HOW LONG DO WE HAVE? 7 articles
Robert Weinert
How Long Do We Have?
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 ye ars. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great count ry. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in
government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom in our nation and in our churches.
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Public-School Prisons
by Joel Turtel
September 02, 2006 09:00 AM EST
Why have we put our children into education prisons called public schools? What crimes have they committed? Why do we condemn almost 45 million innocent children to this punishment? Do I exaggerate by calling these schools "prisons?" Well, let's compare prisons and public schools.
What are prisons? They are places were people are locked up against their will for crimes they have committed.
What is life like for a prisoner? The warden and prison guards, in effect, take away the prisoner's life and freedom. They force a prisoner to live in a small cell he doesn't want to live in, eat food he may hate, work at a job he detests, associate with other prisoners who may be dangerous, and remove him from everyone and everything he loved in the outside world when he was free.
Like prisons, public schools impose their will by force, by compulsion. Local governments force parents to send their children to public schools just as the police drag convicted criminals into prison (even though many parents are not aware of this and voluntarily send their kids to these schools). A parent can be convicted of alleged child abuse and sent to prison if she disobeys the school authority's order to send her child to the local public school.
Local governments then force parents to pay school taxes for these education prisons. If they don't pay these taxes, their local government will foreclose on their home and throw them out on the street.
School authorities force children to stay in school until they are 16 years old or graduate high school (these age limits vary by state). In effect, most children get a 10-year education prison sentence if they start school at age six.
School authorities force millions of children to sit in boxes called classrooms with 20 other children-inmates for six to eight hours a day, five days a week, for up to ten years. The children must obey the adult education wardens (teachers and principals), who they may fear or dislike. They must study subjects they may hate or that bore them to death. They must associate only with other children their same age who may be bullies, violent, or emotionally disturbed. They must do homework and study for tests they must pass or be left back in school.
The children are removed from their loving parents and put under the control of teacher-wardens who may not love them, care for them, or simply even have the time to pay attention to them. They are stopped from being a free-spirited child. They are told to keep quiet. They are told to obey the rules. They are told to march from classroom cell to classroom cell every 50 minutes to study different subject that may mean nothing to them.
Parents, if you don't think this is harsh punishment for your innocent child, ask yourself this. When your spouse pressures you to attend some event you hate, whether a ballet, lecture, or football game, how do you feel? After sitting at that event for only an hour, how do you feel? You are probably angry, irritated, and frustrated. You squirm in your seat or doze off. You can't wait to get out of there. You can't wait to get back to your life and doing the things you love to do.
Well, millions of kids, and probably your child, must sit through this agony of boredom or frustration for 6 to 8 hours a day for 10 years in public-school classrooms. Yet, to repeat, what crimes have your children committed to warrant this horrible punishment?
In fact, they have committed no crime whatsoever. They are simply innocent victims of local governments and public-school authorities who think they own your children, who think they have the right to put your children into education prisons for 10 years for "their own good."
Parents, if a rogue cop came and took your child to prison for no reason whatsoever, except for saying it would be for your child's "own good," would you not fight to the death to stop him? So why do you let school authorities take your innocent children and punish them for ten years?
Parents, if you thought you had no choice, you are wrong. Happily, you can homeschool your child or give your child a fun, quality, rewarding, low-cost education with Internet private schools. You have many education options. If your child hates school, listen to him or her. Don't let school authorities put your child in a public-school prison for ten years. You have a choice, and your child's life is at stake.
You can find out about all your education options in Joel Turtel's book, "Public Schools, Public Menace." Please take advantage of the resources in this book, for your children's sake.
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Dismantling Compulsory Schooling
August 31, 2006 11:25 AM EST
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Despite a century of reform movements, American schools do not work.
While superintendents scratch their heads and politicians proclaim the brilliance of minor tweaks, it's time to call into question the very foundation of our system. The deepest crisis in K-12 schools is not reading skills, or violence, or teacher pay: it's an absence of meaning. The only solution is to disband compulsory schooling altogether. To save education, we must make school optional.
It may seem absurd to suggest that reducing schooling will improve education. But, as educational theorist John Taylor Gatto point out in his book, A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, "education" and "schooling" are not synonyms. Education is natural; schooling is artificial.
Children are born with an insatiable desire to explore and to improve themselves. They poke and prod the world, asking questions and following their interests. Schools co-opt that passion and turn it into boredom by forcing performance.
Students, and not teachers, are the biggest problem in contemporary schools. By the time they enter middle school, the majority are bored and turned off by the subject matter. This isn't, as many of us presume, because teenagers are inherently lazy jerks, but because their schooling has taught them that the subject matter is meaningless. This is pointed out by Alfie Kohn in Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes.
In school, the primary importance of studying English, History, and Math is to pass tests and receive high grades. Children are locked into a system of learning abstract information for which they have no interest on the promise that, someday, they'll be able to land a good job. Students are removed from the real world, where they might develop the interests that a school education could satisfy. A sense of meaning comes from living life; from making choices, taking risks, helping others and shouldering responsibility in a community.
John Mayer's song is precisely wrong–there is such a thing as the real world, and it's more wonderful than school. Schools deny the ordinary living of life to students by taking up half their waking hours (plus homework) and segregating them from people and activities which could be of real educational value. It's no wonder our teen suicide rate is so high. Children are not taught to value life and meaning, but are forced to work toward fairly meaningless goals.
Schools teach that the true path of learning is not to live your life, to pursue your goals, and to help other people, but to sit in your desk, to not argue with the teacher, to obey all authority no matter how idiotic, and to please spit out your gum.
Schooling is artificial, but that doesn't make it useless. Voluntary schooling generally works–we know of good colleges and vocational schools, piano lessons and martial arts academies. Because students choose to attend, the schools can hold up high standards. More importantly, students perform well because they know it's in their best interest.
Mandatory schooling may work well for some (likely, many of those who read the State Press), but it succeeds only at the ruin of many others–all the graduating high school seniors who pledge, "I'll never read another book again."
So let's fundamentally rethink schooling's place in our society. Let's refashion the whole system with the conviction that even the stupidest child has a role to play in his own education, and allow students to choose what they want to learn and when they want to learn it. Let's let them choose to not attend school, but to participate in volunteer work, or a career. They'll learn outside of school, and when they attend, they can learn what they want, and learn it well. Schools currently double as daycares. Let's free them to be what they aspire to–centers of education.
Brandon Hendrickson is a graduate of History and Religious Studies at Arizona State University, currently working as a tutor and studying to teach high school American History. Comments may be sent to brandon.h...@asu.edu">brandon.h...@asu.edu.
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Wal-Mart joins 'gay' chamber of commerce
Company says it's just another routine business outreach
Posted: August 31, 2006
8:25 p.m. Eastern
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Wal-Mart has confirmed to WorldNetDaily that it has joined a "gay" chamber of commerce, but describes it as just another routine business outreach and says other major corporations are doing the same types of things.
However, conservatives and Christians see it differently, and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., already has launched a citizens protest of the move.
"It is correct that we have a dialogue with the (National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce)," Wal-Mart spokesman Bob McAdam told WND. "This is just what businesses do."
He said it is an effort by the company to reach out to one of its customer bases, and is being handled similarly to Wal-Mart's work with Hispanic and African-American chambers of commerce.
A report on an advertising industry site, AdAge, said that Wal-Mart had not only joined the NGLCC but also has hired a "gay-marketing" shop and started discussions about extending domestic-partner benefits to employees.
McAdam told WND it was just another advertising agreement, but not more than that.
In the AdAge report, Justin Nelson of the NGLCC said the company was just being "pragmatic."
"They have been viewed with some degree of skepticism by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community, and it's important for them in terms of gaining market share to change that," he told AdAge.
Perkins told supporters that the "heat" from the "radical left" apparently is influencing the company's corporate decisions, and he wants constituents to let Wal-Mart know of their displeasure.
"While the NGLCC professes to promote the 'interests of the LGBT business community,' this is not all they have done," Perkins said. "Recently, they described efforts to defend traditional marriage as an attempt to 'write discrimination into the Constitution …' The NGLCC also advocated attaching a pro-homosexual 'hate crimes' amendment to legislation intended to protect children from violent sex offenders."
"It is unfortunate," Perkins said, "that Wal-Mart has joined forces with an organization whose mission opposes many of the values shared by rural and small-town America. It is precisely the interests of average Americans that Wal-Mart has prided itself in promoting.
"Now, by surrendering to the radical homosexual lobby, Wal-Mart has entered the political arena with no economic benefit to their company or their customers," he said.
He said it never is too late for conservatives and Christians to express their disappointment to Wal-Mart.
The AdAge report said the moves come as Wal-Mart continues to try to attract both upscale and urban markets. The report also said in 2003, Wal-Mart added sexual orientation to its workplace nondiscrimination policies.
The AdAge report said Wal-Mart had hired Witeck-Combs Communications, which is known for its campaigns targeting "gay" consumers.
As part of Wal-Mart's participation in the chamber, the report said, Dee Breazeale, vice president of divisional merchandising for Sam's Club Jewelry, is joining the group's Corporate Advisory Council and Wal-Mart will sponsor two of the group's annual conferences.
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Ineluctable demographic results of contraception and abortion:
A SHRINKING AND AGING POPULATION OF WHITE EUROPEANS
by Michael A. Hoffman II
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September 1, 2006
Muslim immigrants' higher birthrates will replace traditionally
Christian Europe with an Islamic majority within this century. The
birthrate of native Europeans has fallen sharply since the 1960s. The
usual measure is total fertility rate (TFR), the number of children an
average woman will bear in her lifetime. A TFR of 2.1 is required to
replenish a population; the current average level in the 25-nation
European Union is just under 1.5, and as low as 1.2 in Italy, the Czech
Republic and Latvia. The TFR is 1.77 in Britain, 1.98 in Ireland, 1.89
in France.
In France, Third World immigrants constitute more than 10 percent of the
population, compared with five percent in Britain. The best estimates
suggest there are now more than five million Muslims and two million
blacks in France, and their birthrates are more than twice as high as
that of French whites. So while the Third World residents of France
account for one-eighth of the total population, they account for almost
a quarter of those under the age of 25. They also account for more than
half of the prison population, and close to half of the unemployed.
France's future therefore depends on a sullen and ill-educated
underclass of future colored workers and consumers whose taxes are
supposed to finance the welfare state and the pensions of French whites,
who at age 60 retire after a lifetime of leisurely 35-hour work-weeks.
For married couples to have large families is not a "luxury" in a nation
that cares a farthing for its heritage, culture or destiny. But Saddam
Hussein's Iraq offered far more generous maternity leave than wealthy
capitalist America. For that matter, so did the former Soviet Union. The
Church no longer preaches against birth control (how can it?---most of
its preachers have small families!) and who wants to be a white father
today, the butt of every joke, the target of feminist wrath, a man with
tremendous financial responsibilities, little respect and less
authority?
Don't mistake me, I am no longer an evangelist of the white birthrate,
not after the white race reelected that baby-killing cretin, the
abortionist by air force bombs, George W. Bush, in 2004 (with assistance
from rigged voting machines in Ohio). As a Poe fan I can live with a
gothic House of Usher world where dwindling whites comprise a kind of de
facto Brahmin caste.
But in terms of what our people accomplished in the past, before Judaism
and dollar-worship captured their souls -- the music of Bellini, Poulenc
and Liszt, the art of Carvaggio and Thomas Hart Benton, the poetry of
Catallus and Marlowe, the political science of John Lilburne, Algernon
Sydney, Thom Jefferson, Patrick Henry and George Mason; the devotion of
Francis of Assisi and John of the Cross; the philosophy of Charles Fort
and L.F Céline, the scholarship of Johann Andreas Eisenmenger and Edward
Gibbon, the exploits of Hernando Cortez and Richard Francis Burton, the
discoveries, the exploration...these I most certainly do not wish to see
diminished or extinguished. Still, we will get what our modern greed,
selfishness and myopia merit.
Perhaps a new race will emerge, a part white-Muslim or Socialist
commonweal where honesty, modesty and culture are honored for their own
sake, apart from the pursuit of the profit motive. As I tried to show in
my book on white enslavement, since the Industrial Revolution, the Money
Power has disdained large white proletarian families.
Thomas Malthus was a spokesmen for a whole slew of predatory
capitalists who feared the "surplus" white population of England. Only
relatively recently, as a decided afterthought, has the utility of white
proles as cannon fodder in Israel's wars and "clashes of civilizations"
occurred to one faction of the Money Power. For decades in Europe and
since 1965 in America, many Judaics were doctrinaire Third World
immigration advocates while espousing sterility for whites (cf. Erlich's
ZPG).
This erstwhile campaign was a means for gaining leverage against the
possibility of a renascent white race which, at that time, before the
rise of Judeo-Churchianity's obedience-to-rulers culture, they viewed as
still capable of mounting a neo-Nazi revolution. Recall that Einstein
had been a doctrinaire pacifist until he perceived that his own Judaic
tribe was threatened, after which he willingly grandfathered the atomic
bomb.
Like Einstein, once the Judaic Leftists they saw their Israeli tribe
threatened by the challenge of their run-amok Muslim Frankenstein,* they
switched to the Right and began their present scramble to revive the
white race for use as tax-payers, voters and foot-soldiers in the
Amalekite wars and ethnic cleansings of the future.
* The chronicle of Judaic manipulation of Islam in the rabbinic war on
Christendom, beginning with Maimonides, has not been studied in any
depth. Patrick J. Buchanan, the bizarre Island of Dr. Moreau, hybrid
Neo-Conesque-Catholic-Paleo-Conservative-2004-Bush-Voter (!), in his
current crusade against non-white immigration, replete with half-truths,
cannot bring himself to mention the historic record of Judaic
manipulation of, and collusion with, Muslims in their wars against
Europe. Such are the intellectual contortions and sins of omission in
which politicians must engage, and the reason why the Crypocracy permits
them to gain a following.
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ADL'S FOXMAN: NEW TESTAMENT IS ANTI-SEMITIC
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
Christians Still Guilty
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:
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.
18"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)
Stalin and the Ukranian Massacre
by Eric Margolis
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Five years ago, I wrote a column about the unknown Holocaust in Ukraine. I was shocked to receive a flood of mail from young Americans and Canadians of Ukrainian descent telling me that until they read my article, they knew nothing of the 1932–33 genocide in which Stalin's regime murdered 7 million Ukrainians and sent 2 million to concentration camps.
How, I wondered, could such historical amnesia afflict so many young North-American Ukrainians? For Jews and Armenians, the genocides their people suffered are vivid, living memories that influence their daily lives. Yet today, on the 70th anniversary of the destruction of a quarter of Ukraine's population, this titanic crime has almost vanished into history's black hole.
So has the extermination of the Don Cossacks by the Soviets in the 1920's, and Volga Germans, in 1941; and mass executions and deportations to concentration camps of Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and Poles. At the end of World War II, Stalin's gulag held 5.5 million prisoners, 23% Ukrainians and 6% Baltic peoples.
Almost unknown is the genocide of 2 million of the USSR's Muslim peoples: Chechen, Ingush, Crimean Tatars, Tajiks, Bashkir, Kazaks. The Chechen independence fighters today branded "terrorists" by the US and Russia are the grandchildren of survivors of Soviet concentration camps.
Add to this list of forgotten atrocities the murder in Eastern Europe from 1945–47 of at least 2 million ethnic Germans, mostly women and children, and the violent expulsion of 15 million more Germans, during which 2 million German girls and women were raped.
Among these monstrous crimes, Ukraine stands out as the worst in terms of numbers. Stalin declared war on his own people. In 1932 he sent Commissars V. Molotov and Lazar Kaganovitch, and NKVD secret police chief G. Yagoda to crush the resistance of Ukrainian farmers to forced collectivization
Ukraine was sealed off. All food supplies and livestock were confiscated. NKVD death squads executed "anti-party elements." Furious that insufficient Ukrainians were being shot, Kaganovitch "the Soviet Adolf Eichmann" set a quota of 10,000 executions a week. Eighty percent of Ukrainian intellectuals were shot.
During the bitter winter of 1932–33, 25,000 Ukrainians per day were being shot or dying of starvation and cold. Cannibalism became common. Ukraine, writes historian Robert Conquest, looked like a giant version of the future Bergan-Belsen death camp.
The mass murder of 7 million Ukrainians, 3 million of them children, and deportation to the gulag of 2 million (where most died) was hidden by Soviet propaganda. Pro-communist westerners, like the New York Times' Walter Duranty, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot, toured Ukraine, denied reports of genocide, and applauded what they called Soviet "agrarian reform." Those who spoke out against the genocide were branded "fascist agents."
The US, British, and Canadian governments, however, were well aware of the genocide, but closed their eyes, even blocking aid groups from going to Ukraine. The only European leaders to raise a cry over Soviet industrialized murder were, ironically, Hitler and Mussolini. Because Kaganovitch, Yagoda and many senior communist party and NKVD officials were Jewish, Hitler's absurd claim that communism was a Jewish plot to destroy Christian civilization became widely believed across fearful Europe.
When war came, Roosevelt and Churchill allied themselves closely to Stalin, though they were well aware his regime had murdered at least 30 million people long before Hitler's extermination of Jews and gypsies began. Yet in the strange moral calculus of mass murder, only Germans were guilty.
Though Stalin murdered 3 times more people than Hitler, to the doting Roosevelt he remained "Uncle Joe." At Yalta, Stalin even boasted to Churchill he had killed over 10 million peasants. The British-US alliance with Stalin made them his partners in crime. Roosevelt and Churchill helped preserve history's most murderous regime, to which they handed over half of Europe.
After the war, the Left tried to cover up Soviet genocide. Jean-Paul Sartre denied the gulag even existed. For the Allies, Nazism was the only evil; they could not admit being allied to mass murders. For the Soviets, promoting the Jewish Holocaust perpetuated anti-fascism and masked their own crimes.
The Jewish people saw their Holocaust as a unique event. It was Israel's raison d'être. Raising other genocides would, they feared, diminish their own.
While academia, media and Hollywood rightly keep attention on the Jewish Holocaust, they ignore Ukraine. We still hunt Nazi killers but not communist killers. There are few photos of the Ukraine genocide or Stalin's gulag, and fewer living survivors. Dead men tell no tales.
Russia never prosecuted any of its mass murderers, as Germany did.
We know all about crimes of Nazis Adolf Eichmann and Heinrich Himmler; about Babi Yar and Auschwitz.
But who remembers Soviet mass murderers Dzerzhinsky, Kaganovitch, Yagoda, Yezhov, and Beria? Were it not for Alexander Solzhenitsyn, we might never know of Soviet death camps like Magadan, Kolyma, and Vorkuta. Movie after movie appears about Nazi evil, while the evil of the Soviet era vanishes from view or dissolves into nostalgia.
The souls of Stalin's millions of victims still cry out for justice.
August 28, 2006
Eric Margolis [send him mail], contributing foreign editor for Sun National Media Canada, is the author of War at the Top of the World. See his website.