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NETANYAHU: WESTERN CHRISTIANITY IS WEAK

Yesterday Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu held a press briefing (link) in which he uttered a syllogism of sorts that got quite a few panties in a twist. Admittedly, it sounded very important and grandiose, but upon close scrutiny it was quite simple. Those accusing Netanyahu of blasphemy are wrong. He can't be held by Christian standards, since he is either a Rabbinic Jew, or a liberal Israeli, the experts are unsure on that point. Let's have a look at what he actually said, what he possibly meant and if it makes any sense.


It is a quote from the Humanist author Will Durant, an American historian writing in "The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History":

"Nature and history do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad; they define good as that which survives, and bad as that which goes under; and the universe has no prejudice in favor of Christ as against Genghis Khan".

Wow! What is shock to the system! It is however simply the modern perspective on reality, even of most Christians, whether they are aware of it or not. Durant is painting the Modernist, as well as the pre Christian reality, in which might makes right.

It was Western Christianity that inserted ethics into the frame of power and brutal force. The basics of what became Just War Theory were first formulated by Saint Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan (339-397) and expanded on by Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430), who introduced moral constraints on warfare.

The most systematic formulation came from Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), whose "Summa Theologicae" laid the foundation for modern Just War Theory, which in the post World War 2 era, was adopted by the UN and its platforms for international law.

Today, with secularism being as good as universal in global institutions, the principles and the role of Just War Theory are getting less relevant and are less adhered to by the day. There are two reasons for this phenomenon.

The first reason is that Christianity itself has been replaced in many parts of the West with secular Modernism, as described by Durant. It rests on the philosophic doctrine of  Hume's Law (link): you can't draw moral principles from material reality! 

This is what guided Durant's conclusion and Netanyahu's assertion. Durant wasn't a Christian, but a modern Humanist. We tend to lose sight that there are marked differences between the two.

Modern materialists have translated versions of Christian ethics into secular law, but it entirely lacks the philosophical roots to do so. Which is why it is now withering on the vine and will shortly disappear altogether. We are reverting to pre Christian basics.

Secondly, many enemies of the West are not Christians, and are therefore not even subject to the constraints of Western Christian moral principles, or secular versions thereof. 

Eastern Christians, Jews and Muslims are not morally guided by the remnants of Western Christian sensibilities in secular Modernism. This puts those in the West who are still subject to that doctrine, at a permanent disadvantage. And that is what Netanyahu is talking about.

It goes to show that American Evangelical dispensationalists, whose highest moral guides seem to be the Jewish Old Testament Covenants, have no legs to stand on either! 

We saw them in action just this week, in the mother of all hate campaigns against Roman Catholics. In a reaction to a screed posted on X last Sunday, I expressed my suspicion that the target are Roman Catholics as well as Orthodox Christians. Protestants can't tell the difference. To them it all smacks of 'papism' (link). 

This may not be the time, but there will come a moment of choosing for Evangelical dispensationalists. They will have to decide if they are Christians, or if they will join Rabbinic Judaism. Are they followers of the God-Man and the founder of the Church, or are they members of a branch of Judaism that no longer exists? 

Present day Rabbinic Judaism is a post Christian religion founded in AD 90 by the Council of Jamnia. After the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70 by the Romans, Judaism had to be redefined since animal sacrifice at the Temple was no longer possible.

The assembled rabbis rejected early Christian teachings, adding to the daily prayers the Birkat ha-Minim, an anti goyim curse on heretics that includes Jewish Christians, calling them minim or Nazarenes.

The rabbis banned the old Septuagint, the Greek Bible translation and took the decision to reorganize and retranslate the Hebrew Bible, the Masoretic text (link), a job that took them well into the Middle Ages. 

The return of the Jews to Israel has nothing, absolutely zero, to do with the Old or the New Testament. It is a made-up notion that has its origin in Britain, pre or post Reformation, that made its way into the founding of the US. Watch this for an explanation (video). 

Many people today have a false idea of their own beliefs, have no notion of its roots, history of their actual view of man and of the world. It is a total shambles!

Let's thank Benjamin Netanyahu for finally pointing that out.


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