"Storrs’ analogy was no accident. Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."
BTW, are you alleging the money changers in the temple were NOT Jews?
Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules | FPIF
You get stupider and stupider Georgie I did not allege that the MONEY CHANGERS
in the temple were not jews-----and the brits did not "INVENT" the idea of "divide and
conquor"
I will skip over the divide and conquor "invention" -----and move along to the money
changers I grew up with the CHRISTMAS STORY "awaaaay in the maaanger"
is one of the first songs I ever learned ---so over time I did learn that which is the
basic christian party-line for consumption by the naive members. One of the naive
"beliefs" is that the MONEY CHANGERS were money lenders because the culture
of medieval christian europe did shove jews into the position of BEING MONEYLENDERS--
so lots of naive christians developed a stereotype which cannot be overcome by fact.
In fact, I would be surprised if sherri did not believe that the MONEY LENDERS
were "pharisees" Well---bad news for you----jews have a long history of
literacy------some 2500 years ago some guy created an EDICT that all jewish boys
must learn to read and it worked-----they did. Thus there is quite a RECORDED
HISTORY. ok ----re: the money changers. They were the guys who changed
foreign coin into local coin------Jerusalem was an attraction to neighboring
peoples including non jews to some extent----- and the court yard of the
temple was OPENED and----had become
something like a little market place with some level of corruption----by the romans
and their SADDUCEE SHILLS The PHARISEES (basically the religious) were
INCENSED and wanted the money changers OUT OF THERE because they
saw them as facilitating corruption Got that ? Jesus was a pharisee so
he did what pharsees were doing quite a bit-----for the romans and their
pimary plant-----CAIAPHAS-----that was an act of SEDITION,
got it now? it is easy if you know the facts. Do not ask a religious
jew-----they never read the new testament . I was brought up with it.
The way Sherri posts ----it seems to me that SHE never actually read it
with any level of comprehension
The average christian has no concept of the history of that time
or the issues related to the temple in jerusalem or how the
temple functioned----religious jews do----but they know
nothing about jesus-----in some cases only that some
ancestors were murdered in his name ----in fact---often
on christmas eve. My husband was brought up in a
religious family----with origin in a shariah shit hole---- I have to
remind him what christmas and easter celebrate----he keeps
forgetting