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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Sunday, May 13 2007, 16:29:46 (CEST)
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...among all the wonderful things coming from Dr Joseph`s book will be the termination of my interest in things "Assyrian"...that is, having to do with this modern Assyrian business. It`s been a long bumpy ride through modern Assyria...I learned a lot...a lot. The questions and doubts I had have almost all been settled. I never believed for a minute, all the years of my life, that I was a direct descendant of the ancient Assyrians..or that the ancients converted to Christianity wilingly...in either case whether they did or not they stopped being Assyrian for all practical purposes...and I`m someone concerned with practical outcomes...I have no "faith" in nonsense...especially the Judo-Christo kind.

I find less and less to write about...except to review the missionary movement and its impact on the Nestorians...but that can wait. The welfare of all the people of that region is of concern and not just the conditions under which Christians must live...recognizing that their quality of life has always been impacted by what foreign Christians have done to them, in the guise of doing something "for" them, but really for themselves...for the benefit of their religion. This has alwats been compounded by the flimsy "hopes" of the Christians of that region that some foreign Christian power would "save" them...just as they were duped into thinking a Jew carpenter would save them...they`re welcome to their foolishness.

I feel a connection to the ancients...but not to the Assyrians exclusively...all the civilizations and cultures of that region are interrelated...they all grew from each other, influenced each other....each succeeding culture and even ethnic group came from those who went before...and was itself a part of what would come after....there`s no way to separate one from the other...they didn`t live with walls around them...they weren`t island-nations...they mixed and intermarried and learned and fought and loved one another...it is this single fact, their evolving from one another and being inspired by one another that made that region among the richest on earth and in history...it was called a Cradle of Civilzation because it gave birth to many. It was not a Prison of Civilzation...there was nothing exclusive to it...the people accepted everyone, one way or another...even to the point of accomodating their various gods...mixing and matching them as they mixed and mated among each other...the modern Assyrian viewpoint is Racism disguised...that and bigotry...and it isn`t a very good disguise either...that`s the reason they scream and holler so when you strip their flimsy masks.

I`m as "Assyrian" as I ever was. Dr Joseph took nothing away from me....on the contrary, he added the missing part....now I know where this modern fixation came from...and it sure as hell didn`t come from Ashurbanipal...for that I owe him a great deal.

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