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Originally Judaism survived by having laws preventing Jews from mixing with non Jews.

MacDonald's major theme is that Judaism as a religion has never existed as an end in itself and that the Jews are much more than a religious group. He shows that Judaism was formulated as a weapon in a Jewish biological survival strategy which aimed to ensure the segregation of the Jewish gene pool from those of surrounding Gentile societies. This thesis, he asserts, is suggested by the substantial evidence from modern studies revealing the major genetic differences which exist today between Jewish and Gentile populations. These show that Jews have not only remained genetically distinct from the groups which they have lived among for centuries, but that Jewish populations in widely separated areas have significantly more genetic commonality than they have with their respective Gentile host populations. Eastern European Jews, for example, are far more genetically similar to North African and Middle Eastern Jews than to non-Jewish eastern Europeans, while Jews in Russia are six times more genetically distinct from Russians than Russians are from Germans. MacDonald also reveals that although there are some slight differences between Ashkenazic (eastern European) and Sephardic (Mediterranean) Jews, all the Jewish populations of the world essentially constitute a single genetic population. MacDonald's argument is that Jewish genetic separation has its origins in the proactive implementation of Jewish Old Testament racial ideology during the very early stages of the Diaspora, not as a subsequent defensive reaction to Gentile society. As described in the books of Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua, Jews always have preferred to commit genocide rather than to permit intermarriage and genetic mixture with the host population. And the Jewish god is a specifically tribal god--rather than the universal deity of the Christians--designed first and foremost to maintain and promote Jewish racial integrity. The Hebrew history of the Old Testament dictates, in fact, that all of Israel's misfortunes arose from rejecting Yahweh (Jehovah) through racial mixing. As MacDonald states: "God is simply another way of denoting an endogamous unitary ethnic group, representing a racially pure Jewish gene pool."

Christianity could not do things the same way, because Christianity was not based a genetic connection to a tribe, but was all inclusive, so it had to destroy influences that could weaken its religious hold on people.

"The most unpleasant task of ecclesiastical organization was to prevent a fragmenting of the Church through the multiplication of heresies- i.e.., doctrines contrary to conciliar definitions of the Christian creed. Once triumphant, the church ceased to preach toleration; she looked with the same hostile eye upon individualism in belief as the state upon succession or revolt." Will Durant "The Age of Faith".

Two Lessons in Racial Survival

Muslims? I don't know want to say about them and the survival of this religion. It is something worth reseraching. Right now if does seem some Muslims are defending the religion by killing opponents. Unfortunately they are pitted against each other as were the Catholics and Protestants pitted against each other. I believe they have gone through periods of winning converts through war, and also periods of tolerance and peace.