Reply #20: Yes. In fact, I think that, although every reserve concerning [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

individuals expressed by rockymontaindem holds true, to call them the "great saviour race of mankind" would not be to over-state the matter.

My reason for this is simply the product of random reflections from time to time on the Old Testament, and how immeasurably superior their Mosiac Law, fierce as it was in some regards, clearly was in comparison with the pagan religions, most of whom were still into human sacrifices. The Mosaic law, on the other hand, instituted the first welfare state; rudimentary of course, because adapted to a pre-civilised people, also still being trained in the faith. (I use the term, "civilised" here in the technical sense of urban societies. Ironically, the Egyptians and the Philistines were the flag-bearers of the civilisation of those days! And according to our social elites, the Jews would have been "philistines"! Certainly not the kind of people who would have any acquaintance with the fine arts! Also, reflecting on Christ's own directions concerning the New Dispensation being simply the fulfilment of the Old Dispensation; anything but its destruction. Jesus would often quote from the Jewish scriptures to substantiate the truth of what he was teaching.

Ironically, even to this day, right-wingers everywhere still believe that economic justice for the poor is a gratuitous add-on, thought up by cynical left-wing politicians in search of cheap popularity to further their career. Unfortunately the latter is all too often true, and once they've made their pile, they want to become gentlemen farmers.

But that's neither here nor there. With an essentially worldly intelligence, most politicians of left and right are essntially right-wing in their personal mindsets; the one using the First Commandment as a front, the other, the Second.