And if you haven’t the moral courage to SAY it is wrong, if you are so indoctrinated into relativism that you cannot see the wrongness of it, then you’re in bad shape. Your humanity is lacking something.
Wrong.
Wrong.
What is that saying…”this time is out of joint…”
Better yet…
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
- W.B. Yeats
October 30th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
No more coffee, no more caffeine after 8 O’clock.
October 31st, 2005 at 12:34 am
What would the world without Zionism be for most people in Muslim countries? Pretty much the same one most of them live in now - brutal, autocratic, and poor. They just wouldn’t have Israel to blame for all their problems.
Jews worldwide make up less than .01 of this planet’s population. Israel is such a tiny sliver of a country. And the boundless, fathomless hatred inspired by that people and that nation makes the mind reel. I do not hesitate to call anti-Semitism satanic.
October 31st, 2005 at 1:10 am
Wow, Anchoress!! You are really on a tear today! When this morning’s postings are on another page, I know the Spirit is busy!
Great work, as always!
Socialism, the movement always in need of a handout, decided long ago to hitch their wagon to the oil rich Arab world. It doesn’t hurt, either, that the Arab world blames the US for Israel’s existence and continued presence. Who knows? Maybe that wagon will go over a cliff soon. Hope springs eternal.
October 31st, 2005 at 1:38 am
“I do not hesitate to call anti-Semitism satanic.”
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You are right on target, Donna! It has been the toxin of many civilizations. Just when you think they’re going to get their way, God shows them otherwise, and Israel survives, against all odds.
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They will never understand that, when God said to Israel, “I will bless those who bless thee and curse those who curse thee”, He wasn’t (and isn’t) kidding.
October 31st, 2005 at 5:51 am
I have never understood anti-Semitism -never. And I agree it is satanic. Peter Kreeft in one of his books says that God made a covenant with the Jews, and God does not break His word.
October 31st, 2005 at 12:39 pm
I have to say I’m amazed at the lack of outrage over the “wiping Israel” comment. It is the very definition of “wrong” to me.
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The person who made that comment was suggesting the violent overthrow of a government, the murder or servitude of at least several million people, and a gigantic land-grab.
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Many are fond of claiming that the U.S. went into the war in Iraq as an oil-grab, but no one ever accused us of wanting to ‘wipe Iraq off the face of the map’ (I will observe I cringed over some on the far right who gave into the hyperbole of talking about “glassing over” the country, presumably with a nuclear bomb. And I think they should have been more excoriated for that). But for all the accusations and vitriol leveled at the U.S., where’s the anger over the Iranian comment? And where’s the concern, the people going, “wow…if someone in their GOVERNMENT thinks that’s an appropriate thing to say, then something is very, very wrong there.”
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I guess I never thought of the justification of anti-Semitism as satanic before, but it makes sense (Although it wouldn’t make sense to someone who didn’t believe in God, and who didn’t believe that the Jews were in covenant with Him, which is probably the beliefs of at least some in the journalistic community).
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The only other thing I can say is: this scares me. It scares the hell out of me, the way 9-11 scared the hell out of me. I really hope no one is evil (and insane) enough to try to put the Iranian politician’s wish into reality.
October 31st, 2005 at 1:05 pm
I have seen it said before, and I agree, that the best empirical evidence for the existence of Satan (and hence God) is anti-Semitism. It seems that every ‘evil’ group, whatever else their goals and plans has to throw in hatred of Jews. As though some powerful force is animating that hatred.
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Even Mao made a special point of hating Jews, and China certainly has never had a ‘jewish problem.’
October 31st, 2005 at 7:08 pm
That Yeats poem is one I’ve thought about many times since 9/11. It is eerie how apropos it often seems these days.
As far as the poster and the “World Without Zionism” conference goes, the mullahs have been very careful to appeal to the left through their imagery and their use of language. See here.
November 1st, 2005 at 12:44 am
Note that the second image is at Harvard.
It seems to me that a very high proportion of the hate and resentment that exists in America today originates on university campuses.