Rowan writes: Having discovered your work via the mordant essay of Dr E Michael Jones on "Culture Wars" (which is certainly, as the phrase has it, 'anti-Semitic',
but not necessarily incorrect), I have watched your new site since with a mixture of amusement and horror. I still can't make up my mind whether Chaim Amalek really exists or is just an animus projection on your part.
I read "XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without A Shul" in more or less one sitting. It's well written.
Anyway, I think I understand the logic behind your strange career. Whether
consciously or not, I think you have been trying to hold the Jewish people to account for their extraordinary double standards regarding among other things, sex. I think many of them realise that this is your underlying purpose, and that is why they regard you with some concern, to put it mildly.
The mechanism of this double standard is that the Jewish right wing fiercely
defends Jewish exclusivism and tradition, while the Jewish left wing endevours to destroy the values of exclusivism and tradition among all other (non-Jewish) cultures, while never paying more than lip-service to the idea of destroying it among Jews themselves. Described in this way the mechanism can be seen to be identical in the State of Israel to what it is in the Diaspora.
Mike Jones does manage to accurately describe this double standard, which is easy to spot from the point of view of traditional Catholicism (and for that matter traditional Islam, but not traditional Protestantism because there is no such thing). The effect of the double standard is also quite well described from another theoretical standpoint, that of evolutionary psychology, by Kevin Macdonald in his three books, one of which is on the web as a free e-text at a rather nasty white power site.
Let me mention one curious thing. The polemics between Christianity and Judaism almost always fail to grasp an important point, two important points in fact, about the period in which Christianity was created.
One point is that it seems to me quite probable circumstantially that Jesus was really something like a proto-Karaite, simply condemning the post-Exilic development of what eventually became halachah, and asking for a return to what he considered to be the primal Judaism of Moses. Modern scholars regard that also as a product of the post-Exilic period, but that's another story.
The other is that early Christianity was very little concerned with the real ideas of Jesus, whatever they may have been, but was much more concerned with the false idea that he preached the abrogation of Jewish law and the merging of the Jewish people into the peoples of the world to create a truly universal faith.
The letters of Paul are particularly confusing in this respect because they contain Marcionite ideas ("who shall deliver me from this body of death?" - this is a proto-gnostic idea, related to the belief that the God of the Jews is a mere demiurge, and that Jesus was sent by the real supreme God, who was neither the God of the Jews nor the creator of this world, to testify against this demiurge) but that these Marcionite or gnostic ideas have been adulterated by the pro-Jewish Christians of Rome with something which in today's terms we would call proto-Dispensationalism, which accords the Jews a higher prestige and reaffirms the idea that the God of both religions is one and the same.
Mike Jones, therefore, in trying to extricate Catholicism from its submission to Judaism, is attempting the impossible.
I think the reason Judaism seems so much more sex-positive than Christianity, by the way, is that Judaism provides a utilitarian justification for sex : the population war between Jews and everybody else. One see this very clearly in Israeli culture, for instance in the constant jokes about 'natural population growth' in the settlements. An amusing story in this vein is on my own blog, at:
http://spookspot.blogspot.com/2004/09/is-nothing-sacred_28.html
