Thursday, December 08, 2005

Pagan Jews dancing naked in the mud?

You know the End of Days must be near when...

A growing number of young, liberal Jews are now turning to a movement known as Jewish Paganism, according to a recent article in The Forward. Yes, you read that correctly, I said Jewish Paganism!

So, what in the hell is Jewish Paganism you ask? Well, it is using some trappings of hebrew language, and some selective quotes here and there from the Talmud, to bring in leftwing Jews to celebrate Paganism under the [false] pretense that it is still really being Jewish. Actually, it is being explained as the REAL Jewish experience, unlike the phoney Judaism of the Talmud and the succeeding millenias of Rabbinic commentators since.

Here's an example of the REAL Judaism they are talking about:

I was skinny-dipping in the mud springs on the shores of the Dead Sea with Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi, a longhaired renegade kabbalist who runs a commune in the Judean Desert. We were enveloped by the softest, silkiest mud I've ever felt — it was like moving through thick cream. Then the rabbi told me to dive down as deep as I can go. When we each came up for air, he said, "At this moment, you are penetrating Mother Earth at her deepest place."

So this is Jewish paganism: naked, covered in mud, communing with the God (or Goddess) in nature. It's sensual, it's controversial, and it's the polar opposite of the reserved, dressed-up brand of Judaism that fills many synagogues. And thanks to a new generation of young rabbis, it seems to be growing.


And this:

"Paganism is fundamentally about relationships — with trees, fire, earth, air, spirits and other people," Ezrahi said. "It's about not seeing the world as an object, but seeing it as alive." For some in the Jewish community, this translates into rituals celebrating the "Divine feminine" (which the Kabbalah has been doing for centuries anyway). For others, it means cultivating "eros," which can mean anything from love and sexuality to more general notions of life force.

Plus, of course, this:

For Rabbi Jill Hammer, whose organization, Tel Shemesh, is dedicated to "celebrating and creating Earth-centered rituals within Judaism," contemporary paganism is actually nothing new. Contrary to those who say that paganism equals idolatry, or that "pagan Judaism" is no different from, say, the messianic Judaism of Jews for Jesus, Hammer argues that "paganism has always been part of Judaism.

And, finally, this:

As we sat in New York City's Central Park, Hammer told me that she was never inspired by the Hanukkah menorah as a symbol of freedom. "But then I experienced taking a single candle and over eight days letting it grow to eight candles, just as the sunlight grows after the winter solstice. The earth is teaching me, and connected to my tradition. And I have that experience in my life — of being in a dark place, and then, God willing, the world becomes light again."

Hammer paused as she told me this story. The wind blew, and some hippies played "Imagine" over in Strawberry Fields. And then Hammer said, "I get mad at the rabbis for making Hanukkah about a war, when it's really about something that matters in our lives."



Oh yeah, this sure is REAL Judaism, alright...What a heaping pile of liberal Bull Sh!t they're selling. Incidentally, pure hedonism and idolotry is the polar opposite of Judaism (in case you were really wondering), but I'm sure some rich, Club-Medish liberal Jews will be sending off their teenage kids to Pagan Camp for the summer thinking they are having a real Jewish experience.

Oy Gevalt.

-MZ


30 comments:

Mad Zionist said...

Think Dana the leftist is there to worship the coming winter solstace?

-MZ

nanc said...

decadence, anarchy, nudity, lies, hate, and the list goes on is all the rage now - we are just a bunch of fuddy-duddies! someone will point it out to us before the night is over.

you can see we are not right, right? it is us, not them.

Mad Zionist said...

Nanc,

Shouldn't we put the Pagans together with the Presbyterians and see what becomes of it? I'm thinking intermarriage of interfaith, interrace, intergender, interspecies, intervenice, intercourse, interestingly enough.

-MZ

nanc said...

you would get a bunch of naked parents rolling in the mud with their naked kids and their naked friends and if you throw a couple of guys with poodle suits - voila - the mix is still not complete! no, no, no - they must all be drug delusional or bi-polar or schizophrenic or all three. then the party has just begun. because, alas, the nazis have not arrived to try and figure out who is who so they know who to kill.

i believe in the world they call it a "melting" pot. that is the pretty p.c. word for all this nonsense. people are so messed up.

if i did not have the big G in my life i may be overaffected by all this crapola - as it is, just knowing it's out there is enough to make one pray for alzheimers!

Anonymous said...

reminds me of the dirt worshippers I saw on TV once.
They were sitting in the woods in a circle and they would take turns "screaming in agony" for mother earth and "crying for her".

I dont think I've laughed so hard since.
no doubt they had their "groovin in the mud" party with no cameras, but from what Ive seen, you couldnt pay me to get naked with any of em lol.
Mud is a cosmetic improvement for the pagans Ive seen.

Mad Zionist said...

Jan says: As Sheriff Bufors T. Justice one clamored, "What the hell is the world coming to".

I think we should hope for some Daisy Duke's for our viewing pleasure. Either Bach or Simpson would do...

Anonymous said...

Oh, so being a sexual and joyous person is wrong, yet being a repressed bigot is right. Intolerant assholes like I see here, especially this nanc and kuhnkat, are enough to make anyone want to jump in the mud.

Stop hating and at least respect those who are different.

Kuhnkat, I bet you don't know one thing about Christianity beyond "kill anyone who fornicates". Get a life you impotent, foolish loser.

Mad Zionist said...

JB says: "Penetrating 'mother earth' to her deepest place." It sounds like they penetrated the deepest part of her ass.

HA! I thought exactly the same thing...great take, JB.

nanc said...

then by all means, nanc gives you permission to go jump in the mud - nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see the top of your head going under. oh, and while you're at it, wait six to seven minutes before floating to the top!

dana smells of uu know what!

nanc said...

j.b. - one disease comes to mind and it rhymes with "aids".

omgoodness - i'm becoming one of you guys...

Anonymous said...

As a former Jewish pagan myself, I hope that this is an intermediate stage as it was with me. The many gods of nature were replaced with a recognition of the one G-d. The many forces in the universe were seen to be a unity.

Anonymous said...

Kuhnkat, I've never seen anyone who needs to get laid as bad as you. What's the matter, too ugly or too soft?

Try calculating how many people have died from war and violent crime compared to sex, you hard-up loser.

nanc said...

and danabobanabobonehead - what is the problem you have with kuhnkat and i? i wish you'd be more specific. are you christianphobic? is it "our kind" who are making your life the miserable existence it is? is it the fact that we embrace our jewish brethren? ah-ha - you are anti-semitic! probably belong to a pcusa or united methodist or perhaps episcopalian. or just an ordinary member of the perfect society.

yep, you're, for lack of a better word, a bygot - you hate christians and jews - as well you should in your position. vee hold zee keeee to all which is sacred in ziss life.

Anonymous said...

Actually, I'm a Jew nanc. Sorry to disappoint you.

nanc said...

you never disappoint dana - madze is right about you - you are self-hating. you hate ALL which is good and your being here and now is attestment to the character of madzionist.

i'm not surprised as much as i am disappointed to see you spewing on this issue which i'm sure you probably had a hand in inventing.

i am done talking with you THIS evening - i'll give kuhnkat the pleasure.

Anonymous said...

Rightwingmac said,

"but from what I've seen, you couldn't pay me to get naked with any of em lol.
Mud is a cosmetic improvement for the pagans I've seen."

Exactly!!!!!!

Let me know if Winona "Horowitz" Ryder, or Natalie Portman, among others, become mud girls!

Anonymous said...

"Danayoumoron, the hard up guys going out and killing is a leftist attribute."

No, KuhnKitty, the facts are it is the intolerant alpha-male right which needs to compensate for their...ahem...shortcomings that cuase the wars. Women and homosexuals are always the ones fighting for peace, limpy.

Anonymous said...

Dana can I safely assume you will be at the DU or Kos berating them equally for their frothing hatred of Christians?
i know..i know..why yell at a mirror..

Anyhow, "pagan Jew" is a contradiction in terms (oxymoron if you're nasty).
More accurate is the JINO acronym.
It's a unique condition since being Jewish can be either ethnic or religious.
In their case, it's ethnic at best and altogether false at worst.

Not that it's terribly important though.
Not many ppl are that wacky so they will remain entertainment.

You can put down your molotov cocktail and Lenin poster.
Nobody is gonna try and kill them and we certainly hope you wont try to kill us for pointing and laughing, but how would you like it if we went around calling ourselves Democrats?

Anonymous said...

danabackformore, I do not know what they call it in your neck of the woods, but in these parts we call it an a$$-whopping!!!!!!!

Good Lord! Are you a sadist that keeps coming backformore?

beakerkin said...

Paganism is a throwback to the era of Shabeti Zvi. The idiocy was that one had to transcend the laws of Judaism by breaking them, sounds Clintonian.

The Old Testament speaks about this mind set and uses the term Avodah Zarah.

Freedomnow said...

Hey its sad that Moses never made it to the promised land, but these people can go anytime they would like.

Freedomnow said...

Hey, I get a kick out of the following comment from Danaiswack.

"...Women and homosexuals are always the ones fighting for peace, limpy..."

What we have here is a reverse sexist, heterophobic, religious bigot.

Get that!!!!!!!!! Somebody call the ACLU we're gonna make some money.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of slurp-sisters, I dont get what so many guys find attractive about 2 women together.

I suppose it must be that we are visually stimulated and just seeing a woman is enough (seeing two is more?).

Anyhow, I find them as repulsive as male perverts and get no turn on whatsoever seeing even a pair of beautiful feminine perverts together.
They are nasty.

As for bulldykes, well I treat em like men..I mean, that's what they want...right?

Some of em even seem to think they can go toe to toe with a man for some reason.
I've had to umm..correct this assumption in a couple of em in my day.
Being from New Orleans - the southern end of the queer triangle (the other 2 points being NY and SF), this sort of thing is as inevitable as fending off pedophiles.
The last one that picked a fight with me learned (at the cost of a couple of teeth and a nap on the sidewalk) that no matter how shiny the doc martens, you're still a girl.

nanc said...

watch out rwm - the ones with big combs in the back pocket are mean, and if the other pocket has a chain and wallet attached, then run for cover - they have the tostesterones-cajones and i've seen them turn into men before my eyes in a barfight! yep, nanc's been in bars! i wasn't always this sweet and demure...

in case you're wondering, my working career entailed being bait in a few sting ops.

nanc said...

j. bargholz - you will know them by their combs!!! oh, yeah and haircuts...dead give away.

Anonymous said...

True politicians are a sleazy lot.
They act as if they're rap stars..or athletes..or something lol.

Let's not forget though, how ambitious some pretty girls can be.
There's a reason rich guys have beautiful wives.

Like moths to a flame..

Anonymous said...

And as for dykes, well I would certainly watch for the mean ones nowadays lol.
Gettin older and healin slower if ya know what I mean.

When I was young and gettin out more though, it was the perverts that had to watch their step.
I was quite different heehee.

Thought I could take on a pickup truck and was damn near strong enough to do it lol - and the military had made me a bit more fearless than I suppose I should have been..

Anyhow, that was 20yrs ago.
These days I've got a lot more to lose, dont drink or go out much, and I live outside the city where the population votes 95% GOP and the pervert infestation is low.

They tend to behave themselves a lot better in such a setting.
:}

nanc said...

tazz and rwm - the pagans have infiltrated one of our lovely little towns here in ark - eureka springs - supposedly the next gay capitol of the south. my husband has to drive through there each week on his way home from work and the rainbows and artsy-fartsy businesses are springing up rapidly. and they are becoming quite brazen.

this is the same town that presents the "great passion play" hundreds of thousands of people come to see yearly. where do you think these people will eat and shop?

nanc said...

but, that's the way i like things kuhnkat! i do not want them blending in with meeeeeeeee!

Anonymous said...

Yea the ole rainbow crowd tried making inroads to my quaint little town (Covington La) about 8yrs aog.

They failed.

Any biz with a rainbow sticker on the door lasted an avg of a yr.
Businesses with obvious queers working in them lost biz like crazy (sadly this included my favorite local restaurant, but what can ya do. They stuck a rainbow sticker on the door and hired a flaming homo to wait tables. Needless to say the place stayed quite empty until it shut down. Folks 'round here dont want no prancing fairy touching their food or flirting with the men.)

I had one workin for me that just couldnt resist making disgusting innuendos and always had to touch you when he spoke.
He didnt last long.
One day I got fed up and told him if he didnt shut his mouth and keep his hands to himself I would either a: fire him or b: give my guys permission to stomp his ass. - all depending on my mood (a good mood would get you option a:).

I told him flat out that as a Christian it was my duty to warn him that he was on the express train to hell and trying to drag others aboard only makes it go faster.
I told him that if any of us acted like him around women we'd be slapped with civil or even criminal charges so for sexual harrassment or even sexual assault.

I also reminded him that I and a cpl of the other guys were GLASS TINTERS.
We ALWAYS have a RAZOR KNIFE in our pocket lol - and we are VERY adept with it - as much so as a surgeon even!
Best NOT to test our temper - especially in the Lousiana summer heat!

He didnt come back the next day lol - or ever.