{"id":969,"date":"2019-03-27T19:48:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aniyostsef.com\/index\/?p=969"},"modified":"2019-03-29T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T19:54:56","slug":"the-heart-of-modern-religion-is-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aniyostsef.com\/index\/2019\/03\/27\/the-heart-of-modern-religion-is-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart Of Modern Religion Is Sick!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Where did Arab Muslims get their tropes of hatred for Israel and \u201cthe Jews\u201d? They got it from the Nazi Party \u2013 aka, Christian nationalists, aka, white supremacists. Where did Hitler\u2019s Nazis get their tropes of hatred for Jews and their eugenics ideas from? They got it from the United States of America, the originator of modern racism and eugenics. Though the USA has a history of anti-Semitism, hatred for Jews began hundreds of years before in Christian Europe, and now resides everywhere these white empires have touched. (Ghettos first began in Europe to separate the Jews from society, before being imported into the U.S. to separate black folk from white society.)<\/p>\n

The point I\u2019m making is two fold: 1) Jews are not the reason for a society\u2019s problems. And 2) until we admit the historical truths, archived and available for our viewing, people spouting conspiratorial hate will always seek to blame \u201cthe Jews\u201d as the ultimate source. Only because we allow them to! It keeps repeating, with or without provocation by Jews.<\/p>\n

The only solution is to reject religious fundamentalism, the source of and justification for anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia in this world. If a religion does not preach peaceful coexistence with people of other religions or of no religion in its very scriptures and in the mouths of its preachers, then it is a religion of separation, supremacy, and hatred for others who refuse to convert and obey. It is a religion that worships a false god of absolutism and hate. The violence and suffering of this modern world is intimately tied to human behavior, justified by such religious beliefs.<\/p>\n

When will those who need to hear and understand begin to listen? Aren\u2019t we tired of all this bloody and depressing suffering yet? It really is within our power to change this! We don\u2019t need a human imagined \u201cGod\u201d to do good unto our neighbors. We just need to behave this way! And it starts with a bit of faith and belief in the value of humanity.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Listen! We must confront the religious fundamentalism of *every religion* in *every country* that is dressing itself up as nationalism and ethnic\/racial supremacy. So long as religion influences politics and civil law, there will be no peace on this Earth! People \u2026 will \u2026 be \u2026 targeted \u2026 and suffer \u2026 at the hands of indifferent self-righteous humans, in the name of their religions\u2019 gods. There is only one way to end the violence and oppression, stop worshipping and justifying hate with false gods!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that it is not lost on people who follow this site that the threat fundamentalist Christians pose to the institutions of secular government in the U.S., and therefore to everyone\u2019s freedom of belief, or worse, has its disturbing parallels around the world. It does not take that deep a look to see that much of the world\u2019s most genocidal violence is motivated by and justified by, if not absolutely rooted in, the fundamentalist forms of many religions.<\/p>\n

Look at the genocidal violence against Muslims in Southeast Asia led by Buddhist monks \u2013 Buddhist monks!; or the genocidal violence of the Sunni Islamist extremists of ISIS against Yazidi, Christians, Jews, Shi\u2019a Muslims, and so many others in the Middle East, and Sunni Boko Haram against Christians in West Africa, Sunni al Qaeda against the West and the U.S. (9\/11) \u2014 all driven by fundamentalist Wahabi movement of Sunni Islam. There is also a fundamentalist movement among Hindus in India, and the extremist views of Shi\u2019a Hezbollah in the Middle East, energized and supported by the most militant form of Shi\u2019a Islam based most centrally in Iran. We should also see clearly the role that fundamentalist Judaism plays in the settler movement and treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, and never forget that a not-entirely-earlier form of fundamentalist Protestantism was (is) a main engine driving the racist, supremacist KKK.<\/p>\n

So, while our central focus is and will remain the U.S., it behooves us also to be mindful that the anti-democratic forces marching here are also marching elsewhere. There is a worldwide scourge of fundamentalist religions, especially where they ally as they so often do with nationalism and ethnic supremacy, and these have clear international connections. So, while we pursue our important goals here, it does behoove us to call on supporters of secular democratic governance worldwide, and moderate leaders of all faiths worldwide, to vigorously oppose the fundamentalists in their midst. Far more than our American democratic institutions are at stake.<\/p>\n

We will have more to say on religious fundamentalism here in the U.S.\u201d \u2013 Jews for a Secular Democracy, https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jewsdemocracy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where did Arab Muslims get their tropes of hatred for Israel and \u201cthe Jews\u201d? They got it from the Nazi Party \u2013 aka, Christian nationalists, aka, white supremacists. Where did Hitler\u2019s Nazis get their tropes of hatred for Jews and their eugenics ideas from? They got it from the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,17,10,11,9,16,18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanism","category-humanistic","category-judaism","category-non-theism","category-religion","category-secular","category-secularist","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Heart Of Modern Religion Is Sick! - For Truth and Honesty by JTF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/aniyostsef.com\/index\/2019\/03\/27\/the-heart-of-modern-religion-is-sick\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Heart Of Modern Religion Is Sick! - For Truth and Honesty by JTF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Where did Arab Muslims get their tropes of hatred for Israel and \u201cthe Jews\u201d? 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