The concept of “Judeo-Christian” civilization is somewhat of an over-simplification, as Jewish and Christian conceptions of the nature of God and the identity of the Messiah are largely incompatible. However, it is evident that Christian civilization did embrace certain ethical values it absorbed from the Jewish Bible.
The Jewish Bible contains some of the oldest records of human civilization still available. According to the Jewish Bible, the three sons of the Biblical prophet Noah reconstituted humanity after the Biblical flood destroyed the world. These sons were Shem, Ham, and Yefet1.
According to the Bible and Jewish tradition, Shem was the ancestor of the Hebrews and the ancestor of the Jews who gave the Jewish Bible to the world and taught the world ethical monotheism.
Yefet was the ancestor of the Europeans. The Biblical verse: “Yaft Elokim Yefet” – “May God expand Yefet, but may He dwell in the tents of Shem”2 can be interpreted to mean “may God expand the mind of Yefet”. Thus Yefet can be considered the ancestor of the Greeks and Europeans who developed philosophy, science and technology. However, science and philosophy alone are not enough to produce a true, ethical civilization. The ethical monotheism of the Jewish Bible is necessary to teach Man his purpose and to teach him right versus wrong, and good versus evil.
The roles of Shem and Yefet were explained well by the great Biblical commentator Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch.
“If we look around in historical reality, we can say to ourselves: the highest flower of the Japhetic tribe was יון the Greeks; the highest flower of Semitic mankind is עבר, is the Hebrew people, Israel, who carried the ׳שם ה as his God through the world of peoples. To this day, only these two human tribes, the Japhetic and Semitic, Greece and Judaism, have become the actual educators and teachers of mankind. They owe everything that the earth has gained in spiritual treasures to them, and everything that still works in a wholesome way on the education and upbringing of mankind is linked to that which Japhet and Shem brought to mankind. The Roman’s spiritual donation was also only a gift from the Hellenes. Japhet has aesthetically ennobled the world, enlightening it spiritually and morally. Greek and Judaism have become the most powerful active powers in the educational work of mankind, to which the rest of the world behaves like passive educational material.”3
Various barbarian movements and groups have been constantly seeking to destroy the civilization created by Shem and Yefet. Western Civilization has been under attack by a variety of barbarians, some of them “progressives”, some of them Communists (the CCP) and some of them Islamic. The “barbarian” movements, with their abandonment of any Biblical morality, are all rebellions against the God of the Jewish Bible.
However, the descendants of Ham exhibit especially fierce jealousy and hatred for the civilization of Yefet and Shem, and a desire to destroy that civilization. So-called Critical Race Theory (CRT) can be considered a a false intellectual facade of fighting non-existent “racism” and “oppression” while actually fighting to destroy the civilization of Yefet and Shem.
1 Genesis 9:18-9:19
2 Genesis 9:27
3 Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch, commentary on Genesis 9:27
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