Vatican blesses David Bowie

The Vatican bestows its imprimatur on David Bowie

Mr. Bowie in concert

The Great Debate

1. A Misplaced Grief: The Vatican and David Bowie

by Fr. George Rutler

2. The New York Times takes Fr. Rutler to task for having “contempt” for Mr. Bowie 

3. Michael Hoffman takes the New York Times to task:

Time to Expose Liberal Hypocrites

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A Misplaced Grief: The Vatican and David Bowie

By Fr. George Rutler

Crisis Magazine

In proof of Chesterton’s dictum that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly, I pound away at the piano playing the easier Chopin Nocturnes and I grind on my violin with a confidence only an amateur can flaunt. So I am not innocent of music.  I appreciate the emotive post-war French singers, and have a soft spot for the idiomatic form called “Doo-Wop” and its highly skilled harmonization and lyricism, along with some of the more whimsical Motown singers. But the world of rock and roll is to me a bewilderment, to the amazement of the same coterie who find it hard to believe that I have never had a cellular phone. It is a fact in witness to which I am willing to swear on a Douai Bible, that I have never been able to listen to an entire rock and roll song. This is not to say that I lack curiosity. In the South Pacific, I have listened to tunes on the aboriginal eucalyptus didgeridoo and the Polynesian nose flute, but what has developed as rock and roll music and metastasized into more raucous forms, remains an anthropological enigma and I leave restaurants and public gatherings where they are played.

Consequently, it was no surprise that news of the death of David Bowie was the first time I knew that he had been alive. If you find that hard to believe, you must remember that my instinctive taste for “pop music” is encoded by Gilbert and Sullivan and eclipsed by John Phillip Souza. What did surprise me was that the Vatican, just wiping up from its Climate Change light show on the façade of the Basilica of St. Peter’s, plunged into mourning for this man. At least the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi, issued a statement quoting from some lyrics of Mr. Bowie: “Ground Control to Major Tom / Commencing countdown, engines on / Check ignition and may God’s love be with you.” What I found most intimidating, and indeed frightening, was the assumption that others would recognize the reference.

Born in 1942, Cardinal Ravisi is older than I and yet surpasses my information of pop culture, unless a junior staff member penned the elegy. His Eminence is an accomplished archeologist and was prefect of the Ambrosian Library, whose patron had musical tastes antecedent to and, dare I say, superior to, those of David Bowie.

A “celebrity psychic” named Uri Geller said of Bowie: “I was profoundly impressed by his deep understanding of mysticism, the mysterious and the universe. There is no doubt in my mind that David believed in Heaven.” I am not impressed by this, especially in light of the fact that three years ago Bowie produced an adult-rated video impersonating Jesus in pornographic positions. A statement of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Righteous said: “The switch-hitting, bisexual, senior citizen from London has resurfaced, this time playing a Jesus-like character who hangs out in a nightclub dump frequented by priests, cardinals and half-naked women.” But when Bowie died, L’Osservatore Romano, aching to be the Church of What’s Happening Now, eulogized the genius of Bowie, excusing his “ambiguous image” as one of his “excesses” but then remarking his “personal sobriety, even in his dry, almost thread-like body.”

The impulsive effusions of grief from the Holy See remind one of an extravagant tribute that the editor of L’Osservatore Romano paid to the crooner Michael Jackson when he died of acute Propofol and Benzodiazepine intoxication. The headline asked as if it were Holy Saturday: “But will he actually be dead?” Ignoring the epicene Jackson’s mockery of Jesus in his video “Thriller,” the Vatican newspaper lauded the star as a “great dancer” (“grande ballerina”) and declared that he would “never die in the imagination of his fans.” According to L’Osservatore, Jackson’s transgenderizing surgeries were “a process of self definition that was beyond race.” As for Jackson’s piroquettes with young boys, the unofficial voice of the Holy See commented: “Everybody knows his problems with the law after the pedophilia accusations. But no accusation, however serious or shameful, is enough to tarnish his myth among his millions of fans throughout the entire world.”

In his Republic, Plato said that music is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful; and also because he who has received this true education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justify blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he will recognize and salute the friend with whom his education has made him long familiar.

Plato also knew the dangers of “anti-music” or Corybanticism, which perverted rhythms to stimulate the bodily humors in defiance of the good purposes of the muses. Its consequence would be a moral chain reaction, dissonant music deranging society and inverting virtue. The Corybants were priests of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, and their music was atonal, ecstatic, and dissolute. It was inimical to the ideal republic. But it incubated the ethereal realms of David Bowie and Michael Jackson and their sort.

In speaking of the rock and roll genre, I certainly do not want to be lumped with those preachers who once condemned Ragtime music, or even Chesterton who in an unmeasured moment called Jazz “the song of the treadmill.” But I am a pastor of a section of Manhattan called Hell’s Kitchen. I recently had the funeral of a young man who died of a drug overdose, and whose musical world was Corybantic. His cousin, a client of the rock and drug scene, is in prison for murder. So I speak not only as an aesthete who publicly avows that he prefers Mozart and Chopin to Jackson and Bowie, but as a priest who has to pick up the pieces of those who never knew they had a choice. And I object to comfortable prelates in a higher realm, penning panegyrics for the doyens of a culture that destroys my children.

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“In speaking of the rock and roll genre... I am a pastor of a section of Manhattan called Hell’s Kitchen. I recently had the funeral of a young man who died of a drug overdose…His cousin, a client of the rock and drug scene, is in prison for murder. So I speak not only as an aesthete who publicly avows that he prefers Mozart and Chopin to Michael Jackson and David Bowie, but as a priest who has to pick up the pieces of those who never knew they had a choice. And I object to comfortable prelates in a higher realm, penning panegyrics for the doyens of a culture that destroys my children."

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Like a new Plato, Pope Benedict XVI said in his Spirit of the Liturgy: “On the one hand, there is pop music, which is certainly no longer supported by the people in the ancient senses (populous). It’s aimed at the phenomenon of the masses, is industrially produced, and ultimately has to be described as a cult of the banal. ‘Rock,’ on the other hand, is the expression of elemental passions, and at rock festivals it assumed a cultic character, a form of worship, in fact, in opposition to Christian worship. People are, so to speak, released from themselves by the experience of being part of a crowd and by the emotional shock of rhythm, noise, and special lighting effects. However, in the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. The music of the Holy Spirit’s sober inebriation seems to have little chance when self has become a prison, the mind is a shackle, and breaking out from both appears as a true promise of redemption that can be tasted at least for a few moments.”

Young people are embarrassed when their mothers try to be “cool.” These youths may tread wrong paths unadvisedly on occasion, for such is the indiscretion of nascent years, but they want their mothers to be mature and not adolescent. Mother Church appears ridiculous as Adolescent Church, as in the case of the Holy See lamenting David Bowie. The insatiable desire for approval by pop culture is beneath the dignity of the Church as the Mother of Nations.

One thinks of the breathless Catholic News Service commentary in 2009 on the murder of the fashion designer Gianni Versace, whose obsequies in a Miami church were attended by men dressed as women, and whose final Requiem in the Duomo of Milan featured Elton John and “Sting” sobbing on each other’s shoulders: “Versace was noted for his sensual lines and eye-catching combinations of textural shades.” 

This simply is the diction of political correctness and it compromises the prophetic charism of the Church; for, as sages have observed one way or another, political correctness is the speech of those who are terrified by what might happen if they spoke the truth. Perhaps the next nervous surrender to fashion will be a declaration of Bruce/Caitlin Jenner as “Person of the Year” by the editors of the gender-neutral New American Bible. 

Asserting his prophetic, priestly, and regal credentials as the Rock, Saint Peter warned the Christians in Rome against the celebrities of the Forum:

“For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error. They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a man is a slave of whatever overcomes him. For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first.” (2 Peter 2: 18-20).

Christ was a carpenter and his apostles were mostly fishermen and none of them was what is called today a “metrosexual.” I am not sure what that term fully means, but it embraces anyone who weeps for paragons of degeneracy and paladins of vice.

Fr. George W. Rutler is pastor of St. Michael's church in New York City. He is the author of many books including Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943 and, most recently, Hints of Heaven (Sophia Institute Press).

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A Vatican Blessing for David Bowie

By Lawrence Downes 

The New York Times • January 15, 2016

The Vatican’s cultural minister, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, wrote a generous appreciation this week of the late David Bowie, whom he described as a great, if tormented, artist and a lifelong spiritual searcher:

He prayed, in the depths of his addictions and lacerating questions: “Lord, I kneel and offer you my word on a wing / And I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things.”

But Bowie’s quest was unfinished and it did not cease to torment him, while always enriching his art. In those days – he himself told us – he wore for many years a small silver crucifix. His was a search, a questioning, that went to a greater height and plumbed a deeper mystery than any answers or responses were able to reach.

It was mildly surprising to see a prominent Catholic Church official speak so warmly of a rock star. But it was fitting: Speaking well of the deceased is what decent people do. But it was too much for some irritable Catholics. The Rev. George Rutler, a priest in Manhattan, wrote a response in the Catholic magazine Crisis. In it he complained about “misplaced grief” for a musician he called a paragon of “degeneracy” and “vice.” The essay is such a curious object – a rebuttal? to a eulogy? – that it’s worth reading in full:  http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/a-misplaced-grief-the-vatican-and-david-bowie.

In it, Father Rutler admits knowing not a thing of Bowie’s music or art: “News of the death of David Bowie was the first time I knew that he had been alive.”

He is upset that Cardinal Ravasi tweeted a line from Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” that song about ground control and Major Tom: “What I found most intimidating, and indeed frightening, was the assumption that others would recognize the reference.”

Pope Francis has declared this a Holy Year of Mercy, so I will not indulge too much further in repeating the turbid sentences of Father Rutler. But I do feel compelled to mention – forgive me, Father – that his essay is an illuminating example of a thing that has long puzzled me about some conservative Catholics who wear the faith so prominently on their sleeves and chasubles. Why, when they speak on faith and morals, are they so contemptuous of their fellow humans? If the Gospel message is love, and forgiveness for sinners, why does the message, coming from them, sound so wretched?

I speak of people like the permanently indignant head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, self-anointed spokesman for the Church, who disgraced himself on Monday with this vicious tweet: “All I know is that Bowie is a switch-hitter who tried to sing.”

Father Rutler similarly stands by his ignorance. But he stands ready to accuse Mr. Bowie and his ilk (rock-and-roll musicians) of being accomplices to fatal drug addictions and murder:

“I am a pastor of a section of Manhattan called Hell’s Kitchen. I recently had the funeral of a young man who died of a drug overdose, and whose musical world was Corybantic. His cousin, a client of the rock and drug scene, is in prison for murder. So I speak not only as an aesthete who publicly avows that he prefers Mozart and Chopin to Jackson and Bowie, but as a priest who has to pick up the pieces of those who never knew they had a choice. And I object to comfortable prelates in a higher realm, penning panegyrics for the doyens of a culture that destroys my children.”

His anger seems to have been set off by a moody Bowie video that mixes Catholic imagery with blood and women’s breasts. 

Whether the video was a work of irony or rage or mockery, or what statement it makes, if any, Father Rutler cannot know, and is in no position to judge. But he knows what he hates. As his essay veers into a discussion of Gianni Versace, Elton John and Caitlyn Jenner, it becomes clear that something else has been on his mind the whole time. It wasn’t the music, that’s for sure.

“Christ was a carpenter and his apostles were mostly fishermen and none of them was what is called today a “metrosexual.” I am not sure what that term fully means, but it embraces anyone who weeps for paragons of degeneracy and paladins of vice.”

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Time to Expose Liberal Hypocrites Who Have Contempt for their Politically Incorrect “Fellow Humans”

By Michael Hoffman
www.revisionisthistory.org 

In seeking to shame conservatives like Rev. Fr. George Rutler, NY Times columnist Lawrence Downes asks, "Why, when they speak on faith and morals, are they so contemptuous of their fellow humans?”

Please, let’s have less hypocrisy! Liberals and progressives in many cases are exceedingly contemptuous of dissenting historians who they insult as “holocaust deniers,” and of right-to-life campaigners they call anti-abortion activists (to cite but two examples),  because liberals feel passionately that the public positions these two groups advocate do great harm. Somehow liberal outrage and contempt are acceptable, and even salutary in these cases.

When conservatives are outraged by Mr. Bowie’s drug use and sodomite lifestyle and regard it as a harmful example for the young, liberals appeal to civility and tolerance. Sins and transgressions that don’t trouble liberals (or which they share) like those practiced by David Bowie, are to be tolerated.

The New York Times editorial mentions Mr. Bowie’s blasphemy in his video, which featured “Catholic imagery, blood and breasts,” in trifling terms: “Whether the video was a work of irony or rage or mockery, or what statement it makes, if any, Father Rutler cannot know, and is in no position to judge.”

No position to judge? Those who ask scientific and technical questions about how exactly alleged mass gassings took place in Auschwitz are most certainly judged by the liberal Establishment, and in no uncertain terms, as guilty of blasphemy against Judaism and Allied war dogma, and deserving of total ostracism and contempt.

We observe that when confronting what they regard as sins and transgressions which offend them deeply (“holocaust denial” and “anti-abortion protest” for instance), people on the Left are often highly indignant, judgmental and contemptuous of their “fellow humans.” They maintain their own categories of the damned — anyone who adopts a diametrically opposed position on illegal aliens and Second Amendment rights is likely to be subjected to withering contempt from the pompous defenders of Mr. Bowie.

Indeed, liberals believe in these cases it is their duty to express their contempt in absolute terms that are lacking in the very same charity and tolerance they tell conservatives like Fr. Rutler they must embrace.

The self-righteous liberal elite are blind to their own double standards. They pontificate from their alleged perch on the moral high ground so as to shame into silence and submission their conservative rivals for the hearts and minds of the American people. Their devious strategy is not going to succeed however, because the hypocrisy behind it is much too apparent, and risible.

Michael Hoffman is the author of The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West’s Most Sacred Relic.

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Non-Jews according to the sacred rabbinic texts

The status of gentiles according to the sacred rabbinic texts

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Merry Christmas, Mary

Merry Christmas, Mary

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

“Merry Christmas, Mary” is the title of a lovely bucolic song performed and recorded by the late Johnny Cash, an American Country and Western singer of international repute.

Mary is often less honored among some Christians than saints of the Old Testament such as Sarah, Rebecca, Judith and Deborah. 

On Christmas Eve, while the mentally sick rabbis of Hasidic Judaism are making toilet paper intended to insult Jesus and Mary, our thoughts turn to Jesus and His mother, Mary. Outside of Catholic circles, we rarely see the respect accorded to her which she deserves.

Most non-Catholic churches believe that she was born, like the rest of humanity, stained with what is known as “Original Sin,” stemming from the disobedience of our first parents. Romans 3:10 (“None are righteous, not even one”) is the “proof” text cited in this regard.

The better Protestant theologians have nonetheless wrestled for centuries (mostly intra muros) with a profound dilemma: Adam was born on the undefiled soil of Eden. Jesus Christ is the New Adam. Would He have been conceived on defiled “soil”, the allegedly sin-stained body of the Blessed Mother?

The ancient Catholic doctrine that she was conceived without sin would seem to correspond to the requirement of a New Adam being born under the same circumstances as the first Adam: in an undefiled Eden; that “Eden” being the body of Mary. She had a role in the incarnation of Jesus Christ that would be difficult to underestimate, for she was the perfect vessel chosen by God as the “soil” upon which His Divine Son would incarnate.

In 1950 Pope Pius XII angered Protestants (and sent rabbis into paroxysms of rage) when he declared the dogma of the Assumption  that the Blessed Virgin Mary had not been buried on earth where Her body— the one that had carried within her the infant Lord Jesus Christ —would be subject to decay, but “assumed” into heaven.

We anticipate the guffaws and cackles of our science-minded readers who will shake their heads in derision. Of course we cannot establish to the agnostic or atheist mind that such a thing is possible, but we can remind the world of a recently discovered scientific fact which confirms the dignity of the body of Mary:

“Microchimerism is the presence of a small population of genetically distinct and separately derived cells within an individual. Microchimeric fetal cells migrate into the mother from the fetus during pregnancy. Fetomaternal transfer occurs in all pregnancies and in humans the fetal cells can persist throughout the life of the mother.”

As a result of this discovery we now know that the DNA of Jesus Christ was implanted in His mother during her pregnancy through microchimerism. The awesome fact is that throughout her life Mary bore within her the DNA of God.

Pius XII was right. God would not allow such a human vessel to decay and rot on earth. The discovery of microchimerism gives new significance to the words of the angel in Luke 1:28, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.”

Merry Christmas, Mary!

Copyright 2015 by Revisionisthistory.org

Michael Hoffman is the editor of Revisionist History newsletter

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Israeli leader: Christians are “blood-sucking vampires"

Israeli leader calls Christianity “that accursed religion” 

 Ben-Zion Gopstein, leader of Lehava, says Christians are “blood-sucking vampires"

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionistshistory.org

Ben-Zion Gopstein

Jerusalem, December 22, 2015 — The head of the Israeli “Lehava,” an Orthodox Judaic organization, has called Christians "blood-sucking vampires." Ben-Zion ("Bentzi") Gopstein has published an op-ed calling for Christians to be expelled from the Israeli state.  Gopstein, leader of the Talmudic Lehava organization, wrote the article published on the rabbinic Orthodox “Kooker” website denouncing the “lack of spiritual security” he’s felt in Jerusalem of late because of “our deadly centuries-old enemy — the Christian church.”

In November  Lehava protesters headed by Gopstein demonstrated outside a Christmas event at Jerusalem’s YMCA, decrying what they termed the “murder” of Jewish souls. Shouting, “You murdered us in exile,” and condemning European accusations of Judaic ritual murder and "persecution of the Jews," the group waved Israeli flags and sang Hanukkah songs outside the venue, with some signs urging all the “impure” Christians to leave the Holy Land.

In his "Kooker" article published December 17 in Israeli-Hebrew, Gopstein called the establishment of the Israeli state in the mid-20th century, “The most ringing slap in the face the Church ever received,” after centuries of alleged failed attempts to eliminate the “ ews." Since violent methods failed, Gopstein writes, “It was decided to invest billions of dollars over the years in order to gain a foothold in the Holy Land and disseminate spiritual poison” through missionary work.

“The Christian is no longer considered a threatening vampire, rather a pleasant, friendly tourist and partner in the Western culture that dominates our lives,” he said, blaming the Israeli education system for not instilling enough Judaic education in students. “The vampires can send a message of thanks to the government of Israel for making their work much easier.”

He called on all Jews to raise a cry “and fight the devious phenomenon,” referring to Christianity as “that accursed religion.” 

“Christmas has no place in the Holy Land,” he concluded. “Missionary work must not be given a foothold. Let’s throw the vampires out of our land before they drink our blood again.”

Gopstein's Lehava organization was established to prevent marriage between Judaic persons and Arabs, which is prohibited according to rabbinic law. The group has been seen patrolling Jerusalem on some evenings, looking for integrated couples.  Their vigilante patrols have often degenerated into physical attacks, and there were several instances over the past year where members of the organization have beaten Arabs. 

Advocates the burning of churches

At a panel debate on an arson attack at the Catholic Church of the Multiplication in the Galilee by Judaic terrorists in June, Gopstein declared that rabbinic law mandates the burning of Christian houses of worship.  He cited Rabbi Moses Maimonides as urging that churches be burned. Asked if he was encouraging the burning of churches, Gopstein replied, “Of course I am.” 

Two Judaic suspects, both subscribing to the anti-Christian ideology of Talmudic Judaism, were arrested in July for their alleged role in the arson attack. Yinon Reuveni and Yehuda Asraf are suspected of vandalizing the church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.

Gopstein was arrested and then released in 1990 in a case involving the murder of an Arab couple. The crime has never been solved. 

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The Jew Haters in the Vatican

The Jew Haters in the Vatican

by Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

“Childhood’s End Starts Tonight” reads the online advertising banner for the Syfy network television series based on Arthur C. Clarke’s novel. It forecasts a future when the devil himself will walk openly on earth and no one will care.

 Last week the Church of Rome issued a document entitled, The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable, which teaches that so-called Jews are not to be “institutionally” offered conversion to faith in Jesus Christ. The alleged descent of these Judaic unbelievers from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is said to be sufficient to define them all as follows, “Jews are bearer’s of God’s word.” Even the Jew who wrote in the Babylonian Talmud that Jesus is in hell burning in human manure, is a bearer of God’s word. Even Ariel Sharon, who terror-bombed downtown Beirut, Lebanon in August, 1982, is a bearer of God’s word. Even Moses Maimonides, who decreed that Christians should be killed, is a bearer of God's word. 

Surely learned theologians far above this writer in mastery of ecclesiastical texts, will hold forth on this document, mainly pro, but some contra.

I have no intention of following their lead. I don’t believe that those who have a sufficient love for the truth will require extensive catechesis in order to penetrate to the heart of this Vatican document. Neither shall I add to the critiques of pundits and wordsmiths who will, with multisyllabic eloquence, endeavor to prove that the true Catholic Church always opposed Judaism, until recently.

I won’t add to it due to the fact that it is not true. The statement on the Jews coming from the pontificate of Pope Francis has its roots in the secret occult rapport which has existed between Judaism and the papacy since the Renaissance.

Oh, Hoffman you have gone too far this time! What about the burning of the Talmud by the pope on September 9, 1553 in the Campo dei Fiori in Rome, or the encyclical fulminations of Leo XIII, and many others!

Watching ignorance stew in its own sauce is dull. Reading boiler plate from propaganda (pseudo) fide, proffered as some sort of riposte, is sad.

Here is a recondite fact submitted for your consideration: in the past, whenever Catholic saints, or just as importantly, informed laymen, began to discern the contours of the clandestine papal treason with the occult rabbis, and were on the verge of lifting the lid on the charade, the Vatican would engage in an extensive, public theatrical display of opposition to Judaism, for the benefit of the simple-minded goyim, for whom image is reality.

In 1553 while copies of the Talmud were being incinerated, Florentine Catholic humanists at the highest level and with the blessing of the pope, were continuing their secret get-togethers with rabbis in which veneration of the Talmud was the primary focus of the meeting.  Daya Chakimah Ramiza.

During the pontificate of Pope “Saint” John Paul II, the covert Renaissance papal gnosis became overt for the first time in history, and the texts on Judaism issued by the papal “saint” and his successor, the “conservative” Pope Benedict XVI, all attest to this, and serve as precedent for the current document from the pontificate of Francis.

 The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable is no new thing. The revolution in the Church’s relations with Judaism has been 550 years in the making, and their emergence now is part of the gradual process of revelation, which is the hallmark of the Machiavellian psychological conditioning and transformation at which the Vatican is expert.

What this writer learned from studying the gradual papal derogation of the mortal sinfulness of profits from loans (often termed “usury”), is that we arrived at the usurious omega point (in the pontificate of Pius VIII), over the course of a long series of pastoral and sub-rosa moves that were designed to interdict any attempt to label them for what they were; hence, their chameleon power to effect radical change without being detected, denounced or exposed.

Almost immediately after the masters of deceit in Rome issued their decree of irrevocability last week, they covertly circulated this disclaimer through their mouthpieces: “The text is not a magisterial document or doctrinal teaching of the Catholic Church.” 

Here we gaze upon the two-faced genius of the Cryptocracy, born from hundreds of years of learning Talmud and Kabbalah at the feet of Florentine rabbis. To the Left they give this document, which negates all attempts to launch missions to convert people self-described as “Jews.”

To the Right they whisper, don’t worry, it’s not a teaching of the Catholic Church.

As a result of this duplicity, each wing of the Church of Rome, Right and Left, remains in the fold and continues within the papally-induced alchemical psychodrama, despite the fact that The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable is one of the greatest monuments to the nullification of the Gospel of Jesus Christ on record.

Concerning salvation, Jesus said He will only confess us to His Father if we confess Him before men.

In terms of refuting the text of the Vatican document itself, we note that pride is a deadly sin; that the religion of Judaism is the religion of self-worship, and the Vatican, in upholding this self-worship by insinuating that “Jews” are saved by their race, is guilty of Jew hate.

Only the vilest haters of Jews would refrain from informing them that they, no less than all other humans, need Jesus to be saved.

Instead, the Vatican affirms the central “saved by race” dogma of Ku Klux Judaism, that by virtue of a supposed direct, genetic descent from the patriarchs, this is all that is absolutely necessary for their salvation. What does the Bible say? "No one who denies the Son has the Father" (1 John 2:23).

There is laughter in hell when, in the name of loving Jews, papist Jew haters encourage dereliction of the duty to convert Jews to Christ — which is a Jew’s only chance for eternal life. Witness the efficacious power of sophistry.

The light goes out in our civilization and innocence dwindles like a guttering candle, and the epitaph is written by Arthur C. Clarke, “childhood’s end.”

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Judgment on America

Judgement on America

By Michael Hoffman

www.revisionisthistory.org

As America treats the Hanukkah Menorah this week with utmost reverence, Seth Rogen’s Talmudic movie-blasphemy of Christmas Midnight Mass, “The Night Before” has earned $34 million at the box office in just three weeks.

This Antichrist "holiday" movie is number six on the list of top ten most popular films currently playing in theaters in the U.S.

Read the recent domestic terror headlines and then contemplate the damage done to the honor of Jesus Christ by the millions of Americans who pay to see this Talmudic filth.

Imagine if there was a Hollywood movie playing now featuring gross-out vomiting at a high holidays synagogue service? Faithful Judaics would be in such an uproar you’d have to cross a picket line to buy a ticket to see it. Protests and leafletting would be intense.

But any faithless goy anywhere in America can amble up to his local movieplex and buy a fistful of tickets for “The Night Before” and nobody, including church-goers, will give a hoot, or notice, or care, except for perhaps a handful of true Christians.

I care.

What about you?

What are the newsletters, organizations, magazines and websites that you support doing about it?

Defend Christ. Stand up for Truth in public (not just behind your computer screen).

Here's what we did:  http://bit.ly/1NncMii

The Judgment on America will not be lifted as long as Seth Rogen and his partners in crime in Hollywood can make tens of millions off of puking on the Midnight Mass; and so-called “Christians” could not care less.

God is not mocked. 

Woe unto America — and the not-so-innocent Americans.

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Hatred for Christmas

Hatred for Christmas 

Facts suppressed by the fake news media

Copyright ©2018 By Michael Hoffman

Independent History and Research, Box 849, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816  

 The rabbinic term for Christmas Eve is Nittel Nacht, a night they regard as accursed

Christmas is a problematic time for Orthodox rabbis and their followers since it celebrates the birth of the Messiah they despise. We have researched the relevant Christmas-hating  halacha (law) and minhag (custom) and submit them to the public for the purpose of the advancement of learning and the defense of the Name of Jesus Christ. We challenge any ordained Orthodox rabbi to debate our facts. This has not happened, however. The response has been ever more behind-the-scenes pressure to censor our work and make it more difficult for people to access it. 

Christmas-hating halachos and minhagim

• There is a rabbinic tradition of refraining from marital relations on Christmas Eve (Nitei Gavriel Minhagei Nittel 5:1).According to Rabbi Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, to conceive a child on Christmas Eve will result in the birth of either an apostate or a pimp (Sefer Baal Shem Tov Vol. 2:43a).

• The most prominent rabbinic custom commonly observed on Christmas Eve is to abstain from studying the “Torah” (i.e. Talmud). There is an anxiety that one’s Talmudic study may unwillingly serve as merit for Jesus’ soul, corresponding to the rabbinic teaching that studying the Talmud gives respite to the souls of all the wicked.

• Refraining from Talmud study on Christmas Eve also serves as a sign of mourning, corresponding to the rabbinic belief that Jesus “was a false messiah who deceived Israel, worshipped a brick, practiced the magic he learned in Egypt” (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 107b); and “was born of a harlot who conceived while she was niddah (menstruating)” (Babylonian Talmud, Kallah 51a).

• There is a Talmudic custom of eating garlic on Christmas Eve. The reason for this is attributed to the odor of the garlic, which is reputed to repel the demonic soul of Jesus, which is supposed to wander on Christmas Eve (cf. Nitei Gavriel Minhagei Nittel).  

• Another rabbinic custom in Orthodox Judaism is to make toilet paper on Nittel Nacht (Christmas Eve) as an insult to Jesus, a practice made popular among Hasidic Judaics by the Chiddushei Harim (cf. Reiach Hasade 1:17). 

Contrast these grostesque “Nittel Nacht” mockeries with the heavenly story of the Holy Family in Bethlehem: the radiant Virgin and Christ child, humble shepherds, and angels offering glad tidings of peace on earth to men of good will. Frankly, there is no comparison between Talmudic Judaism and true Christianity, and those who attempt to assert that Christianity has ecumenical similarities with the religion of the Talmud are more deluded than the degraded practitioners of Nittel Nacht. 

This year Christmas Eve falls on a Monday. As you merrily celebrate the birth of the Messiah of Israel this Christmas Eve with friends and family, spare a thought and a pray for the pitifully bitter and tormented toilet paper-making Talmudists whose “colorful Christmas Eve custom” will not be reported by the New York Times or CNN. The Orthodox rabbinic loathing for Christmas is the right kind of hate-filled bigotry. 

Rabbinic detestation of Christmas is also reflected in the rulings of modern American Federal judges: a 1989 Supreme Court case about a nativity scene in a Pennsylvania government building banned the crèche but permitted a Hanukkah symbol; a 2006 federal appeals court decision in New York forbade a Nativity scene in a public school but permitted a Hanukkah symbol.

Where are the defenders of King Jesus? 

Michael Hoffman is the author of Judaism’s Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, which was banned by Amazon last August; and the textbook Judaism Discovered, which has been removed from the Amazon Kindle. Michael's truth ministry is dependent for its survival on donations and the sale of his publications and broadcasts.

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Rabbinic Hanukkah: A man-made tradition of self-worship 

Hanukkah is a Talmudic holiday that is a burlesque of the Biblical account of the Maccabees. Hanukkah is celebrated  cursorily  in  the  Israeli state and observed in the United States as competition for Christmas, in order to symbolically assert the supremacy of Klal Yisroel (the Judaic people) over the rest of humanity. The secret of Hanukkah was disclosed by Rabbi Levi Isaac ben Meir of Berdichev (renowned as “the Kedushat Levi” after his eponymous treatise), a prominent eighteenth century halachic (legal) authority. Rabbi Meir revealed a secret known only to a few: that lighting the Hanukkah menorah does not commemorate the victory of the Biblical Maccabees.  

The arcane traditional doctrine of Chazal (i.e. the “sages” of the Talmud) concerning Hanukkah is that it commemorates God’s “delight in the Jewish people” themselves, and their vainglorious celebrations. The secret teaching of Hanukkah is that God supposedly provided a mythical eight days of oil not as a means of facilitating a victory, or of guaranteeing the successful completion of a sacred duty, but rather as a sign (halacha osah mitzvah), of His continuing adoration of the Judaic people, which all the rest of us are supposed to emulate, as we do indeed whenever a menorah is erected where a Nativity scene is banned. 

Hanukkah is Talmudism’s principal means for pushing the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation in December, at a time when Christianity and its symbols, such as Nativity scenes, are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, “Sanny Claws” and the collective jingle of cash registers. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christmas season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents rises.

The Hanukkah menorah is not a symbol of a Biblical occurrence. Hanukkah is a man-made Talmudic tradition intended for self-idolatry. It represents the victory not of the Maccabees over the pagans, but of the selective memory of the rabbis over history. Hanukkah is an enduring commitment to the dark racial and religious conceit of the rabbinic Zionists, disguised as holiday light and cheer for all, and as such it is a kind of abbreviation for and summation of the strange god of self-adulation which is the central idol of the votaries of Orthodox Judaism, and the central violation of the First Commandment of Exodus 20:3: לא יהיה־לך אלהים אחרים על־פני. 

Christians are the true sons and daughters of Abraham who celebrate in the public square our gratitude to Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and Sovereign of all Creation. Rejoice! “For unto you is a born a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” 

Michael Hoffman is the author of the textbook, Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit; and the editor of The Talmud Tested and Traditions of the Jews.

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Hoffman replies to a critic of this column

"It’s very interesting that Michael Hoffman, who is a Catholic, takes such a negative stance against Hanukkah.  Especially when ones considers that the New Jerusalem Bible, the Catholic version of the Bible, contains the apocryphal book of I Maccabees. The rededication of the Jerusalem Temple described in I Maccabees 4:36-59 is the origin of the Jewish feast of Hanukkah.  These same events surrounding the origin of the celebration of Hanukkah are described in the Daniel 11:20-35.  There is also New Testament support for Hanukkah.  In John 10:22-23, Jesus Christ Himself was in the Jerusalem temple on Hanukkah." — James C.

Dear James:

Granted, the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple described in I Maccabees 4:36-59 is the origin of the Israelite feast of Hanukkah.  

However, the Orthodox rabbinic-Judaic Hanukkah exploits the Biblical story of the Maccabees merely as a cover for a holiday of self-worship which is not the point of the Biblical feast, needless to say.

Hanukkah celebrations in our day are mainly dictated by rabbinic, and not Biblical sources, as I have specified with relevant citations from halachot and minhag.

There is a Biblical Hanukkah and a Talmudic Hanukkah. There is a Biblical Noah and a Talmudic Noah. There is a Biblical Moses and a Talmudic Moses. In each case the Talmudic (and post-Talmudic) Biblical events and patriarchs are burlesqued and falsified. To imagine that such founts of falsification as the historic rabbis of Orthodox Judaism are faithfully channeling the Old Testament holidays and beliefs is, I regret so say, exceedingly gullible. 

— Michael Hoffman

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