Posted on 03/25/2015 8:19:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
American Jews are anything but monolithic in opinion. The first great conservative leader of postwar America was also the only major party nominee of Jewish descent: Barry Goldwater. During the Cold War, individual American Jews made enormous contributions to the cause of liberty.
Admiral Rickover almost single-handedly created the most effective part of our Triad Defense System: nuclear submarines. Morris Childs, the highest-ranking FBI agent in the Communist Party USA, provided our government with priceless intelligence collected within the Kremlin’s inner sanctum, knowing that if caught he would be tortured to death. AT contributor Herb Meyer, when in the Reagan CIA, was the first man to fully embrace bloodless but total victory against the Evil Empire.
Milton Friedman articulated free-market benevolence as well as anyone in the twentieth century, and Ayn Rand, with literary genius and an incisive, uncompromising mind, made the case for Libertarianism in ways that connect to young people as well as any other thinker has in the last fifty years.
It remains, however, a stubborn and frustrating fact that a preponderance of American Jews feel sympathy with American leftism. The origin of this sympathy has never been rational and has been, instead, an emotional reaction to the perception of American conservatism.
Consider social conservatism. This is almost invariably portrayed by the left as crazy Christians, yet true Christian social conservatism rests entirely upon Judaism. It is the left that rejects the inestimable gift of traditional Jewish morality, and it is the right that embraces that gift.
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The jews over there they learned their lesson. The ones here would walk into the ovens while watching Shindler’s list.
They think a bunch of slogans is deep thinking.
But that’s just one symptom of a spiritual issue.
In their souls they KNOW the Lord is preserving them by means of a promise. The trouble is that they are getting arrogant about it. They think they deserve the wonderful lot they have (for the most part) just because they are so wonderful themselves. They ignore the fact that the often-unrequited love from God is keeping them around and even prospering them.
Christians didn’t cook up this idea. It’s in the Hebrew scriptures.
That is exactly right. Many have noted that if you are a liberal first, then your religious beliefs come in a distant second, e.g., CINOs, JINOs, MINOs (Mormons). Your worldview is framed by liberalism, not your purported religion.
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>> “In their souls they KNOW the Lord is preserving them by means of a promise.” <<
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That promise is for his believing remnant, the “people for his name,” not everyone that dares to call themselves an Israelite.
He destroyed an entire generation of them in the Sinai desert for unbelief, before they were allowed to re-enter the land.
Perhaps they do believe as you said, but arrogantly, and falsely.
‘The Great ObamaNation’s’ and his party’s contumelyness toward Jews, Israel and in particular to PM Netanyahu will be completely overlooked by the worldly and self loathing members of the Jewish community.
As others have already noted, the answer is a resounding NO.
As even with many Christians - Leftism/Marxism is their true religion - Government is their true god.
Making government all-powerful and the center of everything in life is their Gospel. Religion comes first among such people, even before The Creator Himself - who receives mere lip service at best.
Obama is their messiah.
The only danger they will ever see, is an individual who has faith in God first and foremost and is governed by principles of liberty and eschews the ideology of making government god.
I wish something would wake them up!!!
I suspect most of the referenced “Jews” are Jewish in name only. They are not Jewish in culture and do not practice Judaism. I doubt they will ever “wake up.”
Among Orthodox Jews, Israel is THE issue. AJC is NOT representative of Orthodox Jews. They are strictly left-wingers.
Social free-riders are a different issue from lost souls.
No.
They are some of the smartest people in the world, but they are blind as a bat to certain social forces playing out in the world right now. I do not know what will wake them up.
RE: They are some of the smartest people in the world, but they are blind as a bat to certain social forces playing out in the world right now.
Smart does not necessarily translate to WISE.
King Solomon proved it thousands of years ago.
They vote like urban Yankees, excepting Orthodox.
And I think therein lies the problem. I have read several articles which argue that Urban life skews people's perspective towards Liberal statist thinking.
MOST people who live in Urban areas vote Liberal. If you look at a county by county map of the last two Presidential elections, you quickly realize that the rural areas went Republican by large percentages, while the Urban areas voted Democrat.
I think it used to be, but modernism has corrupted everyone's perception of what is important and skewed our thinking towards inane pop culture.
RE: Among Orthodox Jews, Israel is THE issue. AJC is NOT representative of Orthodox Jews. They are strictly left-wingers.
Current estimates are that there are upward of 6 millions Jews in the USA.
The way I see it, in terms of affiliation, there are Orthodox Jews, Reform Jews, Conservative Jews, Reconstructionists and Secular Jews.
Of the above groups, which ones take the issue of Israel seriously and how many percent of the Jewish population in America do they occupy?
Of that I am well aware. I often remark that some of the worst disasters that befell this nation were the result of having "Brilliant!" Presidents.
It seems as though all the "geniuses" create horrible messes, and it is left to the ordinary or even "Dull" Presidents to solve them.
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In a word - NO.
The Jewish Left comes from the Enlightenment. It was their way out of the ghetto and into the halls of power.
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