Supercede This

Is an evil religious doctrine instigating genocide two millenia after its birth? In his magnificent essay in The New Republic last year, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen had this to say about Christianity:

In light of the attention brought by Goldhagen, James Carroll and others to the European Christian establishment's complicity in the Holocaust, its historic role in making anti-Semitism "a powerful and enduring religious imperative", and its ambivalence with regard to conducting a moral reckoning, it is reasonable to ask whether European churches continue to make war on the Jews.

Take the recent comments of Archimandrite Theodosios Hanna, official spokesman of the Greek Orthodox Church. In a January 19, 2003 sermon in Jerusalem marking the Epiphany and the baptism of Jesus, Hanna said:

Or take the recent comments of the Anglican vicar of Christ Church in Surrey, England:

As a fellow-evangelical creed, Christianity has historically shared Islam's subjegating and eliminationist stance towards the conversion-resistant Jews. Muslim commentators have even attributed the more feral aspects of Islamic anti-Semitism to Christian inflluences. For example, after a recent Egyptian television series was condemned by the American administration as Nazi-like, Mubarek Chief Advisor Osama Al-Baz wrote in Al-Ahram that Arab anti-Semitism is derived from European theories.

While Al-Baz blames Europe for Arab anti-Semitism he adopts the Church's tortured distinction between the modern racial theory of anti-Semitism and an ostensibly unrelated Christian "anti-Judaism" justified by basic religious differences. This false distinction is, of course, the Church's way of avoiding responsibility for the cancer it unleashed upon the world when it sanctified Jew hatred. It should come as no surprise that Al-Baz, as a Muslim, finds it equally convenient. The so-called "religious differences" of Christianity and Islam with Judaism were used time and again to instigate and justify the slaughter of Jews - beginning with the eradication of the Jews of newly-Christianized Alexandria in 451 CE. Al-Baz' claim that no parallel anti-Jewish tradition exists in Islam is as comic as it is utterly false. The reality of Islam's stance towards Judaism has been extensively documented by Bat Yeor, Joan Peters and Stephen Schwartz among others. Islam's failure to reconcile itself to the independance of its former Jewish slaves is arguably the source of the continuing Arab war of anihilation against Israel.

In the final analysis, anti-Judaism, anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, whether Christian or Islamic in origin, are identical in thrust and effect. A religiously-based supersessionist stance towards Judaism on the one hand and the national subjegation and genocide of Jews on the other, are interwoven throughout Christian and Islamic history. This may be due to the recognition on both predator's parts that like America, Judaism's spiritual and national mission are irrevocably bound together.

The tradition of Christian and Islamic predation upon Jews finds expression today under the disgraceful banner of anti-Zionism. DFME readers can view examples of this by tuning into the state-sponsored broadcasts of the BBC and Iqraa. The daily hate mongering of the BBC is particularly disturbing since there are as many as a quarter of a million Jews still living in the United Kingdom. In almost every broadcast, the misguided descendants of the most successful imperialists in history attempt to delegitimize Jewish claims to Judea. As they berate the US for being a religious nation, British journalists - ostensibly of the Left - employ the same religious sophistry that their fathers once used to appropriate a quarter of the world. Like their fathers, they are tools of the Church, modern day superceeders, and soldiers in the age-old cause described by the Anglican vicar above. Whatever rationalizations they may spew about Jewish "colonialism", their hearts adhere to the catechism of genocide that has enthralled Christendom for two millenia. That since the Jewish covenant with the land is "no longer relevant", Israel should pass into Christian hands. Failing that, then the lesser of two evils is to give it to the Arabs. For what must be preserved at all costs is the basic Christian principal that Jewish existence must come to an end, preferably in a "bonfire." Brits with second-thoughts about genocide who can't get to a Church only have to listen to the BBC for ressurance - the Jews are evil.

Standing virtually alone, the French Bishops have finally admitted the Church's culpability in this two thousand year old crime:

Now that the causal relationship between basic Christian religious dogma and Jew genocide has been brought to light, one would expect the European Church in all its forms to take great pains to avoid playing the role of instigator, if only for the sake of its own enlightened self-interest. For in the wake of 9-11 and the horrific revelations concerning the rampant sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in America, society's tolerance for institutionalized evil under ANY banner or doctrinal pretext is at a low ebb. Indeed, one of the underlying reasons for the parting of ways betwen America and her long-time European allies on the question of the Middle East is the US desire to redeem Christianity's religious genocide of the Jews, and Europe's desire to finish it.

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