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“I can see where Hitchens is coming from, but he’s pretty puny in his thoughts, because he left out one vital ingredient,” Gibson said, “and that is that God can do what he damn well pleases! No matter what the Greeks did! And you know, he doesn’t bring that into consideration. I think he thinks that way because he might be an atheist. He’s an atheist, right?” (via Mel Gibson on Judah Maccabee, Christopher Hitchens, and Circumcision - Jeffrey Goldberg - Entertainment - The Atlantic)

• I mentioned to Gibson the Hitchens critique of Judah Maccabee. Hitchens argues, in essence, “No Judah, no Jesus,” that Judaism at the time (2,100 years ago or so) would simply have been swamped by assimilationist forces, and would have disappeared before the birth of Jesus. And if Jesus had not been born into a traditional Jewish household… well, you can figure out  the rest.

..so Jesus saved everything, esp. Judaism..

nationalpost:

From neo-Nazi to Hasidic Jew: Former skinhead who discovered his Jewish roots to speak in Montreal
Pawel Bromson grew up in Poland where he and his skinhead friends sometimes roamed the streets of Warsaw, terrorizing Jewish, Arab and black children.

On one occasion, he and his mates boarded a train to Auschwitz and vandalized the former concentration camp. They hurled insults at staff members, telling them “the genocide should have been bigger.”

“I wasn’t just anti-Semitic, I was anti-everyone,” Bromson recalled.

But Bromson’s life changed forever 14 years ago after his young wife visited a genealogical institute in Poland. His wife suspected she had Jewish roots and while sifting through papers, she noticed the names of Bromson’s maternal grandparents on a register of Warsaw Jews. (Photo:John Kenney/Postmedia News)

I hate to bring up that name, but there’s another major nazi who supposedly had Jewish roots..

• The Jewish Virtual library lists some published evidence before concluding stating that he was not
• Haaretz - genealogy & genetics