Carlson and the Jews.
Tucker needs to do some reading. Never mind Christ preachings about “turning the other cheek” or “loving your enemy”, that is just words and words are cheap. The hard truth is that Christians, like Jews and Moslems and others killed and imprisoned many other humans for not being of their religion. What about the witch hunts?, what about the Inquisition and the progroms against the Jews? What about Protestants and Catholucs killing each other by the thousands?. In fact, the modern tolerance of different thoughts came to Christianity not from Jesus but from the Greeks who accepted different ideas, debated them, voted and applied the winning idea to the governance of the state in the form of democracy. Democracy preceded Christ by about 500 years but his position was exactly the same as Judaism; “there is only OnTruth and that is the word of God” (as he understood it, the followers of Moses held the belief that he was wrong). Jesus was a nice person but he was no democrat, nor is the Pope, the priests, the rabbis or the imans. Tucker should stop mixing up Christisnity with Western civilisation. Our Western civilisation is the continuation of Greek thought, the thought that civilised Christianity and European Jews with its renaissance during the Renaissance and the Enlightment and the American Revolution and French Revolutions and rebirth of democracy (although not real Greek democracy which even today, only in Switzerland we come close to it). Moslems just by a hair, missed the Greek “boat” and have been paying a huge price since. Christianity is the religion, the civilisation is Greek. Unfortunately, the Church is intrinsically anti democracy; in democracy there is not One Truth, in democracy no idea can claim to be superior because of what God or prophets say, in democracy a human puts his idea forward, the idea is debated and the majority decides, not God or any representative. As religion holds there is only One Truth, debate and democracy are out of the question. Judaism and Islam are roughly the same, although it is true that Christianity and European Judaism have come to accept democracy. I think Carlson should stick to “America First, Israel is another country” and criticise American Jews and non-Jews who put Israel first. That is a legitimate position. That some Jews might consider that antisemitism does not invalidate the criticism. Those Jews have the right to say so and Carlson and many others the right to respect but ignore the criticism. Those who consider Carlson an antisemite are creating more antisemitism. For all I know Carlson perhaps hates Jews but his criticism of the Jews and US politicians who in the opinion of many Anericans place Israel ahead of the US still would be valid. To conclude; I think Carlson should stick to basics and drop all the verbal pirouettes about Christian tolerance because it is largely bs.
