Message from @devolved

Hahaha:
```What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose “early Christians” for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them... Neither has a pleasant smell.```
—Friedrich "The Hammer" Nietzsche, *The Antichrist*, from **No. 46**

Pelagius

2018-01-12 05:37:46 UTC

```The “early Christian”— and also, I fear, the “last Christian,” whom I may perhaps live to see— is a rebel against all privilege by profound instinct— he lives and makes war for ever for “equal rights.”...Strictly speaking, he has no alternative. When a man proposes to represent, in his own person, the “chosen of God”— or to be a “temple of God,” or a “judge of the angels”— then every other criterion, whether based upon honesty, upon intellect, upon manliness and pride, or upon beauty and freedom of the heart, becomes simply “worldly”— evil in itself... Moral: every word that comes from the lips of an “early Christian” is a lie, and his every act is instinctively dishonest— all his values, all his aims are noxious, but whoever he hates, whatever he hates, has real value... The Christian, and particularly the Christian priest, is thus a criterion of values.```
—*Ibid*

devolved

2018-01-12 06:26:48 UTC

he makes some good points

Chad Right

2018-01-12 06:47:57 UTC

I am reading "Culture of Critique"

Pelagius

2018-01-12 11:27:44 UTC

@Chad Right , excellent!

Pelagius

2018-01-12 11:30:33 UTC

@Josh , you might find this interesting: https://archive.org/details/TheScienceOfAnti-semitism_632
Alexander C. Cuza's essay (in 6 pages) 'The Science of Antisemitism'
Romania, 1922
Cuza was "the professor" to whom Codreanu, the honourable and valiant nationalist martyr, looked up to as an intellectual.

Josh

2018-01-12 11:30:55 UTC

Thanks, I'll check it out

Pelagius

2018-01-12 11:48:38 UTC

THREE STAGES IN THE MAKE-UP OF ANTI-SEMITISM
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According to this theory of ours, in the make-up of anti-Semitism we must distinguish three stages: instinct, consciousness, science.

*Instinct* always made the crowd, firstly preoccupied by its immediate material interests, oppose Jewish parasitism through popular movements, often times general and bloody, as it was among many others all over, e.g., the terrible movement of the Cossacks in the Ukraine led by Bogdan Hmelnischy in which over 250,000 Jews perished in 1649.

*Consciousness* of the Jewish menace is awakened gradually, first in the educated classes. Then it spreads and penetrates the masses. The former group unites with the people in supporting their demands. The latter thus become progressively aware themselves.

*Science* begins with partial researches, until it reaches - only in our day – the determination of its objective, namely, studying Judaism as a social phenomenon, lifted out from the medium in which it seeks to hide, concluding that it is a human problem, in fact the biggest, whose solution must be found.
```
—Alexander C. Cuza, 'The Science of Antisemitism'