I’m seeing a lot of notes on Substack and X attacking the Jewish origins of Christianity and arguing it should therefore be discarded. I went through a phase of understanding this via Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality, but the arguments are weak and incomplete, because the natural next question is: replace it with what?

Some propose white nationalism - ridiculous in light of Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler, which shows that Nazism was controlled from the start by international finance and built up to be destroyed, along with the demographic collapse of whites from 25% of the world’s population in 1900 to less than 6.5% today. Others propose a return to pagan gods - equally absurd, since there is no living foundation for that in the modern West.

Jung argued that the way forward is through esoteric Christianity. One cannot simply discard millennia of symbolic evolution; one must deepen and expand it just as Christianity once absorbed and transfigured the best of Hellenic thought. The paradox of opposites is that way forward: it is not only Christ who is crucified, but every human being, for this is the nature of life itself. Our task is to hold those opposites and reach temporary synthesis through the transcendent function.

This is difficult and frightening frontier work, which demands insight from many angles rather than polemics. But without such a path, the attacks on Christianity as a “Jewish scam” will remain sterile, because they offer no true or living alternative.