This comment by Yekaterina Jung, a Russian Jew, nicely illustrates the difference between Abrahamic and Gentilic moral worldviews. A thread: https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1264742474825826306

The classical view of life is that both antagonists *can* be innocent, or justified, because this is the human condition: tragedy. The Judeo-Christian view is that 'god prospers the good' and alternately that if something bad happened to you, it was because you broke some rule.

In Antigone, both Antigone - our protagonist - and Cleon, her adversary, are in the right. Both sides fight a just war. The Romans were very keen on destroying the Carthaginians but honored Hannibal.

They were never treated the way Americans treated the Confederate States or NS Germany - as villains who become MORE villainous with time. Indeed, the Romans thought they had gone too far in the destruction of Carthage and were under a divine curse because of it.

This takes us back to the Iliad. The 'enemies' of the Greeks - who are the people telling the tale (to themselves!) - are so humanized and so noble that two civilization downstream from Greece in the timeline claimed descent from them!

The Romans and the British both claimed descent from the Trojans, as soon as they learned about them from Greek sources.

Now, a thought experiment: can you imagine anyone claiming descent from the literary records of the Jews on the subject of their enemies? Any major civilization claiming Amalek or Canaanites or Philistines or Pharaoh as uncle and grandparents? No?

Jews and the Low Church all believe they have god and are god and that anyone who opposes them is opposing god. This is why their wars are so incomprehensibly vicious and why they are such vicious winners, imposing genocidal conditions after the war is well settled.

To this psychopathic personality type, those who resist or rebel are actually disobeying god and therefore anything at all can be done to them because they don't have rights and aren't human. Indeed, they are 'enemies of god'.

When the war is over, the demonization, whether of Amalek or Germany, intensifies exponentially.

This insight is found in Simone Weil's "The Iliad: The Poem of Force". She shows the reader how the Iliad acknowledges the humanity and the justness of the Trojans and gently nudges

us to compare this with the traditional Jewish view of people opposed to them. For this, she calls Jews "a people Chosen for evil". It's a timely essay, since Russia is getting the Amalek/ Hitler treatment even though they're literally doing nothing.

So, in both the Iliad and the great Tragedies, we see two parties who are both fighting a just war. I identify the ability to recognize this moral division as the largest demarcation that separates the European view from the Judaic view of the world.

In the European view, bad things can happen to good people. In the JC view, if something bad happens to you, you did something to deserve it. In the European view, the enemy is human and has a point of view and rights to be respected.

From the JC view, the enemy is a literal demon who is fighting against god. I offer both the Iliad and the tragedies as evidence of the overwhelming moral superiority of the Ancients over the Moderns: all these Ancient works allow that two goods can be incommensurate,

whether between Greece and Troy, or Achilles and Hector, or Antigone and Creon. The Abrahamist cannot enter into this moral universe, and as a result is in a constant state of forever war, permanent revolution, purge and inquisition against enemies, real or perceived.