[mukto-mona] Fwd. Jewish fundamentalism [Book review by Tim Callahan ]

 

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-04-09.html

 

 Excerpt:

 

<<... For those unacquainted with the three ideological branches of Judaism — Orthodox, Reform and Conservative — the origins of the split lie in the Jewish Enlightenment of the 19^th century. Until the Jewish Enlightenment, most European thinkers viewed the Jews of Europe as hopelessly backward both intellectually and culturally. The encapsulation of the Jews, their segregation from the surrounding Christian society (resulting from centuries of intermittent persecution) had resulted in their intellectual isolation.

 

While European society at large had been effectively secularized in the 1700s, in part as a reaction to the horrors of the religious wars (particularly the Thirty Years War), Jews had largely remained what they were in the Middle Ages.

 

The spread of democratic ideologies in the 19^th century led to a repudiation of anti-Semitism among at least some of the intellectuals of that day, as well as a reduction in legal isolation of the Jews. There was a resulting reaction to these reforms among Jewish intellectuals: the Jewish Enlightenment...>>

Subject:	Asiapeace (ACHA) Jewish fundamentalism
Date:	4/10/2008 10:40:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From:	omarali502000@yahoo.com

Unsurprisingly, not much different from the Muslim variety...-Omar Ali

Fundamental Truths

 

by Tim Callahan

 

"Tim Callahan reviews R.D. Gold's book entitled Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit."

 

ORDER the book

 

"This book is thoroughly researched, well written and easily readable. Bondage of the Mind is R. D. Gold's first book. It is an auspicious beginning." -Tim Callahan

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