semites dont have a religion, its pure materialism, worldy success is all that matters: it is always, therefore, a question of outward experience, not of inner; the conceptions are always thoroughly concrete, material; as montefiore assures us, even in the advanced jewish religion there is nothing which the dullest might not immediately understand and fathom to its uttermost depth; as soon as a man has a feeling of a mystery, as soon as he, for instance, supposes that there can be anything symbolical in the history of the creation, he is a heretic and a gallows-bird.  even the utterly materialised history of creation given in the book of genesis is so manifestly alien and borrowed that it remains totally isolated amid the israelitish tradition and without actual connection with it.  the will in fact gives little rope to the understanding and the imagination. so it is that the semite who has begun to doubt at once becomes an atheist; there is in any case no secret, no mystery: if allah is not the creator, then must matter be; as an explanation of the world there is scarcely the shadow of a difference between the two views, for in the case of neither does the semite feel himself in the presence of an inexplicable riddle, a superhuman mystery. foundations of the 19th century, houston stewart chamberlain yews dont even have a promise of an afterlife, and what do arabs have? virgins in heaven, again purely bodily pleasure, no sense of the divine, no introspection, pure rubbing dick in tight hole. its not religion but rather superstitious delusions.
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