The purpose of the attacks directed both against Christianity in itself as a system of thought and belief and against Wasps (White Christians) is unknown to me. The degree of animosity is striking and confusing. I asked my learning partner about this a few times and he also is confused by it. You do not see anything like it directed towards for example Hinduism with more gods than man can count. You don't see anything like it directed against Muslims with their open and stated purpose as the total destruction of all Jews. If idolatry would be the problem then you would not have warm and explicit borrowing Hindu mediation into Jewish meditation. If antisemitism would be the problem then the bending over backwards to accommodate Muslims in Israel that I saw constantly would not exist. And if my learning partner can not understand why this is the case then all the more so I.
The actual reason is simple. People have some degree of control over their beliefs. And they choose their beliefs based on the super-organism they want to fit in with. There is no reason to look for rational reasons that underline anyone's belief system or world view because it always is based on the social group they identify with. The reasons they give are merely excuses made in order to sound reasonable.
And the people that spend a lot of time and effort on perfecting their belief system are schizoid typal personalities. So for the average working guy, there are not many options. He knows well worked out systems seem to be coming from weird people. He does not have the time and effort himself to work it all out. So he just buys into the system that he identifies with emotionally.
Howard Bloom claims that the real organism is the super-organism. When one buys into any given system, it begins to take over. At a certain point one's thoughts are not one's own.
In order to correct this problem one can make a effort to go without judgement on issues that he knows may be subject to group bias. Also one can make an effort to ground his or her beliefs in reason.
So along with learning Torah I recommend learning the books of the Middle Ages on the philosophy of Torah -specifically the Guide of the Rambam but also the critiques on the Guide by Crescas Joseph Albo and others --all with the purpose in mind to come to a synthesis between Torah and Reason. [But I would not overdo it. The main learning of Torah ought to be the meat and potatoes of Gemara, Rashi, and Tosphot, Maharsha, and Rav Shach's Avi Ezri.]
The actual reason is simple. People have some degree of control over their beliefs. And they choose their beliefs based on the super-organism they want to fit in with. There is no reason to look for rational reasons that underline anyone's belief system or world view because it always is based on the social group they identify with. The reasons they give are merely excuses made in order to sound reasonable.
And the people that spend a lot of time and effort on perfecting their belief system are schizoid typal personalities. So for the average working guy, there are not many options. He knows well worked out systems seem to be coming from weird people. He does not have the time and effort himself to work it all out. So he just buys into the system that he identifies with emotionally.
Howard Bloom claims that the real organism is the super-organism. When one buys into any given system, it begins to take over. At a certain point one's thoughts are not one's own.
In order to correct this problem one can make a effort to go without judgement on issues that he knows may be subject to group bias. Also one can make an effort to ground his or her beliefs in reason.
So along with learning Torah I recommend learning the books of the Middle Ages on the philosophy of Torah -specifically the Guide of the Rambam but also the critiques on the Guide by Crescas Joseph Albo and others --all with the purpose in mind to come to a synthesis between Torah and Reason. [But I would not overdo it. The main learning of Torah ought to be the meat and potatoes of Gemara, Rashi, and Tosphot, Maharsha, and Rav Shach's Avi Ezri.]
