Note DI — Chapter XXII · THE MORAL STANDARD

Socialism applies the same tactics towards Christianity, as Christianity used towards Judaism. Christianity borrowed Israel’s greatest Book, the Bible, written from the first chapter of Genesis to the last of Revelations, at different times in different languages, but always by the sons of Israel, appropriated the moral tenets of these Jewish prophets and rabbis (Jesus is often addressed by the title rabbi in the New Testament) and repudiated the descendants of these Jewish thinkers. Christianity, for generations, deprived these descendants of the enjoyment of these human rights, their ancestors have woven for mankind, and accused them of forming an element destructive of social peace, in whose great Book social peace and justice were first preached. The Hammurabi codex, which in regard to civil and criminal statutes shows a certain parallelism with the Pentateuch, is far inferior to these books in the multitude of social laws.