Rabbi Warns U.S.Christians

[Christina]

A rabbi's warning to U.S. ChristiansPosted: January 13, 20071:00 a.m. EasternBy Rabbi Daniel Lapin I am certainly not a Churchill. I am not even a Revel. I am having enough trouble just trying to be a Lapin. But I am issuing a very serious warning about deep consequences, just as they did. It is a warning about the earliest stages of what could become a cataract of disasters if not resisted now. During the 1930s, Winston Churchill desperately tried to persuade the English people and their government to see that Hitler meant to end their way of life. The British ignored Churchill, which gave Hitler nearly 10 years to build up his military forces. It wasn't until Hitler actually drew blood that the British realized they had a war on their hands. It turned out to be a far longer and more destructive war than it needed to be had Churchill's early warning been heeded. In 1983, a brave French writer, Jean-Francois Revel, wrote a book called "How Democracies Perish." In this remarkable volume, he described how communism's aim is world conquest. For decades he had been trying to warn of communism's very real threat. Yet in January 1982, a high State Department official said: "We Americans are not solving problems, we are the problem." (Some things never change.) A good portion of the planet fell to communism, which brought misery and death to millions because we failed to recognize in time that others meant to harm us. Heaven knows there was enough warning during the 1980s of the intention of part of the Islamic world to take yet another crack at world domination. Yet instead of seeing each deadly assault on our interests around the world as a test of our resolve, we ignored it. We failed the test and lost 3,000 Americans in two unforgettable hours. I am not going to argue that what is happening now is on the same scale as the examples I cite above, but a serious war is being waged against a group of Americans. I am certain that if we lose this war, the consequences for American civilization will be dire. Phase one of this war I describe is a propaganda blitzkrieg that is eerily reminiscent of how effectively the Goebbels propaganda machine softened up the German people for what was to come. There is no better term than propaganda blitzkrieg to describe what has been unleashed against Christian conservatives recently. Consider the long list of anti-Christian books that have been published in recent months. Here are just a few samples of more than 30 similar titles, all from mainstream publishers: "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" "The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us" "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason" "Piety & Politics: The Right-wing Assault on Religious Freedom" "Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism" "Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America" "Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right"What is truly alarming is that there are more of these books for sale at your local large book store warning against the perils of fervent Christianity than those warning against the perils of fervent Islam. Does anyone seriously think America is more seriously jeopardized by Christian conservatives than by Islamic zealots? I fear that many Americans believe just that in the same way that many pre-World War II Westerners considered Churchill a bigger threat than Hitler. Some may say that today's proliferation of anti-Christian print propaganda is nothing to become worried about. To them I ask two questions: First, would you be so sanguine if the target of this loathsome library were Jewish? Just try changing the titles in some of the books I mention above to reflect anti-Semitism instead of rampant anti-Christianism and you'll see what I mean. Second, major movements that changed the way Americans felt and acted came about through books, often only one book. Think of Rachel Carson's 1962 error-filled "Silent Spring" that resulted in the pointless banning of the insecticide DDT and many unnecessary deaths. Other books that caused upheavals in our nation were Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," many of Ayn Rand's books and of course "Uncle Tom's Cabin." No, I would advise you not to underestimate the power of books to alter the behavior of the American public, and I fear for an America influenced to detest Christianity by this hate-filled catalog. It is not just books but popular entertainment also that beams the most lurid anti-Christian propaganda into the hearts and minds of viewers. One need only think of who the real targets of the recent hit movie "Borat" are. The brilliant Jewish moviemaker Sacha Baron Cohen, as his title character, using borderline dishonest wiles, lures some innocent but unsophisticated country folk, obviously Christians, to join him in his outrageously anti-Semitic antics. Cohen then triumphantly claims to have exposed anti-Semitism. In fact, he has revealed nothing other than the latent anti-Christianism of America's social, economic and academic secular elites. Even the recent PBS documentary, "Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence," managed to do more attacking Christianity than defending Judaism. Richard Dawkins, an Oxford University professor, is one of the generals in the anti-Christian army of the secular left. American academia treats him with reverence and hangs on his every word when he insists that "religious myths ought not to be tolerated." For those with a slightly more tolerant outlook, he asks, "It's one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free impose their beliefs on their children?" He suggests that the state should intervene to protect children from their parents' religious beliefs. Needless to say, he means Christian beliefs, of course. Muslim beliefs add to England's charmingly diverse cultural landscape. The war is against those who regard the Bible to be God's revelation to humanity and the Ten Commandments to be His set of rules for all time. Phase one in this war is to make Christianity, well, sort of socially unacceptable. Something only foolish, poor and ugly people could turn to. We have seen how a carefully constructed campaign pretty much made it socially unacceptable to drink and drive. For years, there had been stringent laws against drunk driving. They achieved little. In the end, the practice was all but eliminated by groups allied with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and their effective ways of changing the way Americans thought about it. We have seen how a carefully constructed campaign has pretty much made it socially unacceptable to smoke. In the face of a relentless campaign (dare one call it propaganda?), Americans became docile and forfeited the right to make their own decisions. Nobody was willing to stand up to the no-smoking tyrants. Nobody even asked whether health was sufficient grounds for freedom to be reduced. Now, entire cities and even states have banned smoking, not only in public places but even in privately owned restaurants. Tyranny comes when citizens are seduced into trading freedom for the promise of safety and security. Considerably more intellectual energy is being pumped into the propaganda campaign against Christianity than was ever delivered to the anti-smoking or anti-drunk-driving campaigns. Fervent zealots of secularism are flinging themselves into this anti-Christian war with enormous fanaticism. If they succeed, Christianity will be driven underground, and its benign influence on the character of America will be lost. In its place we shall see a sinister secularism that menaces Bible believers of all faiths. Once the voice of the Bible has been silenced, the war on Western Civilization can begin and we shall see a long night of barbarism descend on the West. Without a vibrant and vital Christianity, America is doomed, and without America, the West is doomed. Which is why I, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, devoted to Jewish survival, the Torah and Israel am so terrified of American Christianity caving in. Many of us Jews are ready to stand with you. But you must lead. You must replace your timidity with nerve and your diffidence with daring and determination. You are under attack. Now is the time to resist it.

 

[servant_of_the_end]

I believe that America, along with the global interest serving minions of the Dragon, will abandon Israel, and this story is one of the many factors that lends towards this event. Israel will stand alone, and America, for her part after losing military and economic strenth in the world- will find herself acquiecing to the demands of the so-called global greater good in determining that Israel is the ill that causes conflict and must be remedied if peace is to come to this earth.

 

[tomwebster]

(servant_of_the_end;6437)
I believe that America, along with the global interest serving minions of the Dragon, will abandon Israel, and this story is one of the many factors that lends towards this event. Israel will stand alone, and America, for her part after losing military and economic strenth in the world- will find herself acquiecing to the demands of the so-called global greater good in determining that Israel is the ill that causes conflict and must be remedied if peace is to come to this earth.
=================Some Americans (the Left) might abandon Israel, but many of us WILL NOT because we are Israel. "... and America, for her part after losing military and economic strenth in the world- will find herself acquiecing to the demands of the so-called global greater good..." Again, "some" might want this to happen but it will not.

 

[servant_of_the_end]

(tomwebster;6445)
=================Some Americans (the Left) might abandon Israel, but many of us WILL NOT because we are Israel. Again, "some" might want this to happen but it will not.
I am not of those who advocates this abandonment. And to just who is Israel; I was speaking of the geo-political state of Israel and not spiritual Israel. The Gentiles are Jews due to the grafting, and for us who are Jews by nature we are with the Gentiles colletively true Israel.Now it may seem that America will never abandon Israel, but for her approval and protection of the geographical state of Israel sill suffer at the hands of the globalists who see Israel as the cancer of the world. They will attempt, and will find some success, in alienating the natural Jew and will surround her with the armies of the world. Now if America is still a viable world power at the time of these events, then it can be said with certainty she will be among those armies.

 

[tomwebster]

(servant_of_the_end;6447)
I am not of those who advocates this abandonment. And to just who is Israel; I was speaking of the geo-political state of Israel and not spiritual Israel. The Gentiles are Jews due to the grafting, and for us who are Jews by nature we are with the Gentiles colletively true Israel.Now it may seem that America will never abandon Israel, but for her approval and protection of the geographical state of Israel sill suffer at the hands of the globalists who see Israel as the cancer of the world. They will attempt, and will find some success, in alienating the natural Jew and will surround her with the armies of the world. Now if America is still a viable world power at the time of these events, then it can be said with certainty she will be among those armies.
The word "Jew" refers to peoples of the tribe of Judah or the inhabitants of JudeaG2453 Ioudaios From G2448 (in the sense of G2455 as a country); udaean, that is, belonging to Jehudah: - Jew (-ess), of Juda.There are 10 more tribes, the northern tribes, that "some" think are lost, but these Israelites just don't know who they are. I and most people of the Christian nations are of the "lost Tribes." We are Israel, we are Caucasian, we crossed the Caucuses Mountains and moved into the European countries, eventually America.

 

[Broken Crusader]

I'm with Tomwebster, I won't abandon Israel. Her existance is too important. So that's 2. I hope America can turn back the tide of leftist ideology within it's borders in order to help and sustain the Israeli Nation, unfortunately it does not always appear that way. Pray Hard!

 

[tomwebster]

(Broken Crusader;6449)
I'm with Tomwebster, I won't abandon Israel. Her existance is too important. So that's 2. I hope America can turn back the tide of leftist ideology within it's borders in order to help and sustain the Israeli Nation, unfortunately it does not always appear that way. Pray Hard!
Aah! We don't have to worry, we're gonna "Kick dragon"

 

[snaggs]

(tomwebster;6448)
The word "Jew" refers to peoples of the tribe of Judah or the inhabitants of JudeaG2453 Ioudaios From G2448 (in the sense of G2455 as a country); udaean, that is, belonging to Jehudah: - Jew (-ess), of Juda.There are 10 more tribes, the northern tribes, that "some" think are lost, but these Israelites just don't know who they are. I and most people of the Christian nations are of the "lost Tribes." We are Israel, we are Caucasian, we crossed the Caucuses Mountains and moved into the European countries, eventually America.
Am I detecting shades of Armstrong..??

 

[tomwebster]

(snaggs;6469)
Am I detecting shades of Armstrong..??
Armstrong..?? Who is Armstrong????I am a student of Scripture and history. I know where I came from and who I am.

 

[snaggs]

(tomwebster;6471)
Armstrong..?? Who is Armstrong????I am a student of Scripture and history. I know where I came from and who I am.
Wow...touchy....that was not in ridicule! That was a populare doctrine of Hubert W Armstrong, He published several books of which he traced the two lost tribes across Europe down the Danube and into the land that England now occupies, I read one of his books ..America and great britton in prophecy. He also claimed America & Great Britton are also related to Mannasah & Ephraim, it was very interesting...that was more than 20 years ago....He has since past away...He founded the world wide church of God.your post caused me to wonder if you read his material..?? nothing more.

 

[tomwebster]

(snaggs;6472)
Wow...touchy....that was not in ridicule! That was a populare doctrine of Hubert W Armstrong, He published several books of which he traced the two lost tribes across Europe down the Danube and into the land that England now occupies, I read one of his books ..America and great britton in prophecy. He also claimed America & Great Britton are also related to Mannasah & Ephraim, it was very interesting...that was more than 20 years ago....He has since past away...He founded the world wide church of God.your post caused me to wonder if you read his material..?? nothing more.
I have never read Armstrong's books. I have read and studied many others:Tracing Our Ancestory by Frederick Haberman, Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets by E Raymond Capt, The Scottish Declaration of Independence by E Raymond Capt, Our Great Seal by E Raymond Capt, North American Sun Kings by Joseph Mahan to name a couple. I do believe we are part of the so-called "Lost Tribes." God didn't "lose" them, most of them don't know who they are, but they will learn soon.

 

[BernieEOD]

Isreal, like America is a godless socialist state. Our abortion rates, drug abuse rate, divorce rate, and other vices are no different than those of our godless counterparts. If Moses were in charge of Isreal today, he would execute half it's population.God is in control, not us and the final victory will not be with our corrupt self serving military industrial complex and it's so called wonder weapons. The 2nd comming is not going to arrive on Air Force 1.The French are in no position to talk of "That evil Hitler" The treaty of Versales caused the rise of Hitler. Europe vreated Hitler, Europe deserved Hitler. There is no Biblical call for democracy or "The will of the people" Everywhere the will of the people is spoken of in the Bible, it is for the worse, not the better.There is no gospel of bombs & bullets. None of us are going to "Kick dragon"That is reserved for the King of Kings himself.