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=> Why Do We Hate Dr Joseph So?

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Sunday, March 4 2007, 18:54:50 (CET)
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It’s not an idle question. I think it has to do with the Church, with the way Christian dogma and belief is presented to us. The bible is, without a doubt, the most important book to Assyrians. It’s also a book over which you can’t debate..it is not a book open to discussion…you can’t choose what to believe and leave the rest..you can’t ask for proof…and there isn’t much research to it, thorough or otherwise. This is all the experience most Assyrians have of books…and among all books the Bible is not to be questioned…even though there are ten million good questions to be asked and all sorts of obvious errors and loads of silly things.

Now consider this kind of a person being confronted by Dr Joseph’s book…a very important book in its own way because it might shake a person’s “faith” in being Assyrian…and so it’s greeted as a book which might threaten an Assyrian’s Christian beliefs…and like the bible, that other super-book, an Assyrian feels he must not or, by now, cannot, question…debate, discuss, weigh the merits of anything but must accept Dr Joseph’s book as if it sought to become the next Gospel truth…when it is nothing of the kind.

How much more has to go wrong before we question? How is it that we have the same people, writng the same petitions calling for the same meetings the same rallies, and all of them attended by the same ten or fifty people…all of them sure that THIS time Assyria will be their’s.

Would any one of us continue going to a doctor who was as good at being a doctor as we are at being Assyrian? How long after he blinded us, took out our kidneys in place of our tonsils…amputed a leg when our arm was gangrenous and then cut the other arm off by mistake because he thought it was the leg he missed the last time…how long? How many pieces would he have to chop us up into, or our children before we thought to QUESTION his skill and qualifications? Would we REALLY be consoled that our children had been martyred in a good cause if they all died in this doctor’s office?

I am pleased to report that two people have emailed, in the night, in the last few days asking for the title so they could purchase the book. They say true knowledge only begins with doubt..and that certainty is mental death. Dr Joseph is retired and not looking for money from sales..but I’m sure he is heartened and pleased because there is nothing more an artist wants than to share his or her work, vision, idea etc.

All that is asked of us in this life, and especially if we would live it well, is that we behave like human beans…and the ONE outstanding characteristic of the human mind is curiosity...no one is saying Dr Joseph is right…or even half-right…Dr Joseph least of all…but what he does say and what I and many people in this country and elsewhere would agree with, is that for Assyrians, of all people, to refuse to even read and perhaps discuss this book..and on top of that to hurl such insults at the man as we have seen here…and by a woman who has NOT read the book but lies and says she has, as she has lied so many times…a woman who coulodn’t even wait to get to page ten…says something so shameful about us and our “certainty” that we are who we say we are..that almost nothing more is needed to prove Dr Joseph right…which is what Maggie accomplished before flaming out.

Take the Assyrian Challenge and just DO IT...get the book from your nearest library, or mail Jeff $10,000 and he`ll rush you one...read it for yourself, think a little about what it says and what it doesn`t say..form some sort of opinion besides "YOU LAWYER!!...and write somehting here..or anywhere..or discuss with a relative you don`t like and watch it destroy the person...but let`s see how many of us come out the same way we went in..if we are what we say we are, nothing can shake us...if we tremble at the mere thought of a question...then what are we...?

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