Book Blurb: Marcus Eli Ravage: A Real Case Against The Jews

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"A REAL CASE AGAINST THE JEWS:
One of Them Points Out the Full Depth of Their Guilt." (The Century Magazine)
(undated, post-WWI)

By Marcus Eli Ravage.

Ravage contends that Edward Gibbon uniquely assigned the correct reason for the downfall of the Roman Empire, the weakening effect of Christian doctrine, but that is conjectural at this distance stage and self-congratulatory by Ravage. Perhaps it was due rather to a combination of circumstances, not least among which is the practical impulsion of economic or material necessity, which, once fulfilled, leads to sloth, torpor and cyclical decline...

That said, Ravage's thesis finds echoes elsewhere both in the secular and also in relgious (anti-Pauline) circles, most recently in important untranslated (non-English) works by writers such as Zografou.

Here are some extracts.

 
If you really are serious when you
talk of Jewish plots, may I not direct
your attention to one worth talking
about? What use is it wasting words
on the alleged control of your public
opinion by Jewish financiers, newspaper
owners and movie magnates,
when you might as well justly accuse
us of the proved control of your whole
civilization by the Jewish Gospels?
You have not begun to appreciate
the real depth of our guilt. We are
intruders. We are disturbers. We
are subverters. We have taken your
natural world, your ideals, your
destiny, and played havoc with
them. We have been at the bottom
not merely of the latest great war but
of nearly all your wars, not only of
the Russian but of every other major
revolution in your history. We have
brought discord and confusion and
frustration into your personal and
public life. We are still doing it.
No one can tell how long we shall go
on doing it.

The followers of Jesus of Nazareth,
mainly slaves and poor workmen,
in their bereavement and disappointment,
turned away from the world
and formed themselves into a
brotherhood of pacifist non-resisters,
sharing the memory of their crucified
leader and living together communistically.
They were merely a new sect in Judea,
without power or consequence, neither
the first nor the last.

Then a patriotic Jew named Paul or
Saul conceived the idea of humbling
the Roman power by destroying the
morale of its soldiery with the doctrines
of love and non-resistance
preached by the little sect of Jewish
Christians. He became the Apostle
to the Gentiles, he who hitherto had
been one of the most active persecutors
of the band. And so well did
Paul do his work that within four
centuries the great empire which had
subjugated Palestine along with half
of the world, was a heap of ruins.
...
This was the beginning of our
dominance in your world.

We have put a clog upon your
progress. We have imposed upon
you an alien book and an alien faith
which you cannot swallow or digest,
which is at cross-purposes with your
native spirit, which keeps you everlastingly
ill-at-ease, and which you
lack the spirit either to reject or to
accept in full.

We have merely divided your
soul, confused your impulses, paralyzed
your desires.
[cognitive dissonance!]

In the midst of
battle you are obliged to kneel down
to him who commanded you to turn
the other cheek, who said "Resist
not evil" and "Blessed are the peacemakers.
" In your lust for gain you
are suddenly disturbed by a memory
from your Sunday-school days about
taking no thought for the morrow.
In your industrial struggles, when
you would smash a strike without
compunction, you are suddenly reminded
that the poor are blessed and
that men are brothers in the Fatherhood
of the Lord. And as you are
about to yield to temptation, your
Jewish training puts a deterrent hand
on your shoulder and dashes the
brimming cup from your lips. You
Christians have never become Christianized.