(1) The Judaism that entered the West and shaped Christianity was a Hellenized version. From the 3rd century BC onward, Greek language, culture, education, and philosophy deeply penetrated even Palestinian Judaism.
(2) Judaism on its own evolved into Talmudism in isolation and contradistinction to Christianity.
(3) As Christianity spread in the Greek-speaking Hellenistic and Roman world, it was transformed by Greek philosophy (Platonism, Stoicism, Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism).
Christianity became a sophisticated theological system through its fusion with Greek philosophy and Roman legal principles.
(4) The Christianity that actually shaped medieval and Western European civilization was further transformed by Germanic (Indo-European folk) worldviews.
Christianity’s absorption of Germanic cultural elements produced a hybrid “Germanized” Christianity that shaped European institutions, ethics, and identity for centuries.
(5) Finally, the real (millennial) foundation of Western civilization was the Proto-Indo-European cultural package (roughly 4500-2500 BC) consisting of horse-riding, mobile pastoralism, a tripartite social ideology of priests, warriors, and producers. This came with an aristocratic warrior ethos centered on personal glory, loyalty to the war-band, reciprocal gift-exchange, and sky/storm gods.
Duchesne is well-informed and thus able to make his case using few words. His rebuttal of the speaker, Melanie Phillips,—who surely must know she is rubbing salt in the wounds of a West which has been deeply undermined by Talmudic Jewish Supremacy—should be committed to memory by all who care about the West and want it to survive. ABN
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