THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

KANE | 2006-04-26

Talking about my articles on the churches' historical war against genetic intelligence, Kane says,

"A lot of those eastern european converts I was talking about converted to avoid wars between Christians and Muslisms. That's a bit of an intellectual move right there. Of course, if you are one of those people who chooses not to believe in the conversion and believes that the Jews of today are the same ethnically as the Jews of the bible, this data won't really help you reach any conclusions. "

Kane, I have practically gotten a hernia from making hte point, over and over, that the so-called "Jews" today have no relationship to the Old Testament Jews.

Most of the Roman "Jews" were the Hellenized Jews who became the Christian Church in the first place.

I have said that so many times that others have told me they are bored with it.

Keep hitting me with the facts.

They'll sink in eventually.

COMMENTS (2)

#1 kane | 2006-04-27 01:14

"Kane, I have practically gotten a hernia from making hte point, over and over, that the so-called "Jews" today have no relationship to the Old Testament Jews."

I guess this makes me an "anti-semite." Well, I'm in no way saying their any less "Jewish," I'm just saying they aren't by blood. And frankly, everyone gets the label.

Although I must say, I do think the Jews I do talk to do appreciate the fact that I try to approach subjects with sensitivity when I talk to them.

#2 Peter | 2006-04-27 14:34

By "Helenized Jews", Bob means that almost all Jews in Roman times were converts to Judaism and had not racial connection with Judea. Bob has shown that from the Jews' own figures, "Jews" were more than 10% of the population of the Roman Empire, yet Judea itself was the size of a small county in the high desert hills of southwestern Syria. The hill country had a population of mixed race comprising Mediterranean whites and Macedonians and Persians of the Aryan race. It is for this reason they were called a "called people" or a "chosen people," since they they were culled from among other diverse races. Judea had one small town, Jerusalem, and about five tiny hamlets such as Bethlehem. Judaism was not the only religion in the small district of Judea, so whatever "racial Jews" there were in Old Testament times, their numbers were small. Judaism was all but wiped out by conversion to Christianity, as Bob says, and the hardcore that was distilled will have been of any race that existed in the Roman Empire.

Thus Bob is right to say that today's Jews have nothing to do with Old Testament Jews.