THE RADICALISED RABBI is a blog on Judaism and its very useful ideas and the blogger a Secular Koranist and a revolutionary. You don't have to be Jewish to find Jewish ideas very useful in tidying up your thinking and turbo-charging your powers of reasoning to the extent that you can even predict most events and disasters. The West is heading for disaster with its insane policy of Transnational Progressivism, turning our global village into Sodom and Gomorrah attracting the same punishment.
Tuesday, 28 December 2021
Thursday, 23 December 2021
Claire Khaw praises Christianity for a change
Monday, 20 December 2021
Giving it both barrels - the coup de grâce for Western civilisation as we know it
Saturday, 18 December 2021
Jordan Peterson distracts Mohammed Hijab from denouncing the Trinity
The instinct argument is an interesting one and this is why I was pressing you to some degree on the issue of the definition of worship. I don't see much difference between the instinct to worship and the instinct to imitate and I do believe that there's compelling evidence psychological and biological that we human beings have a remarkably strong instinct to imitate and the question is what is it that we're oriented to imitate and I think if you look at the developmental psychology literature for example, it seems to be the case that if a child has an intact nervous system and they have one or two good models around them that they'll be drawn towards those good models and imitate them and develop quite healthily even under rather stressful circumstances and you know that instinct to imitate also underlies phenomena like the experience of awe and the experience of charisma and that charisma you know has an effect on attentional function and on the proclivity to behave and so I think the propositionalized arguments deliver the religious ideas over to the propositional camp and that's dominated already by scientists in many ways. It's it's a losing battle I don't think it's the right one. So one thing the West and Islam agree on although i think Islam is part of the West by the way because we're all People of the Book. The triune god in the Christian sense is still subordinate to a higher order unity and so there is a powerful movement towards monotheism in Judaism and Christianity and Islam and that seems to be a point of some agreement. We're also people who've made a decision collectively in some mysterious manner that a book should sit at the basis of culture, a specific book that's been aggregated in a strange way in a mysterious way and so we also agree on that and so that's a starting place at least and obviously there's been a lot of interpenetration of ideas between Islam and Judaism and Christianity. The prophets in Islam are the same prophets that go through the three major Western monotheistic religions so that's a fair bit of commonality and so that's a good place to start building bridges and so Islam is stringently monotheistic and then the submission idea. God is ineffable in a sense and so what does submission mean exactly and how is that related to worship and how is that related to the good let's say on a practical level.
Nietzsche announced the death of god in the late 1800s and you know what the consequences of that have been at least to some degree and of course Dostoevsky was talking about exactly the same things at pretty much exactly the same time but the philosopher of religion Eliad in his historical investigations indicated that the death of god is something that has happened to many cultures in many places over many times. It's not a unique event in let's say western history and his explanation for that at least in part was that as there's a movement towards unification under a monotheistic umbrella which is perhaps a precondition for the union of diverse people. One of the consequences of that is that that central unifying value becomes so abstracted because it has to cover such a multiplicity that it flies away. He called that deus abscondis if i remember correctly, the idea that the spirit just flies away because it no longer has an attachment to the world and one of the ways that Christianity solved that if you think about it from a psychological perspective was by was by insisting upon the presence of God in a canonic form right in an emptied form in a partially emptied form in the person of Christ in a particular place at a particular time and it's it's a variant of the prophetic idea although taken to its absolute extreme the prophetic idea is that there are people who are marked out in history marked out by God by their relationship with what's highest in some spectacular manner and so i guess one of the things I would say about the Islamic resistance to the idea of the divinity of Christ is that there is an emphasis on Islam on the special status of prophets of certain prophets and their particular special relationship with God which seems to elevate them above other men in some important sense and drawing a line precisely between that claim and the claim of divinity incarnate is not an easy matter.
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
8th Koraniyule 2021 with Joseph Atwill, author of Caesar's Messiah
Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Explaining Secular Koranism to Muslim YouTuber Omar Jarallah
A nationalist is capable of discussing the abstraction that is the long term national interest
If you desire national sovereignty for your nation, and you noticed that Iran gained national sovereignty after becoming a theocracy when previously it was only a Western puppet under the Shah, then you would see as a nationalist that theocracy gave Iran national independence.
Otherwise, you are just one of those antisemites and Islamophobes complaining about immigration who call themselves nationalists, but are in fact incapable of discussing the national interest in an honest and rational way.
If you cannot discuss whether Christianity is kaput because you fear to give offence to the Christian members of your family and associates who identify as cultural Christians, you are not really a nationalist either.
It is surely in the national interest to have a moral system at least effective at maintaining minimum standards of sexual morality and this must mean being at least effective at ensuring that most parents in your society are married parents to prevent the degeneracy of rising crime, lowering standards of education and behaviour as well as ever lowering IQ scores.
If you are not capable of discussing this either, you are not really fit for the purpose of discussing the national interest and therefore not really a nationalist.
A nationalist, as far as a I am concerned, should at least be fit for the purpose of discussing what is or isn't in the national interest without blaming Jews, Muslims or non-whites for the failure of their government.
They would at least be capable of discussing abstractions such as morality, the national interest, degeneracy, theology and other related matters.
In all my years of associating myself with people who call themselves nationalists, none have been able to do any of the above without disengaging when the taboo of questioning their moral and political system ie Christianity, Liberalism and Democracy was breached.
All they can do is focus on their dislike of particular groups, and use their dislike as a reason to blame their disliked groups. Their sacred cows remain the religion of their ancestors which is so kaput that what was used to plug that God-sized hole - Liberalism - is now also kaput.
Different groups of nationalists would divide themselves possibly using the north-south divide to join the two main factions of either blaming Jews or blaming Muslims while complaining about immigration.
None are capable of having a rational discussion because they are morally compromised or do not have the ability to discuss such abstracts which are in the field of metaphysics.
Interestingly, no public intellectual above such hoi polloi is prepared to engage on these matters either, which is conclusive evidence of the moral and intellectual corruption that now pervades the West.
Does this make things easy or hard for me?
It is surely easy to stand tall in a land of pygmies. In a land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
I never thought just living in the West would raise me to such dizzy heights.
Monday, 13 December 2021
The marine technocracy of the Austronesians v God's Chosen People
Friday, 10 December 2021
Kamala Harris and Rabbi Sacks: Hanukkah for the Hellenized Jew
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Character Growth - Self, Others & God - Rabbi YY Jacobson
Monday, 6 December 2021
Identity issues
Asking the London Beth Din about converting to Judaism
LONDON BETH DIN (COURT OF THE CHIEF RABBI)
Muslim Terron Poole and I disagree on the proper Islamic attitude to take towards Christians
You mean allyship between Jews and Christians? Muslims are not People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitāb). That is a designation the Qur’ān makes specifically about Jews and Christians. This is a subversive attempt to dilute the religion of Muslims and misguide them by drawing illegitimate similarities between Muslims and non-Muslims. #CraigConsidine is leading this charge and sadly many Muslim institutions, predominantly “immigrant” in bent, are furthering this. What’s even more regrettable is the the Qur’ān, the book increasingly neglected by Muslims, calls for this, verbatim:قُل يا أَهلَ الكِتابِ تَعالَوا إِلىٰ كَلِمَةٍ سَواءٍ بَينَنا وَبَينَكُم أَلّا نَعبُدَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ وَلا نُشرِكَ بِهِ شَيئًا وَلا يَتَّخِذَ بَعضُنا بَعضًا أَربابًا مِن دونِ اللَّهِ ۚ فَإِن تَوَلَّوا فَقولُوا اشهَدوا بِأَنّا مُسلِمونَ“Say, ‘People of the Book! come to a proposition which is the same for us and you – that we should worship none but Allah and not associate any partners with Him and not take one another as lords besides Allah.’ If they turn away, say, ‘Bear witness that we are Muslims’.”This is from Sūrah ‘Āl ‘Imrān, verse 64In this verse, Allāh commands the Prophet ﷺ to invite the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) to Islām. And to establish what the terms of that coming together, that “common word”, will be based on: the worship of Allāh (God), alone and without partner, son, or equal. And if that invitation is refused, that the Muslims are to retain their distinction, not reduce themselves to being the same as Jews or Christians, who are unapologetically, and unequivocally, misguided!But as we see, Muslim orgs are increasingly thirsty for acceptance instead of striving in the way of Allāh (yes, jihād!, though you are scared to even say the word) to carve out your own dignified existence and invite others to the Truth
Terron Poole to Claire Khaw
you too, right along with this Imam, really have lost the plot. You're approach of extreme hostility towards Christians isn't pragmatic at all. It might be attractive to those who engage in Muslim-Christian polemics, but I don't think you'll get any further than brain wrestling with people. My instincts just don't lie with the shit you or this Imam is talking about.
Claire Khaw to Terron Poole
Terron Poole to Claire Khaw
Claire Khaw to Terron Poole
The noble lie
On Ralph Masilamani accusing me of being anti-English and why he hates Thomas Carlyle
Sunday, 5 December 2021
I'm such a good sport I allow Ralph and Domingo to challenge my moral authority
Saturday, 4 December 2021
On being accused of suffering from a Messiah Complex
My kingdom for a horse and the banning of dating apps
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