Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain.

Mr. Lawrence Kadish, of Gatestone Institute, wrote a fine article found below. Yet in his solely secular worldview, in the last sentence of the piece below he wrote;

“If they doubt it, just read Mark Twain.”

The original heading for the article from Gatestone Institute was;

Tribute to Samuel Clemens, Pen Name Mark Twain.

I took editorial liberties in altering the heading for placement here on ACP.

Until and unless picking up a Holy Bible and reading it, studying it, and believing it some of what Mr. Kadish writes may be difficult to understand or believe.  Until and unless permitting God, the God of the Jewish and Christian Bible to be always in the conversation there is no real understanding. To imagine being able to have an accurate, authentic, factual discourse while omitting God and the Holy Bible is like thinking you can breathe even if your lungs are removed from your body, or more accurately as if your brain has been removed from your skull — as it is the mind that monitors respiration while giving the action no conscious thought. Rather how the overwhelming majority wander through this life in perpetual darkness and delusion.

The Jews are God’s people. The Most Important Jew in world history, the history of every individual, the Lord Jesus Christ isn’t mentioned in Mr. Kadish’s article, but nonetheless read on as for such commissions and taints it is still an article worth reading.

To Mr. Kadsih, to anyone and everyone — Just read the Bible…

Yet do more than read. Believe. Study. Meditate upon it — meaning ponder its contents, think deeply upon its words. Put what is read, studied, and meditated upon into practice.

Perhaps having to blow the dust off of it in order to commence…

Ken Pullen, Sunday, February 25th, 2024

No, Mr. Kadish, Just Read the Bible: Tribute to Samuel Clemens, Pen Name Mark Twain

Even before the Hamas atrocities of October 7, anti-Semitism was on the rise on college campuses across the United States. Jew-haters did not need Israel’s military response to heap venom on Jews. It has always been there, taking many forms throughout history.

Yet there have always been strong, courageous voices outside the Jewish community that have pushed back against the bigotry.

Consider the essay of Mark Twain who, in 1899 wrote an essay in the publication Harper’s that is relevant today as it was at the turn of that century. An excerpt reveals his insight:

“If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way.

“Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of.

“His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and obtuse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

“He has made a marvelous fight in this world in all the ages and has done it with his hands tied behind him.

“He could be vain of himself and be excused for it. The Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, and faded to dream stuff and passed away.

“The Greeks and the Romans followed and made a vast noise and they are gone.

“Other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time. But it burned out, and they sit in twilight now or have vanished.

“The Jew saw them all. Beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind.”

Mark Twain pulled no punches, especially when he observed that Jews confronted every murderous assault with one hand tied behind their backs. Some 40 years after he penned this essay, the Holocaust would see the industrialized murder of six million Jews, an episode that would change the arc of Jewish history forever.

Israel’s ongoing response to the Hamas massacre reflects the unshakable determination that never again will Jew-haters be able to inflict their murders with bloody impunity.

The Jew-haters now chanting anti-Semitic slogans from their college campus refuges will discover in due time that they too will find their bigotry consigned to the ash heap of history. If they doubt it, just read Mark Twain.

Lawrence Kadish serves on the Board of Governors of Gatestone Institute.