The Jewish story that begins with exodus sends its signal down through time about the character of men who would be gods. With the help of God, so goes this story, the Jews pleaded, God interceded, and the Jews fled Pharaoh and what he represented.

Who were the Jews?

What manner of human gathered out in the desert to do things perhaps a little differently?

These throwbacks under the black flag seem the pestilence of each generation, and, as my old Haggadah stated, “With every generation a little more freedom is won.”

Jewish Universalism may have gotten a bit of a push by Hillel the Elder who died around 10-CE, a date significant for what may have been left for Jesus and later Paul and Constantine to both pick up and exploit against the backdrop of decayed and restive Rome, and the same may then have come into Muhammad’s purview. Two of the three monotheist houses have been vying a long time to suppress and eliminate the people who first abandoned Pharaoh, and to do it, it seems some keep becoming Pharaoh-like in their ambition, political absolutists served by an immoral and vacuous loyalty above all.

I think that’s where we all are and we ought to come forward of those old positions, say hello, embrace, and get on with being done with the bloodiest of despots.

However, it’s a large job, and watching Lord of the Rings doesn’t really help us anymore. ๐Ÿ™‚

The Catholic Church dropped its habitual charge of Deicide against the Jews in 1964 (the Lutherans of the U.S. took a decade or two longer), and parts of the Christian community have moved on to a pro-Zionist position based on their eschatology.

Islam may be more challenged, but deep down in it, one hears . . . Hillel: ” whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” It too will shear away from the barbarism sustained in the existence of the Muslim Brotherhood and its many associates.

And if we are lucky, we may all come through being a little bit something else, even more Jewish but equally more wise in being ourselves.

WWWIII: solved.

Wake me for the next one. ๐Ÿ˜€