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“IT’S CHRISTMAS and I’m in Jerusalem. And already I feel awkward. “ So begins Andrew Bolt’s Christmas epiphany. For Bolt the question is, “Where should I go for Christmas? Why, Israel of course!”
And then he has the gall to disparage any notion that he’s a neoconservative.
“It seems an amazing co-incidence that three great religions should all think parts of Israel holy to them, and that two should have been born in a country so tiny that you could fit it into Tasmania four times over.
But what is truly amazing is that it’s actually no coincidence at all. It’s nothing at all to do with something spiritual in the water, of which there’s so little that the Jordon River seems more like a creek.
It’s really the birthplace of just one religion, Judaism. But so short is the world of good ideas that the best seem to spread.
Christians were really just one of the many branches of Jewish faith, like the sect that hid the Dead Sea Scrolls in the hills overlooking the Dead Sea,
Jesus was a Jew, and the early Christians met in the network of synagogues scattered throughout the Roman Empire, where one in 12 citizens were Jewish. It took St Paul to start nudging this Jewish faith into something very distinctive.
And when Muhammad decided to invent a religion of his own, he looked at what had worked best in his part of the world and pinched from both.”
So, Christianity is just “one of the many branches of Jewish faith” who for some mad crazy reason call themselves Christians rather than Jews. After all, “Jesus was a Jew”, right? “early Christians met in the network of synagogues” that were being persecuted by Jews, like Paul. What? Jews persecuting Jews? Why did they do that since these were all just Jews? And I’d have to check this factoid about Christians hiding out in synagogues. Sounds rather bizarre to me.
And what’s this, it took a Jew who persecuted Christians, and then converted to this Jewish branch called Christianity, to make Christianity? So Christianity, named after Christ the Son of God who died and rose from the dead (all tenets of the Jewish faith according to Bolt) was totally Jewish until Paul came along. Does Bolt even understand what the Pharisees represented in the Bible or what Talmudic Judaism is today, or the fusion of Paganism, Greek philosophy and Roman law into what is the #1 universal Christian faith that is Catholicism?
Why on earth did “the Jews” (who were Pharisees, since it must be spelled out it seems) kill Christ, if he was a Jew doing Jewish things? Could it possibly be that modern Judaism extends from the Pharisaical and Talmudic Jews, none of which or whom have anything whatsoever to do with Christianity?
And, not that I necessarily want to defend Islam, but what evidence does Bolt have that “Muhammad decided to invent a religion of his own”? Could it be possible that Muhammad had revelations that had nothing at all to do with Judaism nor Christianity? Is it possible to consider that Islam is not a cynical rational decision to combat Judaism nor Christianity, and is in fact a genuine religious outpouring?
Is Bolt, the self proclaimed agnostic, himself having a religious experience – “In Israel, even this agnostic can glimpse the eternal.”? Is Bolt’s choice a cynical and deliberate act, to dismantle Christianity and Islam as merely being false diversions from the one true religion in Talmudic Judaism?
Why doesn’t Cardinal Pell slap this blasphemy from Bolt down? Why doesn’t the Catholic Church, or is that the Judeo-Catholic Church, say something about this absurdity from Bolt? Stand up for your and our faith Pell. Theologically and historically Bolt has everything completely arse about. And it doesn’t surprise me at all to see other White Nationalists despise Christianity, seeing it as Judaism by proxy when the #1 mainstream, so called conservative, columnist comes out with absolute ahistorical and theological idiocy like this.
Is Bolt even aware of what the Talmud, of which all Jews are adherents today, says about Christ, as obscene as it is?
Where Bolt says:
“It seems an amazing co-incidence that three great religions should all think parts of Israel holy to them, and that two should have been born in a country so tiny that you could fit it into Tasmania four times over.” does he have any idea at all, does he even understand Judaism? That Judaism was born with Abraham, and that Abraham was born in Ur, Babylon (Iraq for Bolt to understand)? Israel was a promise, not the place of birth. Israel was handed to the Jews through bloody invasion and conquest, at God’s behest and command. Does Bolt even read the Old Testament? Farrrrrrr out, it is maddening to see this idiocy. It is so thoroughly infuriating. What the fuck happened to my nation that this idiot Bolt is the preeminent “conservative” columnist!?
“IT’S CHRISTMAS and I’m in Jerusalem. And already I feel awkward.” So you should you complete galoot. The blind are truly leading the blind.
Update:
In my anger I forgot to pay particular attention to this statement: “It’s really the birthplace of just one religion, Judaism.”
That is categorical. Judaism is the true faith, the true religion. Christianity is merely an offshoot that wasn’t born in Israel. Unbelievable.