Freak Factory
October
17, 2002
Psychologists like to offer their patients to
play an allusion game in order to free imagination. They drop
you a word and you should reply with the first word that comes
to your mind: “bed” - “sex”, “husband” – “pay”, “drink”
–“police”. These replies help the shrink to understand the works
of your mind. But sit a Jew on the couch, whisper one word,
“Christ”, and you will get one response: “you call us Christ
killers”.
A few days ago, a nice old Jew, member of
pro-Palestinian al-Awda group, wrote expectedly “Shamir called
us – Christ killers”. I was rather vexed, as I know I did not
say it because I do not think so. But then, I remembered, over a
year ago, when I compared killing of Palestinians who are the
beloved children of Christ with killing of Christ, immediately
two hired boys voiced this Jewish complaint, “he called the Jews
– Christ killers”. And they would not take ‘no’ for an answer.
When the Pope John Paul II visited the old
capital of Umayyad Caliphate, Damascus, the young Syrian ruler
reminded his audience of the transcendental meaning of the
battle for Palestine. The Palestinians fight the enemy of Christ
and the enemy of the Prophet, he said.
Words of Bashar Assad caused consternation of
Jews. A Conrad Black newspaper, always supporting the Israeli
‘extra-judicial killings’ (read: murders), wrote indignantly:
‘this was anti-Semitism of the worst order. Down the centuries,
the charge of deicide has been a pretext for persecuting Jews,
who stood accused of "killing Christ."
Please re-read again. Bashar Assad did not
say, nor did he imply that Jews killed Christ. Neither did I:
there is no collective guilt over many generations. But the Jews
know better what people are supposed to say. In the same way the
Jews know better who should represent Palestinians instead of
‘irrelevant’ Arafat, they know better who should rule Iraq, they
know better who attacked America and whom America should attack,
and even whom should elect the Blacks instead of Cynthia
McKinney, in the same way they know better: we should say, ‘they
killed Christ’. They wait for it like a passionate lover for
consummation of his desires, like a brave soldier for the battle
call, as they know how to reply. They will insist it until we
say it, like in the joke.
A Jewish joke tells of a Jew who pestered a
Chinese man in New York subway, “Are you a Jew?” – “No, -
replied the Chinese. But the Jew asked again and again the same
question, and the exasperated Chinese gave up “Yes, I am a Jew”.
The satisfied Jew smiled at him and said, “Isn’t it strange? You
do not look like a Jew”.
This accusation is false; it is but an
anti-Christian libel. None of the Church Fathers, none of the
“right wing religious fanatics” of old, none of the Crusaders
would or did condemn the present day Jews for killing Christ
just because some of their ancestors killed Christ. They were
not that silly: nobody is. This accusation is but a figment of
Jewish imagination. The eminent scholar, professor David
Flusser, was right: ‘the Jews should not be blamed for killing
Christ anymore than French blamed for sending Joan of Arc to the
stake, or Greeks for sentencing Socrates to death’.
Why, then, the Jews insist on the false
accusation? They do it, in order to obscure the real one: of
hostility to Christ, Christianity and Christians. My dear late
teacher David Flusser was a very fluent and skilful Jewish
apologist, who could and would justify anything done by Jews.
His reasoning is correct, but it lacks sincerity. Why, indeed,
the French are not blamed for the fiery death of the Maid nor
considered ‘enemies of the Maid’? But for the simple reason:
though the situation appears similar (foreign occupation,
corrupt local judges), the French people condemned the French
judges who sentenced Joan, and made her their beloved saint. The
Jews of old, on the other hand, were defiantly proud of the deed
of their ancestors, and the ‘Gospel according to the Jews’,
Toledot Yeshu, (it could be called “How we killed Christ”) is
the most frequently copied (non-Biblical) Jewish manuscript of
Middle Ages.
Adepts of Judaism kept fighting Christ and
Christians. Soldiers of the last Jewish king Bar Kochba
massacred Christians in 135. In Yemen, a Jewish ruler Yusuf Zu
Nawas burned churches and killed thousands of Christians in 519.
Palestinian Christians were slaughtered in 529 and 614.
Afterwards, the warfare switched to ideology. The Middle Ages
are full of rather crude Jewish anti-Christian propaganda. Its
examples could be found in Jesus through Jewish Eyes[i],
a recently published compendium of Jewish writings about Jesus,
and they include infamous Toledot Yeshu and Nestor
Hakomer, written in Arabic in 9th century. Even
today, leaflets in Jerusalem describe Judas as ‘the Redeemer of
Israel’. That is why, as a short-hand, the Jews were described
as ‘enemies of Christ’.
Christians fought back, and slaughtered quite
a lot of Jews as well. It is a peculiarity of modern convoluted
discourse, that Christian persecutions of Jews are well known,
while persecutions of Christians by Jews are consigned to
oblivion. There is ‘post-Auschwitz Christian theology’, but
there is no ‘post-Mamilla Pool, or post-Deir Yassin Judaism’.
This distortion of history is used by the Jewish leadership in
order to induce Christians with destructive guilt feeling. That
is why it is important to explain that the relations of Jews and
Christians weren’t as one-sided as depicted by the Jewish
apologists.
II
The millennia-old ideological warfare against
Christ became the most important element of Jewishness, and it
is still with us. ‘T’is better to serve Hitler than Christ”, -
words to such effect said a well known Israeli Rabbi. Acceptance
of Christ is the worst possible crime for a Jew, and it is felt
by vast majority of the community. Jews aren’t just
‘non-Christians’, like we are ‘non-Buddhist’, they are
anti-Christian. Even now, when majority of Jews ceased to
practice the rules of faith, this anti-Christian streak is not
gone. For instance, a baptised Jew is banned from receiving
Israeli citizenship by the Law of Return. Recently, a few good
Jews in America wrote to the State of Israel renouncing their
right of return. There is just one way to do it: accept Christ
and you would lose this right.
There are, for sure, many Jews who feel
different. No group is that monolithic as to exclude dissent.
Even in the leadership of the German Nazi Party, there were
people who conspired against Hitler. But it does not mean there
was no Nazi ideology. Among millions of Russian Communists one
could find people of every possible opinion, but the Party had
its structure and ideology. That is why one should not hate a
man for being a Jew, or a member of Nazi Party etc, but one may
reject their doctrine.
For many years, a son of enlightened parents,
I could not force myself to enter a church. I did not spit at
seeing church, as my great-grandfather would, but I was taught
to despise Christianity, “a silly prejudice”. The Jewish faith
was never considered to be a prejudice in our circles. Still, a
young Jewish man could toy with Buddhism or pray in ashram, or
dance with Sufis, but Christianity was beyond the pale, a
totally forbidden thing. That is why many young Jews of J.
Salinger’s days were looking for spirituality in foreign
Buddhism: they really did not dare to embrace Christ. One could
eat pork, even marry a shiksa, a slightly smaller sin, but we
had imbibed hostile rejection of Christianity with our mothers’
milk.
The opinion of the Jews about Christianity
would be quite irrelevant if the Jews would live on the Moon. It
would be bearable if the Jews would be shoe-shiners or
cotton-pickers. It was survivable while Jews were visibly
separated by dress and manners, as in Middle Ages. But since the
Jews became an important part of the American elites, their
massive presence undermined the delicate social and spiritual
fabric.
It is particularly deadly, as spirituality of
our tripartite ecumene (the Western Christendom, Eastern
Orthodox world and Dar al-Islam) has been built on Christ. The
cathedrals of Rome, Assisi, Chartres, Köln and Canterbury,
mosques of Damascus, Baghdad and Jerusalem, paintings of
Botticelli, Andrei Rublev and Blake, great poetry of Rumi and
Elliott, Block and Brodsky flow from this rock. It is as basic
as water and earth for our civilisation. Even books arguing with
Christianity: Rabelais and Voltaire, Mayakovsky and Marx still
are based on it. Removal of Christ kills the Western
civilisation as certainly as poisoning its air does. Human
beings will not die, but the civilization will collapse after
their sacred unity will be gone.
III
The scary present of the US is the result of
this collapse. This neo-fascist state of billionaires and hungry
children that scraps the human rights, tortures prisoners in
Guantanamo, rejects all norms of the international law and plans
aggression against sovereign Iraq just after devastation visited
upon Afghanistan is the moral perversion built upon Christianity
undermined. My friend and an important American Islamic scholar
of religion Maria Hussain wrote: “Christianity has been very
weak in the US. In Ann Arbor where I was raised it was
understood that you do NOT mention the name of Jesus unless it
is to make fun, and you do NOT publicly admit to believing in
Christianity, unless you want to be avoided by your peers”.
The strange uniquely American phenomenon of
Jew-worshipping Christian Zionists is but a result of social
neurosis, caused by strong guilt feelings induced by the Jewish
elites. These simple Christian souls try to combine their love
to Christ with the society-induced adoration of Jews. They look
for the Jewish approval, while sticking to the church. These
opposing forces misshape their psyche like the bodies of
children were misshapen by the medieval freak-makers. They
should be helped to reassert their love to Christ and freed from
the emotional dependency on the Jews.
Appearance of the Christian Zionists was
predicted in long gone 1902 by a Viennese Jew, Solomon Ehrmann.
He spoke of future when “all of mankind will have been jewified
(verjudet) and joined in union with the <Judeo-Masonic> Bnai
Brith”[ii].
Now when the Bnai Brith are strong supporters of Sharon and
Foxman, one understands that these Christian Zionists have been
thoroughly jewified.
Their pitiful spiritual condition should
remind us: Christianity and Judaism are NOT mirror images of
each other. While the Church wants to bring every Jew to
salvation, to make him equal to the rest of believers, to turn
him or her into a dear brother or sister, the Jews want to turn
the Christians into jewified Christian Zionists, emotional and
spiritual slaves of the Jews. It means that the struggle is not
over yet. It is an ideological, not a racial struggle; and the
Christians of Jewish origin were always an important element, a
beacon for their hesitating brethren, as it is the battle for
the souls of Jews as well. But as precious as they are, they are
not a bit more precious than the souls of other folks. If the
spiritual and ideological struggle with the Jewish influence
won’t be vigorously resumed, I am afraid the Christian Zionists
will become the biggest and most powerful denomination in the
US, and then seep over to Europe.
Professor David Perlmutter wrote to me:
“Sure, maybe 20 years ago the "Israeli lobby" was made up mostly
of Jews. And campaign donations were important. But now it's the
Evangelical Christians who are dominant, and most politicians
are nominally pro-Israel not because they want Jewish money but
because they either believe in the "holy" cause or listen to
their huge number of evangelical voters. Bush did not go easy on
Sharon because of Jews, but because his own constituency
rebelled. This is something that most Arabs and Israelis don't
understand - but you see it here in the Churches and in DC.
Every major US evangelical Christian leader is farther to right
on Israel than most Jews I know, and after 9/11 they consider it
their own personal crusade. The traditional Israeli Lobby (AIPAC
etc.) has become almost irrelevant”.
That is why Jews are often described as
‘yeast’ – because of ability to judaise people; an ability
based, in the US, on their positions in the discourse, media and
universities. If the preachers would not feel the great support
of media lords, probably they would not become as pro-Israeli as
they are now. If the cause of Christ would not be so completely
undermined, their flock would not feel obliged to support the
Israeli genocidal apartheid state.
III
The accusation of trying to destroy
Christianity was an important part of the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion. But the reality is more complicated: in my
opinion, Jews are not consciously aware of the damage they cause
through their rejection of Christianity. In the same way,
Europeans were not aware they bring various diseases to the
native people of Polynesia, as they were immune to the malady.
Still, the natives died in droves.
It is well felt by the Orthodox Jews, who try
to minimise their interaction with the Gentile world. It is also
felt by anti-Semites, who often prefer a traditional Orthodox
Jew in his shtreiml and peyoth to an assimilated Jew. None of
them understands, however, what is the source of trouble, why
assimilated Jews unwillingly cause much damage to the national
fabric.
A tragic example is provided by Leon Trotsky,
a Jew by birth, who thoroughly rejected Judaism and described
himself as a ‘non-Jewish Jew’, but was involved in massive
destruction of Russian churches. He did not dream to destroy the
church in order to rise up the banner of George Soros or Ariel
Sharon. He was not a Jewish supremacist. He liked goyim and
didn’t like Jews. He believed that Jews handled money for so
long that their souls were almost irremediably warped. They
retained, he said, petty-bourgeois consciousness, while the
Jewish intellectuals were ‘fickle untrustworthy
semi-foreigners’. He spoke Russian and apparently lost his
command of Yiddish. He was proud of being considered a real
Russian, not a Jew[iii].
Why, then, he became the soul of the campaign
against the Russian church? For the best of reasons. He did it
instinctively, as he felt, and quite right, that Christ stands
on the way of his full integration within the Russian people. He
did not rise to accepting Christ, but tried to remove the
obstacle. Thousands of churches were destroyed, and the future
of Russian communism was undermined. Eventually, this schism of
communism and church caused the great successes of George Soros
and Mark Rich in Russia after 1991.
Many good people of Jewish origin in Europe
and America repeat the same error. They fight the Church as they
feel it stands between them and the rest of the population.
Alas, the example of Trotsky proves there is no short-cut. They
have to submit, or cause irremediable damage to souls of people
they care about. That is the only way to stop the freak factory,
this side of conscious anti-Jewish action.
[i]
Publisher: Yediyot Aharonot, Tel Aviv, 1999, ISBN 965-448-527-3
[ii]
Beller, Vienna, quoted by Lindemann, Esau's Tears
[iii]
Nedava, Trotsky and the Jews, quoted by Lindemann
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