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Title: ADL’S FOXMAN: NEW TESTAMENT IS ANTI-SEMITIC
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Published: Sep 5, 2006
Author: Rev. Ted Pike
Post Date: 2006-09-05 13:29:19 by Brian S
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September 3, 2006 By Rev. Ted Pike Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, believes anti-Semitism will last as long as Christians accept the New Testament’s "lie" that the ancient Pharisees were responsible for the death of Christ.1 In his recent book, Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism, 2 Foxman claims this "deadly" 3 deception has caused untold Jewish suffering through the millennia. Such New Testament-generated hate culminated in the Holocaust, he claims - but it breaks out afresh as the "Christ-killers" charge is inferred in Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ and readings from the "anti-Semitic" Christian story at Easter. Foxman says another wave of global anti-Semitism and persecution of Jews could be on the way unless Christians agree to ignore large sections of the New Testament. What sections will probably be on his "must censor" list? Certainly, it would include Christ’s incendiary attacks on the Pharisees, whom He called "whitewashed tombs, full of dead men’s bones." 4 Foxman would also censor the Apostle John: "He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son does not have the life… Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son." 5 In the book of Revelation, recorded by John, Jesus says those Jews who reject Him are "the synagogue of Satan," 6 another passage Foxman would certainly cut out. But most importantly, Foxman would censor the multitude of passages in all the Gospels that reveal a pharisaic conspiracy to entrap and finally murder Christ.7 The book of Acts squarely lays blame for the crucifixion upon the Pharisees and the nation of the Jews.8 To please Foxman, St. Paul’s clear indictment must also be omitted: "The Jews…killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and drove us out. They are not pleasing to God but hostile to all men." 9 Foxman claims Jews were not responsible for the crucifixion and that Roman officials masterminded Jesus’ death. But only one "Roman official" is mentioned in the New Testament as authorizing the crucifixion; Pontius Pilate was a weak-willed political opportunist, reluctant to condemn Christ. He was coerced by an entire Jewish Sanhedrin and a mob of Jewish citizens who screamed, "Crucify him! His blood be upon us and on our children." 10 Foxman’s Case Against the New Testament Foxman summarizes his case against the New Testament: "Over the last century a growing preponderance of evidence and scholarly study has demonstrated that the execution of Jesus was instigated primarily by the Roman authorities who ruled Palestine in the first century C.E., not by the Jewish people. And the anti-Jewish rhetoric that mars several books of the Christian New Testament has been shown to reflect not historical fact but the rivalry at the time the books were written between Jews who followed Jesus and those who did not. "Nonetheless, versions of the Gospel narratives that emphasize Jewish guilt (rather than the responsibility of the Roman imperial authorities who actually imposed and carried out the death sentence) were included in the Christian canon. As a result, with every annual reading or reenactment of the story of the death of Jesus in Christian churches, millions of Christians imbibed the notion that the Jews had been guilty of the worst crime in history. Into our own time, the deicide libel has been used to justify hatred of Jews and violence against them, including from Christian pulpits. Through the centuries these denunciations have led to countless outbreaks of violence against Jews, including murderous pogroms, a bitterly ironic betrayal of the legacy of the man Christians revere as the Prince of Peace. "For almost two thousand years Christian teachings drove the spread of anti-Semitism throughout Europe and beyond. (As we’ll see, the current explosion of anti-Semitism in the Moslem Middle East is fueled largely by myths and doctrines that originated in Europe.) The story of Christian anti-Semitism is a long, complicated and tragic one. Scholars such as the late Dr. James Parks have traced a direct line from ancient Christian teachings on Jews and Judaism to the death camps of Hitler." 11 According to Foxman, Christians in modern times are also very largely responsible for the Holocaust. "…many Germans and Austrians who spent the week murdering Jews then went to church on Sunday, apparently seeing no inconsistency in their actions and it’s also true that the political and social atmosphere in which the persecution and killing of millions of Jews could be seen as broadly acceptable could not have existed without the tacit acceptance of the Christian churches - as well as the ingrained anti-Semitism of twenty centuries of dogma, doctrine and preaching that demonized Jews…because Christians and the Christian churches had spread hatred of Jews for so long, it’s impossible for Christians - and in particular the Catholic Church - to regard themselves as passive or innocent bystanders during the Holocaust. The killings could not have happened without the sins of millions Christians - sins of commission as well as sins of omission." 12 Modern Christianity, Foxman asserts, is thus based on hateful, vengeful lies spread by the New Testament. He says the evangelism practiced by devout Christians is also anti-Semitic. "Although it is supposedly motivated by love for the Jews, this idea [that Jews should be converted] is inherently anti-Semitic in that it implicitly denigrates the value of Jewish belief." 13 Threat of Religious Right But Foxman’s allegations go farther still. He says we should fear Christians because they want to take over America! They are "part of a broader strategy to transform American government into a wholly owned subsidiary of the evangelical movement… They seek the power to impose that faith on everyone in America, replacing pluralism and tolerance with theocracy." 14 Ironically, Foxman thus becomes one of the "conspiracy theorists" he usually rails against. Foxman’s ADL exerts enormous influence over at least half million Jewish members of B’nai B’rith worldwide. His dark warnings about the Christian threat helps explain the eagerness of many Jews to oppose Christian symbols, ceremonies, holidays, and values. Foxman is trying to instill a guilt complex in Christians and a desire in the Jewish people to resist, restrict, and ultimately persecute Christians; 15 ADL/B’nai B’rith hate laws were created for this purpose. To stimulate Jewish anger at Christians, evil Jewish leaders are creating a truly Big Lie: that the New Testament is inherently evil, anti-Semitic and violence-generating - a book which, like Mein Kampf, should not be read. How Should Christians Respond to Foxman? Bible-believing Christians remain extremely reluctant to identify evil Jewish leaders for what they are (Jewish). Such truthtelling, however, would be very constructive. It would embarrass the Jewish community into restraining their brethren in Jewish "civil liberties" groups and the media. Tragically, lack of specificity from evangelicals only gives a green light to evil Jewish leadership, hidden behind a media they control. Eventually, they will convince not only the Jewish people but the world that Christianity is the most hateful and hurtful of the world’s religions. A generation from now, our media-reared children may regard Christianity as deserving outright persecution. The power of Foxman’s blame-throwing against Christians inheres in his presumption that all who have ever called themselves Christians are indeed Christians. This allows him to lump together in "collective guilt" those who, throughout history, were Christian in name only with those who do in fact epitomize the words of the gentle Jesus. Christ commanded us to love our neighbors and bless our enemies. Anyone who behaves in a malicious persecutive manner toward Jews, especially to the extent of the medieval barbarities and pogroms, is not a Christian. A true Christian is simply not responsible for the misdeeds of counterfeit Christians, nor is the New Testament. Nowhere does the New Testament remotely hint that Christians should persecute Jews, nor does it provide even one example of such persecution. On the contrary, the book of Acts contains at least 20 instances of Christians being persecuted at the urging of Jewish leaders. 16 This is the kind of persecution that ADL’s national executive board member, Philadelphia district attorney Lynne Abraham, brought down upon 11 Christians in Philadelphia in 2004. They were jailed and threatened with 47 years in prison and $80,000 fines each, for the "hate crime" of witnessing to homosexuals on a public sidewalk. Should Christians Change the New Testament? Can Christians accommodate Foxman and disregard the New Testament? Not without destroying Christianity - the New Testament defines Christianity. No Christian can omit or de-emphasize any part of the New Testament. To do so is to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, an act for which Christ will be ashamed of that person on the Day of Judgment. 17 After 300 years of blessing 18 from Christian America, a nation established on New Testament values, it is time for Foxman to face reality. Jews, far from being harried victims, have been the coddled darlings of evangelical New Testament-believing Christians since at least the 17th century. Foxman and Jewish leaders should stop raking up the past and count their present blessings - blessings which would never have come upon them except within a civilization upholding Christ’s New Testament message of love and forbearance. The church must stand resolute against Foxman’s demands that it deny the New Testament. It is Foxman’s persecution complex which must end. End Notes:
After Islam, Arab and anyone who criticize Zionist, it’s now the turn of Christ and Christians. To be a good Christian-guy, Foxman (the ADL guy) tells Christians that they should deny part of the historical facts and ripoff some parts of the Bible. In other words, change you faith so you are not labeled anti-Semitic!
1 Most Christians already accommodate Foxman by saying we "all" have crucified Christ by sinning. This doctrine was virtually unheard of before the 1970s when Billy Graham first promoted it; it is neither Biblical nor logical. The Bible does teach that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). It also states those who have once believed and yet apostasized "again crucify…the Son of God" (Heb. 6:6). Yet Scripture does not teach that through some metaphysical alchemy we all participated in the crucifixion. The crucifixion was a unique historical event nearly 2000 years ago when Christ was rejected by His own, the Jewish people. Though Pilate was badgered into authorizing it and a handful of Roman soldiers drove the nails, the force behind the crucifixion was entirely Jewish. The New Testament assertion of the Jewishness of the crucifixion is central to the historic prophecies and claims which ground the Scripture. Without such a reference point there is little significance in Christ’s return someday to rescue and absolve a repentant Jewish remnant from the stigma of so heinous a national sin. This may explain why the New Testament repeats its charge of Jewish guilt in about forty different passages.
2 Harper, San Francisco, 2004.
3 "…Christianity developed a set of doctrines that proved to be deadly," p.97.
4 Matt. 23:27.
5 I John 5:12; 2:22.
6 Rev. 3:9.
7 Christ’s revelation that He would suffer under the Jews and be killed. Mt. 16:21, Mk. 8:31, Lk. 9:22; "One man should die for the people." "…planned together to kill Him." Jn. 11: 47-53, Jn. 18:14; "Delivered to the chief priests and condemned to death." Mt. 20: 18-19, Mk. 10:33, Lk. 18: 31-33; "…and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and to kill Him." Mt. 26:4, Lk. 22:2, Jn. 7:1; "…to obtain false testimony against Jesus, in order that they might put Him to death." Mt. 26:59; "Why do you seek to kill me?" Jn. 7:19, Jn. 8:37,40; "Is not this the man they are seeking to kill?" Jn 7:25; "Chief priests and elders took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death." "…delivered Him to Pilate." Mt. 27:1-2, Mk. 15:1, Lk. 23:1; "Pilate knew that because of envy they had, delivered Him up." Mt. 27:18, Mk. 15:10; "What are you willing to give to me to deliver Him up to you?" "Chief priests and scribes seeking how they might put Him to death." Mt. 26:15, Mk. 14:10-11, Lk. 22:2-6; "…seeking how to destroy Him." Mk. 11:18, Lk. 19:47; "chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabas, and to put Jesus to death." Mt. 27:20, Mk. 15:11, Lk. 23:18, Jn. 18:40; "…and they shouted 'crucify Him!" "He ought to die!" Mt. 27:22-23, Mk. 15:13-14, Lk. 23:21-23, Jn. 19:6-7,15; "Pilate delivered Jesus to their will." Mt. 27:26, Mk. 15:15, Lk. 23:24-25, Jn. 19:16; "His blood be upon us and our children!" Mt. 27:25; "…for this reason he who delivered Me up to you has the greater sin." Jn 19:11; "…and how the chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death and crucified Him.Lk. 24:20; "…Jesus, whom ye have crucified…" Acts 2:36, Acts 3:14-15, Acts 4:10, Acts 5:30, Acts 13:28, Acts 21:11; "[Jews] who have both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets…" I Thess. 2: 14-16.
8 "…this man…you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death." Acts 2:23; "God has made Him both Lord and Christ - this Jesus whom you crucified." Acts 2:36; "But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One…and put to death the Prince of Life…" Acts 3:13-15; "Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified…" Acts 4:10; "Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross," Acts 5:30; "…the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become," Acts 7:52; "…they asked Pilate that He be executed," Acts 13:28.
9 I Thess 2:19, 15.
10 Matt. 27:22, 25.
11 P. 47 and 48.
12 P. 93 and 94.
13 P. 138.
14 P. 140 and 141.
15 To combat "a looming international emergency" of global anti-Semitism, Foxman urges his readers to "work for passage of hate crimes legislation on the national level and in states and localities where no such laws currently exist" (p. 178). ADL has been deeply frustrated over the five failures to pass its Orwellian federal hate bill, "The Local Law Enforcement and Enhancement Act."
16 Acts. 4:1-21; 5:17-18; 5:26-40; 6:9; 7:1-60; 8:1-4; 9:1-2; 11:19; 12:3; 13:50; 14:2-6, 19; 17:5-9; 18:12; 21:27; 22:22; 23:12; 24:1, 27; 25:7.
17 Mark 8:38.
1883;Three and one-half million Jewish immigrants arrived on our shores around the turn of the century with an average of $9 per person in their pockets, less than almost any other immigrant group. Six decades later the mean family income of Jews was almost double the national average." (George Gilder, p. 11, Wealth and Poverty)
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Abe's act is growing thin.
OK, let me see if I got it right ... the Jewish Sanhedrin orchestrated the crucifixion of Christ by manipulating Pilate ... and even though Mel Gibson was forced to leave out the part where they say "let his blood be on us and our children" Abe Foxman thinks the Christians should be held responsible ! I see ...
"nemo me impune lacessit" no one provokes me with impunity
Hell, he doesn't have to worry. Bush and his gang ignore the ENTIRE New Testament already. They are what I call Old Testament Christians. Another term would be "Kosher" Christianity. Bushco has a real problem with all the references to Christ as a "peace and love" kind of guy. So they've rewritten him into their script as Rambo Jesus. "I came not to bring peace, but a sword." This was originally meant to be symbolic, but the MIC doesn't do symbols. It is literally beating all remaining plowshares into swords — most of them at least partially made in China or some other "outsourcing" center.
Maybe Abe should be listening to one of his lancemen who has defected to our side. "Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past." Richard M. Nixon
My thought exactly - though it was not couched as graciously as yours.
Let's ask Barabbas.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers When is Abe going to write for us Goy scum a new New Testament? I don't want to be an "Anti Semite" anymore! Please Abe! Help us knuckle dragginig haters and write us an ADL approved bible!
Rapture Nutter "Christianity" is a thinly vieled tribal revenge fantasy. They like to think of themselves as if they were the Jews of the Old Testament- a persecuted tribe (they love to present themselves as eternal victims surrounded by enemies) in possession of the "true faith" whose vengeful killer GOD will one day descend from the Heavens and murder all their enemies. Jesus barely figures at all in thier religious uber tribal nationalist world paradigm. He is an afterthought. Rapture nutterism grows and prospers in this country because it offers a feeling of "belonging" to something bigger than oneself. This is a country of atoms- of alienation- of isolated suburban "Communities" that are anything but "communities". In a country in which the nuclear family itself- never mind extended family- is barely alive- rapture nutter tribalism is a haven for many people.
http://www.geocit http://ies.com/schossen/zionistchristians.htm That's a great article. Someone posted it here a couple of weeks ago. "....The Pharisees used their interpretation, called the Talmud, to create a convenient life for their group. For this, Jesus called them hypocrites. It took me a long time to walk the rest of the way to the Christian Church. One of the roadblocks was the Pharisaic propaganda that teaches that Judaism is both a religion and an ethnic group, implying thus that a Jew cannot convert....." dang. I want to cry every time I read that. Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. http://www.blueletterb ible.org/kjv/Mat/Mat023.html Never mind the fact that "Jews" are far less Semitic than Arabs, you could say the Old Testament was "anti-Semitic" as well: Isa 65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: http://www.blueletter bible.org/tsk_b/Isa/65/15.html DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, 70 AD http:// www.preteristarchive.com/JewishSources/josephus/index.html But speaking of "anti-Semitism", did you see this Ted Lang article: "...Are all Zionists Jews? Are all Jews Zionists? Are the controllers and operators of television, newspapers, magazines and Hollywood Jewish? Hence, those who see through the propaganda of Zionism have not only a hard time to prove it, but even a more difficult time to even discuss it! The ACLU is a group of "wandering Jews" that roam from town to town, shutting down nativity scenes, banning the Ten Commandments, successfully clamoring for Nazi gun control and forgetting the Jews murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto. Makes no sense at all, UNTIL you realize that Zionist Jews turned on their own. They helped Hitler kill their own. They helped the Nazis place Jews in concentration camps. So why wouldn’t they turn on US with their charges of racism and the need for "diversity?" Why are Christian schoolchildren being forced to draw menorahs while substituting drawn snowmen to represent Christ on his birthday?...." "....when Jews in Israel went into the street to demonstrate against their government for slaughtering innocent Palestinians in their homes, schools, and hospitals, Israeli riot police and troops arrested them and beat them with batons. I remember one newsreel where the Zionist Cops were bending an arrested Israeli demonstrator’s arms up behind him with a baton while his hands were handcuffed behind him. Why were they torturing this man – was he a threat physically or verbally? And remember the courageous 27 Israeli fighter pilots who refused to fly their planes to bomb innocent Palestinians? They were court-martialed, and God knows what happened to them since...." CHRISTIAN ZIONISM WHOSE LAND IS IT ANYWAY? By: Ted Lang http://etherzone.com/2004/lang 072604.shtml The New Testament is okay when it produces Christian Zionists, but let the New Testament, or even a Jew, get in the way of the antichrist Jew's agenda, and ZAP!
It's amazing how far down the path to destruction so many have been led by those blind apostate preachers.
"Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past." Richard M. Nixon
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
#4. To: noone222 (#2)
Abe Foxman thinks the Christians should be held responsible !
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#1)
Abe's act is growing thin.
#6. To: Brian S, AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#0)
#7. To: Brian S (#0)
#8. To: Sam Houston (#3)
#9. To: BTP Holdings, robin, Brian S (#4)
Maybe Abe should be listening to one of his lancemen who has defected to our side.
#10. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#9)
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