To: average joe who wrote (35410 ) 4/19/2013 8:19:04 PM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (3) | Respond to Not only Jews but the original proto Christian Jew was of the lowest class of Jews , the untouchables & people on the bottom farmers fisherman & poor laborers that had two masters the Roman & the Pharisee prieststheoccidentalobserver.net first thing to be remembered if we do not wish to lose the scent here, is, that we are among Jews” (sec. 44). This much is obvious, but it bears repeating. Jesus was a Jew, as were his parents Joseph and Mary, and all 12 apostles. The three other main figures of the New Testament — Mark, Luke, and Paul — though not apostles, were also Jews. And the many unknown authors that contributed to the New Testament (NT) were almost certainly Jewish as well. This situation is not incidental, and not a question of individual character or action; “[it is] a matter of race .” And not just Jews, but lowly Jews — the ‘chandalas’, as Nietzsche calls them, the untouchables, the lumpenproletariat : “the people at the bottom, the outcasts and ‘sinners’, the chandalas within Judaism” (sec. 27). It was these men that gave birth to this great religion of redemption. ]10 Even granting that Nietzsche exaggerates here, it is clear that they were the low class, ‘blue collar’ people of the day — the farmers, fishermen, carpenters, and laborers. Christianity was born not simply of Jews, but of the lowest caste of Jews.foeda superstitio ” — vulgar superstition. This does not, however, mean that Nietzsche was opposed to ‘God’ in principle. He believed that every people and every culture need to create their own concept of religion, and of the divine. These things are a formalized recognition of respect and reverence toward that which embodies one’s highest values. Each culture and each era needs to create its god(s) anew, appropriate to their situation in the world. Western Europeans have utterly failed in this task
