Why is Judaism lowly regarded?

Answer 1

Most likely because your opinion survey focused on a non-representative sample.

Here are a few statements from a few people who you apparently did not interview.

If you don't know who these people are, then the defense rests.

-- Winston Churchill

"Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny

the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most

remarkable race which has appeared in the world."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting

fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring,

and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs

and their religions."

-- A. A. Leroy Beaulieu, French publicist, 1842

"It was in vain that we locked them up for several hundred years behind the

walls of the Ghetto. No sooner were their prison gates unbarred than they

easily caught up with us, even on those paths which we opened up without

their aid."

-- Thomas Cahill, Irish Author

"The Jew gave us the Outside and the Inside - our outlook and our inner life.

We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish.

We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in

fact - new, adventure, surprise, unique, individual, person, vocation, time,

history, future, freedom, progress, spirit, faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of

the Jews."

-- William Rees-Mogg, former Editor-in-Chief for The Times of London and a member

of the House of Lords

"One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians

to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though

he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all."

-- Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician

"It is certain that in certain parts of the world we can see a peculiar people,

separated from the other peoples of the world and this is called the Jewish

people.

This people is not only of remarkable antiquity but has also lasted for a singular

long time... For whereas the people of Greece and Italy, of Sparta, Athens and

Rome and others who came so much later have perished so long ago, these still

exist, despite the efforts of so many powerful kings who have tried a hundred

times to wipe them out, as their historians testify, and as can easily be judged

by the natural order of things over such a long spell of years. They have always

been preserved, however, and their preservation was foretold... My encounter

with this people amazes me..."

--Paul Johnson, American Historian

"The Jewish vision became the prototype for many similar grand designs for

humanity, both divine and manmade The Jews, therefore, stand at the center

of the perennial attempt to give human life the dignity of a purpose."

--Matthew Arnold, British poet and critic

"As long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will

come to Israel for inspiration as to the people who had the sense for righteousness

most glowing and strongest."

--Olive Schreiner, South African novelist and social activist

"Indeed it is difficult for all other nations of the world to live in the presence of

the Jews. It is irritating and most uncomfortable. The Jews embarrass the world

as they have done things which are beyond the imaginable. They have become

moral strangers since the day their forefather, Abraham, introduced the world

to high ethical standards and to the fear of Heaven. They brought the world the

Ten Commandments, which many nations prefer to defy. They violated the rules

of history by staying alive, totally at odds with common sense and historical

evidence. They outlived all their former enemies, including vast empires such as

the Romans and the Greeks.

They angered the world with their return to their homeland after 2000 years of

exile and after the murder of six million of their brothers and sisters.

They aggravated mankind by building, in the wink of an eye, a democratic State

which others were not able to create in even hundreds of years. They built

living monuments such as the duty to be holy and the privilege to serve one's

fellow men.

They had their hands in every human progressive endeavor, whether in science,

medicine, psychology or any other discipline, while totally out of proportion to

their actual numbers. They gave the world the Bible and even their "savior."

Jews taught the world not to accept the world as it is, but to transform it, yet

only a few nations wanted to listen. Moreover, the Jews introduced the world to

one God, yet only a minority wanted to draw the moral consequences. So the

nations of the world realize that they would have been lost without the Jews...

And while their subconscious tries to remind them of how much of Western

civilization is framed in terms of concepts first articulated by the Jews, they do

anything to suppress it.

They deny that Jews remind them of a higher purpose of life and the need to be

honorable, and do anything to escape its consequences... It is simply too much

to handle for them, too embarrassing to admit, and above all, too difficult to live

by.

So the nations of the world decided once again to go out of 'their' way in order

to find a stick to hit the Jews. The goal: to prove that Jews are as immoral and

guilty of massacre and genocide as some of they themselves are.

All this in order to hide and justify their own failure to even protest when six

million Jews were brought to the slaughterhouses of Auschwitz and Dachau; so

as to wipe out the moral conscience of which the Jews remind them, and they

found a stick.

Nothing could be more gratifying for them than to find the Jews in a struggle

with another people (who are completely terrorized by their own leaders)

against whom the Jews, against their best wishes, have to defend themselves

in order to survive. With great satisfaction, the world allows and initiates the

rewriting of history so as to fuel the rage of yet another people against the

Jews. This in spite of the fact that the nations understand very well that peace

between the parties could have come a long time ago, if only the Jews would

have had a fair chance. Instead, they happily jumped on the wagon of hate so

as to justify their jealousy of the Jews and their incompetence to deal with their

own moral issues.

When Jews look at the bizarre play taking place in The Hague, they can only

smile as this artificial game once more proves how the world paradoxically

admits the Jews' uniqueness. It is in their need to undermine the Jews that

they actually raise them.

The study of history of Europe during the past centuries teaches us one uniform

lesson: That the nations which received and in any way dealt fairly and

mercifully with the Jew have prospered; and that the nations that have tortured

and oppressed them have written out their own curse."

-- A.L Rowse, authority on Shakespeare

"If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an

honorary Jewish citizen."