all outright nonsense and revisionist history
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I have a witness!!!
we can expect this to eventually make it to American history
textbooks.
know the enemy
On Aug 7, 3:25 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are so many "untruths" in this article! It's literally laughable!
>
> Ben Franklin wanting a Jew in any emblem representing the United
> States, any Congressman moving for Hebrew to the the National
> language,......(There are a host more, I just don't have time to disprove
> them) are all outright nonsense and revisionist history.
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:12 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > Nah ...
> > ---
> > Yeah ...
>
> > example:
> > The creation of the United States of America represented a unique
> > event in world history. Founded as a modern republic, it was rooted in
> > the Bible, and one of its earliest tenets was religious tolerance. Of
> > course, this was because many of the earliest pilgrims who settled the
> > "New England" of America in early 17th century were Puritan refugees
> > escaping religious persecutions in Europe.
>
> > These Puritans viewed their emigration from England as a virtual re-
> > enactment of the Exodus. To them, England was Egypt, the king was the
> > Pharaoh, the Atlantic Ocean was the Red Sea, America was the Land of
> > Israel, and the Indians were the ancient Canaanites. The Puritans were
> > the new Israelites, entering into a new covenant with God in a new
> > Promised Land.
>
> > Thanksgiving - first celebrated in 1621, a year after the Mayflower
> > landed - was initially conceived as a day parallel to the Jewish Day
> > of Atonement, Yom Kippur; it was to be a day of fasting, introspection
> > and prayer. Writes Gabriel Sivan in The Bible and Civilization:
>
> > No Christian community in history identified more with the People
> > of the Book than did the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay
> > Colony, who believed their own lives to be a literal reenactment of
> > the biblical drama of the Hebrew nation... these ?migr? Puritans
> > dramatized their own situation as the righteous remnant of the Church
> > corrupted by the "Babylonian woe" and saw themselves as instruments of
> > Divine Providence, a people chosen to build their new commonwealth on
> > the Covenant entered into at Mount Sinai.1
>
> > Previously, during the Puritan Revolution in England (which took place
> > between 1642 and 1648), some Puritan extremists had even sought to
> > replace English Common Law with biblical laws of the Old Testament,
> > but were prevented from doing so. In America, however, there was far
> > more freedom to experiment with the use of biblical law in the legal
> > codes of the colonies, and this was exactly what the pilgrims set out
> > to do.
>
> > The earliest legislation of the colonies of New England was all
> > determined by the Bible. For example, at the first assembly of New
> > Haven in 1639, John Davenport clearly emphasized the primacy of the
> > Bible as the legal and moral foundation of the colony:
>
> > "Scriptures do hold forth a perfect rule for the direction and
> > government of all men in all duties which they are to perform to God
> > and men as well as in the government of families and commonwealth as
> > in matters of the Church... the Word of God shall be the only rule to
> > be attended unto in organizing the affairs of government in this
> > plantation."2
>
> > Subsequently, the New Haven legislators adopted a legal code - the
> > Code of 1655 - which contained some 79 statutes, half of which
> > included biblical references, virtually all from the Hebrew Bible. The
> > Plymouth Colony had a similar law code as did the Massachusetts
> > assembly, which, in 1641 adopted the so-called Capital Laws of New
> > England based almost entirely on Mosaic law.
>
> > Of course, without a Jewish Oral Tradition, which helped the Jews
> > understand the Bible, the Puritans were left to their own devices and
> > tended toward a literal interpretation. This led in some instances to
> > a stricter, more fundamentalist observance than Judaism had ever seen.
>
> > Jewish Symbolism in America
>
> > The Hebrew Bible also played a central role in the founding of various
> > educational institutions including Harvard, Yale, William and Mary,
> > Rutgers, Princeton, Brown, King's College (later to be known as
> > Columbia), Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth etc. In virtually all of these
> > colleges, Bible studies were required and some even adopted some
> > Hebrew word or phrase as part of their official emblem or seal.
> > Beneath the banner containing the Latin Lux et Veritas, the Yale seal
> > shows an open book with the Hebrew Urim V'Timum, a part of the
> > breastplate of the High Priest in the days of the Temple. The Columbia
> > seal has the Hebrew name for God at the top center, with the Hebrew
> > name for one of the angels on a banner toward the middle. Dartmouth
> > uses the Hebrew words meaning "God Almighty" in a triangle in the
> > upper center of its seal.
>
> > So popular was the Hebrew language in the late 17th and early 18th
> > centuries that Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Johns
> > Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania taught courses in Hebrew -
> > all the more remarkable because no university in England at the time
> > offered such - and students had the option of delivering commencement
> > speeches in Hebrew, Latin or Greek.3
>
> > Many of the Founding Fathers of America were products of these
> > universities - for example, Thomas Jefferson attended William and
> > Mary, James Madison - Princeton, Alexander Hamilton - King's College.
> > Thus, we can be sure that a majority of these political leaders were
> > not only well acquainted with the contents of the Bible, but also had
> > some working knowledge of Hebrew. Notes Abraham Katsch in The Biblical
> > Heritage of American Democracy:
>
> > At the time of the American Revolution, the interest in the
> > knowledge of Hebrew was so widespread as to allow the circulation of
> > the story that "certain members of Congress proposed that the use of
> > English be formally prohibited in the United States, and Hebrew
> > substituted for it."4
>
> > Their biblical education colored the American founders' attitude
> > toward not only religion and ethics, but most significantly, politics.
> > We see them adopting the biblical motifs of the Puritans for political
> > reasons. For example, the struggle of the ancient Hebrews against the
> > wicked Pharaoh came to embody the struggle of the colonists against
> > English tyranny. Numerous examples can be found which clearly
> > illustrate to what a significant extent the political struggles of the
> > colonies were identified with the ancient Hebrews:
>
> > The first design for the official seal of the United States
> > recommended by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in
> > 1776 depicted the Jews crossing the Red Sea. The motto around the seal
> > read: "Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God."
> > The inscription on the Liberty Bell at Independence Hall in
> > Philadelphia was a direct quote from the Book of Leviticus "Proclaim
> > liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof."5
> > Patriotic speeches and publications during the period of the
> > struggle for independence were often infused with biblical quotations.
>
> > The basic framework of America clearly reflects the influence of the
> > Bible and power of Jewish ideas in shaping the political development
> > of America. Nowhere is this more evident than in the opening sentences
> > of the Declaration of Independence:
>
> > We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created
> > equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
> > rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of
> > happiness.
>
> > While these words echo the ideas of the Enlightenment, without a doubt
> > the concept that these rights come from God is of biblical origin.
>
> > This and the other documents of early America make it clear that the
> > concept of a God-given standard of morality is a central pillar of
> > American democracy. The motto IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on U.S.
> > currency in 1864 and in 1956 an Act of Congress (largely passed as a
> > counterforce to Godlessness of communism) made it the official motto
> > of the United States.
>
> > Many more things can be said about the Jewish influence on the values
> > of America, but this is, after all, a crash course. We next turn to
> > the Jews themselves.
>
> > Early American Jews
>
> > The history of Jews in America begins before the United States was an
> > independent country.
>
> > The first Jews arrived in America with Columbus in 1492, and we also
> > know that Jews newly-converted to Christianity were among the first
> > Spaniards to arrive in Mexico with Conquistador Hernando Cortez in
> > 1519. In fact, so many Jewish conversos came to Mexico that the
> > Spanish made a rule precluding anyone who could not prove Catholic
> > ancestry for four generations back from migrating there. Needless to
> > say, the Inquisition soon followed to make sure these Jewish conversos
> > were not really heretics, and burnings at the stake became a regular
> > feature of life in Mexico City.
>
> > As for North America, the recorded Jewish history there begins in 1654
> > with the arrival in New Amsterdam (later to be known as New York) of
> > 23 Jewish refugees from Recife, Brazil (where the Dutch had just lost
> > their possessions to the Portuguese). New Amsterdam was also a Dutch
> > possession, but the governor, Peter Stuyvesant, did not want the Jews
> > there. Writes Arthur Hertzberg in The Jews in America:
>
> > Two weeks after they landed, Stuyvesant heard the complaint from
> > the local merchants and from the Church that "the Jews who had arrived
> > would nearly all like to remain here." Stuyvesant decided to chase
> > them out. Using the usual formulas of religious invective - he called
> > the Jews "repugnant," "deceitful," and "enemies and blasphemers of
> > Christ" - Stuyvesant recommended to his directors... "to require them
> > in a friendly way to depart."6
>
> > The only reasons the Jews were not
>
> ...
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