The Persecution of the Jews

Reason for Being in the World, Chapter 6

A depiction of the Roman triumph celebrating the conquest of Jerusalem on the Arch of Titus in Rome, featuring the menorah and other items taken from the Second Temple. (photo credit: ANU MUSEUM/WIKIPEDIA)

See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god besides Me;
I deal death and I give life.
I wound and I heal,
And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

~ Deuteronomy 32, “The Song of Moses”

Only God or a confluence of contingent circumstances could have created this universe, this world, this earth with its history, its core creation and soupy, hypothermal genesis of microorganistic life, its geologic epochs, eruptions, compressions, and involutions, its prehistoric metallic ages, evolutionary expansion of species to the hominid, the spread of Homo to sapiens, distributions into anti-entropic geographical zones of community, accumulations of culture into accretions of power and influence, the rise of civilizations, and, with them, soon, the Israelites, hence the Jew.

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