re: #90 Ghost of Tom Joad

No thanks. Seems like certain people are always telling Jewish folks what they should think, what they should be outraged about, and how they’re all traitors to their kind because they don’t agree with those certain people, who, in a sick nipple-twist of irony, aren’t actually Jewish.

Built into the dominant nutty form of socon Christianity is the belief that Christians are the real Jews, and current-day Jews are a sort of misguided atavism that can’t see how obvious it is who the Messiah was. And current-day Jews are further divvied into “saveable” ones that echo their conservatism (and blind support of Israel at its most Likudnik) versus liberal Jews to whom every anti-semitic stereotype is freely applied.

Left Behind…or at least Fred Clark’s deconstruction of it…is a hell of a window into their mindset.