Sunday, October 27, 2013

The Religion of Liberalism Among Jews

This was written 15 years ago by Steven Plaut:

...(there) emerged a new form of Jewish assimilationism, the “Liberalism-as-Judaism” form of pseudo-Judaism. Especially in the United States, this “school of thought” held that Judaism was nothing more nor less than the American liberal political agenda, including the advocacy – in the name of Judaism and “Prophetic Ethics” – of liberal fashionable political ideas...

...The “Liberalism as Judaism” School argued that all of Judaism and Jewish tradition could be boiled down into a search for civil “justice” and secular “freedom”. Since it was axiomatic, in the eyes of Jewish liberals, that the liberal political agenda was synonymous with justice, freedom, and righteousness and that the opponents of liberalism were evil and unjust, “Judaism” itself could be conscripted in the cause of promoting liberal partisanship...

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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