PART I	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING WAR
	Chapter  1	About Ethical Canons and War
	Chapter  2	Decisions Precipitating War
	Chapter  3	Human Sacrifice
	Chapter  4	Amiriyah Shelter
	PART II	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING EQUALITY
	Chapter  5	Slavery
	Chapter  6	Arens' Atrocity Attribution Theory
	Chapter  7	Genocide of Native Americans
	Chapter  8	Intermarriage
	PART III	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING JUSTICE
	Chapter  9	Incarceration
	Chapter 10	Reemergence of Torture
	Chapter 11	Witchcraft Trials
	Chapter 12	Trials of Heretics
	PART IV	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING RELIGION
	Chapter 13	The New and Old Testaments
	Chapter 14	Transplanted Mentality
	Chapter 15	God and His Messengers
	PART V	ETHICAL CANONS CONCERNING EMPATHY
	Chapter 16	Karla Tucker and George W. Bush
	Chapter 17	A Girl with the Almond Eyes
	Chapter 18	Beyond Partiality: Building a World of Laughter and Love

Transplanted Mentality

Christianity, which refused to retain the discrimination between  “my people” and the others, postulating in its place the universal brotherhood of humankind, became an easy prey to the advance of the “spirit of Judaism,” i.e., the effectively self-centered, internally cohesive, practical-empirical partiality that could easily triumph over the abstract theoretical universality of Christianity.
Christianity, which refused to retain the discrimination between  “my people” and the others, postulating in its place the universal brotherhood of humankind, became an easy prey to the advance of the “spirit of Judaism,” i.e.,the effectively self-centered, internally cohesive, practical-empirical partiality that could easily triumph over the abstract theoretical universality of Christianity.
 

The oldest living religion of the Western world is Judaism, a prototype of three other major monotheistic religions: Catholicism, Islam, and Protestantism. The relationship between these four branches of monotheistic religions is characterized by heightened emotionality, oscillating between love and hate. However, they share common characteristics, among them intrusiveness into personal sexual behavior, punitiveness with respect to offences of individuals, and lack of moral codes against the collective violence.
 
The alienation is inherent to the daughter religions of Judaism, as these religions are not tied to the indigenous cultures of their adherents but were grafted on the genuine culture of the Jewish people of which religion is an integral part. Thus, over the centuries, the Islamic and Christian people became alienated from the cultures of their ancestors and adapted a culture that is not their own. In the course of this process they lost not only large segments of their past, but also parts of their innermost self. This impoverishment accounts for the comparative inferiority of the adherents to the daughter religions of Judaism in their relationships with the genuine people of God. This makes the coexistence of monotheistic religions fraught with difficulties and is among the sources of numerous conflicts, anguish and violence of the nuclear age.

Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin (1983, p.180, 192) in their book Why the Jews? the reason for anti-Semitism oppose Karl Marx and the Second International that condemned both anti-Semitism and philo-Semitism. They conclude that the only solution to anti-Semitism is to

 With the advent of President Bush II administration and its sponsorship of wars in the Middle East, perceived to a degree as motivated by the philo-Semitism of fundamental religious denominations, the implementation of strategies recommended by Prager and Telushin resulted in exponential increase of anti-Semitism throughout the world and made the United States and Israel the most hated nations on the face of the Earth (Morris, J. (2007) Once the most beloved country in the world, the US is now the most hated, Guardian, February 14).

As discussed throughout this book, ideologues of religion supplant the rational solution of conflicts with attempts to convert the opposing views as to accommodate their own; a strategy that seldom succeeds, typically intensifies the conflict of interests, and frequently leads to their resolution by the 'other means,' to use Clausewitz’s euphemism for the war.