The Scapegoat
by William Holman Hunt
Dear Fred,Thanks for Frog Hospital and for the courage to call Charlie on this.
Well done!
Charlie's need for convenient place to park his personal shadow calls to mind (yet more) Jewish brilliance - el chivo expiatorio; the scapegoat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat
Scapegoat derives from the common English translation of the Hebrew term azazel (Hebrew: עזאזל) which occurs in Leviticus 16:8 after the prefix la- (Hebrew לַ "for"). The lexicographer Gesenius[2] and Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew Lexicon[3] give la-azazel (Hebrew: עזאזל) as a reduplicative intensive of the stem azel "remove", hence la-azazel, "for entire removal". This reading is supported by the Jewish Greek Bible translation as "the sender away (of sins)". Later Jewish sources in the Talmud (Yoma 6:4,67b) give the etymology of azazel as a compound of "az", strong or rough, and "el", mighty, that the goat was sent from the most rugged or strongest of mountains.[4]
"And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel."1
- Footnote [1] 16:8 The meaning of Azazel is uncertain. ESV
Alternatively, broadly contemporary with the Septuagint, the pseudepigrapical Book of Enoch may preserve Azazel as the name of a fallen angel[5] and from the Targums onwards the term azazel was also seen by some rabbinical commentators as the name of a Hebrew demon, fallen angel, or pagan deity.[6][7] [8] The two readings are still disputed today.[9]
English Bible versions traditionally follow the translation of the Septuagint and Latin Vulgate which interpret azazel as "the goat that departs" (Greek tragos apopompaios, "goat sent out", Latin caper emissarius, "emissary goat").William Tyndale rendered the Latin as "(e)scape goat" in his 1530 Bible. This translation was followed by following versions up to the King James Version of the Bible in 1611: "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat."[10] Several modern versions however either follow the reading as a demon, Azazel, or footnote "for Azazel". as an alternative reading.
We nee more ritual in our lives.
Imagine the genius of an annual event where the whole town loads its own sins on the back of a goat that is then driven into the wilderness.
If we had real scapegoats, I think there'd be less of the selfish (and often obsessive) need to scapegoat others as a way to sanctify oneself, in effect to demonstrate that "I am saved!" because "those people" (typically "over there," "far away," and "dark skinned" are damned.
Again, there will be many surprises on Judgment Day.
My hunch is that a disproportionate number of these surprises will befall "on the right side of the aisle" where selfish salavationism is standard stock-in-trade.
That said, I think that ultimately The Mercy will cover us all.
Pax on both houses
Alan
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Fred Owens <froghospital911@gmail.com> wrote:
FROG HOSPITAL -- Jan. 10, 2013
By Fred Owens
A Message for Charlie KrafftCharlie Krafft is a well-known and well-liked Seattle artist with a penchant for notoriety. Charlie's appearance is courtly and his manners are thoughtful. He can be quite good company at a dinner in Chinatown -- a part of Seattle that he knows very well.
Then of course there is history -- his sojourn in Fishtown back in the misty dawn of hippies days, when he lived his monk-life in a small cabin on the North Fork of the Skagit River.
But the problem with Charlie -- this is a recent development -- and why beat around the bush -- Charlie has become anti-Semitic. He doesn't yell or scream or say he hates Jews. No, not like that, much more quietly. He might say it's research or just following his curiosity to peer into various websites which preach the Holocaust denial and warn of the Zionist conspiracy.
Charlie has over 2,000 friends on Facebook -- a good place for him to promote his art. You can cruise his Facebook page and find links to all kind of websites. Just this morning, I found a link he had posted to a YouTube video about how the Jews had masterminded the opium trade in China at the end of the imperial age.
Why is that so important to Charlie? He wanted to investigate the behavior of Jewish merchants in the previous century who were doing something they shouldn't have been doing -- it being fairly easy to discover Jewish (i.e. human) transgressions against the common good.
But, Charlie, why are you so interested in Jewish behavior?
He has told me in person that he advocates a "genteel anti-Semitism" -- sort of a high-church Anglican snobbery, as if it were a harmless custom.
I don't think it's harmless. I think it's bad and wrong and nasty and a debasement of Charlie's own character.
He should stop doing this.
Here's another one -- Charlie just sent it to me yesterday, headlined "The Jewish Mafia and Their USA Bankers." How does Charlie find the time to do all this research?
This is nasty stuff. There is nothing good in it.
A lot of people know and like Charlie, including myself. We've been saying for years, "Oh Charlie, that's just the way he is." Why did we ever tolerate this?
I'm not in the habit of fixing someone's life, but here I make an exception. I want this to stop.
Charlie, give it up or be gone!
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