WILL THE REAL CHRISTIAN PLEASE STAND UP?
 Shmuel Golding
(Edits by Mat Tillman)

 

Today's fundamentalists try to tell us that the Crusaders, the Inquisitors, the Black Hundreds and other Christians of the sword were not Real Christians. However, now is the time to have a look at church history to see from where today's fundamentalists really come.

“Revival,” the dazzling awareness of the gospel and all that it teaches, has been felt by certain people in every generation. When a person experiences revival, he is “enlightened” by the gospel message and becomes inflamed by an overwhelming desire to spread the good news. He feels it 'burning in his soul' and he is driven to respond with vigorous action.

In early days, as church history records, a priest or a monk, a bishop or a Pope became so enflamed by his beliefs that he converted whole parishes and villages and towns. The simple peasant who could not read the Bible for himself would take the evangelist's word for it, and in order to do penance for his sins he followed his G-d intoxicated leader to wrest the holy land from the infidels and to avenge the blood of Jesus. Thus this evangelical revival triggered off the Crusades in which thousands of Jews were butchered by the unruly mobs. They came to us with  a cross in one hand and a sword in the other saying, “Kiss the cross or my sword will kiss you!” and found justification from the gospel that had filled them with zeal. After all, Jesus said, “I came not to bring peace, but a sword” (Matt 10.34). In later years the Dominican fanatic, Vincent Ferrer, became revived by the gospel and would burst into a synagogue on Shabbat and stand with a Torah scroll in one hand a cross in the other and force Jews to hear his gospel sermon.

Torquemada became so enflamed with the gospel that he could not bear those nominal Christians and eminent theologians of his day who were engrossed in theology and commentaries. He wanted people who, like himself, would take the gospel literally. So, as the revival fires spread, so did the fire of the Inquisition, and turning to the scriptures, the Inquisitors found justification in the words of Jesus, “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and
men gather them and cast them into the fire” John 15.6.

Martin Luther was fired with evangelical zeal. He was inspired by visions and with missionary fervor he translated the Bible into the common language of the people and fanned a revival protest movement against the grip of the Catholic church. Luther believed that his reformed Christianity would win the Jews, then when his fundamental evangelical approach failed to win them, he wrote a book called Of Jews and their Lies in 1543 which accused Jews of ritual murder, well poisoning and black magic. He concluded: “What should we Christians do now with this contemptible, damned people the Jews? I will give my true advice.

First, that their synagogues and schools be set on fire.

Second, that their houses similarly be razed and destroyed, for they practice the same ill things in them as in their schools.

Third, that their prayer books and talmudics be taken from them.

Fourth, that their rabbis be forbidden on peril of their lives henceforth to teach, that safe conduct and the right to earn a living be entirely taken from them and precious things such as they have be stolen from them.”

From Luther's Reformation came the Protestant church with a wide range of denominations, each founded by gospel-intoxicated men with their own individual interpretation of the Bible. By the seventeenth century the church began to lose its hold on the masses when the Bible was translated into the tongue of the common man.

Today's spirit-filled, born-again holy rollers fail to realize that they are not the first people to become enflamed and revived by the gospels. They try to disassociate themselves from the Christians of the sword. They tell us that those were not Real Christians.

Is this accurate? Let us take a look at English History. For example, in the days of Cromwell, revival sprang up in England, establishing the Puritans and culminating in a bloody civil war, in which the new True Christians took the sword against the old Christians. When the tide of history turned against them, these Real Christians stopped killing their unreal Christians brothers and emigrated to America as the founding fathers of America's Protestant tradition.

Lord Shaftsbury, an Anglican, caught the winds of revival a couple of centuries later and as the revival fires spread across Britain, the British Foreign Bible Society was born, not of non-conformists, but of Bishops, Archbishops, priests and laymen who are the kind of people described by our missionary friends as Not Real Christians. These Not Real Christians, these Churchmen whose churches broke away from other Not Real Christians, namely the Catholic Inquisitors and Crusaders, now following the Not Real Christian Luther, established not only the British and Foreign Bible Society but also the Religious Tract Society, the Church Missionary Society, the London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews, whose president was Sir Oswald Mosely, a rabidly anti-black, anti-Semitic fascist. From the British and Foreign Bible Society come most Bible translations which every missionary uses. They were sponsored by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, 23 Bishops and nearly all the Episcopal bench, all Not Real Christians.

Today's Real Christians read, treasure, preach and live their lives according to the words of a little book of lies that has for many, many centuries lain in the hands of those they describe as Not Real Christians. They base their whole hope of “salvation” on a book that has been transmitted and translated by Not Real Christians.

But we see from a brief glance at the history of Christianity that the revival movements of the past were led by men with the very same Bible-intoxicated mentality as that of today's missionaries. Crusaders were Bible-intoxicated. The Inquisitors were Bible-intoxicated, as was Martin Luther and the Black Hundreds. We see that today's Real Christians are the same people as yesterday's Not Real Christians by the fact that they have accepted the decisions of the Not Real Christians church fathers.

Constantine, an unbaptised pagan, convened the council of Nicea in the year 325 CE to secure by this body an authoritative decision of Church beliefs, one of them being the nature of the deity they worshipped. On their decision Jesus was changed from a man into a god-in-the-flesh. Shabbat was changed from Saturday to Sunday. Passover was changed to Easter, Shavuot to Pentecost, and the New Testament was canonized as a holy book--despite all the lies and mistakes, despite the fact that none of the gospels was written at the time of Jesus, and, according to Eusebius himself, much of the text had been tampered with. Yet, the Real Christians of today still accept the decisions passed by the Not Real Christians of yesteryear.

A Jew nor a Gentile with his head on his shoulders should not be deceived by these missionaries. They are the same people. They have grown on the same tree that was planted 2,000 years ago. Jesus aptly said, “Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” (Matt 7:17, 18.) If Christianity was a good tree would it have brought forth all these evil fruits in the past?

Many Christians are honest enough to see that they come from the same corrupt church and in their defense they quote the words of Paul, “In times of this ignorance, God winked.” (Acts 17:30). We cannot accept that statement. We cannot imagine that whilst Jewish bodies were being slain by the sword, God [the Invisible Man in the Sky] was winking. Whilst Jewish women were raped and homes plundered, God was winking. Whilst Jewish bodies were stretched on the racks and burnt on the pyres, God was winking. We cannot accept that whilst these fanatical, gospel-intoxicated 'fools for Christ' were doing all these things out of ignorance, our God was winking. The missionaries who come to Israel, who work on Jewish kibbutzim and moshavim and on Project Renewal and on archeological sites are the same people who came to this land before with the sword. The people who set up their Christian Embassy in Jerusalem and marched down Yafo Road in the thousands for their Feast of Tabernacles, are the same people. Their methods have changed, they are a little more humane. Instead of killing our bodies, they kill Jewish souls. They switch on an electric Christian smile and tell us God loves us. ...

 

 

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

 

DISCLAIMER:

Citation of Hebrew scripture and sources in articles or analyses is not in any way an acceptance, approval or validation of the Jewish religion, its works or scriptures. The Hebrew bible, like the Christian New Testament and Muslim Qur’aan, is fictitious; From a 6-day creation of the universe; a cunning, walking, talking snake; big fish tales; world flood and an "Invisible Man in the Sky" ― it is all fiction, a bold sham perpetrated on mankind.

 

 


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