Balaam’s donkey had more sense

Written by thehouseofvines

I was talking with a spirit-worker colleague (who is Ashkenazim though she worships a different pantheon of Gods) about my plans for the Starry Ram and she said, “No Jewish group is going to consider this legitimate, not even Reform Judaism. They turned Ašērah into a tree, and killed all of her priests!” This is a subject she feels very strongly about, and I won’t share the remainder of her diatribe or it’ll just throw petrol on the flames of the Sannion is a Nazi rumor.

“Well, if it’s any consolation no Polytheist group is going to accept it either. But whither my God goest, so go I. And what can I say, Dionysos loves the Jews. I keep finding traces of him in the region. It’s fucking crazy.” And then I rattled off a bunch of them, including stuff I haven’t touched on here because I’m still exploring rabbit holes. Also there was the whole exorcism I was preparing for, which severely reduced the time I had for research and blogging. “But hey, I’m used to people thinking I’m crazy. What kind of Dionysian would I be if people didn’t call me that?!” I was gracious enough not to add, “And the same people who criticize me now will be copying me in six months. And pretending it was their idea all along.”

I’ve been thinking about that exchange for the last couple days, and I’m concerned that I’m actually wrong in my snark. I’ve seen too many Palestinian flags and even open support for Hamas among the Polytheists of Tumblr, Tiktok and Reddit. Including Dionysians, I am sad to say. Some of the things they wrote churned my stomach and sent a chill down my spine. It takes a fucking lot to do that. So no, I do not think that we’ll see polytheistic Judaism become trendy. Hopefully handfuls of the devoted and curious. Enough to form a few minyānīm would be nice. And an annual communal marzēaḥ. What more does one need? But I don’t know what to do about the antisemitism in Polytheist circles. I guess they have never heard about شِرْك, and how the groups they’re cheerleading treat the كافر … apparently?

24 thoughts on “Balaam’s donkey had more sense”

  1. Yeah this is a cause I couldn’t begin to fathom. Let’s pretend for just a moment that it was true that Israel’s the bad guy in the situation: wouldn’t we want to support Israel? Why would we support the people that we know for a fact would literally kill us if given the opportunity? Israel is the only country in the Middle East that any of us could safely walk in and be open about ourselves. That fact alone makes me think I’d rather see them win than the Palestinians

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    1. I’m a polytheist and a very public one as any google search will show. I would be risking my life (and I’ve confirmed this in talking to professors of muslim studies) were I to travel to a muslim country where Sharia law is present. While people of the book are tolerated, polytheists by Qu’ranic law are to be executed. I can’t imagine being executed for my religion yet there are countries in the Middle East where that is exactly what very well could happen. WHY would I support that?

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            1. They also accuse others of the things they themselves do/intend to do when they have the power. Which sounds like a good reason from barring them from ever wielding power. Ditto the cowards on the right. Which is why we should be governed by an AI programmed with the works of the greatest philosophical and political thinkers of history.

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    2. Anyone who accused the Israelis of war crimes either was being fed bad information, doesn’t understand how warfare works (especially against terrorist insurgents in an urban environment) or just hates Jews and nothing they did or did not do would have been good enough. After all, where were the protests concerning the wars in Myanmar, Syria, central Africa, and a dozen other places I could mention but they never do?

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      1. Not to mention very odd silence about Iran and the crackdowns. About Syria, my husband works with Syrians and others, they are baffled at the silence about their countries. The King of Jordan (who my husband knows) asked why no help for the Palestinians in his country. The Jordanians want them gone since they are disruptive to Jordan.

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        1. Every neighboring Arab country refused to accept Palestinians. Which seemed like a dick move until you know the history, and all the times they have done that with disastrous results. A people that would rather wallow in shit so that they can use the pipes to make rocket launchers to kill Jews doesn’t deserve political autonomy. I like Trump’s idea (probably Kushner and Rubio’s idea) to have a group of countries take over governing the Palestinian territory. I’d apply the same policy to Russia after dividing the empire into a number of autonomous states.

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  2. It is a matter of creating compartmentalization. One part of the thinking does not touch the other part. They had something similar in Dearborn, MI. They all supported the Moslems becoming the mayor and town council, and discovered well – guess what….. distaste for the Progressive types especially for the “queer folk.”

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    1. Like Iran before the overthrow of the Shah, with the Red-Green alliance. This was, as we saw with the student protests last year, a coalition of radical Islamists and Communists who resented the regime’s efforts to modernize and Westernize, and propagandized largely through the college campuses. After they won, of course, the Islamists killed all of the Commies and established a theocracy. But I am TOTALLY sure that it will be different if they succeed here in America and Western Europe. I mean, history never repeats or even rhymes, right?

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      1. From what I can see, they were brainwashed in Universities to be Maoists. It seems the education system has slowly been corrupted. The 1619 project, which is totally bogus, was all the rage. The person writing it is a Maoist (her words).

        I know Communists. My family were card-carrying Communists hunted by the FBI for years. So I do know how they work.

        Then the foreign entryists showed up, with money from China, Qatar, and the cartels to do the rest – harness the sheep to do their bidding of destroying the established system. Doing money audits can be very illuminating. I have been following the U.S. Treasury Sec. in his intrepid forensic accounting of where the money for protests come from. After all, how do you get money for whistles, blow horns, t-shirts, and printed signs? A lot of bake sales, I suppose.

        Anyway, I guess I could be considered a Nazi because of my views. I never understood that term being flung around unless it was deliberate by entryists and unwitting followers.

        Personally, I think that a lot of it is play acting as the “Rebel Resistance” of “Star Wars” and the Resistance Fighters of WWII. A lot of Trump derangement syndrome thrown with an addiction to rage.

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        1. Agreed, except for one point. While it’s evident that these revolutionary LARPers do sure like to eat, I seriously doubt most of them know the first thing about baking. So it’s clearly China, Qatar and cartels funding it, not bake sales.

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        2. They’ve been brainwashed to be communists. I see it everyday at my job. I stand outside of classrooms listening to teaching fellows pushing a pro leftist, pro communist, and very much pro Palestinian narratives. I hear it from colleagues with whom I speak. I’ve seen the infiltration of our union, which ruined the union for grad students. I firmly believe that communism is a tremendous threat, and marxism, socialism, or any other word that leftists want to elide against communism to make it a bit more palpable to half-witted democrats who don’t know their history are just communism under a different label and should be treated as the threat to liberty that they are. This union between communists/leftists and Islam recalls to me not just what happened in pre-Revolutionary Iran (as Sannion noted) but also various Latin American countries, and note most of these current Antifa and leftist agitators/riotors are very anti-Iranian liberation today. I am at the point where I think the greatest mistake the country made post WWII was allowing leftist agitators, hippies, and activists like Weather underground to remain free, and then become educators. it’s polluted higher ed possibly beyond saving and I say that as someone who teaches four days a week in the trenches. Not to mention, these views are, I believe, utterly incompatible with piety and religion. Better dead than red.

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          1. That’s not just your opinion. Marx, Engels, Trotsky, Mao, etc said as much multiple times in their writings, not to mention the whole history of violence and repression directed towards religious institutions and the faithful in every single Socialist and Communist country, ranging from shuttering churches, infiltrating clergy, raping nuns, throwing shamans out of helicopters and countless other atrocities.

            It’s a shame, really. I’m fond of the color red. Couldn’t they have picked something like yellow or pink?

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            1. And this is precisely why we’re seeing leftist mobs (or Islamists — take your pick) attacking religious institutions, desecrating churches, interrupting services, etc. I’ve been keeping a running list of acts of violence against religious buildings/people/places, etc. since about August and I have pages. and that’s just what I’ve come across and in every case it’s a fucking leftist Antifa person, a brain washed white liberal woman (the most dangerous creature on the planet — and that’s according to Malcolm X), or radical muslims. Every. Single. Time.

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  3. It’ll be amusing to see how the usual gang react when they find out what you’re up to. Two years ago it’d be all “Cultural appropriation REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”, but now that the Jews are also evil colonizing fascists, they’ll be flailing for a reason to condemn the project. Of course, they hold six diametrically opposite beliefs before breakfast, so you being condemned as an antisemite at the same time they’re saying the vilest things about the Israelis is entirely likely–any weapon in a fight, amirite?

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