A rabbi's warning to U.S. Christians

worldnet via virtueonline ^ | 1. 13. 07 | Rabbi Daniel Lapin

[freedomdefender]

I am certainly not a Churchill. I am not even a Revel. I am having enough trouble just trying to be a Lapin. But I am issuing a very serious warning about deep consequences, just as they did. It is a warning about the earliest stages of what could become a cataract of disasters if not resisted now.

During the 1930s, Winston Churchill desperately tried to persuade the English people and their government to see that Hitler meant to end their way of life. The British ignored Churchill, which gave Hitler nearly 10 years to build up his military forces. It wasn't until Hitler actually drew blood that the British realized they had a war on their hands. It turned out to be a far longer and more destructive war than it needed to be had Churchill's early warning been heeded.

In 1983, a brave French writer, Jean-Francois Revel, wrote a book called "How Democracies Perish." In this remarkable volume, he described how communism's aim is world conquest. For decades he had been trying to warn of communism's very real threat. Yet in January 1982, a high State Department official said: "We Americans are not solving problems, we are the problem." (Some things never change.) A good portion of the planet fell to communism, which brought misery and death to millions because we failed to recognize in time that others meant to harm us.

Heaven knows there was enough warning during the 1980s of the intention of part of the Islamic world to take yet another crack at world domination. Yet instead of seeing each deadly assault on our interests around the world as a test of our resolve, we ignored it. We failed the test and lost 3,000 Americans in two unforgettable hours.

I am not going to argue that what is happening now is on the same scale as the examples I cite above, but a serious war is being waged against a group of Americans. I am certain that if we lose this war, the consequences for American civilization will be dire.

Phase one of this war I describe is a propaganda blitzkrieg that is eerily reminiscent of how effectively the Goebbels propaganda machine softened up the German people for what was to come.

There is no better term than propaganda blitzkrieg to describe what has been unleashed against Christian conservatives recently.

Consider the long list of anti-Christian books that have been published in recent months. Here are just a few samples of more than 30 similar titles, all from mainstream publishers:

"American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America"

"The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us"

"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason"

"Piety & Politics: The Right-wing Assault on Religious Freedom"

"Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism"

"Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America"

"Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right"

What is truly alarming is that there are more of these books for sale at your local large book store warning against the perils of fervent Christianity than those warning against the perils of fervent Islam. Does anyone seriously think America is more seriously jeopardized by Christian conservatives than by Islamic zealots? (Yep, that loonytunes loudmouth, Rosie O'DonnelI, said something to that effect on the popular TV show, "The View" - RJ) fear that many Americans believe just that in the same way that many pre-World War II Westerners considered Churchill a bigger threat than Hitler.

Some may say that today's proliferation of anti-Christian print propaganda is nothing to become worried about. To them I ask two questions:

First, would you be so sanguine if the target of this loathsome library were Jewish? Just try changing the titles in some of the books I mention above to reflect anti-Semitism instead of rampant anti-Christianism and you'll see what I mean.

Second, major movements that changed the way Americans felt and acted came about through books, often only one book. Think of Rachel Carson's 1962 error-filled "Silent Spring" that resulted in the pointless banning of the insecticide DDT and many unnecessary deaths. Other books that caused upheavals in our nation were Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," many of Ayn Rand's books and of course "Uncle Tom's Cabin." ("Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich is another...I confess reading it as student at university & being mightily impressed by it....but since I'm older & bit wiser, I know now it was a lot of propaganda & hot air & unproven assumptions....the truth is the opposite - RJ)

No, I would advise you not to underestimate the power of books to alter the behavior of the American public, and I fear for an America influenced to detest Christianity by this hate-filled catalog.

It is not just books but popular entertainment also that beams the most lurid anti-Christian propaganda into the hearts and minds of viewers. One need only think of who the real targets of the recent hit movie "Borat" are. The brilliant Jewish moviemaker Sacha Baron Cohen, as his title character, using borderline dishonest wiles, lures some innocent but unsophisticated country folk, obviously Christians, to join him in his outrageously anti-Semitic antics. Cohen then triumphantly claims to have exposed anti-Semitism. In fact, he has revealed nothing other than the latent anti-Christianism of America's social, economic and academic secular elites.

Even the recent PBS documentary, "Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence," managed to do more attacking Christianity than defending Judaism.

Richard Dawkins, an Oxford University professor, is one of the generals in the anti-Christian army of the secular left. American academia treats him with reverence and hangs on his every word when he insists that "religious myths ought not to be tolerated."

For those with a slightly more tolerant outlook, he asks, "It's one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their children?" He suggests that the state should intervene to protect children from their parents' religious beliefs. Needless to say, he means Christian beliefs, of course. Muslim beliefs add to England's charmingly diverse cultural landscape.

The war is against those who regard the Bible to be God's revelation to humanity and the Ten Commandments to be His set of rules for all time. Phase one in this war is to make Christianity, well, sort of socially unacceptable. Something only foolish, poor and ugly people could turn to.

We have seen how a carefully constructed campaign pretty much made it socially unacceptable to drink and drive. For years, there had been stringent laws against drunk driving. They achieved little. In the end, the practice was all but eliminated by groups allied with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and their effective ways of changing the way Americans thought about it.

We have seen how a carefully constructed campaign has pretty much made it socially unacceptable to smoke. In the face of a relentless campaign (dare one call it propaganda?), Americans became docile and forfeited the right to make their own decisions. Nobody was willing to stand up to the no-smoking tyrants. Nobody even asked whether health was sufficient grounds for freedom to be reduced. Now, entire cities and even states have banned smoking, not only in public places but even in privately owned restaurants.

Tyranny comes when citizens are seduced into trading freedom for the promise of safety and security.

Considerably more intellectual energy is being pumped into the propaganda campaign against Christianity than was ever delivered to the anti-smoking or anti-drunk-driving campaigns. Fervent zealots of secularism are flinging themselves into this anti-Christian war with enormous fanaticism.

If they succeed, Christianity will be driven underground, and its benign influence on the character of America will be lost. In its place we shall see a sinister secularism that menaces Bible believers of all faiths. Once the voice of the Bible has been silenced, the war on Western Civilization can begin and we shall see a long night of barbarism descend on the West.

Without a vibrant and vital Christianity, America is doomed, and without America, the West is doomed.

Which is why I, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, devoted to Jewish survival, the Torah and Israel am so terrified of American Christianity caving in.

Many of us Jews are ready to stand with you. But you must lead. You must replace your timidity with nerve and your diffidence with daring and determination. You are under attack. Now is the time to resist it.

[Dawggie]

"when Christianity is persecuted it spreads like wildfire"

I once heard it said, "Christians are like manure, all piled up they really stink, but you spread them around and things grow green."

[Salem]

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[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT to print later.

THANK you!!!!

[wodinoneeye]

"'Who has the loudest voice, the Muslim terrorists or the Christians in America?'

And who attracts the attention of most of the MSM in America?"

More a case of who is now shouting the loudest and is pushed into view. The Christians actually have the loudest voice, if only they would use it.

[I got the rope]

Wow. BTTT.

[onedoug]

Judeo-Christian values are the foundation and strength of America. Without either, we're doomed.

[familyop]

"I would reply to the Rabbi, who votes for dems, Jews or Christians,...?"

...more than half of one and about half of the other.

"When it comes to people cutting their own throats, I say take the beam out of your eye, Rabbi."

That's an old one. It was a very popular line in Europe over 60 years ago and goes back at least a couple of thousand years.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Eroding the Christian and moral foundations of American (and Western) society has long been a social engineering goal of the Left. It's an obsession with them which has become more rabid in relation to abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and the definition of marriage. We can expect more outrageous attacks from the secular humanism camp as time goes on and as the new genetic and cloning technologies develop.

[saradippity]

Do you know how many Jews in the USA are Orthodox?

[familyop]

IMO, Rabbi Lapin is right about the political reality of the danger from libertines. Lefty does try to break more families (although people of every religion and political party have helped with that so far) and make our nation defenseless.

[Lexinom]

You will know them by their fruits.

Atheistic/secularist doctrine has resulted in, let's see, Stalin plus Mao plus Hitler plus Roe v. Wade... 100 Million+ deaths?

And the Christians have killed....?

[Halgr]

I get wrapped in Tin Foil everytime I point out this obvious conspiracy....people just don't want to see what is happening.

Oh Well.....God is in control and He will use even evil to carry out His purposes.

God Bless America and Israel

[redgolum]

Seriously, I think the Chastisement will come in my lifetime (I'm 40), and we'll have to die for the Lord or give up our faith.

Maybe not the final one, but definitely a chastisement.

[Hacksaw]

...more than half of one and about half of the other.

Try around 90% of the former.

[don-o]

Ping, if you haven't seen this. A fully endowed rabbi. May his tribe increase and our leaders listen to him.

[del4hope]

bookmark

[PRePublic]

www.TeachKidsPeace.org Wonderful palestinian parents... any wonder their kids die?

 

So you know what they mean by "apartheid"...

 

 

 

 

Lying palestinians dreass their kids as "jews", the usual to invent "stotries" on the Zionists, to instill "anger" and HATE http://www.gamla.org.il/english/war/kidsa.htm

 

 

The usual slogan by the "religion of peace" palestinians shout "itbach al yahood", sloughter the Jews! http://christianactionforisrael.org/antiholo/raging.html

 

"Itbach Al-Yahud!" thousands of PA Muslims chant in frenzied anger,  Like Germans of the Third Reich, the Palestinians worship dark gods. ...
http://english.sem40.ru/middle_east_wp/index.shtml/page_5

 

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ISLAM UBER ALLES!

ISLAMO - FASCISM, ISLAMO - NAZISM

As strated by the chief palestinian Arab Muslim "spiritual" leader in the 1920's, the MUFTI, that orchestrated the massacre of Jews in Hebron in 1929...

Here he meets his buddy Adolf Hitler, inspects SS troops in WW2.

 

 

http://www.willisms.com/archives/2006/06/index.html  Nazi Roots Of Islamofascism

[dmartin]

Bleak is right. It is only over if you choose to put up with it and stop fighting it at every turn.

[Marysecretary]

You know, when the church is forced underground, it blossoms and grows! Much worse is our current church, lukewarm, fat, too lazy to care about what's happening to others around the world, etc., etc. BUT, the true church is going to ARISE and it will happen when persecution, attacks on our country, and other tragedies come to us. Then the liberals, who will be changing their underwear when all this happens, will see true Christianity in action.

[Marysecretary]

It always is. Whenever anything Biblical is on, they have their liberal professors, etc., on to refute it. Bah, humbug.