The Case Against Religion
(originally, "Superior Men")
a book by James Hervey Johnson, 1949
The Jews Have
Suffered Great Persecution as a
Result of Biblical Teachings
The Jews, the founders of the Christian religion, have suffered tremendously as a result of their religion.
They are taught by the Bible that they were God's chosen people and that all other peoples were inferior. They adopted a patronizing and supercilious manner toward all other peoples. They believed, and many still believe, that other races are to be exploited, that they are fair game to be cheated and despoiled. They have the word of the Bible for it.
They have a whole Bible full of examples of glorified cheating, deceit, lying, jealousy, intolerance, trickery, crime, debauchery, rapine, murder, and revenge.
With this glorification of a god and prophets who used all the vile and unethical practices of barbarism, it was and is easy for those who absorb the Biblical teachings, to follow the precept of holy writ, which is constantly called to their attention by their rabbis. Examples and glorification of men such as David cannot build in the minds of the Jews a hatred of such practices. Quite the contrary.
Thus, by following the Biblical and rabbinical admonitions and examples, many Jews have, by their deceitful methods, selfishness, and intolerance, brought down the wrath of other races upon their heads.
They were evicted from Egypt as told in their own story of the Exodus in the second book of the Bible; evicted from Jerusalem, evicted from Spain, persecuted in England and the rest of Europe, suffered pogroms in Russia before the Bolshevist revolution, persecuted in Germany under Hitler, in Italy under Mussolini, in France under orders of Germany.
Millions have been killed, tortured, and had their property confiscated because they followed the Biblical promises that they were "God's chosen people" and would get the cream of wealth and happiness, because they followed the unethical examples of their sacred prophets and scriptures.
The Jews, more than any other people, as a whole, have much to gain by discarding their primitive religion which has been such a curse to them for so many centuries.
Where their religion has engendered egotism, selfishness, deceit, cheating, lying and unfairness they have always, and will always continue to come into conflict with other religions, races and peoples.
In Russia, where religion has been reduced, the Jews have suffered little since the revolution.
For another example, the Jews are supposed to eat Kosher meat only. Kosher meat is obtained from animals killed according to Jewish orthodox rituals, under the general supervision of a Jewish rabbi. By this method a great and unnecessarily cruel pain is inflicted on the animals. They are killed by having their throats cut and thus suffer great pain by bleeding slowly to death. The humane modern method is to stun the animal first by making it unconscious, then allowing it to bleed.
But the Jews, following ancient Biblical rituals do not have any sympathy or show any kindness for the animal being killed. By permitting only Kosher meat to be eaten, the Jewish butchers have restricted competition, and probably because of the religious angle involved the rabbis make a profit and a cruel and inhumane practice is continued under the guise of religion.
Such practices have brought hatred for the Jews, and have probably made the Jews a rather cruel race, lacking in the kindnesses they would probably have if it were not for their superstition.
Thus we have the Jews made vain, boastful, selfish, greedy, deceitful, cruel, and unkind by their religion, and these traits, along with other religious differences, have been the cause of persecution of that unhappy race for ages. If the Jews would eliminate their religious practices, they would probably, within a short time, be absorbed into other nations as individuals and the persecutions would cease.
In England and the United States where religion has less hold on the people, the Jews have prospered far beyond the other citizens, but even