Conversations with God 5

Now, to go back to my former query, what exactly does the Holocaust mean in terms of Greek, Christian European history? The first thing we can say about the Holocaust was that it was a historically unique act. That means that it happened once and will never happen again. But what exactly is historical unique about it? Going back in time and space to early Jewish history, the threat of racial extinction by other races does not seem all that uncommon. With the arrival of Paul, a formerly Pharisee Jewish Rabbi turned into a Christian warrior, you get the classic type of person whom other races outside of Jews like to use to fight against Jews. Paul is a classic Jew-hating Jew. It is Paul who said that Jews were responsible for the sacrifice of Christ, not Hitler. This interpretion of the letters of Paul held a great sway over Europe and Jews were largely marginalized. Some Jewish women were remade into witches, etc. Now, in medieval Europe, Jewish power seems to have been greatly limited. I cannot recall any prominent Jewish personalities of Medieval Europe. There may have been, but I am not all that interested in Medieval Europe. It seems to me that Medieval Europe may have been more satanic than any other age in the sense that the church took over the secular world. Now, I want to talk about the Spanish Inquisition and the Spanish Expulsion of 1492. This was right around the time of Christopher Columbus' journey to the New World. Spain expelled about 200,000 Jews from Spain for fear of their influence and for fear of Judaizers. The basic problem here is the problem of scapegoating. Scapegoating in Greek terms is very specialized and the Greeks scapegoated "the best." Achilles is scapegoated and his sacrifice is necessary for Zeus' will to be fulfilled. The women do alot of ritual lamentations but what must be done is done. Pentheus is sacrificed in the Bacchae. The daughters of the kings of Greece are sacrificed to the Gods. Gradually over time, sacrifice of a "group, a threatening best group" seems to have taken over the old individual sacrifices. Now, the notion of sacrifice is very intimately connected with the notion of scapeogating. In order for men to be cleansed of "sin" before God, to be "blameless" before God, we need to sacrifice. But Christ took away the need for the sacrifice, whether animal or human, so why was Europe still sacrificing and scapegoating? I suppose this was because Dostoevsky was right. The Medieval church was interested in self-actualization and self-deification and did not really believe in God. There was too much influence of Old Rome, and Aristotle and Plato, etc.