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Jesus and the ADL
Opinion; Posted on: 2004-03-01 11:18:50 [ Printer friendly ]

by Irmin Vinson

Are Jews today responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus two

years ago? An ABC News poll indicated that fewer than one in ten
Americans believe that they are. Were Jews two thousand years ago

Surely that should be 'as many as one in ten'.
That so many people believe the above is an amazing stat.

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Jesus and the ADL
Opinion; Posted on: 2004-03-01 11:18:50 [ Printer friendly ]

by Irmin Vinson

Are Jews today responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus two thousand
years ago? An ABC News poll indicated that fewer than one in ten
Americans believe that they are. Were Jews two thousand years ago

Surely that should be 'as many as one in ten'.
That so many people believe the above is an amazing stat.

To say nothing of their slaughter of 20 million Russian Christians
under the communist regime, which they invented and controlled.

(Marx, Lenin and Trotsky were all Jews.)

It is undeniable that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of
Jesus. Pontius Pilate offered to crucify another condemned criminal
instead of Jesus, and the Jewish crowd shouted, " No spare the
criminal and crucify Jesus".

However, had Jesus not been crucified, there would be no Christianity.
Thus the Jews are also directly responsible for bringing Christianity
into being.

It is undeniable that Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of
Jesus. Pontius Pilate offered to crucify another condemned criminal
instead of Jesus, and the Jewish crowd shouted, " No spare the
criminal and crucify Jesus".

However, had Jesus not been crucified, there would be no Christianity.
Thus the Jews are also directly responsible for bringing Christianity
into being.

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:23:02 -0500, Kevin Alfred Strom
<kevin.strom@revilo-oliver.com> wrote:

http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=2277

Jesus and the ADL
Opinion; Posted on: 2004-03-01 11:18:50 [ Printer friendly ]

by Irmin Vinson

Are Jews today responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus two thousand
years ago? An ABC News poll indicated that fewer than one in ten
Americans believe that they are. Were Jews two thousand years ago
responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus? A recent poll by the
Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL) indicates that one in four
Americans believe that they were. "It is troubling," says Abraham
Foxman, the ADL's National Director, "that so many Americans already
accept the notion of Jewish guilt. We are concerned that Mr.
Gibson's film -- with its unambiguous blaming of the Jews -- will
not only reinforce those views, but could exacerbate the problem by
convincing even more people that his version of the story of the
Crucifixion is Gospel truth." (A link to the ADL press release
appears below.)

The two questions are, of course, significantly different. Belief in
Jewish guilt today for an event two thousand years ago is
irrational, assuming a magical transmission of acquired collective
culpability over many generations. On the other hand, belief in
historical Jewish complicity in the Crucifixion is tantamount to
belief in the accuracy of the New Testament, where crucial Jewish
involvement in the Messiah's death is amply documented.

"He came unto his own," the evangelist John wrote, "and his own
received him not" (John 1.11). The nascent Christian Church, though
comprised largely of Jews, believed that their anti-Christian
compatriots had engineered Christ's execution, and Christian writers
recorded that belief for posterity; see especially 1 Thessalonians
2.14-16, which belongs to one of the earliest Christian texts,
written independently of the gospel passion stories. In the gospels
themselves Jewish leaders work for Jesus' death, the Sanhedrin
decides his fate, the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate reluctantly
complies, a Jewish mob accepts guilt for the imminent deicide
(Matthew 27.25), and Roman soldiers torment the Christian Son of God
before crucifying him.

That sequence of events has been central to Christianity for two
millennia. It is corroborated in large measure by the ancient Jewish
historian Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews 18.3) and even by the
Talmud, and it provides the basic plot for Mel Gibson's Passion of
the Christ, the film which prompted both opinion polls. Gibson could
honestly answer "no" to the first question, and he has done so
regularly. But he has been reluctant to deny the historicity of the
New Testament, and he has drawn angry criticism as a result. "The
Jews' real complaint," as he has correctly pointed out, "isn't with
my film but with the gospels."

The second question -- the ADL's question -- could be rephrased: Do
you believe the New Testament account of the Crucifixion? That was
what the ADL were really asking. They were disappointed with the
meager results from the previous ABC poll, and their own question
was clearly designed to increase the number of respondents who would
give the "wrong" answer, thus falling into the category
"anti-Semite." 39% of Americans define themselves as born-again
Christians, committed to the bible's literal inerrancy, so the only
real surprise from the ADL poll is the unexpectedly low number who
unwittingly characterized themselves as anti-Semitic. If you've read
the New Testament and if you believe that its account of Christ's
final days is more or less true, then (according to the ADL) you
represent a troubling social problem. You have joined the ranks of
irrational anti-Semites. Your religious beliefs require
restructuring and your scriptures must be drastically rewritten to
prevent others from succumbing to your error.

The ADL were familiar with the ABC poll, which they refer to in
their press release. They asked a much different question in order
to generate artificially a larger number of Christian anti-Semites.
Conservative Christians should ask themselves why a major Jewish
organization would define anti-Semitism so broadly that anyone who
believes in the historical accuracy of the gospels would fail their
test. Why would the ADL define belief in the New Testament, which
most Christians consider a divinely inspired document, as troubling
evidence of anti-Semitism?

Part of the answer lies in the character of minority politics. For
all minority activists the best kind of racial hatred is a racial
hatred you can falsely prove without having to experience the
painful consequences that would occur if the hatred were genuine.
For partisans of Black political causes the dragging death of James
Byrd was the best evidence of alleged White racial hatred because it
was so unrepresentative; most interracial crime, as all readers of
National Vanguard know, is Black-on-White. From the propaganda
onslaught surrounding Byrd's death Black political activists
acquired false proof of widespread White "racism" without having to
endure the effects of actual racial hatred. If Byrd's killers were
indeed representative of a substantial proportion of Euro-Americans,
life for Blacks would quickly become unpleasant. Since most Whites
are non-racialist, proving White "racism" by such a wildly
unrepresentative interracial crime conferred on Blacks the political
benefits of vicarious victimhood, free from even the threat of any
real victimization.

The ADL poll reflects a similar strategy and relies on a similar
passivity in the people they are attempting to malign. The charge of
anti-Semitism is potentially so devastating today precisely because
the number of Whites who oppose Jewish power is, unfortunately, so
low. The certainty that anti-Semitism is not only scarce but also
widely reviled motivates Jewish attempts to manufacture bogus
evidence of it and to expand the range of beliefs the label
includes. We would find such calculated deception degrading; Jewish
organizations think it's simply clever politics.

It is perfectly possible for a Christian to believe that Jews killed
Jesus two thousand years ago and still have nothing but warm
feelings for Jews today. Christians who accept the bible's
historical inerrancy are, as a matter of undoubted fact, the
strongest supporters of Jews. Most are ardent Zionists, and most
believe, wrongly but sincerely, that Christianity identifies Jews as
God's Chosen People (cf. Galatians 3.28-29). The ADL have
consciously defined their most devoted admirers as though they were
their worst enemies, secure in the knowledge that few of them will
object. Pat Robertson will not renounce his Likudnik Zionism and his
servile philo-Semitism just because the ADL has in effect called him
an anti-Semite.

Dr. Pierce once described the Jews as gamblers, never satisfied with
success, always looking for risky new victories. The ADL's recent
polling legerdemain is a minor case in point. A reasonable Jew would
be content with the routine repudiations of collective Jewish guilt
for Christ's death that now flow steadily from all mainstream
Christian spokesmen, including Mel Gibson. But the Jewish gamblers
at the ADL want much more: They want Christians to rewrite the New
Testament, and they want them to feel guilty that they ever believed
it in the first place.

ADL Press Release:
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/4454_12.htm

Suppressed AJC Article on Jesus in the Talmud:
http://www.rense.com/general43/jesus.htm

Gibson, Jesus, and the Jews:
http://library.flawlesslogic.com/passion.htm



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