Posted on 11/18/2004 2:13:06 PM PST by CHARLITE
The deepest and darkest joke I’ve heard in a long time goes like this. Osama bin Laden prays to the spirit of Yasser Arafat who then appears before him. “Yasser, please help me understand something,” requests Osama. “We’re both fellow terrorists. You’ve even killed more infidels than I have. Yet you get the Nobel Peace Prize, your funeral is attended by heads of state from around the world, and European newspapers compare you to Moses – while I am the world’s most hunted and hated man, reduced to hiding in inaccessible mountain caves. How did you do it? What is your secret?”
Yasser breaks into a ghostly smile. “That’s easy,” he explains. “I only killed Jews.”
A deep joke always reveals a black truth. It is that the defeat of the Nazis in World War II did not exterminate Jew-hatred, it just temporarily suppressed it. It is that Jew-hatred did not originate in Arabia*, it originated in Europe. Islamic Nazis such as Arafat are no more the creators of the soul-disease of anti-Semitism than German and Vichy-French Nazis were decades ago. Jew-hatred is an ancient European sickness many centuries old.
It began with medieval Catholics who vilified Jews as “Christ-killers” (never grasping the absurdity, for it is only by Christ dying the way He did that that Christianity exists), and by the ultimate anti-Catholic, Martin Luther.
Luther was convinced that Christ’s Second Coming could not occur unless Jews, Jesus’ own people, converted. He could forgive their refusal to do so given the wholesale corruption of Christianity by the Catholic Church. The solution to him was simple: Reform Christianity. Luther nailed his 95 Thesis on the castle church door in Wittenburg on October 31st, 1517 and created the Protestant Reformation in order to enable Jews to convert, thus bringing about the Second Coming.
It never occurred to Luther that Jews were quite happy to be Jewish and would remain so whether the Christian Church was reformed or corrupt. There could be no justification for their not converting once his uncorrupt alternative was available -- when they didn’t the only other explanation for him was that Jews were in league with Satan. And thus Martin Luther became Hitler’s precursor.
In a pamphlet Luther published in Wittenburg in 1544, Von den Juden und ihren Lügen (On Jews and their Lies), he demands a Christian Jihad against the Jews: “Set fire to their synagogues and schools, and bury with dirt whatever will not burn… I advise that all their homes be razed and destroyed… that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them… that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb… that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews… dear Christian, be advised and do not doubt that next to the Devil, you have no more bitter, venomous, and vehement foe than a real Jew who earnestly seeks to be a Jew.”
These are the words of Martin Luther himself, written in his own hand. His bitterness and rage reach a crescendo in another letter he wrote in 1544: “If I had power over them (the Jews) I would assemble their most prominent men and demand that they prove that we Christians do not worship the one God, under the penalty of having their tongues torn out through the back of their necks.”
European hatred of Jews is an ancient hate, and periodically erupts from the darkness of men’s souls into the light of history. Today in Europe -- particularly France -- another eruption has begun. It will get worse unless it is fought and opposed.
It is getting worse because Jews are the Europeans’ perennial scapegoat for cultural failure. Old Europe now faces demographic doom because its native inhabitants refuse to have children, and economic doom because they would rather go on vacation than work. You know how bad it is when Consumer Reports currently ranks Mercedes and BMW as the most poorly made of the world’s luxury cars.
To rescue Old Europe economically and demographically, to exorcize its Jew-hatred, it needs to be rescued culturally. There is only one way to do that, and only one group of folks to do it: American Christians.
American Christianity was never infected with anti-Semitism to anywhere near the degree of European Christianity. Jews have been freer to flourish in America than anywhere else in the world – and so they have. Unlike their European counterparts, American Christians have the moral integrity to recognize Judaism as part of the basic foundation of Western Civilization (in America, “Judeo-Christian ethics” is a term of praise, in Europe of contempt).
Today, whatever remnants of anti-Semitism there were have been mostly expunged from American Christianity, which is why America is Israel’s best friend on earth. “Mostly” because Europhile liberal denominations such as the Presbyterian Church USA remain infected.
Three times in the 20th century, America had to rescue Europe from itself. Twice with horrific loss of American lives, once with the staggering cost of the Cold War (Russians are Europeans too). Once again, in the first decade of the 21st century, America has to rescue Europe from itself – because to do so is to rescue Western Civilization.
We cannot afford to have Europe subtracted from Western Civilization. We’ve got to understand that every heir of the greatest civilization history has ever known are all in this together with us (yes, even the French). Fighting for the continued survival of our civilization means fighting for the survival of the European soul.
The way to do it? With missionaries. American Christian missionaries are in many of the world’s remotest places working to convert primitive tribes. It is soon going to dawn on them that they need to be saving the heathen in Europe, not some lost jungle. Then it is going to dawn on them that they could form an alliance with an emerging Christian missionary movement that will be the largest the world has ever seen.
Here’s what’s going to be happening, folks: American pro-Israel evangelicals and anti-abortion Catholics are going form a missionary alliance with the Chinese Underground Church movement. I wrote about The Chinese Christian Crusades a year ago (Behind The Lines, November 24, 2003). The present target of Chinese Christian missionaries is the “10/40 window,” encompassing northern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator, wherein dwell a majority of the world’s Moslems.
Chinese Christians are exploding with missionary zeal. American Christian missionaries are going to persuade them to redirect a good portion of their energy towards the Moslems and ex-Christians of Old Europe. New Europe, freed from the Soviet prison, is currently undergoing a Renaissance of Christianity. New European Christians will be next to join the alliance to save the Old European heathen.
Terrified of the Islamization of Old Europe, disgusted by Islamic crime-ridden slums, bitterly angry at the jihadi murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland, millions of Old Europeans are ready to embrace Christianity again – and to demand that if they want to continue to live in Europe, immigrant Moslems must do the same.
History is moving in profound ways. The coming Missionary Alliance promises to prevent Europe from becoming Eurabia, teach Europeans how to be true Christians again, and bury the anti-Semitic vampire. The only way for Old Europe to cease being old is to be Born Again.
[*Note: Even though Mohammed preached Jew-hatred after the Jews he proselytized refused to recognize him as the Messiah, it lay fairly dormant until a rabidly anti-Semitic English homosexual reanimated it in British Palestine in the 1920s. The story is told in The English Godfather of Palestinian Terrorism, Behind The Lines - Dec. 16, 2003,http://www.tothepointnews.com/login.php?gotopage=article&id=146] (Subscription necessary)
Some very interesting facts and history here, but the summation is a prescription for religious war. Christianity's past (and to a lesser extent, it's present) has many of today's Islamic failings too, let's not repeat them.
More people have been killed in the name of religion than for any other ideology. To stop it, rather than convert muslims we only have to point out that common law protects Islam, Christianity, and Judaism equally - AS LONG AS CHURCH AND STATE ARE SEPARATE, with State firmly on top.
"More people have been killed in the name of religion than for any other ideology."
I beg to differ. The "more people killed by religion..." myth ignores the FACT that SOCIALISM and SOCIALIST IDEOLOGIES have killed more people in just the 20th century than all the people killed in all the wars in human history combined.
Can you say Stalin (Soviet Scoialists), Hitler (National Socialists), Mao Tse Tung (Maoist Socialist), Pol Pot....and on and on?
The point about not repeating the mistakes of history is well-taken.
No, Jew-hatred antedates Christianity by centuries. The Greeks and Romans were contemptuous of the Jews long before Christ was born. To attribute the origins of Anti-Semitism to Christianity is to slur Christianity. Anti-Semitism crept into Christianity through the back door of the old Greco-Roman paganism that Christianity replaced.
I prefer Church and State be separate, with the Church firmly on top. Goverment should handle post office and police, the Church handle the rest. When ever liberals handle "humanaritian aid" all you get is skinny people and fat liberals.
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