war crimes and terrorist ones.
Love means prisoners should not be treated as slaves, and deprived of books and the like.
Real anti-semitism may or may not use "conspiracy theories." I don't think that casts doubt, necessarily, and conspiracy theorism. I don't believe that conspiracy theorism, unless it explicitly makes sui generis anti-semitic racial claims, qualifies as anti-semitism. Real violent anti-semitism might occasionally use logic too, though it seems to me more lacking in it.
I denounce all such violent acts, have never injured any person, nor even wrestled anyone for decades. It horrified me when a best friend was accustomed to weekly fights with his older brother, accepting that as normal.
I can see, in principle, in true times of war and when revolution is inevitable immediately, violence may be called for. But I do not own a gun and would not own a gun. I'd rather have my own life taken than be responsible for the unjust death of another person...or my same person (a majority of shootings is suicides).
This, however, is not a time of war, except by imperial designs. We could end this war mainly by unilateral military withdrawal from the rest of the world. And that's what we should do, now.
It shows the moral bankruptcy of one and all political identities that others are distanced, rather than brought in.
That, accompanied by a shift to radical socialism, would end real violent anti-semitism more than anything else.
Sometimes the best outcome comes through seeking to love, rather than confront.
In fact, it is my belief, that seeking to love always has the best outcome.
Which is also, as I understand it, what the Torah of Judaism always commands. Actually, Jesus saying was not at all unique. Many major religions made the same commandment.
It's the Zionists who want to have the Jewish ethnic identity, for socially corrupt reasons, without the commandments of Judaism itself--which tend to discourage such corruption and encourage partnership rather than domination. I think the anti-Zionist Orthodox are sticking with the real Judaism, and I applaud them.
And I should know, because I'm the expert in Everything!
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