JEW-ISH?

JEW-ISH???
With all due respect, I wrote this article after much debating with myself on this issue. I believe it to be absolutely true, and would welcome any critical comment from those who know me, since I am Chabad Lubavitch and have studied the Law all of my life...
So...Jew-ish? Not hardly. I intend to stop calling myself a Jew and I am definitely NOT Jew-ish. Jew-ish means Jew-like.
I ask you this, Hebrews. Whose Law do we obey? Is it NOT The Mosaic Law? Do we not read from the Mazoretic Texts? From HEBREW texts?
Where, praytell, are the Laws of Judah? Find them for me and I will say I am wrong. Those who know their history know full well that *Jew* was an epithet directed at the Tribe of Judah during the ancient Hebrew Civil Wars. It was an epithet then, it is an epithet now... though raised to greater heights during the rise of Roman Hellenism, the Islamic rise, and then the 3rd Reich.
Why have we adopted an epithet to call ourselves when it was used as much as a disparaging word in Biblical times, repeated in the tomes of RC Doctrine to equate Jews as an evil thing, to Jude during the Reich to equate us with vermin, and should it not be as painful to the Hebrew soul to be called an epithet like *Jew* as much as being called a kike?
I have come to believe that it is and will not answer to the word, Jew, anymore.
Have we not, as a people, gathered in ourselves as Israel? Who here, or anywhere, is Judah-ish, or Levi-ish, or Benjamin-ish? There is no such thing as Juda-ism. There is Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We are the inheritors of being monotheistic Hebrew from Abraham, and Israel from Jacob. No one has rewritten our history to preclude or discount the Lawgiver. It was NOT Judah. It was G-d and Moses. THAT is the People we are gathered from the four corners of the Earth. We are Israel in name and Hebrew in religion, though the word Hebrew, or the Name, Moses, for that matter, is seldom heard among the Children of Israel anymore.
We have taken their dirty word for us and claimed it is what we are. It has become a spitting word to 3/4 of the world, and still we operate under the mistaken notion that we respect ourselves when we claim the name the world has bestowed upon us as a sign of their disrespect for all that we are or ever were.
There is also no such thing as Judeo-Christian doctrine or ethics. There are Hebrew ethics adopted by Christians and spliced into their lexicon.
I do not blame them for this. Our Laws, some of which were patterned after The Code of Hammurabi which Abraham knew well, had more to do with justice than with worship. Our other Laws came from Moses and contained far more than mere codes of justice, but the Commandments were dictated by the Lord G-d Almighty and Christianity has changed them.
I wrote this on my website at the height of the seige at The Church of the Nativity.
As Christians worldwide condemn Israelis for trying to save your Church from oblivion, remember it is not YOUR blood you willingly shed to save it.
The blood being spilled is Hebrew blood and if were not for the fact that Israelis respect the sanctity Christians place on the Nativity, there would be no sanctuary for the murderers inside. The Church would be street level by now.
As you condemn, where is the condemnation for the cold-blooded killers that stood directly in front of your church while watching their fellow Muslims being raided for THEIR terrible acts?
Where is your outrage that the *priests* appointed by Arafat are not Catholic, or even Christian, but Islamic clerics wearing priestly robes?
The terrorists watched. They smoked. They laughed. And they did nothing to stop their own camp from being attacked because of them.
Even when the time came for them to fight, without their women and children to hide behind, they stormed the Church to hide behind Priests and Nuns and a G-d they do not believe in.
WHAT THEY DID KNOW...WHAT THEY DID COUNT ON, WAS ISRAELI MORALITY.
They consider it weakness. They would never have let something so *spiritual* as our G-d stand in their way.
They have stolen the souls of all they touch and they have wrent your souls assunder.
FOR SHAME THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT HEBREW BLOOD TO BE SHED YET AGAIN FOR YOUR COWARDICE AND THE COWARDICE OF THE CHURCH LEADERSHIP.
Were I so evil, I would say to you that your church is not my church and that MY Lord has forsworn us from idolatry, and we should not be in the position of protecting idolators.
But I am not so evil. Neither are my people, so while we do not worship your idols, we realize they are sacred to you because the truth of the First and Second Commandments have never stopped the leaders of the Church once Rome took it for itself.
You live in a fool's world. G-d protects fools because they know not what they do.
So we protect you.
And don't you just hate us for it?
G-d's Commandments:
1ST and 2ND COMMANDMENTS: I AM THE LORD THY G-D WHO BROUGHT THEE OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.
THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER G-DS BEFORE ME. THOU SHALT NOT MAKE UNTO THEE ANY GRAVEN IMAGE, NOR ANY MANNER OF LIKENESS, OF ANYTHING THAT IS IN THE HEAVEN ABOVE, OR THAT IS IN THE EARTH BENEATH, OR THAT IS IN THE WATER UNDER THE EARTH; THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN UNTO THEM, NOR SERVE THEM; FOR I THE LORD THE G-D AM A JEALOUS G-D, VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION THAT HATE ME AND SHOWING MERCY UNTO THE THOUSANDTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT LOVE ME AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.
The following is directly from a Catholic Priest; the explanation used for years to condone the unforgivable.
In his own words:
"Catholics worship statues!" Despite how ridiculous the claim is, people still make this accusation. They say that because Catholics have statues in their churches and pray in front of them, they are violating God's commandment: "You shall not make for yourself a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in earth beneath, or that is in water under the earth: you shall not bow down to them or serve them" (Ex. 20:4-5); "Alas, this people have sinned a great sin; they have made for themselves gods of gold" (Ex. 32:31).
"This tract will examine the standard Fundamentalist arguments against the ancient Christian practice of using images, and it will as provide a brief biblical response to these arguments, showing the Scriptural evidence for this practice."
"First, let's point out that it's right to warn people against the sin of idolatry."
"But the accusation that Catholics are idolaters because they have images of Christ and the saints is completely incorrect, being based on a misunderstanding or ignorance of what the Bible says about the purpose and use (both good and bad) of statues."
The above statement is intentionally pyschobabble. It is at best, a rationalization, but for all practical purposes, it is a lie. It is a lie that has caused many millions of people throughout the centuries to sin.
What is the lie, you say. Continue.
Anti-Catholic writer Loraine Boettner, in his book Roman Catholicism, claims that it is a sin to have statues because "God has forbidden the use of images in worship" (p. 281). Many Protestants embrace this claim, yet if they were to "search the scriptures" (cf. John 5:39), they would find that exactly the opposite is true. Not only did God never condemn the use of statues in worship (though to be sure he did condemn the worship of statues), he actually commanded their use!
*note the small h for He, The Lord.
Remember the whole of the FIRST AND SECOND COMMANDMENTS. It did not change because a MAN said it did.
GOD SAID TO MAKE THEM
"While Protestants and others quote Exodus 20:4-5 to bolster their charge of Catholic "statue worship," they forget about the numerous other passages where the Lord commands the carving of statues: "And you shall make two cherubim of gold [i.e., two carved statues of angels]; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece of the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be" (Ex. 25:18-20)."
Have any of you seen cherubim In Heaven, ON Earth, or IN the Water?
David gave Solomon the plan "for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord. All this he made clear by the writing of the hand of the Lord concerning it all, all the work to be done according to the plan" (1 Chr. 28:18-19). Note that all this was directed according to divinely inspired writing.
Please note, it was not the writing that was to be worshipped. It was to be housed and TAUGHT! From generation to generation, forever.
TAUGHT. Not worshipped.
Ezekiel 41:15 describes graven images in the Temple: "on the walls round about in the inner room and [on] the nave were carved likenesses of cherubim."
And again, except for a few delusional LSD users, who among you have seen cherubim In Heaven, ON Earth, or IN the Water??? In any case, the carvings were not to bow down to nor worship. They were ornate decorations which involved NOTHING of the sort of admonishment contained in the Commandments.
THE RELIGIOUS USE OF IMAGES
During a plague of serpents he sent to punish the wicked Israelites, God told Moses to "make [a statue of] a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it shall live. So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live" (Num. 21:8-9).
The fact that one had to look at the bronze statue of the serpent in order to be healed shows that statues could be used ritually, not merely as religious decorations.
Have any of you seen fiery serpents IN Heaven, ON Earth, IN Water??? This was a test of faith. G-d's OWN test. Not to be toyed with or used in later centuries to lead His people astray as nimbly as this church has done.
Catholics use statues, paintings, and other artistic devices to recall the person or thing depicted. Just as it is helps to remember one's mother by looking at her photograph, so it helps to recall the example of the saints by looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use statues as teaching tools. In the early Church they were especially useful for the instruction of the illiterate. Many Protestants themselves have pictures of Jesus and other Bible pictures in Sunday school for purposes of teaching children, especially those who haven't learned to read. Catholics also use statues to commemorate certain people and events, much like Protestant churches that have three-dimensional nativity scenes at Christmas.
This is a bogus claim.
SAINT is a word that Christians use to sanctify people. MEN cannot judge those who G-d would sanctify. By doing so, you usurp the Lord and spit in the Lord's eye. G-d chooses those who will be remembered on earth BY THEIR WORKS and I remember Shakespeare though I have never met him and he is not a saint. G-d chooses His prophets and they are not saints. G-d chooses who lives forever or ends right here. No MAN has this power.
Furthermore, the Church deliberately kept most people illiterate as it feared those who might eventually understand what terrible wrongs had been perpetrated in the name of a purported HEBREW RABBI whose purpose was to bring His people out of Hellenization and back to MOSAIC LAW. NO Hebrew Rabbi would have condoned such things since knowledge was a virtue among Hebrews.
If one measured Protestants by the same rule, then by using these "graven" images, they would be practicing the "idolatry" which they accuse Catholics of practicing. But the fact is, there's no idolatry going on in these situations. God forbids the worship of images, but he doesn't ban the making of images in general. If he had, movies, videos, photographs, manger scenes, paintings, drawings, and all sorts of things would be banned, since they too are images.
Neither do any of these things REQUIRE genuflection. Only the Church. Nor are any of these things to be worshipped and were not made with such thoughts in mind. The psychology of the Church is to MISLEAD, not lead.
Since Rome took over the Church, they have consistently misled people on Scripture with Dogma and illegitimate doctrine. It is a religion of men, made by men, enforced by men, and enormously disdainful of women. In short, it is blasphemous from its beginning even up to and including this very moment.
WHAT ABOUT BOWING?
Sometimes anti-Catholics cite Deuteronomy 5:9, where God said concerning statues, "You shall not bow down to them." Since many Catholics sometimes bow or kneel in front of statues of Jesus and the saints, anti-Catholics confuse the legitimate veneration of a sacred image with the sin of idolatry. The fact is, Deuteronomy 5:9 doesn't help the anti-Catholic argument.
First, remember that although bowing can be used as a posture in worship, not all bowing is worship. For example, in Japan it is the custom for people to show respect and politeness by bowing in greeting (the equivalent of shaking hands in the West). Obviously there is no "worship" going on here. The Catholic who kneels in front of a statue when praying isn't worshipping or even praying to the statue anymore than the Protestant who kneels with a Bible in his hands when praying is worshipping or praying to the Bible.
Here again is a rationalization of something which compares apples to oranges. No one prays TO a Bible. The Bible is there to be READ, not worshipped. Secondly, in Japan, you are not REQUIRED to bow down before someone as a sign of worship. It is their way of politeness. Thirdly, it is THEIR tradition, much like a salute. There is no other reason to bend your knee before a statue than the Church says it is the IMAGE of worship. The Church REQUIRES it, although G-d has specifically commanded that THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN UNTO THEM.
You are required to cross yourself with *Holy Water*. Who can make Holy Water? Some bottling plant in Peoria? It is a certainty that no MAN can. So the entire mass begins with a lie, continues with blasphemy, and ends with blasphemy. No man can replace G-d. Didn't Christianity's Jesus, Himself, TEACH you how you should pray? Why then do you need a Psychology professional to tell you how?
When people had to look to the bronze serpent to be healed, they were not worshipping it, as shown by the fact that, years later when they did worship it, and even gave it a name ("Nehushtan") as a snake-god, the righteous king Hezekiah had it destroyed (2 Kgs. 18:4).
And by THIS admission, he makes everything that came before a lie. What better example of the *Christ as G-d* Dogma do you need? NO OTHER G-DS BEFORE ME. When you began to worship an image as a god, you were destroyed.
"HIDING" THE 2nd COMMANDMENT?
Another charge made by Protestants is that the Catholic Church "hides" the second commandment. This is because in Catholic catechisms the first commandment is: "You shall have no other Gods before me" (Ex. 20:3) and the second is: "You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain." (Ex. 20:7). They argue that Catholics have deleted the prohibition of idolatry in order to justify their use of religious statues.
But this is false. The fact is, Catholics simply group the commandments differently than Protestants traditionally have and abbreviate them for ease of memorization.
In other words, the Catholics hid the Second Commandment and do not tell you what the full meaning behind it is. They have sought to make it seem less important than it really is lacking the understanding, that by breaking the second, you can NEVER keep the third. It guarantees the sin.
That such abbreviating is reasonable to Protestants is demonstrated by their common rendering of the Sabbath Commandment as simply, "Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy," though the actual text of the commandment is quite lengthy: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it" (Ex. 20:8-11).
And yet, Rome changed the Sabbath Day to suit itself and guaranteed yet another sin. Jesus Himself admonished that you had best pray the retribution does not come on the Sabbath because you would not be able to run. These are not the sentiments of someone who paid no heed to the Sabbath as Paul decreed in his successful attempt to pervert The Mosaic Law to Romanism. Romanism is Pagan as it gets. The Trinity with all its *saints* is its Pantheon. And the hierarchy is as corrupt as the day is long.
Martin Luther recognized that the statements "You shall have no other gods before me" (Ex. 20:3) and "You shall not make for yourself a graven image" (Ex. 20:4) are in fact two parts of a single command, and he abbreviated them to "You shall have no other gods before me."
(Never mind that Matin Luther was a notorious anti-semite.) You pray to Mary. You pray to Jesus. You pray to *Saints*. You venerate a MAN, (the Pope,) as the human representation of G-d on earth. Excuse me, but no pope is, or ever was, even a mediocre substitute for G-d. Because you do not understand the FIRST and SECOND COMMANDMENTS. They go together and cannot be separated according to what some cipheror decides their importance to each other is. They were written plainly and succinctly. Any diversion is sin of the highest order.
You genuflect before priests, men and women, and accept wafers into your mouths which represent human flesh. You drink from a chalice which represents human blood. G-d has forbidden these things. For all practical purposes, this practice is a representation of outright cannibalism.
I have taken time to tell you these things. It is up to you to understand, accept, or reject it.
It's a very short explanation. I could get more technical. But this is the truth and you don't hear it from Roman Clergy.
You have taken our religion, our laws, and turned them inside out, upside down, and invented Original Sin to deal with it. Someday, when My People are NOT being strangled by madmen and Chosen people wannabes, I'll tell you why Original Sin is impossible.
Having said all this, I still did not wish to see you lose your Church. It's simply that you are so ungrateful, I don't think you deserved it.
And the sun has gone down in Bethlehem.....
Hebrews, do you understand me? Is there a Book in the Old Testament called The Book of JEWS?
NO!
THINK about who you are, why you are, where you came from, and the LAW you are supposed to follow. We are NOT *their* jews. We are Hebrews. We are Israelites. And we had best start being who we really are instead of what the rest of the world has chosen FOR us. My name is not an epithet. My religion is not an epithet, despite the common practice we have adopted of taking their epithet as our NAME.

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FOR SHAME!

SHAME, Irwin Graulich!!!
The horror of secularism's intentional misstating as to the intent of Judaic Law...
You have essentially taken a case of unintended consequences which is the accidental death of an unborn child, or manslaughter, and compared it to outright murder. HaShem definitely makes a distinction between these things. You would lead your people to SIN???
Your interpretation of the Torah, which I know and understand, left me gasping in stunned silence at the gross and unethical position you have put forth. G-d NEVER condoned the intentional murder of a child in the womb. You should feel intense shame at presenting this unthinkable position to Jewish women because they will NOT be absolved if they CHOOSE death for their children, nor will women of any other religion or no religion at all.
Understanding the original scripture, not updated to suit your times, is paramount to understanding G-d's Commandments. You have taken the context and spun it into lead so to blind those who haven't the teaching nor the common sense you have stripped away from the righteous to make the secular feel righteous when they aren't, and can't ever be, according to your interpretation.
Exodus 21: Verse 22-25:
22: *And if men strive together, and HURT a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall surely be fined, according as the woman's shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
*Note: "...yet no harm follow" means that the child did NOT die. You will see in the next verses that these passages have nothing to do with the mother per se, but rather with the life of the child.
23: *But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24: eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25: burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
*Note. These verses make no mention whatever of the mother or the life of the mother. It is clearly the unborn child that is the main concern of these verses. Hence, if the mother miscarries and the child is born prematurely but alive, no loss of life has occurred, so a fine is the recompense for carelessness, but should the child die, it is the same as murder and is treated as such.
Your updated version makes no sense as written.
SO!
How DARE YOU!!!???!!!
Excerpt by Irwin Graulich from an article on *Jewish Thought on Abortion*Arutz Sheva:
"""What pro-choice and pro-life advocates fail to realize is that their positions make them either accessories to murder, or accomplices to a meaningless beauty salon activity or cosmetic surgery procedure. Now that we see the inherent foolishness of both positions, there is a need to examine the Biblical context for an astonishing revelation on this Solomonic issue.
In Exodus, chapter 21, verses 22-23, it states, "If men shall fight, and they collide with a pregnant woman, and she miscarries, but the woman lives, the punishment on the men is financial, as determined by judges. But if the woman dies, there should be capital punishment." Watch the brilliance and wisdom of these two sentences.
These verses clearly illustrate two important concepts. First, that the fetus is not a full life. If it were, capital punishment would be called for, as mentioned in the second sentence. We are also shown that the fetus is not a worthless piece of tissue, like excess nasal cartilage, since financial remuneration is required by the offenders. In addition, there are later references to the health of the mother taking precedence to the unborn.
So how do we interpret this God-given posture and how does it totally resolve the issue? This astounding centrist Jewish position is equally distant between pro-choice and pro-life. It simply states that abortion is not murder...and is not nothing! The only way to enforce these seemingly contradictory positions is to allow an immoral act, while at the same time to discourage it strongly, which is exactly what is done in Israel in the majority of cases."""

THE TROJAN PATRIARCH

The ongoing past meets the incoming future...
Lest anyone discount the ramifications of the Greco-Roman scourge of Israel and Jews, this story has yet to play itself out. The Greeks lay claim through a madwoman, Constantine's mother, to the *birthplace* of Jesus, which happened to be wondrous land upon which a hole in the ground, (tunnel entrance?) became the *stable* of the birth. It also annexed unto itself the Shepherd's Field and much of the best real estate in the country. They own the very land upon which the Knesset is built.
The Armenians, Greeks, and Romans had a great deal of bad blood between them when the three Catholic sects each claimed the Nativity for their own and stubbornly fought over times and dates, architecture, keys and decor, and space.
After all these centuries, the Greeks are still the only ones to have the key which opens the locked entrance into the maze of catacombs under the Nativity. It is the power they hold over the other two, though the Romans replaced the Armenian plate which had shielded the *stable* with a brass plate of their own, written in their own language, and seriously undermined both other sects in so doing.
There will be more info on this with time. It is history worth knowing because a day will come when everyone must choose their final path. Choose wisely. It cannot be unchosen.

Arutz Sheva - Israel National News: "Irineos Appointment Once Again in Limbo"
17:08 Mar 11, '04 / 18 Adar 5764

Greek Patriarch Irineos

Irineos and Cheshin

The controversial appointment of Irineos as Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch in Israel is still in limbo - because of a dramatic and almost unprecedented judicial step taken by Supreme Court Justice Mishael Cheshin.
Irineos Update:
A suit against the controversial appointment of Irineos as Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch in Israel has been rejected - but the appointment is still in limbo. This, because of a dramatic and almost unprecedented judicial step taken by Supreme Court Justice Mishael Cheshin.
This past Thursday, a three-justice panel ruled that the appointment of Irineos - a known anti-Semite with strong ties with Yasser Arafat - has diplomatic ramifications, and that therefore the Court wishes not to intervene. The Court thus dismissed serious charges brought by Yosef Laufer regarding Irineos' ties with the PA leadership and claims of blackmail, threats and bribery. Laufer also cited letters written by Irineos noting the 'sentiments of disgust and disrespect that all the Holy Sepulcher fathers feel for the descendants of the crucifiers of our Lord... actual crucifiers of your people, Sionists [sic] Jewish conquerors of the Holy Land of Palestine...' and promising that if chosen as Patriarch, 'rest assured, Mr. President [Arafat], that the rights of our most beloved Palestinian people on the Holy City of Jerusalem will find the most 'hot' supporter.'

Welfare Minister Zevulun Orlev, who voted against the appointment, expressed his concern at the time that "two years ago, all the professional elements, such as the Shabak and the police, objected to Irineos - but now, suddenly, none of them are willing to open their mouths... All of a sudden, no one has an opinion - not the police, not the Shabak, not the Prime Minister's Office, and not the Jerusalem Municipality. This is very mysterious." Despite this, the three-judge panel, as noted, dismissed the suit and its charges, and instructed the government to issue the official appointment to Irineos, in accordance with its decision of January 25.
Then Justice Cheshin stepped in. Only a few hours after the above decision, and while Irineos and cronies were in the midst of celebrating it, Cheshin ordered it suspended - on the grounds stated in another suit brought against it. A Greek Orthodox Christian living in the Galilee, Yusuf Naaman Nasser, had claimed that the appointment of a man who is "corrupt and devoid of moral values" at the head of his church was a violation of his religious rights. Justice Cheshin ruled that Nasser could re-submit his appeal of the decision by this coming Sunday, and that the government would then have 15 more days to respond.
Arutz-7's Shimon Cohen reports that elements in the Greek Orthodox Church are now "agitatedly" bringing up issues such as real estate deals in Cyprus, and others with a Nazareth businessman named Bedia Tanus, to the tune of millions of dollars - money that never reached the Greek Orthodox Church coffers.
It has also been noted that parts of the Greek island that David Appel wished to purchase belong to the Greek Orthodox Church. Appel has been indicted on charges of trying to bribe Prime Minister Sharon in regards to this purchase. Sharon, though he has not been indicted for accepting these bribes, has long favored the controversial appointment of Irineos as Patriarch of the Church. Appel is similarly accused of bribing Trade Minister Ehud Olmert when the latter served as Mayor of Jerusalem. The suspicion is that Appel's financial support for Olmert when the latter ran for Knesset came in exchange for Olmert's help in connecting Appel with Greek officials.

Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon

Welfare Minister Orlev, who, as noted, objected to Irineos' appointment, was asked at the time whether, in his opinion, "real estate elements close to the Prime Minister are the ones who are pushing for the appointment." Orlev said, "Questions of this nature must be directed to the Prime Minister himself."

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In the past days, I've commented that we have had leaders who have sold us out and mentioned times, but not names. In recent times, there have been Rabin, Peres, Barak, Ben Eliezer, Mitzna, Yossi Beilin, (in order below...,) and one might hopefully pray that these traitors do not include Sharon, among others in Israel perfectly willing to open Jewish veins for personal glory or to protect some other ideology, (or their own butts.) Like everywhere in the world, the Israeli left is marxist and truly needs to be gagged, bound and dragged off to an island somewhere they can only communicate with each other.

The same can be said for the far left here and everywhere else on the planet. None of these people care about either their countries or their people though they come in all shapes, sizes, ethnic backgrounds, and some even claim religion which, of course, they do not and cannot possibly follow and espouse the positions they hold on to with bloody fingernails as they seek to destroy all that is good and moral in the world. Some are barbarians. Some are bestial. Some are, at best, sub-human lacking conscience. (I give you most US Democrats and Israeli Labourites for the past 25 years.)
This blog is called *Think Stuff* because that is what it's for. Today, a blog. Tomorrow, the world. LOL.
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THE PASSION

An Explanation and Honest Review of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"

Some of you will find a most unusual, but brutally honest, appraisal of Mel Gibson's movie here. Please know that although I did find it to be horridly antisemitic, it was not of Mel Gibson's doing. Mel Gibson's intent was to tell the truth as it was written. He did and did it so well that its real meaning was an intense clarification of the truth. It was the New Testament written by Rome for use against Jews and Later Christians alike.

I went into the movie with a completely open mind, trusting in the goodness of the man I THOUGHT Mel Gibson was, to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. Having seen it once, it stunned me with its clarity, but to try and be as historically accurate as I could, I saw it a second time to note if I had missed anything. If there was any doubt at all as to what my eyes beheld after reading it over and over for years, the doubt is totally removed and clearly, what was on that screen was the beginning in earnest of the Jewish Holocaust.
Q. WHO Killed Christ?
A. NO ONE.
Q. How do you know?
A. Morality continues to exist. Conscience exists.
The Lord, My G-d, harshly condemned human sacrifice because we are fashioned after His own Image. He did not allow the sacrifice of Isaac at his father's hand. It does not, therefore, stand to reason that this same G-d would especially create and deliver up a human being for sacrifice when the example that was used in the Old Testament to stop this forever was the girlchild of the last Hebrew to offer up a human sacrifice. The punishment for the sin, the loss of a beloved child, was all the more painful than the death itself because G-d did NOT want to ever have such a thing done by Hebrews any more.
Why then, would He use ANY child, since we carry G-d within us everywhere all the time, to make murderers of the whole world? If that was how G-d did things, and we were never meant to endure punishment for our own sins ever again, why love, hate, fear or follow the Lord at all?
Do you not see how the Romans diminished the Glory of G-d in this atrocity? To murder His OWN SON in cold blood?
AND Rome exists to try and make sure that a Moshiach cannot possibly come by strangling our faith and precluding our worthiness for redemption by inventing original sin that is supposed to include us all.
The movie was about ROME'S antisemitism. Rome tried to recreate Jews in their own image, but only the weak and the power hungry followed the path laid out for them. It gained them no respect among Real Jews or among Romans who hated them for no other reason than Jews frowned upon Rome's *enlightened* lifestyle with its multipurpose gods and goddesses and its debauchery.
Why would we ever want to be remade in a false image when we were already made in G-d's OWN image? It presented a clearer picture of the *why* such a crucifixion was ever written about, and the absolutely chilling realization that with this introduction of horror into the pesky religious Jews' daily lives, Rome made absolutely sure that this, the beginning of the genocide of the Jews, became a holocaust that would never end for all of time.
The leaders of this church made exceedingly sure that Rome's way of life, the unnatural lack of marriage, homosexuality, pedophilia, women as chattel, which religious Jews could never have accepted, would go on and they continue to rid the world of as many Jews as they could even as they were going on to usurp and devour other cultures, other religions, in very much the same way. There are whole peoples who have no history because it was stolen from them. That's YOU.
Rome's adversity to birth control and abortion isn't for humane reasons. It is to see to it that more Catholics are born to carry on their traditions which everyday Christians still do not understand even though it becomes more clear with each passing day.
Having believed within my own soul that the Christ Rome manufactured, was in truth, John the Baptist, The Passion made it more clear than I ever thought possible. You would not find this very realistic if you have no historical background to check the facts, however, I do. John was murdered for doing exactly what this Christ was to have done. He fought vehemently against the petty rules of the Great Sanhedrin (which comes from a Greek word meaning sitting together, (or council,) and against the evil High Priest Caiaphas for selling out his people to Rome, much the same way our leaders have tried to sell us out and have had us murdered via The Altadena, Oslo, Wye, Rabbi Kahane OBM, and so many more. Out of a council of 71, only 9 were portrayed as so evil they would condemn an innocent man in the dark of night in secret. Always, it has been thus. The higher G-d trying to be brought down and slain by MEN who wanted a power they could never hope to possess.
In this movie, I watched Rome brutally torture, mutilate, scourge, and ultimately slay a JEW THEY claimed was our Messiah after they realized that the process by which they had been trying to absorb the Jews into the Hellenistic culture would never work. You all know what a metaphor is. Jesus was a metaphor for JEW. What they could not change, they destroyed, stole our land and our holy Temple artifacts which are still in possession of the Vatican. It never stopped them from their quest to obliterate any culture different from theirs, and I am NOT talking about the Christianity you think you know.
As was their wont, they picked one of our most meaningful Holy Days to perpetrate this image of horror and evil on. We have never been able to celebrate our freedom from Egypt without seeing plays, ashes, tears, masses, and finally movies about the horrors that Rome passed on so excruciatingly by offering the new believers, not Jews but Gentiles...Muslims, Celts, Druids, Gauls, Norse, Spaniards, African Tribes, Island Tribes, Brits...graphic and terrifying details of the murdered Lord, King of the Jews, a man sacrificed like no other among crucifixions. And Rome began at the moment they published their first version of this to destroy The Law and cause their sins to become yours because they said, and too many believed, that the *Old* Covenant was dead.
The Vatican continues to be Rome, and the Romans continue to live with their old ways, condescendingly adapting first one and then another culture's holy days into a Roman Catholic holy day, and teach their converts to hate their brethren until they rid Rome of themselves. The remnant which remains is hardly enough for Rome to blink an eye at, so on and on they went until they murdered and destroyed every culture it came into contact with.
This slaughter did not stop with just non-Christians. In the bygone days they were far too evil to hide their cruelty. If you were the most righteous Cardinal on this earth and it was perceived by the leaders in Rome that your followers had come to care much too much about you, they put you on trial, called your followers satanists, and it wasn't long before your name became simultaneous with Satan, aka Lucifer, a Catholic Cardinal, and his followers who underwent an inquisition for worshipping the devil. The good did not understand. The moral were viciously attacked.

Who made the decision to murder the Jews?


Crusades

"...they rose in a spirit of cruelty against the Jewish people scattered throughout these cities and slaughtered them without mercy, especially in the Kingdom of Lorraine, asserting it to be the beginning of their expedition and their duty against the enemies of the Christian faith. This slaughter of Jews was done first by citizens of Cologne. These suddenly fell upon a small band of Jews and severely wounded and killed many; they destroyed the houses and synagogues of the Jews and divided among themselves a very large, amount of money. When the Jews saw this cruelty, about two hundred in the silence of the night began flight by boat to Neuss. The pilgrims and crusaders discovered them, and after taking away all their possessions, inflicted on them similar slaughter, leaving not even one alive."
"...Emico and the rest of his band held a council and, after sunrise, attacked the Jews in the hall with arrows and lances. Breaking the bolts and doors, they killed the Jews, about seven hundred in number, who in vain resisted the force and attack of so many thousands. They killed the women, also, and with their swords pierced tender children of whatever age and sex. The Jews, seeing that their Christian enemies were attacking them and their children, and that they were sparing no age, likewise fell upon one another, brother, children, wives, and sisters, and thus they perished at each other's hands. Horrible to say, mothers cut the throats of nursing children with knives and stabbed others, preferring them to perish thus by their own hands rather than to be killed by the weapons of the uncircumcised."
"Just at that time, there appeared a certain soldier, Emico, Count of the lands around the Rhine, a man long of very ill repute on account of his tyrannical mode of life. Called by divine revelation, like another Saul, as he maintained, to the practice of religion of this kind, he usurped to himself the command of almost twelve thousand cross bearers. As they were led through the cities of the Rhine and the Main and also the Danube, they either utterly destroyed the execrable race of the Jews wherever they found them (being even in this matter zealously devoted to the Christian religion) or forced them into the bosom of the Church."
"... rumor had reached and forewarned the ears of King Coloman; a rumor that, to the minds of the Teutons, there was no difference between killing pagans and Hungarians.
And thus the men of our race, zealous, doubtless, for God, though not according to the knowledge of God, began to persecute other Christians while yet upon the expedition which Christ had provided for freeing Christians."
Spanish Inquisition:
In 1478 when, at the request of the Spanish sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabella, Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84) issued a papal bull allowing for the creation of the Spanish Inquisition. It lasted until it was "abolished" in 1834, although its most fervent activity was during the 15th and 16th centuries.
The Spanish Inquisition brought about "a reign of terror throughout Europe" which was responsible for the impoverishment, exile, and death of countless Jews, Muslims, and "heretical" Christians. Jews were singled out for persecution because of their identity as Jews. Concepts of an inquisition and inquisitorial procedure lie deep in the roots of world history. Inquisitions were used during the decline of the Roman Empire until the Spanish Inquisition's decline in the 19th century. The Inquisitions in both Spain and Portugal were run by both civil and church authorities in order to root out non-believers from a nation or religion.
Many people don't realize that very serious persecution began in Spain in the year 613 CE. Jews were given the options of either leaving Spain or converting to Christianity. Jewish children over 6 years of age were taken from their parents and given a Christian education.
The Spanish Inquisition's reign of terror was abolished by King Bonaparte in 1834, but it wasn't until January of 1968 when the files of the Office of the Inquisition at the Vatican were closed.

New World:

• Being a part of the Inquisition had its privileges and rewards, and in this scarce publication the Holy Office lists all the religious indulgences that members and employees are entitled to. These range from plenary indulgences for dying while carrying out Inquisition business to Inquisitors having the power to lift excommunications imposed by clerics not part of the Holy Office.

The typography of the “title-page” is handsome and uses different printers flowers to form a three-layered border around the type. Also contained within the border, but above the title, is a large woodcut of one version of the coat of arms of the Inquisition.

German society in the 1930s was permeated by antisemitism, racism, a utopian vision of humanity organized under German hegemony, and a deep-seated and basic callousness towards human life. All of these elements contributed to the form of warfare waged by Nazi Germany and were themselves reinforced by the war. Large and varied segments of this society accepted the basic tenet that the Jews had to disappear. Although the way to effect this disappearance was not clear, humanitarian considerations were in any case irrelevant.
In this atmosphere, the idea of encouraging Jews to emigrate evolved into a policy of deportation, then brutal deportation, and finally deportation for the purpose of murder. It is not clear whether Hitler instigated these developments or simply allowed them to happen, as his underlings on various levels took independent initiatives in order to interpret and carry out their superiors' wishes. When the SS and other agencies, including the army, efficiently murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Hitler knew that the option of total annihilation had become feasible. Over the next half-year, plans for the construction of extermination camps were made and their implementation began. The origin of the idea of murdering all the Jews is not clear, even though passages in Hitler's book Mein Kampf suggest that such an order might eventually be given. In view of the nature of the Nazi bureaucracy, the order itself had to have come from Hitler, but its implementation was the handiwork of many tens of thousands, with the acquiescence of millions.
Timeline:
70 C.E. Destruction of Jerusalem 1,100,000 Jews were killed and 97,000 taken into slavery and captivity.
115 C.E. Rebellion of the Jews in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Cyrene and Cyprus. Jews and Romans inflicted many barbaric atrocities on each other, causing the death of several hundreds of thousands of Romans and Jews.
132-35 C.E. The Bar Kochba rebellion (Bar Kochba was a false Messiah). Caused the death of 500,000 Jews; thousands were sold into slavery or taken into captivity.
135 C.E. Roman Emperor Hadrian commenced his persecution of the Jews. Jerusalem established as a pagan city. Erection of a Jupiter temple on the temple mountain (Moriah) and a temple to Venus on Golgotha. Jews were forbidden to practice circumcision, the reading of the Law, eating of unleavened bread at Passover or any Jewish festival. infringement of this edict brought the death penalty.
315 C.E. Constantine the Great established "Christianity" as the State religion throughout the Roman Empire; issued many anti-Jewish laws.
379-95 C.E. Theodosius the Great expelled Jews from any official gate position or place of honor. Permitted the destruction of their synagogues if by so doing, it served a religious purpose.
613 C.E. Persecution of the Jews in Spain. All Jews who refused to be baptized had to leave the country. A few years later the remaining Jews were dispossessed, declared as slaves and given to pious "Christians" of position. All children 7 years or over were taken from their parents and given to receive a "Christian" education.
1096 C.E. Bloody persecutions of the Jews at the beginning of the First Crusade, in Germany. Along the cities on the Rhine River alone, 12,000 Jews were killed. The Jews were branded second only to the Moslems as the enemies of Christendom.
1121 C.E. Jews driven out of Flanders (now part of Belgium). They were not to return nor to be tolerated until they repented of the guilt of *killing* Jesus Christ.
1130 C.E. The Jews of London had to pay compensation of 1 million marks for allegedly killing a sick man.
1146-47 C.E. Renewed persecution of the Jews in Germany at the beginning of the Second Crusade. The French Monk, Rudolf, called for the destruction of the Jews as an introduction to the Second Crusade. It was only because of the intervention of Emperor Conrad who declared Nuerenberg and a small fortress as places of refuge for the Jews, and that of Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux, that the result was not quite as devastating as at the time of the First Crusade.
1181 C.E. French King Philip banished the Jews from his domain. They were permitted to sell all movable possessions, but the immovable such as land and houses reverted to the king. Seven years later he called the Jews back.
1189 At the coronation of Richard the Lionhearted, unexpected persecution of the Jews broke out in England. Most Jewish houses in London were burned, and many Jews killed. All possessions of the Jews were claimed by the Crown. Richard's successor alone, relieved the Jews of more than 8 million marks.
1215 C.E. At the IV Lateran Church Council, restrictions against the Jews by the church of Rome were issued.
1290 C.E. Edward I banished the Jews from England. 16,000 Jews left the country.
1298 C.E. Persecution of the Jews in Franconia, Bavaria and Austria. The Nobleman Kalbfleish alleged that he had received a divine order to destroy all the Jews. 140 Jewish communities were destroyed, and more than 100,000 Jews were mercilessly killed.
1306 King Philip the Fair banished the Jews from France. 100,000 Jews left the country.
1320 C.E. In France, 40,000 shepherds dedicated themselves for the Shepherd Crusade to free Palestine from the Moslems. Under the influence of criminals and land speculators, they destroyed 120 Jewish communities.
1321 C.E. Jews were accused of having incited outlaws to poison wells and fountains in the district of Guienne, France. 5,000 Jews were burned at the stake.
1348 C.E. Jews were blamed for the plague throughout Europe, especially in Germany. In Strausberg 2,000 Jews were burned. In Maintz 6,000 were killed in most gruesome fashion, and in Erfut 3,000; and in Worms 400 Jews burned themselves in their homes.
1370 C.E. Jews were blamed for having defiled the "Host" (wafer used in the Mass) in Brabant. The accused were burned alive. Again, all Jews were banned from Flanders and until the year 1820, every 15 years a feast was kept to celebrate the event.
1391 C.E. Persecutions in Spain. In Seville and 70 other Jewish communities, the Jews were cruelly massacred and their bodies dismembered.
1394 C.E. Second banishment of Jews from France.
1453 C.E. The Franciscan monk, Capistrano, persuaded the King of Poland to withdraw all citizens' rights of the Jewish people.
1478 C.E. The Spanish inquisition directed against the Jews.
1492 C.E. The banishment of Jews from Spain. 300,000 Jews who refused to be "baptized" into the Church of Rome left Spain penniless. Many migrated to the *Muslim country, Turkey, where they found tolerance and a welcome.
*Note: This alliance between Muslims and Jews lasted until the Church formed an uneasy partnership with Muslim Leaders who were convinced by political propaganda that they each had a common enemy, i.e., the Jews.
1497 C.E. Banishment of the Jews from Portugal. King Manuel, generally friendly to the Jews, under pressure from Spain instigated forced baptism to keep the Jews. 20,000 Jews desired to leave the country. Many were ultimately declared slaves.
1516 C.E. First Ghetto established in Venice.

Venice Ghetto
1540 C.E. Banishment of Jews from Naples and 10 years later, from Genoa and Venice.
1794 C.E. Restriction of Jews in Russia, Jewish men were forced to serve 25 years in the Russian military. Many hundreds of thousands of Jews left Russia.
1846-78 C.E. All former restriction, against the Jews in the Vatican State were re-inforced by Pope Pius IX.
1903 C.E. Renewed restrictions of Jews in Russia. Frequent pogroms (massacres); general impoverishment of Russian Jewry.
1933 C.E. Commencement of persecution of Jews in Hitler's Germany. Inception of the systematic destruction of 6,000,000 Jews throughout Nazi-occupied Europe.
Nebraska today:
LINCOLN, Nebraska --As a girl growing up on the Winnebago Reservation in northeast Nebraska, Sarah Berridge was warned by the nuns about the consequences of embracing the spiritual teachings of her people.
"I was told I would go to hell," she said. "I was always scared to be an Indian as far as the Catholic Church went. I was scared of my Native American beliefs."
The 44-year-old now is at the forefront of a burgeoning movement to encourage aboriginal Catholics to meld their culture with their Catholicism. She recently served as chairwoman of a conference on the subject that brought together more than 1,000 Catholic Indians.
The annual conference is named after Kateri Tekakwitha, who in 1676 became one of the first American Indians to be baptized into the Catholic church and could become the first declared a saint.
"This conference lets them celebrate their unique way of being Catholic," Berridge said.
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To simply say that Catholics have sinned is to sidestep the most important aspect of these sins. What remains important about the Inquisition (and the forceable conversions of native peoples in the New World) is the involvement of the church's authority with these sins.

And thou shalt not make unto thee any GRAVEN IMAGE...
No Priest OR Rabbi would have blasphemed before the Lord in such a way as to call even for the imaginary drinking of blood, or the eating of human flesh.

bow down to any graven image....

St. Francis...ANY Graven Image!
As the Saints go marching on, every moral code, (The Ten Commandments, for instance,) the Old Testament has taught has been deliberately changed so that YOU live in sin every day. Though I do not believe in a Creator who would turn from you for not knowing, it might well be that He will turn from you because you did not search for the truth because you COULD have known.
Crucifixion of the Jew never made the JEW a Christian...and John the Baptist would not have become a non-Jew--- even for a king. He was Nazarite of the House of Aaron, not a Nazarene from Nazareth who was, by Rome's own words, a Bethlehemite, having been born, as Rome claimed, in Bethlehem.
The convolutions that the writers of this tome had to navigate to trace a bloodline back to King David is virtually insane, and cannot be concorded using Joseph, though they surely did try it both ways. If, as later added, Mary was indeed a virgin, they could not have used Joseph at any point.
The real scriptural proof of a miracle birth is to be found ONLY in the Old Testament. It is the documentation of the birth of Isaac to Abraham and Sarah, though Sarah, chosen of G-d to be the Mother of Nations, is given very short shrift in every single Christian Bible I have ever read.

Old Pope

New Pope
Nothing has ever changed. The killing of Jews goes on with Rome's blessing as it has since the days of the Jewish Holocaust begun in Israel by the Roman Empire.

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