I Blame the (Hebrew) Bible

Some necessary heretical reflections following the Judeo-Christian Holocaust of Gaza – the first genocide in known history whose perpetrators take pride and joy in it in real time, completely shame-free in front of both humanity and history’s judging gaze.

The Bible says this, the Bible says that | We don’t care

I don’t recall any other time in my life when the Hebrew Bible was such a fixture of the political conversation as it is today in occupied Palestine and the US. It is everywhere, all the time, in every other speech and interview. Evangelicals famously quote the Bible at every opportunity, and Jewish zealots recite genocide-commanding passages from the Hebrew Bible for self arousal, as a sick form of genocidal foreplay.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that humanity is under attack from bible-toting lunatics who see Israel’s genocide and the second coming of Trump as divine signs that their time is nigh, and all they have to do is kill and intimidate some more people. Just one million more, or maybe one billion.

We cannot allow ourselves to focus on defense in this war that the lunatics have declared against every normal human being and every aspect of normalcy, this is my belief. We cannot cower in fear every time supposedly holy books are mentioned.

Personally, I would happily set on fire all holy books ever written to save the life of one child in an instant. No hesitation whatsoever.

We have to go after the Judeo-Christian fanatics and after their beliefs and symbols, using doubt and common sense against their senseless, bloodthirsty pseudo-holy monomania: the desire to reenact Biblical scenes of murder and mayhem.

In this essay, I will try to point to some of the most horrible aspects of the Hebrew Bible, and to explain why I think of it as a degenerate and corruptive moral and philosophical source of influence.

When they use it – and they have been using it for centuries and millennia – to mass murder and annihilate human societies, we must not treat this collection of texts as benign; it is anything but.

We don’t need a war on religion or religious people. We have enough wars already. We do have to be very clear, honest, and brave in pointing out the obvious monstrosity and profound misanthropy of some of the most basic tenets of the Judeo-Christian belief (and yes, I know it is a baseless, nonsensical term, but while it fails to have thematic merit, it pinpoints the guilty party with perfect precision).

When they refer to the Bible as a source of morality, we need to be ready with some decisive counterarguments. And those, believe it or not, are not that hard to find.

The Holocaust of Gaze is being carried out in the name of the Hebrew Bible, and supported by the USA for the same reason.

I choose not to look away.

*Alon Mizrahi is an Israeli publisher and thinker.

Source: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/i-blame-the-hebrew-bible