Today marks the Holocaust Remembrance Day—Yom Hashoah.
There is a fascinating video of Jews telling their “Survivor Stories” that are both about surviving the Holocaust and about coming to recognize that Jesus (Y’shua or Yeshua) is the Messiah.
The video may be purchased at this link and read about at this link.
Albuquerque is the home of the New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum which is at 415 Central Ave NW--downtown.
In the year 2009 AD the Holocaust was on the news quite a bit:
With Mahmud Ahmadinejad denying it.
Barak Obama affirming it.
Anne Frank’s 80th birthday being celebrated.
James Von (or, Van) Brunn shooting guards at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Let us not, ever, forget a statement made by an obviously militant extremist who actually blames all of the Jew’s suffering throughout history including the Holocaust; the Jewish persecution during the Holocaust, the 6,000,000 Jewish deaths during the Holocaust on whom?
THE JEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the quote:
The gravity of Jewish suffering over the ages, culminating in the Holocaust, makes it almost impossible to entertain any suggestion that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves.
This is, however, in a rather narrow sense, the truth.[1]
Who would even imagine such a sentiment?
Who would entertain it?
Who would actually state it?
Who would publish it as a cerebral accomplishment of theirs?
It was not a 1940s era goose-stepping Nazi.
It was not stated by a neo-Nazi group member.
These are the words, the thoughts, the heart and soul of the supposed champion of reason: Sam Harris.
…out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks — Luke 6:45
Notes:
[1] Sam Harris, The End of Faith—Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004), p. 93
Comments
That his from his book The End of Faith from 2004, so this is hardly news. Indeed if it was actually a truly controversial remark there would have been a bigger fuss about it when the book was originally released.
I have no idea why this website comes up on Google News as "news", when the author obviously has no idea about how to write in anything approaching a professional manner.
The quote is, to an extent, out of context; the following explanation is not printed.
You obviously have no understanding of what Sam Harris is attempting to say here. Not only is it out of context from his book...but even in context he is saying nothing that would be considered to be anti semetic or actually hateful. btw...Sam's mother who raised him....is Jewish.
This is called quote mining. You have to print the explanation that comes after that statement. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to make Sam Harris look anti-semetic.
Terrible quote mining at that. >->
Here is the full quote from pp95-96 of Harris' book. The full passage makes it quite clear
that Harris is making an entirely different point than Grinbank is suggesting. Harris is saying
that Judaism's theological claim that the Jews are a special, chosen people, has served to separate
them from the rest of society and from other religions, and thus provides a ready-made sectarian divide for violent conflict. It's a coherent claim, and as far as I can tell, is true to a first approximation.
Holocaust, makes it almost impossible to entertain any suggestion
that Jews might have brought their troubles upon themselves. This
is, however, in a rather narrow sense, the truth. Prior to the rise of
the church, Jews became the objects of suspicion and occasional persecution
for their refusal to assimilate, for the insularity and professed
superiority of their religious culture—that is, for the content
of their own unreasonable, sectarian beliefs. The dogma of a "chosen
people," while at least implicit in most faiths, achieved a stridence in
Judaism that was unknown in the ancient world. Among cultures
that worshiped a plurality of Gods, the later monotheism of the Jews
proved indigestible. And while their explicit demonization as a people
required the mad work of the Christian church, the ideology of
Judaism remains a lightning rod for intolerance to this day. As a
system of beliefs, it appears among the least suited to survive in a
theological state of nature. Christianity and Islam both acknowledge
the sanctity of the Old Testament and offer easy conversion to their
faiths. Islam honors Abraham, Moses, and Jesus as forerunners of
Muhammad. Hinduism embraces almost anything in sight with its
manifold arms (many Hindus, for instance, consider Jesus an avatar
of Vishnu). Judaism alone finds itself surrounded by unmitigated
errors. It seems little wonder, therefore, that it has drawn so much
sectarian fire. Jews, insofar as they are religious, believe that they are
bearers of a unique covenant with God. As a consequence, they have
spent the last two thousand years collaborating with those who see
them as different by seeing themselves as irretrievably so. Judaism
is as intrinsically divisive, as ridiculous in its literalism, and as at
odds with the civilizing insights of modernity as any other religion.
Jewish settlers, by exercising their "freedom of belief" on contested
land, are now one of the principal obstacles to peace in the Middle
East. They will be a direct cause of war between Islam and the West
should one ever erupt over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
@hexag1
If Sam Harris had said the same stuff about gays instead of jews, for example:
"Gays became the objects of suspicion and occasional persecution for their refusal to assimilate, for the insularity and professed superiority of their culture........."
the heads of his liberal supporters who posted above, would explode.
@Anonymous
"If Sam Harris had said the same stuff about gays..." He didn't. So anything after the ellipsis is irrelevant.
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