Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00208)

Eugene Carpenter wrote:

> There is a difference between 1.  esoteric cultural criticism, 2. anti-Jew
> remarks and 3. anti-semitism.  Only the latter is pathological.

    I would state that anti-semitism was originally coined as a euphenism for
"anti-Jew". The key on whether or not its pathological is whether the reasons
are based on facts or lies.

> Again I see nothin anti-Jew or anti-Semitic in any of Alice Bailey comments.
> Let's define our terms and start fresh.

    Except that many of her conclusions are based on false and slanderous
inferences. Just for example, the line quoted earlier about the Germans dealing
with the Jews the way the Jews dealt with their enemies in the Old Testament.
That picture was created by Protestant ministers in the 19th Century. The Jews
only attacked those who would not make peace, in self-defense. The Germans, on
the other hand, attacked the Jews for no reason other than hatred and greed.

    Bart Lidofsky


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