I met the Sackler brothers at the opening of the Sackler School of Medicine, in Tel Aviv University's campus, a monstrous angular building, some twenty years ago. Now we are inaugurating the Med School at Ariel, another bombastic architectural nightmare. I remember the Sacklers's bio saying that they made their money as publishers of scientific journals. I always wondered if science was profitable to the point of donating dozens of med schools all over the world.
I was not surprised by the Sackler making money selling painkillers. What does surprise me is the craving of Americans for them, similar to the Russians universal craving for alcohol. They need chemical courage to go to work and need to numb their senses to work their eight hours and then return to their lonely homes Life for people without faith is unbearable, a "vale of tears". The West needs the "Good News", which is the real meaning in Hebrew (Aramean, Greek) of the New Testament. We Jews survive thanks to our faith in God and the mitzvot (Commandments). American Jews, most of them, are condemned to Hell on Earth. Specially if MacDonald keeps publishing calumnies.
The New Testament has been originally written in Greek and not in Aramean or Hebrew (not a spoken language in Palestine at the time).
ReplyDeleteYou’re a atheist J, why you pretend to have faith?
Faith is necessary. To say "I believe in God and the coming of the Redeemer" is almost real faith.
ReplyDeleteevangelium = The Good News = The Gospels
ReplyDeleteEvangelium is Greek
DeleteChristianity developed in the Ancient Hellenistic part of the Roman Empire, Greek was its first language. Jesus did not speak Greek but Aramean.
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