Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

Something I mull whenever these debates arise in pro-White circles about the jewishness of Christianity (complete with "Jesus was a jew" and "you follow a jew god" taunts), is that Jesus' "love thy neighbor as thyself" universalist message in the New Testament must be placed within the genocultural context of its day. Jesus lived during a time and in a place in which tribalism and clannishness were the norm. Tribes fought each other all the time back then, and these tribes were often literally "neighbors". That is, they lived cheek to jowl with their mutual enmities. Evolutionarily evolved WEIRD Whites did not yet exist. There were no moral universalist races or ethnies of note (and if there were, they quickly succumbed to their more clannish competitors). So Jesus' universalist message must be seen in the light of his contemporaneous reality. Tribal warring and clan feuding were a feature of his world. And he hated that. His universalist "love thy neighbor" message was aimed at these Middle East tribes to stop fighting each other and act like....well, like the future WEIRD Whites to come. It was not intended as a commandment to be charitable to foreigners halfway across the world. Or to allow Somalis into your bucolic Minnesota nicetowns. It was a plea to the tribal desert peoples to chill out and stop shedding each other's blood because your neighbor had a different sabbath ritual than you did.