. I don't blame Shinto or Buddhism for the Rape of Nanking, for example. Do you?
This is different. These weren't orders from Shinto or Buddhists (I've NEVER heard of a Buddhist-led atrocity, can you name one?), this was a bunch of soldiers. The hierarchy of YOUR church is militaristic. In the past, it has advocated everything from bad public policy to human rights abuse to religious hegemony and repression. Neophites were prohibited from leaving the missions. I hike in the remote areas of the Bay Area and have found archeological testimony to the result of abuse laid upon natives of the Bay Area. If you left the mission (in 1800) you were hunted down and either beaten or killed, depending upon how many times you did it.
The Catholic Church (yes I'm talking about the church again because it was THE dominant organized religion in California) was responsible for terrible atrocities and has gotten a free ride in this state. The State of California, IMO, is guilty of fraud teaching my kids the story of the missions in California. The tour they took of Mission San Jose was about as biased and polished as any piece of Nazi propaganda.
So, if Jews have a religious-based policy that allows them to lay claim to land they had left generations before and impose their "repatriation" of Palestine under military force, is it anti-Semetic to say so? I don't think so. It is anti-aggressor based upon what I consider a work of fiction. The Torah, if historical, has lost more history than it remembers. High culture has existed in some form for 20,000 years. SO, where is the culture of people from 3000 years before the Hebrews were in Palestine. |
