Spartacus vs. Jesus
• Sallust's Histories covered Spartacus. He was born 10 years before the Spartacan war and wrote 30 years after, and shared the Senate with those who fought Spartacus.
• Cicero mentions Spartacus in Response to the Haruspices and Against Verres. He served during the Spartacan war.
• Diodorus covered Spartacus in his Library of History. He was a contemporary.
• Varro mentioned him (as quoted by Sosipater Charisius in Grammatical Arts 1.133). He actually fought Spartacus.
• Plus many later credible histories (within 100-200 years) using contemporary records and sources.
We have none of these things for Jesus.
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• Sallust's Histories covered Spartacus. He was born 10 years before the Spartacan war and wrote 30 years after, and shared the Senate with those who fought Spartacus.
• Cicero mentions Spartacus in Response to the Haruspices and Against Verres. He served during the Spartacan war.
• Diodorus covered Spartacus in his Library of History. He was a contemporary.
• Varro mentioned him (as quoted by Sosipater Charisius in Grammatical Arts 1.133). He actually fought Spartacus.
• Plus many later credible histories (within 100-200 years) using contemporary records and sources.
We have none of these things for Jesus.
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"Early Christianity was not a new non-Jewish philosophy or teaching at its core. It was a Jewish movement amidst several competing groups, also proclaiming that the great moment of Jewish history was upon their generation. The earliest followers of Jesus were Jews, just like him. The Jewish followers of Jesus saw themselves as legitimate and active members of the Jewish community."
— Dr. Juan Marcos Bejarano-Gutierrez (Forgotten Origins)
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— Dr. Juan Marcos Bejarano-Gutierrez (Forgotten Origins)
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Our Only Eyewitness Source
A typical con pulled by Christian apologists, is to conflate what our only eyewitness source said (Paul), with what anonymous foreign composers of legends about Jesus said a lifetime later (the Gospels).
When we look to our only actual witness, who is observing and reporting what Christians were preaching several decades before any Gospel was written, he outright says the resurrection of Jesus (the gospel) was known only through private revelation ("not with flesh and blood" but an experience of Jesus "in me," Paul says).
In fact, that is where Paul says he was getting many of the teachings of Jesus as well: private revelations, secret mystical conversations with Jesus in his head.
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A typical con pulled by Christian apologists, is to conflate what our only eyewitness source said (Paul), with what anonymous foreign composers of legends about Jesus said a lifetime later (the Gospels).
When we look to our only actual witness, who is observing and reporting what Christians were preaching several decades before any Gospel was written, he outright says the resurrection of Jesus (the gospel) was known only through private revelation ("not with flesh and blood" but an experience of Jesus "in me," Paul says).
In fact, that is where Paul says he was getting many of the teachings of Jesus as well: private revelations, secret mystical conversations with Jesus in his head.
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"Jesus Spoke Aramaic, Not Hebrew"
The reason why Jesus was often quoted in Aramaic, such as in Matthew 27:46, is because it had become the lingua franca of the Near East, gradually replacing Hebrew as the everyday spoken language among Jews after the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE.
Even major Jewish works, such as the Mishnah, Talmud, Zohar, and many ancient ritual recitations such as the Kaddish, are at least partially written in Aramaic, and the modern Hebrew alphabet in fact derives from the Aramaic alphabet.
To argue that Jesus was not a Jew—despite all Biblical evidence proving he most definitely was, even though he never actually existed [1][2][3]—simply because "he spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew" is therefore utterly and fundamentally flawed.
Also, "Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea," making him indeed a Judean, and "Judean" and "Jew" were both referred to as ioudaios, making the terms interchangeable.
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The reason why Jesus was often quoted in Aramaic, such as in Matthew 27:46, is because it had become the lingua franca of the Near East, gradually replacing Hebrew as the everyday spoken language among Jews after the Babylonian exile in the 6th century BCE.
Even major Jewish works, such as the Mishnah, Talmud, Zohar, and many ancient ritual recitations such as the Kaddish, are at least partially written in Aramaic, and the modern Hebrew alphabet in fact derives from the Aramaic alphabet.
To argue that Jesus was not a Jew—despite all Biblical evidence proving he most definitely was, even though he never actually existed [1][2][3]—simply because "he spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew" is therefore utterly and fundamentally flawed.
Also, "Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea," making him indeed a Judean, and "Judean" and "Jew" were both referred to as ioudaios, making the terms interchangeable.
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"Either you do not know or you have not the courage to charge us with those deeds for which there is at least a shadow of evidence and which an intelligent judge and jury could examine without impatience. Why bandy about unconvincing trifles when you might so easily indict us for serious and provable offences?"
"Why throw up to us a patent and a clumsy forgery such as the Protocols of the Elders Zion when you might as well confront us with the Revelation of St. John? Why talk about Marx and Trotski when you have Jesus of Nazereth and Paul of Tarsus to confound us with?"
"These plots and revolutions are as nothing compared with the great conspiracy which we engineered at the beginning of this era and which was destined to make the creed of a Jewish sect the religion of the Western world."
— Rothschild biographer Marcus Eli Ravage [source]
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"Why throw up to us a patent and a clumsy forgery such as the Protocols of the Elders Zion when you might as well confront us with the Revelation of St. John? Why talk about Marx and Trotski when you have Jesus of Nazereth and Paul of Tarsus to confound us with?"
"These plots and revolutions are as nothing compared with the great conspiracy which we engineered at the beginning of this era and which was destined to make the creed of a Jewish sect the religion of the Western world."
— Rothschild biographer Marcus Eli Ravage [source]
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We indeed make the argument that "Christianity is a massive Jewish trick" [1][2][3]. However, to claim that we believe that "the Jewish people are so powerful" that "they had the foresight" to know how well it would play out for them is an obvious strawman.
The real "sign of historical illiteracy" here is believing that the only issue Christianity carries with it is the "recent phenomenon" that is Christian Zionism, which is only relatively recent due to political Zionism itself never truly taking shape until Theodor Herzl published The Jewish State in 1896.
Interestingly enough, Herzl's pamphlet was originally titled Address to the Rothschilds, to whom the Balfour Declaration was addressed only two decades later, which led to the creation of the State of Israel.
None of this would have been possible if it weren't for the "pious Christians" who have been supportive of political Zionism since its very inception in the 19th century.
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The real "sign of historical illiteracy" here is believing that the only issue Christianity carries with it is the "recent phenomenon" that is Christian Zionism, which is only relatively recent due to political Zionism itself never truly taking shape until Theodor Herzl published The Jewish State in 1896.
Interestingly enough, Herzl's pamphlet was originally titled Address to the Rothschilds, to whom the Balfour Declaration was addressed only two decades later, which led to the creation of the State of Israel.
None of this would have been possible if it weren't for the "pious Christians" who have been supportive of political Zionism since its very inception in the 19th century.
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Struggle As Life's Mission
The strong proclaimed fate, the proclamation was victorious. So emerged the heroic songs, which praised struggle as life's mission. What were the labours of daily life in comparison? What was the certainty of having to die in comparison? They became trifles, unimportant things that were not worth discussing.
The weight of the burden is measured by the weakness of the shoulders, which must bear it. In the revolt of the masses under the sign of the cross, the strong and their teachings were persecuted and exterminated. The grey of twilight, which laid over the last secrets of the law, of fate, became a terror for the weak and deformed.
Men no longer stepped death-defying and life-pious onto life's arena, rather 'human beings' debased to childish creatures took upon themselves the curse of life and bore it unwillingly up to the day when they were redeemed from their sinful-weak body by God.
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From: The SS Warrior Poet Collected Writings
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The strong proclaimed fate, the proclamation was victorious. So emerged the heroic songs, which praised struggle as life's mission. What were the labours of daily life in comparison? What was the certainty of having to die in comparison? They became trifles, unimportant things that were not worth discussing.
The weight of the burden is measured by the weakness of the shoulders, which must bear it. In the revolt of the masses under the sign of the cross, the strong and their teachings were persecuted and exterminated. The grey of twilight, which laid over the last secrets of the law, of fate, became a terror for the weak and deformed.
Men no longer stepped death-defying and life-pious onto life's arena, rather 'human beings' debased to childish creatures took upon themselves the curse of life and bore it unwillingly up to the day when they were redeemed from their sinful-weak body by God.
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From: The SS Warrior Poet Collected Writings
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It was painfully obvious to educated Christians that the intellectual achievements of the "insane" pagans were vastly superior to their own. And so, in part from self-interest, in part from actual interest, Christianity started to absorb the literature of the "heathens" into itself.
Bishop Ambrose dressed Cicero's Stoic principles in Christian clothes; while Augustine adapted Roman oratory for Christian ends. The philosophical terms of the Greeks started to make their way into Christian philosophy.
Long-dead thinkers who happened to have any resemblances to Christianity in their writings found themselves adopted as unwitting ancestors in the tradition.
The whiff of Christianity hung around Plato? Ah, that was because he had visited Egypt and, while there, he had perhaps read a copy of the first five books of the Bible that Moses had, conveniently, left behind. He was, really, one of us. Socrates was a Christian before Christ.
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From: The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey.
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Bishop Ambrose dressed Cicero's Stoic principles in Christian clothes; while Augustine adapted Roman oratory for Christian ends. The philosophical terms of the Greeks started to make their way into Christian philosophy.
Long-dead thinkers who happened to have any resemblances to Christianity in their writings found themselves adopted as unwitting ancestors in the tradition.
The whiff of Christianity hung around Plato? Ah, that was because he had visited Egypt and, while there, he had perhaps read a copy of the first five books of the Bible that Moses had, conveniently, left behind. He was, really, one of us. Socrates was a Christian before Christ.
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From: The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey.
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Socrates vs. Jesus
We know the names of numerous eyewitnesses who wrote books about Socrates, including at least sixteen of his disciples. We know of not even one such book for Jesus.
And we even have an eyewitness third-party account written during Socrates' lifetime: Aristophanes, The Clouds. We know of not even one such account for Jesus.
Indeed we have many contemporaries attesting to Socrates, spanning four modern volumes. We have none for Jesus.
We have quotations from many historians of Socrates, using written sources about Socrates from his own time: e.g. Idomeneus, On the Followers of Socrates. We have none for Jesus—only repeaters of the Gospels.
And yet Socrates wrote nothing himself and there was no global Church of Socrates to preserve records of him. And still we have vastly better evidence he existed than we have for Jesus.
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We know the names of numerous eyewitnesses who wrote books about Socrates, including at least sixteen of his disciples. We know of not even one such book for Jesus.
And we even have an eyewitness third-party account written during Socrates' lifetime: Aristophanes, The Clouds. We know of not even one such account for Jesus.
Indeed we have many contemporaries attesting to Socrates, spanning four modern volumes. We have none for Jesus.
We have quotations from many historians of Socrates, using written sources about Socrates from his own time: e.g. Idomeneus, On the Followers of Socrates. We have none for Jesus—only repeaters of the Gospels.
And yet Socrates wrote nothing himself and there was no global Church of Socrates to preserve records of him. And still we have vastly better evidence he existed than we have for Jesus.
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"The politicians of the cross know too well that first the last warrior must fall before the 'Day of Judgment' can dawn—this means the day on which those 'chosen' according to the teachings of the cross come to rule. Every World War that serves the destruction of strong life is not only tolerated by the cross, rather at times even promoted, yes, demanded."
— Kurt Eggers (The SS Warrior Poet)
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— Kurt Eggers (The SS Warrior Poet)
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"When you talk about Jewish conspiracies I cannot for the world understand why you do not mention the destruction of Rome and the whole civilization of antiquity concentrated under her banners, at the hands of Jewish Christianity."
"It is unbelievable, but you Christians do not seem to know where your religion came from, nor how, nor why. Your historians do not tell you. The documents in these case, which are part of your Bible, you chant over but do not read. We have done our work too thoroughly; you believe our propaganda too implicitly."
"The coming of Christianity is to you not an ordinary historical event growing out of other events of the time, it is the fulfilment of a divine Jewish prophecy. It did not, as you see it, destroy a great Gentile civilization and a great Gentile empire with which Jewry was at war; it did not plunge mankind into darkness for a thousand years; it came to bring salvation to the Gentile world!"
— Rothschild biographer Marcus Eli Ravage [source]
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"It is unbelievable, but you Christians do not seem to know where your religion came from, nor how, nor why. Your historians do not tell you. The documents in these case, which are part of your Bible, you chant over but do not read. We have done our work too thoroughly; you believe our propaganda too implicitly."
"The coming of Christianity is to you not an ordinary historical event growing out of other events of the time, it is the fulfilment of a divine Jewish prophecy. It did not, as you see it, destroy a great Gentile civilization and a great Gentile empire with which Jewry was at war; it did not plunge mankind into darkness for a thousand years; it came to bring salvation to the Gentile world!"
— Rothschild biographer Marcus Eli Ravage [source]
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A Spasm Of Destruction Never Seen Before
In a spasm of destruction never seen before—and one that appalled many non-Christians watching it—during the fourth and fifth centuries, the Christian Church demolished, vandalized and melted down a simply staggering quantity of art.
Classical statues were knocked from their plinths, defaced, defiled and torn limb from limb. Temples were razed to their foundations and burned to the ground.
A temple widely considered to be the most magnificent in the entire empire was levelled. Many of the Parthenon sculptures were attacked, faces were mutilated, hands and limbs were hacked off and gods were decapitated.
Books—which were often stored in temples—suffered terribly. The remains of the greatest library in the ancient world, a library that had once held perhaps 700,000 volumes, were destroyed in this way by Christians.
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Source: The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey.
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In a spasm of destruction never seen before—and one that appalled many non-Christians watching it—during the fourth and fifth centuries, the Christian Church demolished, vandalized and melted down a simply staggering quantity of art.
Classical statues were knocked from their plinths, defaced, defiled and torn limb from limb. Temples were razed to their foundations and burned to the ground.
A temple widely considered to be the most magnificent in the entire empire was levelled. Many of the Parthenon sculptures were attacked, faces were mutilated, hands and limbs were hacked off and gods were decapitated.
Books—which were often stored in temples—suffered terribly. The remains of the greatest library in the ancient world, a library that had once held perhaps 700,000 volumes, were destroyed in this way by Christians.
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Source: The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey.
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I still hear the myth repeated that "scientists" proved the ancient city of Sodom was in fact destroyed by a meteor, and this therefore became the basis of the Sodom & Gomorrah legend in the Bible. But that never happened. The science has been proved fraudulent. And those "scientists" were Christian creationists all along.
The only evidence (as opposed to mere assertions) presented for the claim was that some scattered micromaterials that underwent high heat were recovered at the site—but not in any concentration or quantity as would entail a total destruction of the city.
In other words, all they found was evidence of ceramic and smelting industries. There was no other evidence. But of course Christian propagandists are still using this claim to promote their beliefs—without any mention of it having been debunked.
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The only evidence (as opposed to mere assertions) presented for the claim was that some scattered micromaterials that underwent high heat were recovered at the site—but not in any concentration or quantity as would entail a total destruction of the city.
In other words, all they found was evidence of ceramic and smelting industries. There was no other evidence. But of course Christian propagandists are still using this claim to promote their beliefs—without any mention of it having been debunked.
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A Jewish-Imposed Belief
In Voltaire's view, Christians could ultimately be transformed into good citizens for Christianity was no more than a "Jewish-imposed belief" on a European people whose cultural and ethnic inheritance should have rightly stemmed from Classical Rome.
According to Voltaire, though Christians were steeped in narrow-minded superstitious nonsense, they could still be saved, for after all, they were racially Europeans. Christianity was merely an overlay on their
basic noble character.
But as the Jews were "Asiatic," they never could be good citizens as their corrupt nature was a racial component. It was part of their physical essence and thus could not be abandoned.
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From: Voltaire and the Jews by Maxine Schur.
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In Voltaire's view, Christians could ultimately be transformed into good citizens for Christianity was no more than a "Jewish-imposed belief" on a European people whose cultural and ethnic inheritance should have rightly stemmed from Classical Rome.
According to Voltaire, though Christians were steeped in narrow-minded superstitious nonsense, they could still be saved, for after all, they were racially Europeans. Christianity was merely an overlay on their
basic noble character.
But as the Jews were "Asiatic," they never could be good citizens as their corrupt nature was a racial component. It was part of their physical essence and thus could not be abandoned.
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From: Voltaire and the Jews by Maxine Schur.
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"The cross posits to fearful spirits the confusing thesis: You are born so that you die! Paganism proceeds from the realisation: You are born so that you live! Here lies the fundamental separation between the beyond of the cross and the conscious worldliness of paganism. Herein also lie the reciprocally exclusive character impulses: cross equals humility and paganism equals bearing!"
— Kurt Eggers (The SS Warrior Poet)
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— Kurt Eggers (The SS Warrior Poet)
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That First, Tumultuous Century Of Christian Rule
It is thought that when Constantine had come to the throne, around ninety per cent were not Christian. By the end of that first, tumultuous century of Christian rule, estimates suggest that this figure had been reversed: between seventy and ninety per cent of the empire were now Christian.
One law from around that time declared, entirely untruthfully, that there were no more pagans. None. The aggression of the claim is remarkable. Christians were writing the wicked pagans out of existence.
Tens of millions of people had converted—or were said to have converted—to a new and alien religion, in under a century. Religions that had lasted for centuries were dying with remarkable rapidity. And if some of these millions were converting not out of love of Christ but out of fear of his enforcers? No matter, argued Christian preachers. Better to be scared in this life than burn in the next.
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From: The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey.
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It is thought that when Constantine had come to the throne, around ninety per cent were not Christian. By the end of that first, tumultuous century of Christian rule, estimates suggest that this figure had been reversed: between seventy and ninety per cent of the empire were now Christian.
One law from around that time declared, entirely untruthfully, that there were no more pagans. None. The aggression of the claim is remarkable. Christians were writing the wicked pagans out of existence.
Tens of millions of people had converted—or were said to have converted—to a new and alien religion, in under a century. Religions that had lasted for centuries were dying with remarkable rapidity. And if some of these millions were converting not out of love of Christ but out of fear of his enforcers? No matter, argued Christian preachers. Better to be scared in this life than burn in the next.
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From: The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey.
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"Our tribal customs have become the core of your moral code. Our tribal laws have furnished the basic groundwork of all your august constitutions and legal systems. Our legends and our folk-tales are the sacred lore which you croon to your infants. Our poets have filled your hymnals and your prayer-books."
"Our national history has become an indispensable part of the learning of your pastors and priests and scholars. Our Kings, our statesmen, our prophets, our warriors are your heroes. Our ancient little country is your Holy Land."
"Our national literature is your Holy Bible. What our people thought and taught has become inextricable woven into your very speech and tradition, until no one among you can be called educated who is not familiar with our racial heritage."
— Rothschild biographer Marcus Eli Ravage [source]
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"Our national history has become an indispensable part of the learning of your pastors and priests and scholars. Our Kings, our statesmen, our prophets, our warriors are your heroes. Our ancient little country is your Holy Land."
"Our national literature is your Holy Bible. What our people thought and taught has become inextricable woven into your very speech and tradition, until no one among you can be called educated who is not familiar with our racial heritage."
— Rothschild biographer Marcus Eli Ravage [source]
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"The oldest known image we have of Jesus . . . dates to around 235 CE. So, basically, we have nothing from the first 200 years after Jesus' death."
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"Christians proclaim their opposition to Paganism, yet celebrate Easter, which is named after the Pagan Goddess Eostre. And they don't celebrate this most important of festivals on a fixed date which marks the crucifixion of Jesus, but according to a Pagan lunar calendar. Even more absurdly, they mark this holy day by eating eggs, a symbol of the Pagan Goddess. Why don't we have chocolate crucifixes? After all, Christianity is about eating the body of Christ. Although it might be a bit of a problem deciding which end to start."
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From: The Laughing Jesus by Tim Freke.
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From: The Laughing Jesus by Tim Freke.
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"Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left you alone. But we did not leave you alone. We took you in hand and pulled down the beautiful and generous structure you had reared, and changed the whole course of your history."
"We conquered you as no empire of yours ever subjugated Africa or Asia. And we did it all without bullets, without blood or turmoil, without force of any kind. We did it solely by the irresistible might of our spirit, with ideas, with propaganda."
"We made you the willing and unconscious bearers of our mission to the whole world, to the barbarous races of the world, to the countless unborn generations. Without fully understanding what we were doing to you, you became the agents at large of our racial tradition, carrying our gospel to unexplored ends of the earth."
— Rothschild biographer Marcus Eli Ravage [source]
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"We conquered you as no empire of yours ever subjugated Africa or Asia. And we did it all without bullets, without blood or turmoil, without force of any kind. We did it solely by the irresistible might of our spirit, with ideas, with propaganda."
"We made you the willing and unconscious bearers of our mission to the whole world, to the barbarous races of the world, to the countless unborn generations. Without fully understanding what we were doing to you, you became the agents at large of our racial tradition, carrying our gospel to unexplored ends of the earth."
— Rothschild biographer Marcus Eli Ravage [source]
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The Christian problem in a nutshell. I have yet to meet one Christian who does not believe the "pagan nations like Rome"—and therefore Europeans as a whole—to be "wicked" unless we "follow the instructions of Christ the King" (of the Jews).
True morality promotes the survival of a folk—and "wrath" against your enemies is therefore perfectly justified—not its extermination through passivity, racial apathy, and the prioritization of the preservation and adoption of another people's traditions and (mythological) history.
Nothing is more wicked than glorifying that which has destroyed what so many of our ancestors died trying to preserve: The worship of our Gods, our blood, and our soil, rather than the God of Israel, his chosen people, and their holy land.
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True morality promotes the survival of a folk—and "wrath" against your enemies is therefore perfectly justified—not its extermination through passivity, racial apathy, and the prioritization of the preservation and adoption of another people's traditions and (mythological) history.
Nothing is more wicked than glorifying that which has destroyed what so many of our ancestors died trying to preserve: The worship of our Gods, our blood, and our soil, rather than the God of Israel, his chosen people, and their holy land.
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