As a Beginning
As a Beginning of creating the Atheist questioned the Heavens and Earth – the world was astonishingly ignorant – with utter ignorance on the face of the deep-minded; and the Atheist’s Intellect hovered above the surface of the ignorance. He said, ‘Let there be my truth,’ and there was his truth. And he saw that his truth was good – and he separated between his truth and others’ ignorance. He called his truth ‘Reason’ and the ignorance he called ‘Religion’. And there was Confusion and there was Enlightenment – One Era.
Sounds familiar?
OK. I admit it. It isn’t entirely original. There is an earlier version called Genesis – about 3330 years old and in Hebrew. And, yes, I did slightly alter the translation in places. But this is still far closer to the original than most renditions that you have seen – in a sense.
Further, I fully agree that – ‘And it was evening and it was morning –the first day’ in the good old King James Version is far more elegant than ‘And there was Confusion and there was Enlightenment – One Era’.
Anyway, what is that meant to mean? Also, what of ‘As a Beginning of creating ...’?
Well, the answers lead us to a secret carefully hidden from you and all secular Jews.
But not from the greatest secular mind, Sir Isaac Newton. Sorry. Seems impossible but – unbelievably – utterly logical Newton rejected faith religions and atheism but scrutinised and intellectually embraced Judaism. He became an avid student of the Talmud and a ‘clandestine Maimonidian mono-Deist’. His secret chest from 1727 was purchased, and his innumerable hidden writings, specifically on this, deciphered and displayed by Keynes in 1947.
This is written for you – a cynical, or perhaps just sceptical, secular, rational Jews. It describes your undeniable past and your undeniable future – based on judicial proof only. It would be a great honour if others read it – but they will find it even more disturbing.
The splendour and logic of atheism have vindicated millions of decent, discerning, well-educated, wonderful Jews like you – who are about to cremate their heritage. By 2075, four-fifths of us will have willingly, comfortably self-annihilated as assimilated, child-free Jews. Like all secular Caucasians, we will have
vanishingly few offspring, and even fewer will be interested in their ‘Jewish heritage’. Since the Germans’ 6 million, we have ourselves painlessly extinguished – yes, astonishingly – another 12 million – as Jews with no Jewish future.
Perhaps, at this very last moment, allow me to prove to you that an unsuspected and invisible world has been hidden from you.
In this strict judicial review, I am to present to the jury an irrefutable argument. This whips away a very large and comforting fig leaf from your average, honest, intelligent, gifted, intellectual, altruistic, commendable, wonderful (etc., etc.) secular Jew. It modestly conceals his greatest delusion.
Throughout, I use only irrebuttable non-Jewish evidence, unblinking scrutiny and transparency – all of which would have to be accepted in any civilised legal system. Although, I admit that – having been an Officer of His Majesty’s Supreme Court for over four desultory decades – actually, I am not aware of any civilised legal system. Justice is only for the rich.
Said fig leaf is the sensible, average, honest, intelligent, gifted, intellectual, altruistic, commendable, wonderful (etc., etc.) secular Jew’s unshakable certainty that Judaism is a concoction of ancient and more recent rituals and superstitions forced on his simple ancestors by the religious oligarchy. We survived because of an insanely strict daily regime, massive guilt, Jewish mothers (and mothers-in-law) and a prohibition on intermarriage – all combined with anti-Semitism.
The whole thing is a massive scam to sell synagogue subscriptions and kosher food. The ultimate guilt-trip, Bubelah. This, absolutely reasonably, permits us to slide unknowingly, comfortably into oblivion as Jews. We have an immovable blind faith in this.
