Jews and the measure you use March 25th, 2024.

Dear Gavin, I know that we've been talking primarily about whites and blacks, but I want to change the subject moving over to the Jews for just a moment.

This is only an apparent change the subject because the basic principle involved in this transfer straight across to every set of ethnic tensions known to man.

And we will shortly come back to white black relations.

The reason for appearing to change the subject is I've recently been interacting with some folks with

regard to the Jews and have been astonished at how opaque this most

transparent principle appears to be to some people. These issues have therefore

been on my mind but as you will see they transfer readily.

So remember that potent two-word phrase there, the Jews.

Here's the principle first, and it has to be considered as the cornerstone of Christian ethics 101.

Quote, for with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged.

And with what measure you meet, it shall be measured to you again.

Matthew 7.2.

Now let me push this principle into the corners.

We are taught this principle in numerous places and in numerous ways.

You must never evaluate someone else and or their group with a standard that you are flat

unwilling to have flipped around and applied to you and your group.

This is the golden rule. This is the law and the prophets. This is equal weights and measures.

This is what it means to pray the Lord's prayer. This is the hazardous plea to God, a plea that

God requires of us, that of asking him to treat us and ours in exactly the same way that we treat

them and theirs. A bigot wants to get his thumb on the scale in this way.

He wants to make an assertion about another ethnic group with just two variables, the

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