RE: Bill Mahar calls Christians out on their delusions
March 19, 2014 at 1:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 1:02 pm by Angrboda.)
(March 19, 2014 at 10:56 am)Crossless1 Wrote: By the way, your attempt to poison the well (attacking the validity of the ark story is "antisemetic") is duly noted. You do realize that being a Semite does not necessarily mean being a Jew, right? I'll bet you do. If so, your quote above is dishonest.
Wikipedia Wrote:In 1873 German journalist Wilhelm Marr published a pamphlet, "The Victory of the Jewish Spirit over the Germanic Spirit. Observed from a non-religious perspective." (Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum. Vom nicht confessionellen Standpunkt aus betrachtet.) in which he used the word Semitismus interchangeably with the word Judentum to denote both "Jewry" (the Jews as a collective) and "jewishness" (the quality of being Jewish, or the Jewish spirit). Although he did not use the word "Antisemitismus" in the pamphlet, the coining of the latter word followed naturally from the word Semitismus and indicated either opposition to the Jews as a people, or else opposition to Jewishness or the Jewish spirit, which he saw as infiltrating German culture. In his next pamphlet, "The Way to Victory of the Germanic Spirit over the Jewish Spirit", published in 1880, Marr developed his ideas further and coined the related German word Antisemitismus, "antisemitism", derived from the word "Semitismus" that he had earlier used.