September 16, 2018 Sunday
Bedtime Story
The Story that Reverberates down the Corridors of History
From the Biblical accounts it seems that
Pontius Pilate and the faqir of Nazareth did not have merely the obvious legal
interrogation but some friendly philosophical discussion as well.
Following which it is definite that Pontius
Pilate did not wish to legally incriminate the man and wanted to let him go
free.
And yet in the final moment the prefect
gave in to the unruly crowd and the Jewish leaders who kept insisting and
reminding to Pilate that the mere claim to be the king is a direct challenge to
the Roman deification of Caesar and thus punishable by death sentence.
As it often happens even in today’s times
law of land was bent and set aside at the pressure of the mob.
In fact this event now goes by the name of
“Jewish Decide” which is a belief among the Christians that Jewish people were
responsible for the death of Jesus (even when law and state was on his side).
This justification comes from Matthew
27:24-25
‘When Pilate saw that he was getting
nowhere, but that instead uproar was starting, he took water and washed his
hands in front of the crowd.
“I am innocent of this man’s blood”, he
said.
“It is your responsibility!”
All the people answered, “His blood is on
us and on our children!”
This last sentence is known as the blood
curse whose effect would reverberate down the history.
The description of physical abuse and
torture of Jesus by Jewish guards, priests, rabbis, officials and then the
public has been portrayed so vividly that anyone who literally believes in
these fables is bound to develop permanent hatred or unconscious bias against
Jews.
The Holy Friday liturgies of the Orthodox
Church as well as the Greek Byzantine Catholic church use the expressions such
as “impious and transgressing people” and “the murderers of God, the
lawlessness nation of the Jews”.
It comes as no surprise to me now that Jews
have been persecuted relentlessly for so many centuries since then all over
Europe, both medieval and modern, both Western and Eastern, since at the core
all these apes in Europe are essentially believers of this class of fable and
must have, one way or the other, developed a group psychosis of hatred towards
this race.
Once this develops then confirmation bias
and social stigma only strengthens it further in a form of mass positive
feedback, a kind of psychological self-programming and self-reaffirmation of a
belief system that is seen with right-wing Hindus against Moslems in the Hindu
land.
French historian and holocaust survivor
Jules Isaac came out with a book in 1948 titled Jésus et Israël (Jesus and
Israel) which is a 600-page research on the relationship between the gospels
and widespread anti-Semitism all over Europe.
On comparing the verses of the Gospels with
the Catholic and Protestant scriptural commentaries he came to the conclusion
that the later portrayed a distorted picture of the relationship that existed
between Jesus and the people of Israel (read Jews) and Israel and Jesus.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
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