Kabbalah and Cabals

[Craig Clark]

Henry Musikar asks:

> No historian I, was there really ever a "rapid spread of Judaism?"

My source for this is Paul Johnson's _A History of Chrsitianity_. I 
am the first to admit that Johnson is often a VERY dubious historian, but 
his argument (in this regard) sounds plausible: there was a growing shift within the 
Roman Empire away from pantheism towards monotheism, with Judaism 
being the preferred form of monotheism until Christianity made its 
entrance. The widespread nature of Judaism within the Roman Empire 
facilitated the spread of Christianity because the latter was erected 
upon the foundation of the former.

> These anti-Semitic tracts usually go on to call blacks and Jews 
> mud-people and spawn of satan. Ancestry seems to be a very important 
> part of racism, ie. it's not just an individuals race, but pedigree, 
> like we're all just a bunch of dogs.

This particular piece came from a (very) small circulation newspaper 
published somewhere in the northern part of SA, where right-wing 
lunacy of all forms is relatively widespread among the white population. 
In 1992 I happened to be staying on a farm in the area which belonged 
to the family of a former employer of mine. His elderly mother - who 
had fled Russia at the time of the Bolshevik revolution - had years 
previously known the editor of the publication, as a result of which 
he insisted on sending them to her every month or so (she thought 
the newspaper was the work of an unhinged mind). Real looney 
tunes stuff: the international Zionist conspiracy was stirring up 
black South Africans (who were too stupid to be able to resist 
apartheid on their own) to challenge the last bastion of white 
Anglo-Saxon civilisation in Africa. BTW, I read the newspaper in the 
belief that one should Know Thine Enemy.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"