MARTIN LUTHER KING & ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL: THE TRUE PROGRESSIVES / NEW "PROGRESSIVES" ARE THE BACKWARDS WOKE HATE MONGERS
Vol. II | Issue. 140 | January 16, 2023
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Dr. Martin Luther King first met on January 14, 1963, in Chicago at a conference on Race and Religion.
At that time, JFK was president and America was rife with racial prejudice, the most obvious and odious of which were the Jim Crow laws of the South, whose chief villain was black disenfranchisement and whose chief instrument was the hangman’s noose through mass lynchings.
Even in 1963, 18 years after the end of WWII, surviving Nazi War Criminals were still young, many of whom immigrated to the United States and fully participated in American Civil Society disguised as the friendly next-door neighbor. The same was true in the other nations that they had escaped to after committing their wartime atrocities. At the Nuremberg trials, a few of the Nazi brand names (i.e Goering, Hess, and a few others) were punished and the new term term "Genocide" was coined. This came from the Greek word “γένος”, or “genos”, meaning race or tribe), and the Latin suffix “cide”, meaning "act of killing". However, for the most part, hoards of these vile criminals escaped justice.
In those days it was common to see Jews with numbered tattoos on their arm as evidence of the fact that they were not too long ago the victims and survivors of the Nazi horrors at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Sobibor, Treblinka, and others. You could also be certain at that time that, if you met a black person anywhere in America above or below the Mason-Dixon Line, they had either been subjected to Jim Crow and disenfranchisement or that one of their family members living in the South inhabited that hellish universe. In 1963, it was still possible for a former slave to still be alive - although they would have been at least 98 years old (given that the Civil War ended in 1865).
As Rabbi Heschel and Dr. King met for the first time in the winter of 1963, with the horrors of their people remaining both in the present in the rearview mirror of their tortured history, both men still held the vision that the Judeo/Christian ethos and uniting spirit were the moral guiding light of the American future and foundation of political action to use as a tool to ensure America’s potential equal rights and opportunity for all citizens.
The Judeo/Christian Tradition, whose North Star incorporates the 10 Commandments delivered by Moses upon his descent from Mount Sinai, promulgated a single objective standard of conduct by which the Jewish people were to live.
The 10 Commandments
You shall have no other Gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy.
Honor your father and mother.
Thou shalt not murder.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shall not bear false witness.
You shall not covet thy neighbor.
As you can see, there is no moral relativism in those commandments, they are exactly that: commandments that as such are to be obeyed and followed without question.
The 10 Commandments were adopted by and incorporated into the New Testament and have formed the cornerstone of civilized behavior, without which, the world descends into chaos and anarchy evil.
The "Progressive" political philosophy despises the Judeo/Christian Tradition. First and foremost the secular atheist icon of "Progressivism” is Karl Marx, and for Marx, G-d didn’t exist and the 10 Commandments posed a major threat to the implementation of his hopes to rid the world of religion as the "Opiate of the Masses".
King and Heschel believed that the Judeo/Christian tradition provided the moral foundation for creating a just society along with the demands of MORAL INJUNCTION to do so. The Heschel/King philosophy served as a guiding light towards moving America in the direction of a "more perfect union" (Preamble to the Constitution) and points us in the direction of our “better angels” (Lincoln).
The Left’s hatred of America and American civilization derives from their simple foundational view that Democracy and the Constitution are evil and should be replaced by a godless form of totalitarian government that has no objective, standard of civilized conduct.
MLK in his speech on Aug. 28, 1963, speaks of judging people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
The Left cares nothing of character and relies exclusively on skin color and other divisive criteria to divide and destroy America. The Left, through its “woke” ideology and general Hatred of America, have been wrongfully ascribed a false name to their movement. To call themselves "Progressive" is a disgusting misnomer for a movement whose goal is to drag America and the World back into the hateful universe of Marxism, Communism, and state and a society without the moral foundation of the 10 Commandments and the Judeo /Christian tradition.
In order to move America towards the idealized more perfect union we need to embrace the jointly held philosophy of moral foundation of Dr. King and Rabbi Heschel and pursue their blueprint in bringing their vision of America to fruition.
As for the "Progressives"; They hate and dishonor the philosophy of both men.
Happy Birthday, Dr. King. Those of us who care about America will always remember and honor you.
-Emes
'The Ten Commandments' prohibits murder-not 'killing'..Otherwise timely and excellent.