Emile, thanks
One of the notable things about your posts is that I always feel more ignorant and more in need of a complete ablution after reading them than before.
The derivation of "Jew" in English is clear enough, I think: Giw, Ju (ME), giu, juiu (OF), Judaeus (L), Ioudios (Gr), Jahuday (Aram.), Y'hudi (Heb), Y'hudai, Judah. But why do you only hate the members of the tribe of Judah or the nation of Judea? Don't you have enough hate to handle the Levites, Benjaminites, and the other remnants? True, Jesus only claimed to be King of the Judeans, in heritage from the earlier Judaen kings, but he (or some Mormon passing through) traced his ancestry back to David who claimed (and enforced his claim) to be not just the King of Judea but even the King of Israel.
I think it is ridiculous that you do not hate all of the sons of Jacob, and not just the Judeans. It shows sort of a circumscribed and restricted form of bigotry. If you really worked at it, you might grow to hate all Semites ("descendants of Shem"), or at least all Hebrews ("they who came across the river).
Here's to progress! |
