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Repost: The Merger of Judaism and Christianity in the Recent History of the West: A Civilizational Perspective Comparing Jews, White Gentiles, and Blacks

Repost: The Merger of Judaism and Christianity in the Recent History of the West: A Civilizational Perspective Comparing Jews, White Gentiles, and Blacks

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Hi, one of my commenters mentioned this post recently, so I thought it would be time for a repost, as many of my new followers have not read it. He thought the idea of the merger of the two religions in the US was a very interesting idea.

I’m sure someone has written about this before, but if so, I’m not aware of it. I’ll gladly take credit for being the first significant person to put this idea out there.

I believe a lot of Jews (but certainly not all) act bad in certain ways. Yet we all know Jews who don’t fit the stereotype, including all the Jews I grew up who were friends of my Judeophilic family. I also had some Jewish friends as a young man.

The thing is that I never thought these thoroughly assimilated Jews acted any different from anybody else. In fact, I never thought of their Jewishness much at all.

There was one couple who I knew well for 30 years before I learned they were Jewish. I met a few Jews here and there who fit the negative stereotype, but they were uncommon.

I di…

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