What Christians could learn from an Israeli politician

A reader said about my post on Moshe Feiglin: “Good, but what do we gentiles get out of it?”

My reply:

What gentiles would get out of it would be a renewed example of what it is to be a nation under God.

Israel, as I wrote at VFR this morning, was literally the first nation under God, a nation brought into existence by the Creator of the universe. America conceived of itself as a new Israel and made the symbolization, “a nation under God,” central to its identity, though obviously, with our secular perverted society today, that is a point of contention.

The two indispensable conditions for a renewed Western culture are a renewed faith in God (the transcendent), combined with a renewed belief in peoplehood (a concrete particular tradition through which the transcendent is transmitted), and that’s what Feiglin seems to be about.

However, another reader had a word of caution about Feiglin:

I like Moshe Feiglin. His effort to promote religious nationalism in the Likud and Israeli society is past due.

However, as long as he does not address demographics, he will not be a serious leader.

The Moledet party, now a member of the National Union party, is a more serious party. Unfortunately, it has been listless since the assassination of its leader, Tourism Minister and retired General Rehavim (Ghandi) Z’vi.

Aside from demographics, Feiglin faces another problem: most all non-Orthodox Jews would be terrified by the prospect of a new Temple.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at January 05, 2005 01:50 PM | Send