Last year my friend Mark and I unmasked the Asia Times columnist "Spengler" as a NY currencies expert named David P. Goldman. A LaRouchie-cum-neocon, Goldman used various masks to write about religious issues. We unmasked him for a simple reason: because he had called for "more war, more killing, more barbed wire, please" for Arabs. Columnists who make those types of comments get their literary license revoked.
Well, Goldman has now come out as Spengler. The latest issue of the religious journal "First Things" has a piece by Goldman, and editor Joseph Bottom states what we said about him a year ago, he's Spengler. He's a religious Jew who's now joined "First Things" as an associate editor, Bottom says, but is careful to say nothing in the resume I was sent (can't find it online) about Goldman's LaRouche episode: "He was trained in Renaissance history and philosophy, particularly music theory, and he still serves as a governor of the Mannes College of Music."
Goldman's piece is called "Amalek Must Die: A Passover Meditation," (I've edited that title slightly, because it was too long in the original–remember, we revoked his literary license) and is filled with more barbed wire and killing, but with a highly-religious gloss. It begins:
Jeremiah 10:25: “Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you…"
Etc. My friend Mark says, "It is an only slightly veiled call for Christian acquiescence in something approaching genocide. We know where a lot of those neocons on the First Things board are coming from, but it bothers me to see conservative Catholics on the board of a magazine that runs articles like this. Zionists play on Christian theological confusion to get their support–or acquiescence."
If you want to read any more, here's the money graf, after the jump:
than God demanded. In both cases, excessive tolerance had catastrophic
results. Neo-paganism laid its cuckoo’s eggs in Christianity and
hatched them in the form of the national movements that would fight for
dominance in Europe and leave the formerly Christian continent a
secularized hulk… [I]t is entirely fair for Jews to remonstrate
with Christians for having failed to suppress pagan elements that
fostered anti-Semitism.
"That is why the harsh demands of the Hebrew Scriptures to rid the
world of heathen enemies continue to be holy words for Christians. The
battles of ancient Israel—the Exodus from Egypt, the wandering in the
desert, the crossing of the Jordan and the conquest of Canaan—remain
stations on the spiritual journey of every Christian."
