Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
Religion
Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
The literature of Jewish thought toward Sunday presents complete
evidence of the leaders’ antagonism to this distinctly Christian and
Anglo-Saxon institution. Sunday has never been regarded as set apart, in
those countries where the Jewish idea has most infiltrated. The decline
of Sunday in the United States is directly along the line of those
invasions of the Sunday spirit which are mostly aligned with Jewish
commercial interests. In Great Britain and her colonies where the Jew is
not permitted to usurp a superior place as chief censor of morals and
religion and education, Sunday is decently observed. The situation in
this country is that, instead of enjoying its liberty, the Jewish
leaders have taken liberties. The student who wishes to know how deep
and hard-set is the anti-Sunday program will find all the material he
wants in Jewish sources.
The theme of this article is “religious prejudice.” You will not find it
anywhere within the whole range of the Jewish Question, except on the
Jewish side. There is, in the United States, a religious prejudice, but
it is strictly Yiddish. If the Christian population bothered one
one-hundred-thousandth part as much about Jewish religion as the Jews
bother about Christian observances, the whole fabric of Talmudical
teaching would be consumed in the bright light to which general
attention would bring it, the bright light from which it has always been
concealed. Sheer analysis in the interest of mental health, if
undertaken by fifty men, would compel the Jewish people by their own
decision to abandon the darkness which holds them now. Jewish Talmudism
owes its existence today to the indifference with which it is regarded.
This is the far opposite extreme of “religious persecution.”
The list of headlines describing the various angles of Jewish
anti-Christian religious prejudice is not, however, exhausted.
_The Jew is prejudiced against the Bible._ When he uses that term, he
does not mean what the ordinary person means. Therefore, he does what he
can to destroy public honor of the Book, unless it be an occasion where
a President has been inaugurated, when it will run through the Jewish
press like a strong breeze that once more has a Christian statesman
ignored the Christian Bible and turned to the Jewish Bible. It is rather
a trifling matter to mention; its significance comes solely from the
light it throws on the Jewish attitude. It is not a trifling thing in
Jewry, as the country will probably be made aware if any future
President should be sworn in with, say, the Sermon on the Mount open
before him.
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