EzraS wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
EzraS wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
What do THEY consider themselves?
Hasidic Jews don’t consider Jew of other sects “true Jews.”
I figure it's the same thing more or less. I think there is an Islam version of that too. And then the Baha'i Faith believe they are the next step in Islam. Like Christianity is viewed by Christians as the next step in Judaism.
That seems to be the relationship Mormonism in general has with Christianity, but it's not limited to any specific sect of Mormonism. It's a little more complicated though because Mormons consider themselves Christians, but followers of Baha'i don't view themselves as Muslims and followers of Christianity don't typically view themselves as part of the Jewish faith.
That's a good point. I thought it was just another denomination of Christianity, until I looked through a Book of Mormon a few years ago. As a history buff I was pretty surprised with its depictions of civilizations that supposedly existed in North America.
There's a whole field of American pseudo-history dedicated to re-imagining indigenous people as somehow connected to the lost tribes of Israel, re-imagining black Americans as indigenous to the Americas, etc. Some of the groups known for the antisemitism also seem to be among the ones most fixated on claiming descent from those lost tribes.
I imagine a lot of this is driven by northern Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans both being mostly ignored in writings that date to the bronze age and early iron age, what with those regions being illiterate at the time and all. Why settle for accepting being left out of archaic epics when you can just invent your own? I find these sort of invented and speculative histories really interesting even if they're
not real in any objective sense. Just in general this era (1850s - 1914) seems to be big on elevating romantic imagined visions of the past to a level of importance real history often only wishes it got.
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