Why European Christianity is (Necessarily) Anti-Semitic

Modern Christianity is virulently anti-Semitic. Of course I don't use the term 'anti-Semite' in the modern sense. I go back to what the term meant in the 1800s when British people probably didn't see very many Arabs or other inhabitants of the Middle East and the term was coined to places Jews under an large umbrella of Semitic people who lived under British rule.

Whenever Christians claim that the gospel was originally written in Greek they exhibit anti-Semitism. Why so? Because in this one instance they turn on Irenaeus, the Church Father whose statements they accept without question in all other cases - even when they are utterly ludicrous (like four gospels being the right number because of the number of winds in the world).

The only reason they go against their spiritual master is because they don't want their gospels to go back to a language - Aramaic - in which they are utterly unqualified as functioning textual critics. Oh yes, there is another problem too - that text has all but disappeared.

It is impossible for these dunderheads to admit what is common knowledge among Christianity's earliest Islamic critics - namely that the Romans tampered with the original Aramaic gospel in order to make it 'fit' with European tastes and mores (not to mention render it in a language that could be understood by Christianity's Imperial masters and overseers.

Indeed the acknowledgement of Irenaeus' understanding (and indeed the universal testimony of Church Fathers at all times and all ages before Nicaea) that a Hebrew (Aramaic) gospel had primacy necessarily makes us fall into the orbit of Jewish language, Jewish customs and Jewish mores in order to understand the origins of Christianity.

And that's dangerous.

Indeed you can't have that! What would happen to that cherished idea that the 'promise' left the Jews for the ignorant Gentiles and that God prefers idiots to the wise (1 Cor 2)?

You can't have us 'speculating' about what the gospel might have looked like in the beginning either. We have to believe in our Imperially inspired religion! We can't for a moment admit what is obvious - that all anti-Semitism in Christian has always and will always be directed against one thing that any Jews at any time and at any place could tell Christians and Christianity quite openly (if they weren't instilled with an inherited fear of what might happen next).

The whole religion doesn't make sense as it stands now. Its theological arguments end up appearing self-contradictory. You can't abolish the commandments and then turn around and claim that 'Christ' was not an innovator or that the Jews didn't have a right to punish him. You can't worship a man who is God and then claim that you are faithful to the original principles of Moses.

Yes, there are ways of reconciling the central arguments to Christianity and make them sensible, yet in my mind they require a series of steps that no religious zealot is going to want to accept.

You have to begin by admitting that Christianity began in Alexandria. You then have to go on to identify St. Mark, the founder of that separate Christian tradition as a real historical figure who had deep symbolic and theological implications within contemporary Judaism and then you have to accept that this 'innovator' necessarily identified himself as Judaism messiah, justifying his 'restoration' of a religion based on only those utterances which came from heaven.

You'd think I'd have supporters among the Copts of Egypt and Alexandria. Yet they intuitively know where my argument inevitably leads - i.e. their tradition's Jewish roots.

Isn't that the reason why they reject Origen, the greatest flower of the Alexandrian tradition, as a 'Jewish heretic'? This understanding is in itself so utterly perplexing - i.e. to reject one's greatest native theologian - that it can have only one explanation, and only one word which describes the present tradition's orientation.

It is anti-Semitism plain and simple.

The Copts learned from their Imperial masters well. Some say they still suffer from an ancient form of 'Stockholm Syngrome.'