{"id":1727,"date":"2014-05-25T23:47:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2014-05-26T23:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:20:14","slug":"anti-semitism-one-source-the-big-two-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitism: One Source, the &#8220;Big Two&#8221; Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/antisemtism1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/antisemtism1.jpg\" alt=\"antisemtism1\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1728\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Jerry Coyne<\/strong> over at his phenomenal website (not a blog) &#8220;Why Evolution Is True&#8221; has a disturbing post on Modern-day Anti-Semitism, scroll down one paragraph to catch his summary and the link to the original poll data <a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/24\/weekly-weird-comments\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders why does <strong>Holocaust<\/strong> denial and <strong>Anti-Semitism<\/strong> persist? It would take a lot of research and a whole other post to hit Holocaust denial so I&#8217;ll stick to comments on Anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, some feel the extremists in any religion ruin the rep for the other &#8220;<em>moderates<\/em>&#8221; in a given religion: think Xian fundies like Fred Phelps&#8230; and unfortunately a gozillion others, who supposedly give Xianity a bad rap. Furthermore, consider the extremist Islamists, and some of the Orthodox Jews, the so-called &#8220;<em>Zionists<\/em>&#8221; who paint a bleak picture of their religions and exasperate the &#8220;<em>moderates<\/em>&#8221; who claim their real religion just isn&#8217;t like that and the &#8220;<em>extremists<\/em>&#8216; are just interpreting their respective scriptures all wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bullshit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/antisemitism3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/antisemitism3.jpg\" alt=\"antisemitism3\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1729\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s there, in the Koran, plain as day.<br \/>\nAnd just like Fred Phelps and all the other &#8220;<em>extremists<\/em>,&#8221; with Xiansanity\u2122 the verses are there in the Bible as well. Doesn&#8217;t take any creative interpretation at all to come up with the &#8220;<em>Jews killed Jesus<\/em>&#8221; anymore than gays are an abomination and deserve death. Its all right there for anyone to read. Oh, Joy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Antisemitism2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Antisemitism2.jpg\" alt=\"Antisemitism2\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t the religions of Peace and Love just lovely?<br \/>\nAlso here in Amerika, the &#8220;<em>revered<\/em>&#8221; Reverend Billy Graham, another proponent of the Religion of Love was noted for his deep, deep Anti-Semitism, but hey he was just being a good Protestant following in the deep, deep footsteps of the founder of the Protestant movement, the Big Daddy of all Anti-Semites: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/martinluther.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/martinluther.jpg\" alt=\"martinluther\" width=\"337\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1731\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/martinluther.jpg 337w, http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/martinluther-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Martin Luther<\/strong>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out Luther&#8217;s charming little pamphlet &#8220;<em>On the Jews and their Lies<\/em>&#8221; containing violent, disgusting, adolescent-level invective worthy of the most hardened Neo-Nazi skinhead:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/onthejewsandtheirlies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/onthejewsandtheirlies.jpg\" alt=\"onthejewsandtheirlies\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1732\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs Xians, growing up most of us never heard of it, and you&#8217;d think it must an aberration or an out and out fabrication, but you can google it yourself and read hundreds of articles, heck it even has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies\">WIKI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many apologists from both of the &#8220;<em>Big Two<\/em>&#8221; will claim any hatred described is overblown and whatever hatred is there is mainly due to other causes; political, economic or cultural&#8230; it has nothing to do with religion.<br \/>\nUh, huh. Read for yourself. Both scriptures: Koran and Bible, and Luther&#8217;s ugly little treatise on how to treat your fellow humans and ask yourself:<br \/>\n&#8220;Take religion out of the equation and how much hatred is left?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>End Religion Now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"1727\"> (1204)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Coyne over at his phenomenal website (not a blog) &#8220;Why Evolution Is True&#8221; has a disturbing post on Modern-day Anti-Semitism, scroll down one paragraph to catch his summary and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/?p=1727\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[342,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wearedone.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}