Simon Schama Quotes
St. Paul was making it impossible to be Jewish and Christian at the same time. What is very striking about those early churches and communities is that you could be both. Under Paul, though, you absolutely couldn't.
Schama, Simon. The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BC-1492 AD. Ecco, 2013.
While not in the Koran, this attributed statement is the basis for the ban on non-Muslims going on a Hajj and going to the most holy Muslim places—Mecca, Mina, Muzdalifa, and Arafat as well as the anti-religious hostility to all religions but Islam which is present in some Muslim countries.
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York
“Goyim” is the Hebrew and Yiddish word for non-Jews. In early Christianity, all Christians were Jews. Christianity was a new form of Judaism. The Last Supper was the Jewish Passover which was observed by all the early Christians who followed all the Jewish laws. Even goyim who wanted to convert to Christianity in the early days were converting to Judiasm and following the teachings of the famous Rabbi, Jesus. Later, St.Paul, allowed some goyim conversion without maintaining the Jewish dietary laws and without males having to be circumcised. The two religions split thereafter, but for many Jews of the time, especially the followers of Jesus, one of the Jewish obligations was to bring light to the goyim. The Cardinal was born of Jewish parents and converted, but just as the disciples of Christ considered themselves Jews so always did Lustiger.
Orangemen were the ulta Protestant Nationalists of Northern Ireland. Both Protetants and Catholics had their extremists who publicly spewed their hate, desire for exclusivity, and insults with little moderation from moderates who always risked retaliation from the extremists even of their own religion, not unlike the situation of the beginning of the 21st century, where Muslim moderates were cowed and intimidated by the religious Islamic extremists.
Sir Simon Michael Schama CBE FBA FRSL is an English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history and French history. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University, New York.
