Clarity said:
Communism has been the greatest social engineering experiment we have ever seen. It failed utterly and in doing so it killed over 100,000,000 men, women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that died in its often aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked.
Yes, but that was not what you implied earlier. You claimed that rape, incest and murder were legal in Soviet Russia - which is clearly not the case. Thanks for moving the goalposts, however.
Clarity said:
The word was first used by Wilhelm Marr a German agitator, who created it to explain the current anti-Jewish campaigns in Europe.
Antisemitism is indeed not only an unfortunate phenomenon, but by universal admission an unfortunate term. Its origins are clearly documented. It was coined in 1879 by the German journalist Wilhelm Marr, the author of a book called "The Victory of Judaism Over Germanism." In that year Marr, in step with the swelling tide of anti-Jewish feeling in Germany, founded his Bund der Antisemiten or "Antisemitic League." The term caught on immediately. In 1881 an "Antisemitic Petition" bearing 225,000 signatures was presented to Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and by 1882 there was an official "Anti-Semitic Party" in Germany that won several seats in the Reichstag.
A rose by any other name... you conveniently ignore the fact that Jews had been persecuted, maltreated, shunned and discriminated against for more than a thousand years, and that pogromes had become somewhat of a tradition in Christian Europe. And yes, this WAS absolutely motivated by religion. Just to mention a few examples:
Saint Jerome (374-419 CE) referred to the Jews as "Judaic serpents of whom Judas was the model."
Martin Luther (whom I've mentioned before) wrote in his book "On the Jews and their Lies", that they were "venomous beasts, vipers, disgusting scum, canders, devils incarnate. Their private houses must be destroyed and devastated, they could be lodged in stables. Let the magistrates burn their synagogues and let whatever escapes be covered with sand and mud. Let them force to work, and if this avails nothing, we will be compelled to expel them like dogs in order not to expose ourselves to incurring divine wrath and eternal damnation from the Jews and their lies."
The Nazis were indeed not very inventive:
- The Synod of Clermont, 535 CE, prohibited jews from holding public office.
- The Nuremberg Laws, 1935 CE, prohibited jews from holding public office.
- The 12th Synod of Toledo (Spain), 681 CE, ordered the burning of the Talmud and other Jewish books.
- The Nazi regime ordered the burning of the Talmud and other Jewish books.
-The Trulanic Synod, 692 CE, forbade Christians to go to Jewish doctors, attend Jewish religious feasts or have friendly relations with Jews.
- The Nuremberg laws forbade people to go to jewish doctors.
-The Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 CE, forced Jews to wear a distinctive badge on their clothing.
-The Nazis forced Jews to wear a distinctive badge on their clothing.
-Pope Paul IV, in 1555, issued a papal bull# forcing Jews to wear yellow hats; this same papal bull confines Jews to ghettos, and bans them from working in most professions.
-Nazi Germany adopted every one of these laws in 1939; the only change was that the yellow hat was changed to a yellow star.
-In the 1930s Nazi Germany help the Lutheran church and other Christian churches publicise Martin Luther's teachings; his recommendations were carried out on every Jew in Germany and its occupied lands.
Clarity said:
Why did the German word Antisemitismus so quickly replace the older Judenfeindschaft, or "Jew-hatred," and spread to other European languages as well? The answer lies in the growing propagation in late-19th-century Europe of a pseudo-Darwinian racial ideology that, dividing the world's population into various "biologically" definable groups of which the "Aryan" was deemed the most advanced and fittest to survive, relegated Jews and blacks to the bottom of the ladder.
Thanks for pointing out that racism is a PSEUDO-Darwinian ideology.
