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Title: "Passion" Should Highlight Christian Jewish Difference
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Published: Feb 1, 2004
Author: Henry Makow
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"Passion" Should Highlight Christian Jewish Difference By Henry Makow Ph.D. February 1, 2004 Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ (opening Feb 25) has the potential to become a major cultural turning point by focusing attention on the fundamental difference between Christianity and Judaism. Since the Holocaust, Christians have blurred their beliefs for fear of seeming anti-Semitic. But Jesus and the Pharisees had a deadly enmity. This antagonism is the essence of Christianity and cannot be denied. At the same time Gibson's film might inspire Jews to take a hard look at Judaism. Gibson's graphic depiction of the Crucifixion apparently evokes an intense religious experience. It comes at a time when millions are awakening to the fact that a malignant force controls the U.S. and casts its shadow across the world. People will recognize this power as the same one responsible for the Crucifixion. This is a combination of worldly and spiritual control, "Roman" and Pharisee respectively. Nothing has changed in 2000 years. If Christ were alive today, he would be assassinated. Indeed, the same force would love to crucify Mel Gibson. They will do so financially by "sandbagging" his movie. They will spin it as "anti-Semitic" or as a Christian curiosity. There will be few Oscar nominations. Who are "they" ? THE LUCIFERIANS The Occult Conspiracy consists of a broad range of elitists who do not want God's plan to be the foundation of society. They seem to be united in the worship of Lucifer, the symbol of cosmic rebellion against God. Luciferians believe they can do whatever they please, no matter if it is decadent or immoral. They call this freedom. They have redefined reality according to their own self-interests and perversions. Their self-deification is the ultimate idolatry. They maintain their control over mankind by provoking wars, which are also very profitable. They instigated the heinous 9-11 attack as a pretext to launch a bogus "War on Terror" designed to set up a police state to deter resistance to globalism. Both George W. Bush [ www.savethemales.ca/000166.html ] and John Kerry [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0122-10.htm ] belong to a Luciferian (Illuminati) lodge at Yale called the "Skull and Bones." Bush's code name was "Temporary" and he would be happy to relinquish control to his lodge brother so Americans can continue to enjoy the charade of democracy. Notwithstanding the many different players, a casual observer cannot ignore the critical role Pharisee Jews have in the New World Order. For example, Pharisee bankers financed both The New York Times (Jacob Schiff) and The Washington Post (Eugene Meyer), and use them to manipulate the public. They seem to control the major TV networks, movie studios and book publishers as well. They have a stranglehold on Americans' perception of reality. Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ is a rare presentation of a Christian point of view. Before I continue, I want to be perfectly clear that I believe all people are God's creation. We don't need to understand oxygen to breath it. We all have a Divine soul no matter if we are atheists. In my view, anyone who sincerely craves universal brotherhood, absolute justice and truth is expressing the Divine Spirit. THE JEWISH NEED FOR SELF EXAMINATION For many Jews, Israel and the Holocaust have become a substitute for religion. The reason is that Judaism is flawed. Many Jews like myself are not attracted to it. Judaism has been hijacked. Judaism was originally based on Moses' vision of God as a universal moral force. The Sadducees upheld this view but the Pharisees overthrew them in a civil war in 79 BC. The remnants of the Sadducees, "Torah Jews" still cling to Moses and the Old Testament but they are a minority. Phariseeism is based on the Talmud, which consists of the interpretations of "sages" during the Babylonian exile 586 BC to 1040 AD. Generally speaking, the Talmudists contradict the spirit of Moses and take precedence over the Torah. The Universal Jewish Encyclopaedia (1943) declares that Judaism is synonymous with Phariseeism: "The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, from the Pharisees.... the study of the Talmud is essential for any real understanding of Phariseeism." (p.474) JESUS FOLLOWS MOSES Jesus was in the tradition of Moses. He reproached unbelieving Jews: " If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me." ((John 5:24-27) Jesus reviled the Pharisees as "hypocrites" and a "generation of vipers." He said they nullified God's Commandments "teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." (Mark 7:6-8) He accused them of worshipping the devil: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do." (John 8:44) In the February issue of Culture Wars, a bold and brilliant Catholic thinker E. Michael Jones states that the real followers of Moses are the people who accept Christ. Who then are the people who claim to be the Jews? Jones answers: "Revelations 3:9 answers the question by [saying] those 'who call themselves Jews but are liars' [are] the 'synagogue of Satan.' In other words, the group that was called by God to prepare the way for the Messiah rejected the Messiah and in doing that, became over the course of the ensuing centuries a group that defined itself as anti-Christian.... " Jones concludes: "The Jews who reject Christ now prepare the way for the coming of the anti-Christ.... what comes of this group is the opposite of salvation, namely the work of Satan..." Isaiah's prophecy seems to confirm Jones' conclusion: "Thou shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name...and you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen, for the lord God shall...call his servants by another name." (62:2; 65:15) THE TALMUD More than the Protocols of Zion, the Talmud is proof that the Pharisees have a secret agenda. No one can claim this is a forgery. Elizabeth Dilling, (1894-1966) is a courageous Christian whose visit to Soviet Russia in 1931 prompted a 20-year study of Judaism. In her book The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today (1964) [Formerly titled The Plot Against Christianity http://www.come-and-hear.com/dilling/dcontents.html ] she reproduces 300 pages from the Talmud and Jewish Encyclopaedias. You can examine it on line and form your own opinion. What follows is very distasteful and shocking. I take no pleasure in presenting Dilling's conclusions. However, if they are true, they are too important to ignore. The devil operates by deceiving and corrupting good people. According to Dilling, the Talmud is founded on the assumption of Jewish superiority. "The non-Jew ranks as an animal, has no property rights and no legal rights under any code whatever... "Milk the Gentile" is the Talmudic rule but don't get caught in such a way as to jeopardize Jewish interests. Summarized, Talmudism is the quintessence of distilled hatred and discrimination, without cause, against non-Jews." (16) The Talmud is characterized by "obscenity and more obscenity, a setting up of laws seemingly for the purpose of inventing circumventions, and evasions; delight in sadistic cruelty; reversal of all Biblical moral teachings on theft, murder, sodomy, perjury, treatment of children and parents; insane hatred of Christ, Christians and every phase of Christianity." (4) It characterizes the Virgin Mary as a "harlot" and adulteress and Jesus as a "bastard" and sexual pervert who was crucified as a "blasphemer of Pharisee Judaism." Jesus' punishment was to be" lowered into dung up to his armpits" and then strangled. Christians in hell are punished by "hot boiling excrement." (14) The Talmud rejects Moses' vision of God as a moral force. Its basic doctrine is that "God is the "En Sof" a nature essence which has no attributes and can neither know nor be known. That is atheism..." (57) Drilling quotes the Jewish Encyclopaedia 1905: "God is the infinite, unlimited being to whom one neither can nor may attribute any attributes whatever." ("Cabala", p.472.) "So called Judaism is nothing but Babylonian Talmudic Pharisaism, which at base is crass paganism, pantheistic atheism, a conglomeration of all the forms of paganism concocted through the centuries. New descriptions concocted for this very old Satanism, such as... [Marx's] dialectical materialism merely [dresses] up old pagan concepts." (38) "The Jewish Cabala with its non-existence of evil, its deification of man, is a source book of modern 'isms." (31) I doubt if 10 per cent of Jews today are aware of this aspect of the Talmud. I certainly wasn't. Most Jews are not observant. A 1970's survey found that less than 50% felt it was necessary to believe in God to be a "good Jew." Most see themselves as "secular humanists." It's about time we all realized that this nebulous ideology is Luciferian in nature. The Talmud is undoubtedly the answer to the riddle of anti-Semitism. Dilling writes: "The attitude resulting from such teachings has been resented by non-Jews in all countries and centuries. Such resentment, however, is always portrayed by Jews as "persecution of the Jews." (2) Of course most Jews do not feel this way. Most would be happy to live and let live. But other Jews who believe they are an elite unfettered by the social contract use them as a Trojan horse. (See "The Jewish Century")[ www.savethemales.ca/000164.html ] CONCLUSION I wish everything Dilling says were untrue. It makes me heartsick to think that Pharisee Jews play a leading role in establishing the New World Order. Unfortunately we cannot tailor the facts to fit our wishes or amour propre. I am going to be called an anti-Semite or self-hater. I think it's obvious that I subscribe to the authentic Jewish tradition, that of Moses, Isaiah and Jesus. It's obvious that "anti-Semitism" is used to disarm and stigmatize opponents of Pharisees' evil hegemony. Hopefully Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ will inspire both Christians and Jews to re-examine their beliefs and prompt a much needed religious revival. We all must follow Jesus' example and resist evil. "Hate the evil and love the good, and establish judgement in the gate," said the prophet Amos (5:15) Christians have no desire to inaugurate a new era of religious conflict. Evangelist Billy Graham said, "The film is faithful to the Bible's teaching that we are all responsible for Jesus' death, because we have all sinned." He is right. The sin is that we refuse to uphold God and make Him the centre of our life. The Pharisees and their allies have deliberately distorted and mystified God to make Him seem unknowable. In my view, God refers to spiritual ideals such as justice, truth, goodness and love that have an objective existence and constitute Reality. We enter into His Kingdom by bringing these ideals to life. Jesus upheld this Divine Reality. We have no option but to embody it. The alternative is arrested development, perversion, deceit, despair, war and tyranny. We must decide if we belong to God or to Lucifer because that will be our destiny. The world is a cosmic struggle for the soul of mankind and this struggle is reaching a climax. ----- "The Passion" is a Major Disappointment By Henry Makow Ph.D. March 7, 2004 My readers know that I had hoped this movie might spur a religious revival. Then on reading reviews I had misgivings. One reviewer said it "celebrates humanity's hatred for Christ rather than Christ's love for humanity." The hatred of Christ is satanic. Another said it was "the Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade" (a satanist.) Suspicious of the mainstream media, I withdrew my misgivings opting to see the movie myself. Unfortunately, they were justified. The movie depicts how Jesus did not try to save himself but rather embraced brutal torture and death. I realize that for many Catholics, this has great significance, which I will touch on later. However I question its value for non-Catholics. SADISM The movie mostly consists of Jesus being humiliated, beaten and flogged. The lashing is so severe no man could possibly survive, let alone carry a heavy cross. The severity is demonstrated when the centurion brings his lash down on a wooden desk: the splinters fly leaving a deep gash. For what seems like an eternity, Jesus is flogged on his back. When this gruesome ordeal appears to be finally over, Jesus is released and rolls on to the ground. Then he is flogged on his chest for what seems like another eternity. No explanation is given for the Romans' animosity Then Christ is taunted and beaten by centurions who place a crown of thorns on his head. Then he is whipped while carrying the cross. At one point he falls on the ground and the cross falls on top of him. The movie inspires a disheartening sense of the feebleness of God and the Power of Evil. The rumblings in heaven after the Crucifixion do not dispel this sickening feeling. That's why I give credence to those critics who accuse Gibson of having a hidden satanic agenda. While scourging is mentioned in the Gospels, it has nothing like the significance it does in the movie. For example, "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him" (John 19:1). "Then they spat in his face...beat him [and] struck him with the palms of their hands." (Matt 26:67) Gibson does not establish Christ's significance as embodiment of God's Love. Thus it is hard for the viewer to comprehend the meaning of the Crucifixion. James Caviezel who plays Christ has little stature or charisma. Sparse attention is paid to Christ's Gospel. The flashback to the Sermon on the Mount is perfunctory. Why wasn't the whole Sermon depicted? My article "Passion Highlights Jewish Christian Differences" was far too optimistic. The movie does nothing of the sort. Judaism (or Talmudism) upholds the special relationship of Jews to God. In practice, it is an ideology of racial superiority and conquest. Christ was killed because he taught the universality of God's love and the brotherhood of all men. Talmudism emphasizes success and power in this world. There is no afterlife. Christ was killed because he taught us to renounce this world for the rewards of the Spirit both now and in the hereafter. Why make a film about the Crucifixion if it misses these fundamental points? SATANIC HOAX? Cutting http://Edge.org says that "The Passion" portrays Illuminati symbols of the anti Christ not found in the Bible, nor in Anne Emmerich's mystic writings, upon which Gibson relied. "As the Roman soldiers are beating Jesus, the female Satan is suddenly seen gliding through the crowd opposite the Virgin Mary. Suddenly, as she emerges from behind the body of a soldier, you can see that she is carrying a very white child. Since the movie has... juxtaposed scenes of the Virgin Mary and of the female Satan, and since Satan is dressed in the same type of Virgin Mother outfit, this demonic scene must be intended to depict a Virgin Mother - Divine Child scenario.... The baby suddenly turns to look upon Jesus' brutal beating with great glee..." The web site also suggests that Jesus is one-eyed throughout the movie (due to his beating) and this too is an llluminati signal. The logo of Gibson's Icon Productions is a single eye as is the Satanic eye in the Freemason symbol which is on the U.S Great Seal. Those interested in the satanic angle can also refer to Watch Unto Prayer HOW I DIFFER FROM CATHOLICS Apparently during the middle ages, popular piety put great emphasis on Christ's physical sacrifice. His wounds pointed to "the fulfillment of Christ's love because God humbled himself by taking on vulnerable flesh and died to free mankind from death...Christ's death was a perfect sacrifice that destroyed the power of sin, and therefore death over humanity." I have no interest in religious disputation and will not engage in it. I am not a Catholic. I can appreciate that imitating Christ's self mortification is a valid religious path. I was born a Jew but I do not subscribe to Judaism either. I do not know if Christ was God. I suspect he was a man who was totally imbued with the Divine Spirit and expressed the Divine Purpose. His message was that if he could do it, so can we. I think this is what he means when he says, "none can come to God but through me." We can experience our Divinity by obeying God. I believe that God is Reality. We were put on earth to unveil and embody God's Plan, personally and collectively, not to seek eternal life. If we flunk here, we flunk in eternity too. The spiritual heirs of the Pharisees are creating a new world order dedicated to Lucifer and not God. They are defining truth and goodness not in real terms but according to their narrow totalitarian agenda. They are turning the world upside down. Our most important assumptions about society are a lie. I am more convinced than ever that the Harold Rosenthal Interview [ www.savethemales.ca/000334.html / www.antichristconspiracy....enthal_Interview_1976.htm ] is an accurate expose. Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" could have reminded us of our Divine nature and responsibility. Instead it is a bizarre medieval passion play. I appreciate that many good people are inspired and uplifted. I am glad and respect that. Please do not attempt to convince me I should have been. Recently a young man wrote for advice about religion. For the benefit of a few like him, I reprint my reply: "If I were you, I would not associate with any religious organizations. I would also shift my focus from scripture to your immediate life and your immediate relationship to God. I would try to be silent or take long walks and clear my head. Then I would listen for God speaking to you. In other words, have an immediate relationship with your Creator and focus on improving your life and behavior by bringing more harmony, peace, love and order into it. You can still read the scriptures for inspiration but let your day be your religion, how you live, how you embody the principles in which you believe. Too much religion seems to remove people from their actual life. I don't pretend to be a success in these terms myself but it represents my ideal." In conclusion, I see spiritual laws as having the same inevitability as physical laws (like gravity.) I support any religion or path that brings people closer to Truth ("Judge them by their fruits"); and oppose any attempt to coerce belief. Ultimately it's our soul. It's we who must find God or suffer the consequences. http://www.henrymakow.com/000351.html Poster comment My main disagreement [other than his statement that he doesn't know if Christ is God] would be his reply to the young man. Studying the scripture, particularly the New Testament, should be our guide in finding God. Too many people get into trouble listening to the "inner voice" they attribute to God, but which is often another spirit altogether. We were put on earth to unveil and embody God's Plan, personally and collectively, not to seek eternal life. If we flunk here, we flunk in eternity too. This is debatable, but a point I have tried to make to someone I know. This person thinks as long as he is saved, he doesn't need to worry about anyone else. I think we were put here to be His servants, in addition to finding eternal life, and failing that, may be 'thrown in the fire with the hypocrites' [Pharisees], but hit my head against a brick wall. Who then are the people who claim to be the Jews? Jones answers: "Revelations 3:9 answers the question by [saying] those 'who call themselves Jews but are liars' [are] the 'synagogue of Satan.' In other words, the group that was called by God to prepare the way for the Messiah rejected the Messiah and in doing that, became over the course of the ensuing centuries a group that defined itself as anti-Christian.... " Jones concludes: "The Jews who reject Christ now prepare the way for the coming of the anti-Christ.... what comes of this group is the opposite of salvation, namely the work of Satan..." Isaiah's prophecy seems to confirm Jones' conclusion: "Thou shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name...and you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen, for the lord God shall...call his servants by another name." (62:2; 65:15) http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Isa/62/2.html Interesting; I THINK that verse refers to the Christians, not the synagogue of Satan. "...we have all sinned." ......The sin is that we refuse to uphold God and make Him the centre of our life. This is at the root of all history for the last 6,000 years. When we have learned that lesson, there will finally be peace on earth. Psa 118:8 [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. Psa 118:9 [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Psa/Psa118.html#8
Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" angered and disheartened me. It was an excruciating experience and a waste of time. I would have left had I not been "on assignment."
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