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Self-Liberation and AnarchyContemplation about liberation of humans from authority - by Max Rebel
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Quotes About Religion
"Religion is a collective insanity."
"Theology is the science of the divine lie."
"We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact."
"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God.
As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."
"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves,
for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."
"The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty
and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
... Unless, then, we desire the enslavement and degradation of mankind... we may not, must not make the slightest concession either
to the God of theology or to the God of metaphysics. He who, in this mystical alphabet, begins with A will inevitably end with Z;
he who desires to worship God must harbour no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity."
"To proclaim as divine all that is grand, just, noble, and beautiful in humanity, is to tacitly admit that humanity of itself would have been unable to produce it
- that is, that, abandoned to itself, its own nature is miserable, iniquitous, base, and ugly. Thus we come back to the essence of all religion
- in other words, to the disparagement of humanity for the greater glory of divinity."
"If God is, human is a slave; now, human can and must be free; then, God does not exist.
I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose."
"All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints,
were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties."
"Jehovah, of all the gods adored by men, was certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust,
the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty."
"If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."
"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore if God did exist, he would have to be abolished."
"Religion is a superstition that originated in human's mental inability to solve natural phenomena.
The Church is an organized institution that has always been a stumbling block to progress."
"The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous:
a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing.
We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'."
"No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion
is the accident of birth... It is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any
of the other available religions."
"Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one,
the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it."
"Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy).
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain."
"Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them
with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?"
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
"(Religion) With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
"Religion in any shape or form is regarded as pernicious and deliberate falsehood, spread and encouraged by rulers and clerics in their own interests,
since it is easier to control over the ignorant."
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties;
no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained
by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an
exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb.
This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
"Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions,
the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning."
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own
- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body,
although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing
little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so."
"If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!"
"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion."
"By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none."
"I turned to speak to God about the world's despair; but to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there."
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
"Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities."
"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
"All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing.
Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple.
You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary."
"I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."
"Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation."
"Beware of the man whose god is in the skies."
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth."
"'Puritanism' - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy."
"No gods, no masters."
"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move."
"God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything.
Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope."
"Another philosopher suggests that saying prayers is equivalent to believing that the universe is governed by a Being who changes his mind if you ask him to."
"The atheist does not say 'there is no God', but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God; the word 'God'
is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.'... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in;
but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me."
"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?"
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing!"
"In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God
arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.
In those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep."
"The concept of 'God' was invented as a counter-concept of life — everything harmful, poisonous, slanderous, the whole hostility unto death against life
synthesized in this concept in a gruesome unity! The concept of the 'beyond', the 'true world' invented in order to devaluate the only world there is
- in order to retain no goal, no reason, no task for our earthly reality! The concept of the 'soul', the 'spirit', finally even 'immortal soul', invented in order to
despise the body, to make it sick - 'holy'; to oppose with a ghastly levity everything that deserves to be taken seriously in life, the questions of nourishment,
abode, spiritual diet, treatment of the sick, cleanliness, and weather! In place of health, the 'salvation of the soul' - that is, a folie circulaire
[manic-depressive insanity] between penitential convulsions and hysteria about redemption! The concept of 'sin' invented along with the torture instrument that belongs
with it, the concept of 'free will', in order to confuse the instincts, to make mistrust of the instincts second nature!"
"Masking one's own spiritual poverty while exaggerating the same weakness in others, avoiding the display of one's own shortcomings by dramatizing those of the world
at large, are tactics crying out to be denounced. No one is faulting the believer. But with the man who claims to be his shepherd, the case is different. As long as
religion remains a purely private matter, we contend simply with neuroses, psychoses, and other personal factors. We deal with what aberrations we can, provided they
do not threaten or endanger the lives of others.
My atheism leaps to life when private belief becomes a public matter, when in the name of a personal mental pathology we organize a world for others.
For between personal existential anguish and management of the body and soul of our fellow human beings, there exists a whole world in which those who
profit from human anguish lurk in concealment. Redirecting their own death fixation toward the world at large neither saves sufferers nor
alleviates their suffering - but it contaminates the universe. The attempt to avoid negativity merely spreads negativity around like manure
- ushering in a wholesale mental pandemic."
"Some worship stones - from the most primitive tribes to today's Muslims walking around the Black Stone in the eastern corner of the Kaaba.
Others venerate the moon or the sun, some an invisible god who cannot be represented on pain of idolatry, or else an anthropomorphic figure
- white, female or male, Aryan of course. Another, a thoroughgoing pantheist, will see God everywhere, while another, an adept of negative theology, nowhere.
By some he is worshipped covered in blood, crowned with thorns, a corpse; by others in a blade of grass, Eastern Shinto fashion. There is no man-made foolery
that has not been dragooned into the ranks of putative divinities.
For those who still doubt the possible excesses of religions on the question of support media, let us consider the urine dance of New Mexico's Zuni,
the manufacture of amulets of excrement of the Great Lama of Tibet, the cow dung and urine used for ritual ablution among Hindus, the Roman cults of Stercorius,
Crepitus, and Cloacinus - respectively the divinities of filth, farts, and sewers - offerings of manure to the Assyrian goddess Siva, the consumption of her
own excrement by Sushiquecal, the Mexican goddess and mother of gods, Ezekiel's divinely ordained recipe for the use of human fecal matter to cook food,
and so many other impenetrable pathways or singular means of maintaining a relationship with the divine and the holy."
"Religion thus becomes the exploitation par excellence of man's vulnerability to deception."
"To my knowledge, no popes, princes, kings, caliphs, or emirs have excelled in the practice of virtue, so outstandingly did Moses, Paul, and Muhammad
excel in murder, torture, and orgies of plunder - I call the biographies to witness."
"An extraordinary paradox! Religion is a response to the ontological void apparent to everyone who learns that he will one day die,
that his sojourn on earth is finite, that each life constitutes a brief interlude between the nothingness that came before it and the nothingness that comes after it.
Fables only accelerate the process. They establish death on earth for the sake of eternity in heaven. In so doing, they spoil the only gift we possess:
the living matter of a potential existence killed in the egg just because its life is finite! Fleeing life in order not to have to die is not a good bargain.
It pays death twice, when once is enough."
"Should we discern the logical consequence of hatred for intelligence in the hatred for women common to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
According to the holy books, original sin, error, the desire for knowledge, all stem from the decision of one woman, Eve.
Adam was an innocent fool, content to obey and submit.
... Hatred of women is like a variation on the theme of hatred of intelligence. To which might be added hatred of everything women represent for men:
desire, pleasure, life. Curiosity as well-many dictionaries confirm that inquisitive women are widely dismissed as 'daughters of Eve'.
They generate desire; they also generate life. Original sin is perpetuated through women - that sin which, as Saint Augustine assures us,
is transmitted from the moment of conception, in the mother's womb, via the father's sperm. The sexualization of sin!
... The religions of the book detest women. They admire only mothers and wives. To rescue women from their consubstantial negativity there are only two solutions
- in fact a single twostep solution-marrying a man, and then bearing his children. Caring for their husbands, cooking for them, handling household problems,
feeding, caring for, and educating his children, they have no more time for addressing the feminine within. The wife and mother kill the woman
- which is exactly what the rabbis, priests, and imams count on to ensure the male's peace of mind.
... Judeo-Christianity promotes the idea that Eve was created secondarily, as an afterthought, from Adam's rib (Genesis 2:22)!
An inferior cut off the prime beef,
a humble sparerib. (As Adam's wife, of course, she appears in the Koran [sura 2:35]. But the fact that she is never named is revealing... because the unnamed is unnamable!)
The male came first, and only then, like a leftover fragment, a crumb - the female. Everything is against Eve, starting
with her order of arrival.
Her subordination to her husband set the pattern for womankind's existence. Above all, though, she was responsible for original sin.
And she has paid heavily ever since."
"How strange that excision - female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation - of little girls should revolt
the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys.
... When Margaret Somerville, a Canadian philosopher, tackled the subject in a spirit free of polemical intent, with rational arguments, comparison, and analysis,
when she provided genuine anatomical, scientific, neuropathological, and psychological
information to support her charge of mutilation, she was subjected to
a savage bombardment by her compatriots. Following this national cry of outrage, she stood by her conclusions, but withheld final judgment and later agreed
to legitimize circumcision for... religious reasons. (For readers' information, 60 percent of Americans are circumcised, 20 percent of Canadians, and 15 percent
of Australians on nonreligious, supposedly hygienic grounds.)
Chinese foot-binding, African stretching of the neck through the use of successive layers of rings, tooth-filing, piercing of nose, ears, or lips among Amazonian tribes,
Polynesian scarification and tattoos, and Peruvian flattening of the skull proceed from the same magical thinking as African clitoridectomy
or Jewish and Muslim circumcision. Marking the body for religious reasons, ritual suffering in order to earn integration into the community,
tribal practices designed to attract the benevolence of the gods - there are a thousand reasons, even without the help of psychiatry.
We shudder at other people's strange practices. In Russia, the Skoptsi were a religious sect, active between the eighteenth century and the 1920s,
whose members advocated voluntary castration. In some areas of Polynesia, young boys are not circumcised but superincised: a flat stick is pushed under the foreskin,
then a single cut is made to split the foreskin on the top side of the penis. In Australia, the rite of passage for young male Aborigines is subincision,
which entails cutting the underside of the penis along its full length from meatus to scrotum. But we have no right to shudder. Logic, assumptions about the nature of
being, and magical thinking are not that far apart. We tend to judge as barbaric whatever is not our own custom. But how can we accept and justify our
own surgical mutilations while castigating those of others? For mutilation is a fact.
... The Koran does not require or encourage circumcision, but does not condemn it. However, tradition holds that Muhammad was born circumcised!
The Koran does not recommend female circumcision or infibulation. On the other hand, such mutilations are practiced in the eastern Horn of Africa,
involving the three types of female circumcision. (There is what is known as 'gentle sunna' - sunna means 'tradition' or 'way of the Prophet'
- which removes the head of the clitoris; moderate sunna, or clitoridectomy, which removes the clitoris and all or parts of the labia minora,
infibulation, or total removal of the clitoris, labia minora, and labia majora, followed by sewing together of the remaining tissue, often with
thorns, leaving a matchstick-caliber opening for urination and menstruation.)
... Montaigne describes a [Jewish] circumcision in his Travel Journal: the circumciser uses a knife placed beforehand on the mother's pillow in order to
attract a maximum of propitiatory favor. He pulls the penis, grasps the foreskin, pushes back the glans, and cuts the flesh without anesthetic to remove the prepuce.
After swallowing the wine he has been swilling in his mouth, he sucks the wound - this ritual aspiration is called the meziza - and then, says the Talmud,
he draws the blood remaining in the wound into his mouth. He spits three times. And the child enters the community: he is given his name.
The rite, meziza included, has remained unchanged since Montaigne."
"For monotheism is fatally fixated on death. It loves death, cherishes death; it exults in death, is fascinated by death. It gives death,
doles it out in massive doses; it threatens death and moves from threat to action: from the bloody sword of the Israelites killing off the Canaanites
to the use of airliners as flying bombs in New York, stopping off on the way to release an atomic cargo over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Everything is done in the name of God, blessed by him, but blessed most of all by those claiming to act in his name.
Today, the Grand Rabbinate of Jerusalem castigates the bomb-clad Palestinian terrorist in the streets of Jaffa but remains silent when Tsahal missiles
kill the inhabitants of a West Bank neighborhood. The pope thunders out against the pill, responsible for 'the greatest genocide of all time',
but actively defends the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Tutsi by the Catholic Hutu of Rwanda. The most exalted spheres of world Islam denounce
the crimes of colonialism, the humiliation and exploitation visited on Muslims by the Western world, but rejoice in a worldwide jihad carried out under
the auspices of Al-Qaeda. Fascination with the deaths of people, miscreants, and infidels - all three of them additionally convinced
that atheism is their single common enemy!"
"God does not speak - except to the Jewish people and the handful of visionaries, virgins for example, to whom he occasionally sends messages - but
the clergy has him talk his head off. When a man of the church gives his opinion, quoting pieces from his book, opposing him becomes the equivalent of telling
God no in person. Who possesses the moral strength and conviction to refuse the word of (a man of) God? Every theocracy is a denial of democracy.
Even better: the smallest hint of theocracy neutralizes the very essence of democracy."
"Theology is a psychic pathology."
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
"...we now have better explanations than 'god' for everything that we do know about, and no sillier explanation than 'god' for those numberless
things that we cannot know about."
"Very importantly, the divorce between the sexual life and fear, and the sexual life and disease, and the sexual life and tyranny,
can now at last be attempted, on the sole condition that we banish all religions from the discourse."
"As for consolation, since religious people so often insist that faith answers this supposed need,
I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends."
"The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell,
but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted."
"Aristotle, whose reasoning about the unmoved mover and the uncaused cause is the beginning of this argument, concluded that the logic would necessitate
forty-seven of fifty-five gods. Surely even a monotheist would be grateful for Ockham's razor at this point? From a plurality of prime movers,
the monotheists have bargained it down to a single one. They are getting ever nearer to the true, round figure."
"I pose a hypothetical question. As a man of some fifty-seven years of age, I am discovered sucking the penis of a baby boy. I ask you to picture your own outrage
and revulsion. Ah, but I have my explanation all ready. I am a mohel: an appointed circumciser and foreskin remover. My authority comes from an ancient text [of Judaism],
which commands me to take a baby boy's penis in my hand, cut around the prepuce, and complete the action by taking his penis in my mouth, sucking off the foreskin,
and spitting out the amputated flap along with a mouthful of blood and saliva."
"The connection between religious faith and mental disorder is, from the viewpoint of the tolerant and the 'multicultural', both very obvious and highly unmentionable."
"Augustine was a self-centered fantasist and an earth-centered ignoramus: he was guiltily convinced that god cared about his trivial theft from some unimportant
pear trees, and quite persuaded - by an analogous solipsism - that the sun revolved around the earth. He also fabricated the mad and cruel idea that the souls of
unbaptized children were sent to 'limbo'."
"One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was
made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our
inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance, and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about
the natural order than any of the founders of religion and one would like to think - though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one -
that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell."
"Confronted with the undreamed-of vistas inside our own evolving cortex, in the farthest reaches of the known universe, and in the proteins and acids
which constitute our nature, religion offers either annihilation in the name of god, or else the false promise that if we take a knife to our foreskins,
or pray in the right direction, or ingest pieces of wafer, we shall be 'saved'."
Tell me, what is it about Americans and religion? Why is it that religion, often very primitive forms of religion, is so powerful in perhaps the richest, most advanced, most consumerist nation on Earth?
"I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized
religion, but religious belief itself. Why is the United States so prone to any kind of superstition, not just organized religion, but cultism, astrology, millennial
beliefs, UFOs, any form of superstition? I've thought a lot about it. I read Harold Bloom's book 'The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation' (1992)
about the evolution of what he thinks of as a specifically American form of religion. There was a book by Will Herberg in the 1950s called
'Protestant, Catholic, Jew' where he speculated that what was really evolving was the American way of life as a religion. And that this was a way of life that wasn't
at all spiritual or intellectual but in a sense believed that all religion was valid as long as it underpinned this way of life. Somehow religion was a necessary ingredient.
In other words, religion was functional. I think that's true but it's not the whole story.
Maybe - and this is a conclusion that I am reluctant to come to - it is because there is no established church here. A claim that is made for established churches is
that in a way they domesticate and canalize and give a form and order to superstitious impulses. That's why they usually succeed in annexing all local cults and
making them their own, etc. Part of their job is to soak up all the savagery around the place. I think from an anthropological point of view, that's partly true.
In a country that very honorably and uniquely founded itself on repudiating that idea and saying the church and the government would always be separate,
and also a country that many people came to in the hope of practicing their own religion, you have both free competition and a sense of manifest destiny.
I think it's out of that sort of stew that you have all these bubbles."
"The traditional practice of metzitzah b'peh [sucking freshly circumcised infant's penis, as the third step in the Jewish circumcision ritual, according to Mishnah, Shabbath 19:2],
which has its roots in the earliest history of the Jewish people and has survived unchanged to the present time, should be viewed with great respect.
It is spoken of very positively in the Jewish literature on circumcision both as an essential part of the ritual and as a health measure
which prevents infection and promotes healing."
"Our ignorance is God; what we know is science."
"Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd,
and nothing but a vacuum remains."
"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."
"This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid?
Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?"
"If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use,
as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle."
"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
"All thinking men are atheists."
"Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends."
"Why don't I believe in God? There is simply no more evidence for Jehovah than there is for Zeus. Christians find no reason to believe that Zeus exists,
so they do not believe in him. For the same reason, I do not believe in Jehova. God himself is more than welcome to share an honest conversation with me.
Until he does, I have no reason to trust that anyone is a reliable spokesman for any god."
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
"The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organized religion, in India and elsewhere,
has filled us with horror, and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it."
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
"...both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death."
"...stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry for help in the town and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife."
"If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal..."
"When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death."
"You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live."
"Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death."
"They shall say to the elders of his town, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.'
Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death."
"Whoever does any work on it [on a Saturday] shall be put to death."
"...they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.
The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD had commanded Moses."
"If anyone secretly entices you - even if it is your brother, your father's son or your mother's son, or your own son or daughter,
or the wife you embrace, or your most intimate friend - saying, 'Let us go worship other gods', whom neither you nor your ancestors have known...
Show them no pity or compassion and do not shield them. But you shall surely kill them; your own hand shall be first against them to execute them,
and afterwards the hand of all the people."
"Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction."
God tells Abram to kill some animals for him. The needless slaughter makes God feel better.
"And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old,
and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another..."
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination:
they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
"And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you."
People with 'familiar spirits' (witches, fortune tellers, etc.) are to be stoned to death.
"A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death:
they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them."
144,000 Jews will be going to heaven; everyone else is going to hell.
"And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel."
"When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace. If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you,
then all the people in it shall serve you at forced labour. If it does not submit to you peacefully, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it;
and when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children,
livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you."
"How many people did the Judeo-Christian God kill in the Bible?
"They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan.
Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with."
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience;
he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge."
"For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition,
was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers
nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught."
"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live.
Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for eight hundred years, gathered up its halters,
thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries
and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood.
Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry."
"Christian England supported slavery and encouraged it for two hundred and fifty years, and her church's consecrated ministers looked on,
sometimes taking an active hand, the rest of the time indifferent... But at last in England, an illegitimate Christian rose against slavery.
It is curious that when a Christian rises against a rooted wrong at all, he is usually an illegitimate Christian, member of some despised and bastard sect.
There was a bitter struggle, but in the end the slave trade had to go - and went. The Biblical authorization remained, but the practice changed."
"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches,
has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
"Perhaps the simplest and easiest to understand is the argument of the First Cause. It is maintained that everything we see in this world has a cause,
and as you go back in the chain of causes further and further you must come to a First Cause, and to that First Cause you give the name of God.
... If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God,
so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant,
and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian said, 'Suppose we change the subject'.
The argument is really no better than that. There is no reason why the world could not have come into being without a cause; nor, on the other hand,
is there any reason why it should not have always existed. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have
a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Therefore, perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First Cause."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little
different we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design.
...since the time of Darwin we understand much better why living creatures are adapted to their environment. It is not that their environment was made to be suitable
to them, but that they grew to be suitable to it, and that is the basis of adaptation.
... When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it,
with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been able to produce in millions of years. I really cannot believe it. Do you think that,
if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan, the Fascisti,
and Mr. Winston Churchill? Really I am not much impressed with the people who say: 'Look at me: I am such a splendid product that there must have been design in
the universe.' I am not very much impressed by the splendor of those people. Moreover, if you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that human life
and life in general on this planet will die out in due course: it is merely a flash in the pan; it is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage
of decay you get the sort of conditions and temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole
solar system."
"Kant, as I say, invented a new moral argument for the existence of God, and that in varying forms was extremely popular during the nineteenth century.
It has all sorts of forms. One form is to say that there would be no right and wrong unless God existed. I am not for the moment concerned with whether there is
a difference between right and wrong, or whether there is not: that is another question. The point I am concerned with is that, if you are quite sure there is
a difference between right and wrong, then you are then in this situation: is that difference due to God's fiat or is it not? If it is due to God's fiat,
then for God himself there is no difference between right and wrong, and it is no longer a significant statement to say that God is good. If you are going to say,
as theologians do, that God is good, you must then say that right and wrong have some meaning which is independent of God's fiat, because God's fiats are good
and not bad independently of the mere fact that he made them. If you are going to say that, you will then have to say that it is not only through God that right
and wrong came into being, but that they are in their essence logically anterior to God."
"Then there is another very curious form of moral argument, which is this: they say that the existence of God is required in order to bring justice into the world.
In the part of the universe that we know there is a great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is
the more annoying; but if you are going to have justice in the universe as a whole you have to suppose a future life to redress the balance of life here on earth,
and so they say that there must be a God, and that there must be Heaven and Hell in order that in the long run there may be justice. That is a very curious argument.
If you looked at the matter from a scientific point of view, you would say, 'After all, I only know this world. I do not know about the rest of the universe,
but so far as one can argue at all on probabilities one would say that probably this world is a fair sample, and if there is injustice here then the odds are
that there is injustice elsewhere also.' Supposing you got a crate of oranges that you opened, and you found all the top layer of oranges bad, you would not argue:
'The underneath ones must be good, so as to redress the balance.' You would say: 'Probably the whole lot is a bad consignment;' and that is really what a scientific
person would argue about the universe. He would say: 'Here we find in this world a great deal of injustice, and so far as that goes that is a reason for
supposing that justice does not rule in the world; and therefore so far as it goes it affords a moral argument against deity and not in favor of one.'
Of course I know that the sort of intellectual arguments that I have been talking to you about is not really what moves people. What really moves people to
believe in God is not any intellectual argument at all. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason."
"I come to certain points in which I do not believe that one can grant either the superlative wisdom or the superlative goodness of Christ as depicted in the Gospels;
and here I may say that one is not concerned with the historical question. Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do
not know anything about Him, so that I am not concerned with the historical question, which is a very difficult one. I am concerned with Christ as He appears in the
Gospels, taking the Gospel narrative as it stands, and there one does find some things that do not seem to be very wise. For one thing, he certainly thought his second
coming would occur in clouds of glory before the death of all the people who were living at that time. There are a great many texts that prove that. He says, for instance:
'Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of Man be come.' Then He says: 'There are some standing here which shall not taste death till the
Son of Man comes into His kingdom'; and there are a lot of places where it is quite clear that He believed His second coming would happen during the lifetime of
many then living. That was the belief of his earlier followers, and it was the basis of a good deal of His moral teaching. When He said, 'Take no thought for the morrow,'
and things of that sort, it was very largely because He thought the second coming was going to be very soon, and that all ordinary mundane affairs did not count.
I have, as a matter of fact, known some Christians who did believe the second coming was imminent. I knew a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by
telling them that the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found that he was planting trees in his garden.
The early Christians really did believe it, and they did abstain from such things as planting trees in their gardens, because they did accept from Christ the
belief that the second coming was imminent. In this respect clearly He was not so wise as some other people have been, and he certainly was not superlatively wise."
"There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person that is
really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does
find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching - an attitude which is not uncommon with preachers, but which does
somewhat detract from superlative excellence. You do not, for instance, find that attitude in Socrates. You find him quite bland and urbane toward the people
who would not listen to him; and it is, to my mind, far more worthy of a sage to take that line than to take the line of indignation. You probably all remember
the sorts of things that Socrates was saying when he was dying, and the sort of things that he generally did say to people who did not agree with him."
"As I said before, I do not think that the real reason that people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.
One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it."
"You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution
of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or ever mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been
consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still
is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind
of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing - fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death.
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things."
"We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world - its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is
and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. The whole conception of a God
is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and
saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings. We ought to stand up and look
the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what
these others have made of it in all these ages. A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a
fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence. It needs hope for the future,
not looking back all the time toward a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create"
"What have been Christianity's fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy,
ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
"I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race.
I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god,
is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system."
"The atheist does not say 'there is no God', but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God; the word 'God'
is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.'... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in;
but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me."
"The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making!
Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?"
"I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being.
Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil -
you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.
"
"Christianity,... the enemy of the teeth, as well as the clitoris and the brain... Dentistry was already a fairly sophisticated science in ancient Egypt.
There're mummies with fillings in their teeth, with root canals and bridgework, for crying out loud... Jews considered such practices a form of mutilation,
and our European Christian ancestors believed it was blasphemous to mess with the Almighty's handiwork, we being created in his own image, overbite and all.
Never mind that their molars ached - that was the result of sin, or the mischief of demons. By the time the King James version of the Bible hit the stands in
sixteen-whatever-it-was, dentistry in the English-speaking world was a rustic joke, which is why, four thousand years after Imhotep got his cavities filled,
the President of the United States was forced to replace his troubled teeth with blunt objects carved out of a fallen log. The Christians crucified dental science,
just like they nailed up astronomy - you know what happened to Copernicus and Galileo - and the rest of the human race's intellectual and artistic progress.
Yes, indeed. It was a bishop of the Church of Rome who burned the great library at Alexandria because he was uncomfortable with the reminder on such a grand scale
that there were successful human enterprises that pre-dated Jesus. You have any appreciation of what was lost in that fire? The science, the records, the scholarship,
the wisdom, the literature? Our understanding of the past and what it may portend for the future was irreparably sabotaged by arrogant Christian firebugs.
The second greatest library in the world happened to be in Timbuktu, and it was torched by Islamic revisionists for the very same reason.
Let history begin with Muhammed! If these religious assholes are really convinced of the power and the truth of their big boohoos,
why are they so scared by historical fact, by thought, by knowledge?"
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
"God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything.
Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope."
"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."
"Another philosopher suggests that saying prayers is equivalent to believing that the universe is governed by a Being who changes his mind if you ask him to."
"In less than an hour, the Parliament of Toulouse, France publicly burned 400 unfortunate women, having convicted them of crimes
that existed only in the deluded minds of their sentences. Five hundred women were burned at the stake in the city of Geneva in one month,
and approximately a thousand were murdered in the Italian province of Como. A French judge, over the course of 16 years, could boast that
he had sentenced some 800 women to the stake. This entire vast atrocity was said to be 'justified' by the Bible."
"Christianity sprang from Judaism. It has merged again in Judaism.
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is, therefore, the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
Christianity had only in semblance overcome real Judaism. It was too noble-minded, too spiritualistic to eliminate the crudity of practical need in any
other way than by elevation to the skies. Christianity is the sublime thought of Judaism, Judaism is the common practical application of Christianity,
but this application could only become general after Christianity as a developed religion had completed theoretically the estrangement of man
from himself and from nature. Only then could Judaism achieve universal dominance and make alienated man and alienated nature into alienable,
vendible objects subjected to the slavery of egoistic need and to trading."
"The Jew has emancipated himself in a Jewish manner, not only because he has acquired financial power, but also because, through him and also apart from him,
money has become a world power and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of the Christian nations. The Jews have emancipated themselves
insofar as the Christians have become Jews."
"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds
through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us,
who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us;
who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly and warn the people of Canada..."
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
"I noticed that of all the prayers I used to offer to god, and all the prayers that I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answer at about the same 50% rate.
Half the time I get what I want. Half the time I don't. Same as god 50/50. Same as the four leaf clover, the horse shoe, the rabbit's foot,
and the wishing well. Same as the mojo man. Same as the voodoo lady who tells your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles. It's all the same; 50/50.
So just pick your superstitions, sit back, make a wish and enjoy yourself. And for those of you that look to the Bible for it's literary qualities and moral lessons;
I got a couple other stories I might like to recommend for you. You might enjoy The Three Little Pigs. That's a good one. It has a nice happy ending.
Then there's Little Red Riding Hood. Although it does have that one x-rated part where the Big-Bad-Wolf actually eats the grandmother.
Which I didn't care for, by the way. And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty.
The part I liked best: ...and all the king's horses, and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again. That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty,
and there is no god. None. Not one. Never was. No god."
"If one were to take the bible seriously, one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
"The Bible is a mimicking conglomeration of ancient myths and legends, and if I weren't positively sure of that,
I wouldn't have written this book and embarrassed myself again. My purpose is to try to spare the human species from the tyranny
and mania of religions. When people all around the world finally become aware of what religion is - it will cure the most devastating illness
man has been forced to endure."
"By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint,
and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels."
"They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit... and now tell us we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved."
"Bible is bullshit. Because the bible is a book that has fucked up the world more than any other single book.
A book that was written by a bunch of male chauvinists."
"Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going?"
"Once purged of the insanity, plagiarisms, illegalities, contradictions, and the perverse, the Bible could be printed on match book covers."
"(Slavery) was established by decree of Almighty God... it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation."
"There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral."
"The doom of Ham has been branded on the form and features of his African descendants.
The hand of fate has united his color and destiny. Man cannot separate what God hath joined."
"The hope of civilization itself hangs on the defeat of Negro suffrage."
"All women have been sexually abused by the Bible teachings, and institutions set on its fundamentalist interpretations.
There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them."
"If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th,
it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised."
"The first millennium of Jewish history as presented in the Bible has no empirical foundation whatsoever."
First mention of Israelites by their neighbours is The Moabite Stele - Large slab of basalt that records King Mesha of Moab's defeat of Israel, "which hath perished forever".
"The Bible writers projected backwards into time the kind of political rivalry that was happening in their own day [6th c BC] in order to explain that rivalry and perhaps justify the Israelite position over current border disputes."
"Nowhere in the bible is there an acknowledgement that human beings have inherent rights to life, liberty, happiness, dignity, fairness, or self-government.
In the bible, humans are sinners, worms, and slaves (figuratively and literally, as it condones slavery). God has all the rights, humanity is nothing.
... As well as the theoretical degrading of humanity and its liberty, religion has other, more practical, problems with it from an anarchist point of view.
Firstly, religions have been a source of inequality and oppression. Christianity (like Islam), for example, has always been a force for repression whenever
it holds any political or social sway (believing you have a direct line to god is a sure way of creating an authoritarian society).
The Church has been a force of social repression, genocide, and the justification for every tyrant for nearly two millennia.
When given the chance it has ruled as cruelly as any monarch or dictator.
... Christianity has only turned tolerant and peace-loving when it is powerless and even then it has continued its role as apologist for the powerful.
This is the second reason why anarchists oppose the church for when not being the source of oppression, the church has justified it and ensured its continuation.
It has kept the working class in bondage for generations by sanctioning the rule of earthly authorities and teaching working people that it is wrong to fight against
those same authorities. Earthly rulers received their legitimisation from the heavenly lord, whether political (claiming that rulers are in power due to god's will)
or economic (the rich having been rewarded by god). The bible praises obedience, raising it to a great virtue. More recent innovations like the
Protestant work ethic also contribute to the subjugation of working people."
"A Few Bits of Crockery. 'Lachish Letters' are the only first hand 'evidence' for the entire corpus of the Old Testament.
The Lachish Letters (British Museum) are a collection of 21 pottery shards or 'ostraca'.
Found in the ruins of Tell ed-Duweir in the 1930s the fragments bear a few words of Hebrew relating to the fall of Judaean cities to the Babylonians in the 580s BC.
The letters are from outposts of Lachish to the city's military commander (a man named Ya'osh) and represent field reports monitoring the situation as the armies of Nebuchadnezzar closed in.
'They have entered the land to lay waste... strong is he who has come down. He lays waste.'"
"The cost to humanity of fifteen centuries of Christian savagery - of hundreds of millions of lives brutalised and truncated, sacrificed to war,
torture, pogrom, burning, pestilence and plague - is incalculable. Christianity is the worst disaster in human history."
"Abraham (Abram, Ibrahim) - This amazingly 'righteous' phantom has a lot to answer for. Father of 'many nations' his supposed behaviour set a terrifying example
- not only attempted murder of his favourite son but abandoning to the desert the offspring of his various concubines. Sadly, Judaism, Christianity and Islam
all pay homage to this con' man and warlord. Never actually existed, of course, but that hardly matters to religious zealots."
"A triumphant Christianity was the active agent in destroying knowledge and access to learning. An ignorant and impoverished population was more readily
subjugated by Princes of the Church. The 'Word of God', far from being inerrant, has ever been a work in progress.
Church organisation, authority and membership preceded rather than followed the justifying doctrine.
As the organisation and its needs changed so has the 'Testament of God' adapted accordingly."
"Christianity was the ultimate product of religious syncretism in the ancient world. Its emergence owed nothing to a holy carpenter.
There were many Jesuses but the fable was a cultural construct. Nazareth did not exist in the 1st century AD - the area was a burial ground of rock-cut tombs.
Following a star would lead you in circles. The 12 disciples are as fictitious as their master, invented to legitimise the claims of the early churches.
The original Mary was not a virgin. That idea was borrowed from pagan goddesses. Scholars have known all this for more than 200 years but priestcraft
is a highly profitable business and finances an industry of deceit to keep the show on the road."
"It is intuitively satisfying to think that someone was behind the towering legend. Yet like the worship of Horus or Mithras a human life was neither necessary
nor helpful. Nothing in the 'Christian message' was original. Brotherly love and compassion had been taught by the Stoics for centuries. The Christian faith
was a vulgarised paganism, set to the theme of the Jewish prophets and debased by religious intolerance. The early Christian sects attacked each other as energetically
as they attacked pagans. 1st century Palestine had rabbis, radicals and rebels in abundance. But a 'life' conjured up from mystical fantasy, a mass of borrowed quotations,
copied story elements and a corpus of self-serving speculation, does not constitute an historical reality. The final defeat of militant Jewish nationalism
and the eradication of the Jewish kingdom gave the incipient Christian churches the final uplift they required."
"There never was just one Christianity. Out of the milieu of religiosity that infected the Roman world, dozens of competing and conflicting
Jesus/Sun-god/Mystery cults emerged. The first believers in Jesus maintained he was an ethereal spirit, much like other sky/sun-gods.
Only later did he acquire a human death, a human life and finally a human birth. The composite 'Jesus Christ' character - god, man, king, carpenter, conqueror,
peace-maker, dispenser of justice, advocate of love - was assembled to try and unify a fragmented and fractious messianic religious movement.
In the mid-2nd century the Jewishness of the faith was purged but apologists had little to say about a human Jesus.
They took comfort in noting similarities between their own ideas and pagan myths. The Christians remained a minority until well after one particular faction
formed a political alliance with the Roman State. The orthodox creed remained unpopular for centuries and persecution was necessary to impose its will."
"Through the centuries, the Christian godman has been made and remade. Egypt provided many of the themes and much of the detail.
From the age of the Ptolemies, Alexandria was the ancient cooking pot of religious fusion. Here, Hellenised Judaism influenced the early Christians.
From Egypt, Catholicism copied its rituals and ceremonies, including relics, demonology, and monasticism. The Patriarchs of Alexandria wrote much of
Catholic theology and it was probably in Alexandria that a profound and detailed Buddhist influence impressed itself upon the faith.
From Persia, too, came a Saviour God and notions of rebirth, a Mithraic dress rehearsal for Christianity, triumphant in Rome but fatally weakened
by its exclusion of women. In Judaea itself, hatred for the Roman conquerors bred a genre of apocalyptic curses, anticipating an end of the world."
"The Israelites did not come from Egypt – a palpable myth – but emerged from the local population. There was no ancient 'Jewish Empire':
the Jewish priests drew their inspiration from the empire of the Assyrians and 'Judaism' was a reaction to the loss of the northern kingdom and an
instructive period spent in Babylon. Jerusalem in 10th century BC had been barely a village of huts and cave dwellings.
Kings David and Solomon are purely mythical characters - warrior/priest heroes, invented in the 6th century BC.
Temples on the Mount? From 'Threshing Floor' to 'Noble Sanctuary'. Herod the Great was a real king - but he did not massacre any babies.
He was an astute and successful ruler. The Herodians and the Jewish elite became Romanised but religious fanatics led an armed resistance
which ended in catastrophes under Titus, Trajan, and Hadrian. In the aftermath, a collaborationist revision of Judaism, later attributed to a
13th apostle 'Paul', allegedly of impeccable Pharisaic credentials, competed fiercely with a reconstituted rabbinic Judaism which fused piety with mercantile success."
"Human ingenuity and cunning is matched by mankind's equally monumental credulity and wishful thinking.
There are actually some 200 gospels, epistles and other books concerning the life of Jesus Christ. Writing such material was a popular literary form,
particularly in the 2nd century. The pious fantasies competed with Greek romantic fiction. Political considerations in the late 2nd century led to the selection
of just four approved gospels and the rejection of others. After three centuries of wrangling 23 other books were accepted by the Church as divinely inspired.
The rest were declared 'pious frauds'. In truth, the whole lot belongs to a genre of literary FICTION.
Would the Christians lie? They said it themselves - lying for God! And non-Christian testimony? - from the authentic pen of lying Christian scribes!
Would the early believers have died for a lie? Consider the evidence for that supposed 'persecution' - Holy Mother Church invented heroic origins!"
"From religious policeman to grandee of the church, from beast fighter in Ephesus to beheading in Rome, Paul's story has more holes than a swiss cheese.
The trail-blazing Christian missionary and apostle, St Paul, appears nowhere in the secular histories of his age. Ironically, though supposedly in
Jerusalem at the right time, he can give no witness to a historical Jesus. But was Paul himself a genuine historical figure? Viewed without the rose-tinted
spectacles of Christian faith, the first voyage of Paul is as fanciful as the first voyage of Sinbad. Paul's presence in Philippi is decidedly dubious.
Was it friction or fiction in Roman Greece? Corinthians. Man, Myth and Magic among the Galatians. The later Pauline journeys, including the supposed
transportation of the apostle to Rome, are similarly bogus. Characterized by incongruities, contradiction, and the absurd, they are a concocted fantasy.
In fact, no evidence links Paul to the major Christian churches - the story in the Acts of the Apostles is a ripping yarn. A phantom saint heads the list of
'witnesses to witnesses', Ignatius the 'God bearer'. Pauline letters certainly exist but the epistles, far from being genuine letters, originated in the acrimonious
doctrinal battles of the 2nd century – a time when 'pseudepigraphy' and forged apostolic writings were weapons in the war of 'Christianities'."
"Orchestrated by ambitious Christian clerics, a cancer of superstition, fear and brutality was imposed across Europe.
The fanatics of Christ proved useful to an ambitious prince who set his sights on absolute and undivided power [by championing the cause of the Christians Constantine put himself at the head of a 'fifth column' in the east, of a state within a state].
The Church expropriated the resources - both human and material - which might have defended Roman civilization. While an indolent army of clerics lived on the state,
the impoverished legions degenerated into a peasant militia. Once a particular Christianity - hierarchical and authoritarian - became wedded to the Roman state,
it became a force of brutal repression. The 'Church Fathers' transformed Romano-Hellenic culture by bigotry, anti-Semitism, censorship and intolerance.
This so-called 'orthodoxy' suppressed and persecuted its 'heretical' opposition. The barbarian tribes that overran the weakened Roman Empire were,
for the most part, Christianised; the forces that opposed them, pagan."
"The Christian Heaven may have been a vain folly but the Christian Hell has been real enough.
The priestly 'protection racket' required the criminalizing of the whole of humanity through the doctrine of Sin. In a world run by clerical gangsters,
the writ of Holy Mother Church was enforced by sadism and torture. For more than a thousand years, the henchmen of Christ inflicted a cruel barbarism on every
community they encountered. Law was replaced by Divine Right, scientific method criminalized, ancient medical knowledge lost for a millennium. Women,
fortunate to be domestic slaves, might find themselves in enforced celibacy, joyless marriage or burnt as a witch. Roasting heretics became popular entertainment
and a religious duty. Raised to the status of State religion the Christian Church reigned over the destruction of civilization.
As the centuries passed religious barbarism grew ever more vicious."
"In their struggle for power, Christians waged their own 'civil war'. A Catholic trinitarian nonsense triumphed over Arianism. The intellectual centres
of the empire were ruined by murder and prohibition and Europe sank into ignorance and superstition. The civilization that had stretched from the deserts of
Arabia to the highlands of Scotland reverted to a primitive village subsistence. By aggressive warfare, Christianisation of the heathen tribes followed.
In Spain, the German lands, Britain, and Ireland, the despots of the Church imposed their tyranny."
"With a Jewish father (stern patriarch) and a Christian mother (obsession with guilt and heaven) it is not surprising that Islam grew up a bit of a tartar.
Early civilizations arose in many parts of Arabia, long before Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Islam arose as an adaptation of old ideas, not something new.
Yet initially, far from imposing a severe theocracy, the early caliphs were tolerant, even urbane. Despite the mutual hostility of kindred monotheisms,
Islam endorsed a great deal of Judeo-Christian theology and adopted many of its practices. In its heyday, from the Atlantic to central Asia, Islam produced
scholars and refinement. Europe's recovery owed a huge debt to Islamic civilization. Battered by both East and West the enlightenment failed and theology triumphed."
"Is it any surprise that organised religion draws into itself the lonely hearts and the abandoned? Jesus is not merely an imaginary friend, he is also a fantasy lover.
With God's blessing, misogynistic Jewish scribes encoded a raft of sex crimes which sanctified racial ambition. The sacred mission was to populate and subdue the earth.
Judaism bequeathed its unfortunate mix of ignorance and intolerance to a wayward faction of heretics known to the world as Christians. The enthusiasts of Christ
elaborated on the notion that the body was a source of shame and that women were an inferior breed. Mortification of the flesh became the path of 'spiritual purity'.
But a triumphant Catholicism happily compromised the fierce strictures of the founders for worldly advantage. The 'Gospel of Sin' became a source of wealth and power
for the pimping priests. Predators replaced the puritans. The consequence is that for two millennia Christianity's anti-sexual, puritanical doctrines have inflicted
untold damage on the mental, emotional and physical lives of countless millions of people."
"Heaven help us. The richest, most powerful nation in history has a psychotic infatuation with Jay-a-sus the Lawd!
Christian knights brought savagery and racism to a whole new world. When gentle Jesus arrived in England's North American colonies, a motley crew of venture capitalists,
criminals and self-righteous fanatics established a precarious existence. But a stolen land, worked by an enslaved labour force, cultivating drug crops, could not
fail to enrich the colonial elite. Jesus was there when the American republic built the foundations of its economy on slavery and was re-packaged into a convenience
Christianity suited to dreams of vast personal wealth. Today a bunch of crooks and hucksters, womanising egotists and dangerous megalomaniacs choreograph extravaganzas
of Jesus frenzy. Alarmingly, they have serious political influence and an agenda for Armageddon."
From The Jesus Puzzle. Was There No Historical Jesus? - Part One: A Conspiracy Of Silence, by Earl Doherty.
From The Jesus Puzzle. Was There No Historical Jesus? - Part Two: Who Was Christ Jesus?, by Earl Doherty.
From The Jesus Puzzle. Was There No Historical Jesus? - Part Three: The Evolution of Jesus of Nazareth, by Earl Doherty.
From The Jesus Puzzle. Was There No Historical Jesus? - Postscript, by Earl Doherty.
"'Clearly the Christians have used ... myths ... in fabricating the story of Jesus' birth.
... It is clear to me that the writings of the Christians are a lie and that your fables are not well-enough constructed to conceal this monstrous fiction."
"'The forgery of pious documents of every imaginable character was among the most constant and zealous activities of the holy propagandists
of the Christian Faith, from the beginning to the critical era when forgeries were no longer possible or profitable."
"Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man... living in the sky.
Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own,
so both of them together is certain death."
"An infinity of punishment awaits you even after you die. According to the really extreme religious totalitarians, such as John Calvin, who borrowed his awful
doctrine from Augustine, an infinity of punishment can be awaiting you even before you are born. ... Calvin's Geneva was a prototypical totalitarian state,
and Calvin himself a sadist and torturer and killer, who burned Servetus (one of the great thinkers and questioners of the day) while the man was still alive."
"It is certainly not a coincidence that the Catholic Church was generally sympathetic to fascism as an idea."
"If the appalling heresy of believing that Emperor Hirohito was a god was ever denounced from any German or Italian pulpit or by any prelate,
I have been unable to discover the fact."
"Thus, those who invoke 'secular' tyranny in contrast to religion are hoping that we will forget two things: the connection between the Christian churches
and fascism, and the capitulation of the churches to National Socialism. This is not just my assertion: it has been admitted by the religious authorities themselves."
"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
"It all began with that ancient lesson from Genesis: man is forbidden to seek awareness; he should be content to believe and obey.
He must choose faith over knowledge, suppress all interest in science, and instead prize submission and obedience."
"As for our jovial Christian kin, delegates to the Council of Macon in 585 submitted for discussion a book by Alcidalus Valeus
entitled Paradoxical Dissertation in Which We Attempt to Prove that Women are not Human Creatures. Paradoxical? In what way?
We do not know if the attempt was successful; i.e., if Alcidalus won over his readers. But the Christian hierarchy was already sympathetic to his point of view:
we need only recall Paul of Tarsus and his countless misogynistic pronouncements. In any case, the church's age-old prejudice against women remains to this day
an undeniable fact."
"Jesus's existence has not been historically
established. No contemporary documentation of the event, no archaeological proof, nothing certain exists
today to attest to the truth of a real presence at this meeting point between two worlds, abolishing one and naming its successor.
No tomb, no shroud, no archives, except for a sepulcher invented in 325 by Saint Helena, mother of Constantine. She must have been a woman of supreme gifts,
since we are also indebted to her for the discovery of Golgotha and of the titulus, the wooden fragment bearing the charges brought against Jesus.
Then there is that piece of cloth from Turin, which carbon-14 dating has situated in the thirteenth century CE, and which only a miracle could have wrapped
around Christ's corpse more than a thousand years earlier! Finally, there are of course two or three vague references in ancient texts - Flavius Josephus,
Suetonius, and Tacitus - but in copies made several centuries after the alleged crucifixion of Jesus and - significantly-after the success of his supporters was assured."
"So we know that most existing [Christian] documents are skillfully executed forgeries. Burned libraries, repeated orgies of vandalism,
accidental fires,
Christian persecutions and autos-da-fé, earthquakes, the media revolution that replaced papyrus with parchment and presented the copyists,
sectarian zealots of Christ, with a choice between the documents to be saved and those to be cast into outer darkness.
... Nothing of what remains can be trusted. The Christian archives are the result of ideological fabrication. Even the writings of Flavius Josephus,
Suetonius, or Tacitus, who mention in a few hundred words the existence of Christ and his faithful in the first century of our era, obey the rules of intellectual forgery."
"Jesus was thus a concept. ... The evangelists wrote a story. In it they narrated less the past of one man than the future of a religion.
A trick born of the rational mind: they created the myth and were created by it. The believers invented their creation, then made it the object of a cult:
the very essence of willing self-deception.
... Paul took hold of this concept, clothed him, and supplied him with ideas.
... Christianity's radical antihedonism proceeds from Paul - not from Jesus.
... Initially Paul, a hysterical, fundamentalist Jew, had taken pleasure in the persecution and brutal treatment of Christians.
... His conversion on the road to Damascus in 34 arose from pure hysterical pathology.
... The medical diagnosis seems clear.
... Indeed his crisis reads unmistakably like a passage from a manual of psychiatry, chapter heading Neuroses, subsection Hysteria. This was true hysteria, a hysterical conversion!
... Paul created the world in his own image. A deplorable image, fanatical, moving with a hysteric's irresolution from enemy to enemy - first Christians,
then Gentiles - sick, misogynistic, masochistic.
... Small, thin, bald, and bearded, Paul of Tarsus provides no details on the illness he metaphorically describes.
... No details, except for one occasion when he draws attention to his haggard appearance while addressing the Galatians - after he had suffered a beating
that left visible marks. So that for centuries critics have piled up theories on the nature of that thorn. It is hard to resist offering a solemn inventory
of their diagnoses: arthritis, renal colic, tendonitis, sciatica, gout, tachycardia, angina pectoris, itchy rash, skin sores, boils, eczema, leprosy, shingles,
plague, rabies, erysipelas, gastritis, intestinal cramps, kidney stones, chronic ear infection, sinusitis, bronchitis, bladder infection, urinary retention,
Maltese fever, filariosis, malaria, pilariosis, ringworm, pilonidal cyst, headache, gangrene, suppuration, abscesses, chronic hiccups (!), convulsions, epilepsy.
His joints, tendons, nerves, heart, stomach, bowels, anus, ears, sinus, bladder, head, all were involved.
All except the sexual register. The etiology of hysteria includes a weakened - if it exists at all - libidinal potential.
Disturbances arising from sexuality, a tendency for example to see it everywhere, to indulge in extremes of eroticism.
How can we not recall all this when Paul's pen drips ad nauseam a hatred, a contempt, a permanent mistrust for the things of the body?
His loathing of sexuality, his praise of chastity, his worship of abstinence, his approval of the widowed condition, his passion for celibacy,
his appeal to his listeners to conduct themselves as he did (clearly expressed in the First Epistle to the Corinthians 7:8), his reluctant consent to marriage,
but only as the best of bad choices (he would have preferred renunciation of all things corporeal). These are all obvious symptoms of hysteria.
... Unable to lead a sex life worthy of the name, Paul declares null and void all forms of sexuality for himself (of course) but also for the rest of the world.
A desire to be like everyone else by demanding that everyone else emulate him, whence his determination to make all humankind bow to the rule of his own limiting circumstances.
... From the starting point of his own dilapidated physique, Paul militated for a world that resembled him.
... His hatred of self turned into a vigorous hatred of the world and all its concerns: life, love, desire, pleasure, sensations, body, flesh, joy, freedom,
independence, autonomy. There is no mystery about Paul's masochism. He saw his whole life through the prism of difficulties: he loved problems,
he rejoiced in them, craved them, longed for them, manufactured them.
... Unable to have women? He loathes them. Impotent? He despises them. An excellent occasion for recycling the misogyny of Jewish monotheism,
later bequeathed to Christianity and Islam.
... The first verses of the first book of the Bible set the tone: Genesis radically and irrevocably condemns woman, the first sinner, the source of all the world's evil.
And Paul embraced this disastrous, this infinitely disastrous idea as his own."
"Hatred of self, of the world, of women, of freedom: Paul of Tarsus added to this deplorable roster hatred of intelligence.
Genesis had already preached loathing
of knowledge, for we must never forget that tasting the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was the original sin,
the unforgivable fault transmitted from generation to generation. Wishing to
know, and not remaining content with the obedience and faith demanded by God
- that was what was unforgivable. To rival God in knowledge, to prefer education and intelligence to the imbecility of the obedient, these were so many mortal sins."
"And Paul's education? Nonexistent, or almost: the Old Testament and the certainty that God spoke through it. His intellectual training?
We have no idea whether he was a bright student or undertook prolonged studies. Rabbinical training, in all likelihood. His profession?
Maker and seller of tents for nomads. His verbal style? Heavy, derivative, complex, oral in fact. His Greek? Clumsy, graceless, possibly dictated to him as he
went about his manual trade. Some have even concluded that he could not write. The opposite of a Philo of Alexandria, the philosopher and Paul's contemporary.
This uneducated man, openly scoffed at by the Stoics and Epicureans in the public square of Athens, faithful to his technique of making a virtue of necessity,
transformed his lack of culture into a hatred of culture."
"The alleged correspondence between Paul and Seneca is clearly a forgery of the first order. Paul was not a learned man and he addressed not philosophers
but his peers. His audience, throughout his wanderings around the Mediterranean, was composed of humble
folk and never included intellectuals, philosophers,
men of letters. In the second century, Celsus wrote Alethes logos ('True Discourse' or 'The True Word'), a polemic against Christianity, in which he
characterized Christians as tanners, cleaners, craftsmen, carpenters, and the like. So Paul did not need culture. Demagoguery was enough, and with it its perpetual ally:
hatred of intelligence."
"Constantine's coup was masterly. We still live today with its fatal heritage. Naturally he understood what he could obtain from a people obedient to Paul's
call for submission to the temporal authorities, for uncomplaining acceptance of dire poverty, for obedience to the magistrates and officials of the empire,
for disapproval of temporal disobedience as an insult flung in God's face, for accepting slavery, deceit, and the existence of social disparities.
Examples of Christian martyrdom and Christian behavior in the relatively rare persecutions they endured were clear indications to the powerful of how useful
this rabble could be to the legally untouchable figures at the summit of the state.
Constantine accordingly heaped them with assurances. To put it another way, he bought them. And the policy worked. He wrote into Roman law new articles
that satisfied the Christians and made official the ascetic ideal.
... So, after a few timely demises, people of the church could now legally fill their pockets.
Magic, on the other hand, was banned, and so were gladiatorial combats. At the same time, Constantine ordered the building of Saint Peter's and of other,
secondary basilicas. The Christians rejoiced: their kingdom was henceforth of this world.
At about this time Fausta, the new Christian's second wife, persuaded him that her stepson had tried to seduce her. Without waiting for proof,
he sent his cutthroats to torture and then behead his own son, as well as a nephew also implicated in the 'plot'. When he realized the empress had deceived him,
he sent the same gang in. They took advantage of Fausta's visit to her bath to release a flow of boiling water. Infanticide, uxoricide, homicide:
the most Christian emperor bought his salvation and
the church's silence with a host of gifts: tax exemptions for church landholdings, generous subsidies,
and the creation of new churches - Saint Paul and Saint Lawrence. All variations on the theme of love for one's neighbor.
Thus benevolently disposed, afloat in gifts, fattened and enriched by gratuities from the prince, the clergy conferred full powers upon him at the Council of Nicaea in 325.
... There, Constantine proclaimed himself the 'thirteenth apostle', thus endowing Paul of Tarsus with a strong right sword arm. And what an arm!
Church and state formed what Henri-Irénée Marrou,
a historian scarcely to be suspected (being a Christian) of
anticlericalism, atheism, or left-wing leanings,
has called a 'totalitarian state'. The first Christian state."
"Like many tyrants, Constantine was unable to settle the question of a successor. He left behind a power vacuum and a disorganized group of high officials
of church and state. For more than three months at the height of summer, May 22 to September 9 [337 CE], the various ministers (civil, military, and ecclesiastical)
reported daily to the imperial corpse as it lay in state. This neurotic behavior was a preview of the later cult of the dead, evidenced by Christian fascination
with corpses and relics."
"Christians had admittedly suffered persecution, but it was not always as severe as the Vulgate claims. The figures for those devoured by lions in the arena
have been substantially lowered by historians eager to leave the field of Christian apologetics and do their work conscientiously.
... Modern estimates come closer to three thousand - by way of comparison, ten thousand gladiators fought to the death simply to celebrate the end of the war
against the Dacians in 107.
What defines totalitarian regimes today corresponds point by point with the Christian state as it was constructed by Constantine's successors:
use of constraint, torture, acts of vandalism, destruction of libraries and symbolic sites, unpunished murders, ubiquitous propaganda, the leader's absolute power,
the remolding of the whole of society along the government's ideological lines, extermination of opponents, monopoly of legal violence and means of communication,
abolition of the frontier between private life and the public sphere, overall politicization of society, destruction of pluralism, bureaucratic organization,
expansionism - all signs of totalitarianism from its origins, as well as the totalitarianism of the Christian Empire.
The emperor Theodosius I proclaimed Catholicism the state religion in 380. Twelve years later he categorically banned pagan worship. Nicaea had already set the tone.
In 449 Theodosius II and Valentinian III ordered the destruction of everything that might excite God's wrath or wound Christian hearts. That definition was apparently
broad enough to include multiple exactions in every field. Tolerance, love of one's neighbor, and forgiveness of sins had their limits.
... In 335, Sopatros was executed for witchcraft, and writings by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry (who had died in 305) were burned.
Such autos-da-fé came thick and fast, one much like the other.
... In 435, during the reign of Theodosius II, Nestorius the patriarch of Constantinople was exiled to Egypt and all of his writings were consigned
to the flames, wherever they could be found in both the Eastern and Western Empire.
... Another symbol of the repression of rational thought by irrational religion was the murder of Hypatia of Alexandria, the first female mathematician known to history.
A Hellenized Egyptian, she was a Neoplatonist, mathematician, astronomer, and teacher, one of the foremost intellects of her time. During an antipagan riot in 415,
a Christian mob pulled Hypatia from her carriage and dragged her through the streets to a church. She was stripped naked, and the flesh was scraped from her bones
with sharp oyster shells and broken tiles. After tearing her body to pieces, the mob burned her mutilated remains. A sterling example of the Christian belief in love
of one's neighbor!"
"The reader should consult the Theodosian Code if he needs proof that the law always supports the ruling caste's domination over the masses.
In United States history, the black codes (referring to laws enacted in the former Confederate states after the Civil War) were intended to assure the continuance
of white supremacy. A review of the anti-Semitic laws passed by the Vichy government during the Second World War would dispel any remaining doubts.
To be specific: in 380 the law condemned non-Christians to 'infamy', in other words rescinded their civic rights and therefore their chances of participating
in the life of the city, for example in teaching or the law. It decreed the death sentence for all who threatened the persons or the goods of Catholic ministers
and their places of worship. Meanwhile, Christians destroyed pagan shrines and confiscated, looted, and ravaged temples and their furnishings with the blessings
of authorities backed by the legal texts.
... Meetings were forbidden, so of course was Manichaeism, and Jews were persecuted under the same heading as
magic or dissolute morals. The law encouraged informers.
It forbade marriage between Jews and Christians. It authorized the confiscation of non-Christian goods. Paul of Tarsus very early
pointed down this path,
for in the Acts of the Apostles (19:19) he admits his presence at a burning of supposedly magical books.
... In keeping with the tactics of Constantine's mother, Catholic churches replaced the razed temples. Here and there, synagogues and Gnostic shrines went up in flames.
Often-priceless statues were destroyed and broken up and their fragments recycled into Christian buildings. Places of worship were so utterly ravaged that their
debris served for a time to repave roads and build highways and bridges. An index of how widespread the damage was: in Constantinople, the temple of Aphrodite
served as a parking space for horse-drawn vehicles. Sacred trees
were uprooted.
From the end of the eighth century BCE and for the next thousand years, the oracle of Apollo at Didyma near Miletus (on the west coast of Turkey)
was second in importance only to Delphi. ... Its long history ended abruptly when Constantine the Great converted
to Christianity and,
blaming the oracle for the persecutions,
retaliated by closing the temple of Apollo at Didyma and
executing all the priests.
... A text dated February 19 of the year 356 decreed the death sentence for persons convicted of worshipping idols or participating in sacrifices.
In consequence, Christians in Antioch seized a prophet of Apollo and tortured him. At Scythopolis in Palestine, Domitius Modestus conducted 'interrogations'
of the top officials and intellectual leaders of Antioch and Alexandria. His aim was to leave no educated man alive. Many Neoplatonist philosophers perished in
this ferocious repression. In his Homily on Statues, Saint John Chrysostom condoned physical violence in certain circumstances and explicitly wrote that
'Christians are the repositories of public order.'
... At Alexandria in 389, Christians attacked the Serapeum (temple of Serapis) and the Mithraeum (temple of Mithras). The idols inside were removed, publicly displayed,
and mocked. The pagan faithful protested ('particularly the philosophers', according to contemporary sources), and riots ensued with many deaths on both sides.
At Suffectum (Sufes in modern-day Sbiba, Tunisia) around 401, Christian monks destroyed a statue of Hercules, the patron god of the city, and sixty people died
in the resulting riots. Encouraged by the aforementioned John Chrysostom, bands of monks ransacked the shrines on the Phoenician mountains.
All this was the consequence of Paul's call to despise culture, knowledge, books, and intelligence."
"Like Paul of Tarsus, Christians were convinced that academic learning hindered access to God. All books (not just books by authors accused of heresy,
such as Arius, Mani, and Nestorius) were at risk of being burned. Neoplatonist works were condemned as books of magic and divination. People who possessed
libraries feared for their safety. In 370 the citizens of Antioch, terrified of persecution, preempted the Christian commissars and burned
their own books
in the public square. As for the Great Library of Alexandria, its daughter library was housed in the Serapeum, a temple dedicated to the god Serapis.
In 391, by order of the bishop of Alexandria, the temple was leveled and the library went up in smoke.
In 591, the Neoplatonic school in Athens was closed, and the Christian Empire confiscated its holdings. Paganism had survived in the Greek capital for centuries.
Plato's teachings could point to a thousand years of uninterrupted transmission. The philosophers set out on the road to Persian exile. What a triumph for Paul of Tarsus,
once mocked by Stoics and Epicureans in the home of philosophy during his attempt at proselytization. The posthumous victory of God's weakling and his disastrous
neuroses! A culture of death, of hatred, of contempt and intolerance. At Constantinople in 562, Christians arrested 'Hellenes' - an insulting name -
parading them through the city to the accompaniment of hoots and jeers. On Kenogion Square,
Christians lit a huge bonfire and tossed the philosophers'
books and the images of their gods into the flames."
"Non-Christians were forbidden to bequeath their wealth to pagans; it was forbidden to testify in court against the church's followers; forbidden to own
Christian slaves; forbidden to draw up a legal deed; forbidden to profess freedom of conscience (!). And in 529 Justinian made it mandatory for pagans to take
instruction in the Christian religion
and then undergo baptism, on pain of exile and confiscation of their goods; he forbade those converted to the religion of
brotherly love to return to paganism; forbade them to teach or to draw official pensions. For at least a thousand years, philosophizing became dangerous.
Now-just as in every succeeding period - theocracy stood unveiled as the opposite of democracy."
"Adolf Hitler thought highly of the story of the Temple moneylenders, taken from the Gospel according to John. A Christian who never renounced his faith,
Hitler praised the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church, marveled at its creation of an unrivaled civilization, and prophesied its continued vigor in the centuries to come.
... But if we abrogate this Gospel parable and replace it with the vengeful Old Testament prescription,
and couple this with the New Testament episode of the
Temple moneylenders, the worst of excesses can easily be justified. With such a cargo of sophistries, we could justify Kristallnacht as a modern-day eviction
of the moneylenders - let us remember that Jesus reproached them with transacting business and money-changing. Then, pursuing the same hysterical line
of argument and invoking the lex talionis, the Final Solution becomes the logical response to the National Socialists' nightmare of the racial and Bolshevik Judaization of Europe.
... Moreover, Pius XII and the Catholic Church succumbed to the charms of these Hitlerian contradictions from the very beginning.
Indeed the church continues to do so,
if we accept as an admission of collusion its enduring unwillingness to acknowledge the error implicit in the Vatican's support for Nazism."
"The love-marriage between the Catholic Church and Nazism cannot be denied. Instances - and they are not minor ones - abound. Their complicity did not
reside in unspoken approval, explicit omissions, or calculations made on the basis of partisan positions. The facts are clear to anyone who approaches
the issue by interrogating history:
it was not a marriage of reason, determined by concern for the survival of the church, but a shared loathing of
the same implacable enemies: Jews and Communists - most often packaged together in the same grab bag labeled Judeo-Bolshevism.
... The facts, then. The Catholic Church approved the rearmament of Germany in the 1930s, which was of course contrary to the spirit of the Versailles Treaty
but also to a part of Jesus's teachings, particularly those celebrating peace, mildness, love of one's neighbor. The Catholic Church signed a concordat with
Adolf Hitler as soon as the chancellor took office in 1933. The Catholic Church held its tongue over the boycott of Jewish businesses, remained silent
over the proclamation of the Nuremberg racial laws in 1935, and was equally silent over Kristallnacht in 1938. The Catholic Church provided the Nazis
with its genealogical records, which told them who in Germany was Christian, and therefore non-Jewish.
... The Catholic Church supported, defended, and aided the pro-Nazi Ustachi regime of Ante Pavelic in Croatia.
The Catholic Church gave its absolution to France's collaborationist Vichy regime in 1940. The Catholic Church, although fully aware of the policy of
extermination set in motion in 1942, did not condemn it in private or in public, and never ordered any priest or bishop to condemn the criminal regime
in the hearing of his flock.
... The Catholic Church, in the person of Cardinal Bertram, ordered a requiem Mass in memory of Adolf Hitler.
... Even better, the Catholic Church did for the Nazis (shorn of their Führer) what it had never done for a single Jew or victim of National Socialism:
it set up a network designed to smuggle war criminals out of Europe. The Catholic Church used the Vatican, delivered papers stamped with its visas
to fugitive Nazis, established a chain of European monasteries that served as hiding places for dignitaries of the ruined Reich. The Catholic Church
promoted into its hierarchy people who had performed important tasks for the Hitler regime. And the Catholic Church will never apologize for any of these things,
particularly since it has acknowledged none of them.
If there is ever to be repentance, we shall probably have to wait four centuries for it, the time it took for a pope to acknowledge the church's error
in the Galileo affair. Chiefly because the doctrine of papal infallibility proclaimed at the first Vatican Council in 1869-70 (Pastor Aeternas) forbids challenging
the church - for when the supreme pontiff speaks or makes a decision he does so not as a man capable of being wrong but as the representative of God on earth,
constantly inspired by the Holy Spirit - the famous doctrine of "saving grace." Are we to conclude from all this that the Holy Spirit is fundamentally Nazi?"
"While the church remained silent on the Nazi question during and after the war, it missed no chance to act against Communists.
Faithful to church tradition (which, through the grace of Pius IX and Pius X, condemned human rights as contrary to the teachings of the church), Pius XII,
the pope so famously well-disposed toward National Socialism, excommunicated the Communists of the whole world en masse in 1949. He asserted collusion between
the Jews and Bolshevism as one of the reasons for his decision.
To recapitulate: no run-of-the-mill National Socialist, no Nazi of elevated rank or member of the Reich's staff was ever excommunicated.
No group was ever excluded from the church for preaching and practicing racism...
Adolf Hitler was not excommunicated, and Mein Kampf was never put on the Index.
We should not forget that after 1924, the date Hitler's book appeared, the famous Index Librorum Prohibitorium added to its list - alongside Pierre Larousse,
guilty of the Grand Dictionnaire Universel (!) - Henri Bergson, André Gide, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Adolf Hitler never appeared on it."
"The partnership of Christianity and Nazism is not an accident of history, a regrettable and isolated mistake along the wayside, but the fulfillment
of a two-thousand-year-old logic. From Paul of Tarsus, who justified fire and the sword in turning a private sect into a religion contaminating the empire and the world,
to the Vatican's twentieth-century justification of the nuclear deterrent, the line has endured. Thou shalt not kill... except from time to time... and when the church tells you to.
Augustine, a saint by trade, dedicated all his talent to justifying the worst in the church: slavery, war, capital punishment, etc.
Blessed are the meek?
The peacemakers? Augustine is no more
enthusiastic than Hitler about this side of Christianity, too soft, not virile or warlike enough, squeamish about
bloodshed—the feminine face of religion. He offered the church the concepts it lacked to justify punitive expeditions and massacres."
"With the church's blessing, Augustine, bishop of Hippo, sanctioned just persecution in a letter (185). A choice formulation, which he presents
in contrast to unjust persecution! What differentiates the good corpse from the bad? Flaying of victims-when is it defensible and when is it indefensible?
All persecution by the church was good, because motivated by love; while persecution directed against the church was indefensible, because inspired by cruelty."
"It is a simple sociological fact that particular religions dominate in distinguishable geographical regions...
The best explanation for this pattern of affiliation is that an individual's religion is almost invariably determined by 'when and where one was born'.
And since there are no mutually agreed upon tests for evaluating religious claims, it is little wonder that social, cultural, and political forces overwhelmingly
determine what individuals believe.
... While I might happily concede deism, a distant God is hardly distinguishable from no God at all. Moving from the deism implied by arguments for the existence
of God to full-blown Christianity is like trying to fly a plane to the moon: there is simply no way to get there. And the theistic arguments don't lead us to
any particular kind of theism, whether Judaism, Christianity, or Islam, let alone to any particular branch of these religions.
... The Christian defender of miracles has a double burden of proof that is nearly impossible to meet...
Today's Christians operate by what Harvard-trained biblical scholar Hector Avalos describes as 'selective supernaturalism'. They believe the biblical miracles
because they accept the Christian faith, but they are skeptical of the miracles of other religions. Why the double standard?
... Science proceeds according to methodological naturalism, an approach which presumes for the sake of empirical inquiry that everything we experience,
if it has a cause at all, has a natural cause.
... In the modern world all educated people apply methodological naturalism in a vast number of areas. Before the advent of science, most people either praised gods
for the good things that happened to them, or tried to appease them when bad things happened. Many believed that sickness was caused by sin, that rain was the result
of a god becoming pleased with their efforts, that drought indicated when a god was displeased, and so on. Science wasn't content to accept the notion that
demonic possession caused epilepsy, that sickness was a punishment from God, that God alone opens the womb of a woman, or that God sends rain.
We now have a scientific explanation for all of these things and benefit tremendously from those who assumed that all caused phenomena have natural causes.
... Astronomy has established that the universe is about 13.7 billion years old and arose out of a cosmic singularity. No account of the development of our universe
can be harmonized with the creation accounts in Genesis, as the latter are pure folklore. Archaeology has found no evidence of 400 years of Israelite slavery in Egypt,
Israelites who wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, or an Israelite conquest of Canaan. Geological evidence in the sedimentary rock layers of a roughly 4.5 billion
year old planet confirms the slow evolutionary development of life, just as astronomical evidence confirms the slow evolutionary development of galaxies, stars,
and planets. Geology also falsifies that at any point in human history there was a universal flood which covered the Earth. Neurological evidence from strokes, seizures,
and other brain malfunctions falsifies that human beings possess any immaterial mind or soul. If there is an immaterial mind, where is it located?
... The Judeo-Christian God is clearly a hateful, racist, and sexist divinity. Though Christians rightly criticize militant Islamists for aiming to kill innocent bystanders,
the only difference between these extremists and the biblical God is the desired target of murder.
... The Bible is filled with superstitious beliefs that modern people rightly reject. It describes a world where a snake and a donkey communicated with human beings
in a human language, where people could reach upward of 900 years old, where a woman instantaneously transformed into a pillar of salt, where a pillar of fire could
lead people by night, and where the sun stopped moving across the sky or could even back up.
... For centuries, beginning in the eleventh century, the Church sanctioned the slaughtering of various peoples ('infidels') in the name of their God.
... Many other wars have been waged in the name of Jesus and the Church—too many to list.
... The angelic doctor Thomas Aquinas argued, on the basis of explicit directives from the Bible, that heresy was a 'leavening influence' upon the minds of the weak,
and thus heretics should be killed.
... Hence beginning with the 12th century, the rallying cry for over two centuries was 'convert or die!'
... Christians once widely believed that witches flew threw the night, met with others, and had sex with the Devil, who then left a mark on them. Once accused,
it was extremely difficult to be found innocent. Any testimony on an alleged witch's behalf could be discounted on the grounds that the witch may have cast a spell
on others to vouch for her innocence.
... Witch-hunters were primarily paid by confiscating the property of convicted witches, so they had a vested interest in finding them guilty. Convicted witches were
then killed by strangulation, or by being burned alive."
"The territorial expansion of the United States during the 1800s was motivated by the general belief that God had given European settlers the divine mission
to spread democracy on the North American continent. It was supposedly both obvious ('manifest') and certain ('destiny'), and provided a rationale for the justification
of western expansion and the concomitant rape, pillage, and slaughter of Native Americans.
... The brutality of slavery in the American antebellum South was revealed quite adequately by former slave Frederick Douglass, and recounted too many times for anyone
to be ignorant about this horrendous period in 'Christian' America. Douglass is said to have written: 'I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed
with my legs.' Enough said."
"The problem of evil is as clear of an empirical refutation of the existence of the Christian God as we get."
"The problems with Christianity begin with the Christian Bible. What are we to make of stories like that of II Kings 2? That chapter relates how the prophet
Elisha was approaching the town of Bethel when a group of boys jeered him. Elisha cursed them in the name of the Lord and two she-bears came out of the woods and
mauled forty-two of the children. I once asked a Christian philosopher about this passage. He bit the bullet and said that God must not permit his holy
prophets to be mocked. I concluded that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were not holy prophets since I had often mocked them but had not yet been mauled by she-bears."
"Remember, you cannot escape hell by being good; for Christians, everybody is bad. No matter how hard you strive to live a virtuous life, if you lack certain beliefs,
you go to hell. That is what makes hell such a pernicious doctrine. Hell is the penalty for disagreeing with Christians! It is hard to imagine a more potent tool for
propaganda or one more subversive of rational thought. An appeal ad baculum is an attempt to persuade by intimidation or the threat of force. Hell is the ultimate
ad baculum: Believe or suffer consequences too horrible to contemplate. In short, the doctrine of hell is Christianity's campaign of psychological warfare against the human mind."
"1) God is Silent. If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time...
... 2) God is Inert. ... Yet that is God: An absentee mom - who lets kids get kidnapped and murdered or run over by cars, who does nothing to teach them what they need
to know, who never sits down like a loving parent to have an honest chat with them, and who would let them starve if someone else didn't intervene.
As this is unconscionable, almost any idea of a god that fits the actual evidence of the world is unconscionable. And any such deity could never be the Christian God...
... 3) The Evidence is Inadequate. ... We simply have no evidence that any believer ever has or ever will enjoy eternal life, or even that any unbeliever won't.
... Consider the generic claims that God exists, God is good, and God created this universe. What evidence do we have for any of these particular propositions?
... 4) Christianity Predicts a Different Universe. ... For a loving God who wanted to create a universe solely to provide a home for human beings, and to bring his
plan of salvation to fruition, would never have invented this universe, but something quite different. But if there is no God, then the universe we actually
observe is exactly the sort of universe we would expect to observe. In other words, if there is no God then this universe is the only kind of universe we would ever
find ourselves in, the only kind that could ever produce intelligent life without any supernatural cause or plan. Hence naturalist atheism predicts exactly
the kind of universe we observe, while the Christian theory predicts almost none of the features of our universe."
"Christianity entails that God, like any other person, would say and do at least some things we would all see. Since we haven't seen such things,
the Christian theory is falsified by the evidence. Christianity also entails that God would have made the universe differently than we observe it to be.
So it is falsified again by the evidence. A failed prediction means a failed theory, especially when these failures apply to the very design of the universe itself.
At the same time, there is insufficient evidence for any of the essential propositions of Christianity. So the Christian hypothesis contradicts a lot of evidence,
makes numerous failed predictions, is not the best explanation of the universe we find ourselves in, and fails to find sufficient evidence in its own support.
Therefore, I believe Christianity is false."
"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."
"As to the common people, ... one has to be hard with them and see that they do their work and that under the threat of the sword and the law they
comply with the observance of piety, just as you chain up wild beasts."
"Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia."
"How often have not the demons called 'Nix', drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences."
"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."
"I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all."
"Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities,
as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads."
"Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt... people."
"Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be
put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God."
"Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them."
"The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good;
music is hateful to him, and drives him far away."
"The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood,
and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet
'tis only the Devil; and... the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil."
"The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth."
"The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that.
He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing."
"To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason."
"We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist."
"When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children."
"Women ... have but small and narrow chests, and broad hips, to the end that they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children."
"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
"I had a student ask me, 'Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?'
Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed."
"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools.
The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!"
"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
... AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters."
"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."
"Good Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions."
"The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters
pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc."
"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them."
"We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America."
"Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."
"There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight.
The 'negroes' of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours."
"The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center,
the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer."
"Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process for a love of country."
"You just wait until 1996, then you'll see a real right-wing tyrant."
George W Bush, echoing the either-or, black-and-white thinking practiced by the Jesus character of the Christian Gospel stories
('He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.' - Matthew 12:30) and thereby leaving room for no other options,
in his September 20, 2001:
"This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while."
"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem
in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
"Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened
by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a
unique people chosen by God."
"I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today.
It reminds me that the Almighty God is a God to everybody, every person."
"Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call."
"Mother Teresa has given a bad name to Calcutta, painting the beautiful, interesting, lively and culturally rich Indian metropolis in the colors of dirt,
misery, hopelessness and death. Styled into the big gutter, it became the famous backdrop for her very special charitable work. Her order is only one among more
than 200 charitable organizations, which try to help the slum-dwellers of Calcutta to build a better future. It is locally not very visible or active.
But tall claims like the absolutely baseless story of her slum school for 5000 children have brought enormous international publicity to her institutions.
And enormous donations! Mother Teresa has collected many, many millions (some say: billions) of Dollars in the name of India's paupers (and many,
many more in the name of paupers in the other 'gutters' of the world). Where did all this money go? It is surely not used to improve the lot of those,
for whom it was meant. The nuns would hand out some bowls of soup to them and offer shelter and care to some of the sick and suffering.
The richest order in the world is not very generous, as it wants to teach them the charm of poverty. 'The suffering of the poor is something
very beautiful and the world is being very much helped by the nobility of this example of misery and suffering', said Mother Teresa.
Do we have to be grateful for this lecture of an eccentric billionaire? The legend of her Homes for the Dying has moved the world to tears.
Reality, however, is scandalous: In the overcrowded and primitive little homes, many patients have to share a bed with others.
Though there are many suffering from tuberculosis, AIDS and other highly infectious illnesses, hygiene is no concern.
The patients are treated with good words and insufficient (sometimes outdated) medicines, applied with old needles, washed in lukewarm water.
One can hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief. On principle, strong painkillers are even
in hard cases not given. According to Mother Teresa's bizarre philosophy, it is 'the most beautiful gift for a person that he can participate in the sufferings of Christ'.
Once she tried to comfort a screaming sufferer: 'You are suffering, that means Jesus is kissing you!' The man got furious and screamed back:
'Then tell your Jesus that he should stop kissing me!' Do we have to be grateful to be the victims of this very special kind of charity?
Do we have to tolerate that ignorant and helpless people are used as extras in the inhumane and cruel religious drama of the beauty of suffering in Christ?
When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Price, she used the opportunity of her worldwide telecast speech in Oslo to declare abortion the greatest evil
in the world and to launch a fiery call against population control. Her charitable work, she admitted, was only part of her big fight against abortion
and population control. This fundamentalist position is a slap in the face of India and other Third World Countries, where population control is one of the main
keys for development and progress and social transformation. Do we have to be grateful to Mother Teresa for leading this worldwide propagandist fight
against us with the money she collected in our name? Mother Teresa did not serve the poor in Calcutta, she served the rich in the West.
She helped them to overcome their bad conscience by taking billions of Dollars from them. Some of her donors were dictators and criminals,
who tried to white wash their dirty vests. Mother Teresa revered them for a price. Most of her supporters, however, were honest people with good intentions
and a warm heart, who fall for the illusion that the 'Saint of the Gutter' was there to wipe away all tears and end all misery and undo all injustice in the world.
Those in love with an illusion often refuse to see reality."
"According to the child, she and three others were playing inside the MC center [The Catholic order of the Missionaries of Charity - MC, founded by Mother Teresa]
when Sister Francesca accused them of stealing and heated a knife on an electric heater, then pressed it onto the hands of the four children.
'...Her intention was to correct the children for stealing some money, but she definitely overstepped her limits', said Sister Nirmala, who was chosen as head of
the MC six months before the death of Mother Teresa in September 1997."
"Lincoln Savings and Loan eventually collapsed, and in 1992 Keating was brought to trial in Los Angeles. Mother Teresa then sent to the trial judge a letter
in which she sought clemency for Keating and exhorted the judge to 'do what Jesus would do'. The judge didn't reply, but a deputy district attorney, Paul Turley, did.
After Keating was convicted of fraud, Turley wrote to Mother Teresa and pointed out that the money which she had received from Keating was, in fact, money that
Keating had stolen. Turley then urged Mother Teresa to ask herself what Jesus would do in such a situation, and he offered to help her return the money
to its rightful owners.
"'...lack of good analgesia marks Mother Teresa's approach as clearly separate from the hospice movement.' - Dr. Robin Fox, 17 Sept 1994, The Lancet."
"Three years later, Mr Turley has received no reply to his letter [where he asked MT to return the money stolen by Charles Keating, of the greatest fraudster in US history].
Nor can anybody account for the missing money: saints, it seems, are immune to audit.
This is by no means the only example of Mother Teresa's surreptitious attitude to money, nor of her hypocritical protestations about the beauty of poverty.
But it is the clearest instance, and it is proof against the customary apologetics about innocence and unworldliness.
Mother Teresa reigns in a kingdom that is very much of this world."
"A Bengali woman named Monica Besra claims that a beam of light emerged from a picture of MT
[Mother Teresa, born Agnese Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979],
which she happened to have in her home, and relieved her of a cancerous tumor. Her physician, Dr. Ranjan Mustafi,
says that she didn't have a cancerous tumor in the first place and that the tubercular cyst
she did have was cured by a course of prescription medicine. Was he interviewed by the Vatican's investigators? No.
... Believers are indeed enjoined to abhor and eschew abortion, but they are not required to affirm that abortion is 'the greatest destroyer of peace',
as MT fantastically asserted to a dumbfounded audience when receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Believers are likewise enjoined to abhor and eschew divorce, but they are not required to insist that a ban on divorce and remarriage be a part of the state constitution,
as MT demanded in a referendum in Ireland (which her side narrowly lost) in 1996. Later in that same year, she told Ladies Home Journal that she was pleased
by the divorce of her friend Princess Diana, because the marriage had so obviously been an unhappy one...
"While much was made of Mother Teresa's devotion to the poor and downtrodden, she was in fact a lifelong friend to the rich and powerful. Some examples:
"What kind of theology was she promoting? Mother Teresa offers an intensely simple version of Christian Fundamentalism. She believed that we are all sinners
conceived in iniquity. She frequently described the suffering of the poor as a gift from God, and took a highly traditional attitude of resignation and stoicism.
She was extremely critical of political attempts to change injustice and equality, describing herself as 'non-political' but also expressing sympathy for
conservative Catholic forces in Latin America and Southern Europe. She was adamantly opposed to the use of contraception. She said that she would never permit
a child to be adopted by any parent who had ever consented to an abortion. In her Nobel Prize speech, she described abortion as the single greatest threat to world peace.
She was a staunch ally of the present Pope in his battle, within the church, against the 'social gospel' and other liberal heresies.
"Criticisms of her however peaked during her lifetime; apart from the November 1994 documentary, there was a stringent (and quite detailed)
attack on conditions in her orphanages in India that was published in The Guardian of London (14 October 1996)
- charges of gross neglect and physical and emotional abuse were made. The article alleged her own complicity and knowledge in the unacceptable practices
that went (go) on in her homes. During January 1997, a documentary - entitled Mother Teresa: Time for Change? - critical of her working methods and
accusing her of neglect, was shown on various European television channels.
... The German magazine Stern (10 September 1998) published a devastating critique of Mother Teresa's work on the first anniversary of her death.
The article, entitled 'Mother Teresa, Where Are Your Millions?', which took a year's research in three continents, concluded that her organisation
is essentially a religious order that does not deserve to be called a charitable foundation. No protest has been forthcoming from her order.
... To the charges of neglect of residents, indifference to suffering, massaging of figures, manipulation of the media and knowingly handling millions of dollars
of stolen cash, Mother Teresa never protested.
... Notwithstanding her image, she was a robust protester whenever she had a case.
Shortly before she died she got involved in legal wrangles with a Tennessee bakery over the marketing of a bun; and more seriously,
with her one time close friend and ally, the author Dominique Lapierre, over the script of a film on her life.
On both occasions her Miami based solicitor got properly involved. And then, there is that well-known letter of protest she wrote to Judge Lance Ito
protesting at the prosecution (she perceived it as persecution) of her friend Charles Keating, the biggest fraudster in US history."
"Many people tell me that Mother Teresa should be left alone because she did 'something' for the underprivileged. I do not deny that she did.
However her reputation, which was to a good extent carefully built up by herself, was not on a 'something' scale. More importantly, that 'something',
at least in Calcutta, was quite little, as my book will show. Even more importantly, she had turned away many many more than she had helped
- although she had claimed throughout her life that she was doing everything for everybody. My brief against her is not that she did not address
the root or causes of suffering and I am not for a moment suggesting that she ought to have done so, as I understand the particular religious tradition she came from
- I am saying that there was a stupendous discrepancy between her image and her work, between her words and her deeds; that she, helped by others of course,
engaged in a culture of deception."
"In December 1984, three and a half thousand people died in Bhopal from inhaling toxic gas, leaked by the multinational giant Union Carbide,
in the worst industrial accident the world has ever seen. The number of people actually affected cannot be logged as the effects are long-standing
and future generations would probably continue to suffer.
"I could go on and on, filling page after page with dense examples of disasters and crises where Mother Teresa had had no involvement whatsoever.
For me, a Calcuttan, born and bred, it does not come as surprise, as I know her order has no infrastructure - indeed it had never been her intention to
create an infrastructure for such work, as she had frequently said, 'I'm not a social worker.' But what I find somewhat disturbing is that she remained
inactive when children were hurt or killed, or were at the risk of being orphaned, as in the case of Shahida, who appealed to her personally;
this did not sit comfortably with her 'Child First' philosophy. But then, for her the unborn child was far more important than the actual child.
Having gone through hundreds of her speeches I have wondered, when compared to the unborn child if the actual child mattered to her at all:
"Indeed, Mother Teresa spent such a large part of each year outside of India, it would have been impractical for her to help out in that country's
problems and calamities. From 1978 and up to and including the year of her death 1997, she spent every summer and monsoon - barring 1994 - in Europe and the United States.
... It is known that Princess Diana desperately wanted to meet Mother Teresa in Calcutta - nine times her office tried to bring the two together
in Calcutta but nine times it failed because the nun was hardly there. Finally when Diana came to Calcutta in February 1992, they could not meet as Mother
got held back in Rome. The two met twice - in Rome and New York, the two places that were Mother's real homes and where she was most comfortable."
"In 1981 and 1982 she left Calcutta in April, going east to Japan, as she got worried that the Japanese were getting too blase about abortion.
A wealthy Japanese Catholic anti-abortion pressure group funded the trips. In April 1982 she met up with 230 members of the Japanese parliament (the Diet)
and was almost successful in making abortion extremely difficult for Japanese women - a popular revolt prevented the change of law she wanted."
"The dormitory held about 30 beds rammed in so close that there was hardly a breath of air between the bare metal frames. Apart from shrines and salutations to
'Our Great Mother', the white walls were bare.
... Earlier in the day, young international volunteers had giggled as one told how a young boy had peed on her while strapped to a bed. I had already been told of an
older disturbed woman tied to a tree at another Missionaries of Charity home. At the orphanage, few of the volunteers batted an eyelid at disabled children being tied up.
They were too intoxicated with the myth of Mother Teresa and drunk on their own philanthropy to see that such treatment of children was inhumane and degrading.
... Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 in Kolkata, answering her own calling to 'serve the poorest of the poor'. In 1969, a documentary
about her work with the poor catapulted her to global celebrity. International awards followed, including the Nobel Peace Prize and a Congressional Gold Medal.
But when, in her Nobel acceptance speech, she described abortion as 'the greatest destroyer of peace today' she started to provoke controversy.
... I winced at the rough handling by some of the full-time staff and Missionary sisters. I saw children with their mouths gagged open to be given medicine,
their hands flaying in distress, visible testimony to the pain they were in. Tiny babies were bound with cloths at feeding time. Rough hands wrenched heads
into position for feeding. Some of the children retched and coughed as rushed staff crammed food into their mouths. Boys and girls were abandoned on open toilets
for up to 20 minutes at a time. Slumped, untended, some dribbling, some sleeping, they were a pathetic sight. Their treatment was an affront to their dignity,
and dangerously unhygienic.
... Volunteers (from Italy, Sweden, the United States and the UK) did their best to cradle and wash the children who had soiled themselves. But there were no nappies,
and only cold water. Soap and disinfectant were in short supply. Workers washed down beds with dirty water and dirty cloths. Food was prepared on the floor in the corridor.
A senior member of staff mixed medicine with her hands.
... Susan Shields, formerly a senior nun with the order, recalled that one year there was roughly $50m in the bank account held by the New York office alone.
Much of the money, she complained, sat in banks while workers in the homes were obliged to reuse blunt needles. The order has stopped reusing needles,
but the poor care remains pervasive. One nurse told me of a case earlier this year where staff knew a patient had typhoid but made no effort to protect volunteers
or other patients. 'The sense was that God will provide and if the worst happens - it is God's will.'
... Rarely has one individual so convinced public opinion of the holiness of her cause. Her reward is accelerated canonisation. But her homes are a disgrace
to so-called Christian care and, indeed, civilised values of any kind. I witnessed barbaric treatment of the most vulnerable."
"Some years after I became a Catholic, I joined Mother Teresa's congregation, the Missionaries of Charity. I was one of her sisters for nine and a half years,
living in the Bronx, Rome, and San Francisco, until I became disillusioned and left in May 1989. As I reentered the world, I slowly began to unravel the tangle of lies
in which I had lived. I wondered how I could have believed them for so long. Three of Mother Teresa's teachings that are fundamental to her religious congregation
are all the more dangerous because they are believed so sincerely by her sisters. Most basic is the belief that as long as a sister obeys she is doing God's will.
Another is the belief that the sisters have leverage over God by choosing to suffer. Their suffering makes God very happy. He then dispenses more graces to humanity.
The third is the belief that any attachment to human beings, even the poor being served, supposedly interferes with love of God and must be vigilantly avoided or
immediately uprooted. The efforts to prevent any attachments cause continual chaos and confusion, movement and change in the congregation. Mother Teresa did not
invent these beliefs - they were prevalent in religious congregations before Vatican II - but she did everything in her power (which was great) to enforce them.
Once a sister has accepted these fallacies she will do almost anything. She can allow her health to be destroyed, neglect those she vowed to serve, and switch off
her feelings and independent thought. She can turn a blind eye to suffering, inform on her fellow sisters, tell lies with ease, and ignore public laws and regulations.
Women from many nations joined Mother Teresa in the expectation that they would help the poor and come closer to God themselves. When I left, there were more than
3,000 sisters in approximately 400 houses scattered throughout the world. Many of these sisters who trusted Mother Teresa to guide them have become broken people.
In the face of overwhelming evidence, some of them have finally admitted that their trust has been betrayed, that God could not possibly be giving the orders they hear.
It is difficult for them to decide to leave - their self-confidence has been destroyed, and they have no education beyond what they brought with them when they joined.
I was one of the lucky ones who mustered enough courage to walk away."
"As a Missionary of Charity, I was assigned to record donations and write the thank-you letters. The money arrived at a frantic rate. The mail carrier often
delivered the letters in sacks. We wrote receipts for checks of $50,000 and more on a regular basis. Sometimes a donor would call up and ask if we had received his check,
expecting us to remember it readily because it was so large. How could we say that we could not recall it because we had received so many that were even larger?
... When Mother spoke publicly, she never asked for money, but she did encourage people to make sacrifices for the poor, to 'give until it hurts'.
Many people did - and they gave it to her. We received touching letters from people, sometimes apparently poor themselves, who were making sacrifices to send
us a little money for the starving people in Africa, the flood victims in Bangladesh, or the poor children in India. Most of the money sat in our bank accounts.
The flood of donations was considered to be a sign of God's approval of Mother Teresa's congregation. We were told by our superiors that we received more gifts
than other religious congregations because God was pleased with Mother, and because the Missionaries of Charity were the sisters who were faithful to the true spirit
of religious life. Most of the sisters had no idea how much money the congregation was amassing. After all, we were taught not to collect anything.
One summer the sisters living on the outskirts of Rome were given more crates of tomatoes than they could distribute. None of their neighbors wanted them because
the crop had been so prolific that year. The sisters decided to can the tomatoes rather than let them spoil, but when Mother found out what they had done
she was very displeased. Storing things showed lack of trust in Divine Providence.
The donations rolled in and were deposited in the bank, but they had no effect on our ascetic lives and very little effect on the lives of the poor we were trying to help.
We lived a simple life, bare of all superfluities. We had three sets of clothes, which we mended until the material was too rotten to patch anymore. We washed our own
clothes by hand. The never-ending piles of sheets and towels from our night shelter for the homeless we washed by hand, too. Our bathing was accomplished with only
one bucket of water. Dental and medical checkups were seen as an unnecessary luxury."
"Mother was very concerned that we preserve our spirit of poverty. Spending money would destroy that poverty. She seemed obsessed with using only the simplest
of means for our work. Was this in the best interests of the people we were trying to help, or were we in fact using them as a tool to advance our own 'sanctity?'
In Haiti, to keep the spirit of poverty, the sisters reused needles until they became blunt. Seeing the pain caused by the blunt needles, some of the volunteers
offered to procure more needles, but the sisters refused. We begged for food and supplies from local merchants as though we had no resources. On one of the rare
occasions when we ran out of donated bread, we went begging at the local store. When our request was turned down, our superior decreed that the soup kitchen
could do without bread for the day.
... Our Constitution forbade us to beg for more than we needed, but, when it came to begging, the millions of dollars accumulating in the bank were treated
as if they did not exist. For years I had to write thousands of letters to donors, telling them that their entire gift would be used to bring God's loving compassion
to the poorest of the poor. I was able to keep my complaining conscience in check because we had been taught that the Holy Spirit was guiding Mother.
To doubt her was a sign that we were lacking in trust and, even worse, guilty of the sin of pride. I shelved my objections and hoped that one day I would understand
why Mother wanted to gather so much money, when she herself had taught us that even storing tomato sauce showed lack of trust in Divine Providence."
Allah will welcome the disbelievers into hell.
"Do the disbelievers reckon that they can choose My bondmen as protecting friends beside Me? Lo! We have prepared hell as a welcome for the disbelievers."
The good works of disbelievers are all in vain. They will go to hell anyway.
"Those whose effort goeth astray in the life of the world, and yet they reckon that they do good work.
Those are they who disbelieve in the revelations of their Lord and in the meeting with Him. Therefor their works are vain,
and on the Day of Resurrection We assign no weight to them.
That is their reward: hell, because they disbelieved, and made a jest of Our revelations and Our messengers."
If Allah feels like it, he will drown everyone.
"And if We will, We drown them, and there is no help for them, neither can they be saved..."
Non-muslims will be tormented forever in the Fire. Allah will not have any mercy on them.
"And though they are resigned, yet the Fire is still their home; and if they ask for favour, yet they are not of those unto whom favour can be shown."
Those with Muhammad are ruthless toward disbelievers and merciful toward themselves.
"Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves."
Allah has destroyed many entire generations.
"And how many a generation We destroyed before them..."
Be stern with disbelievers. They are going to Hell anyway.
"O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey's end."
Noah asked Allah to drown all the disbelievers.
"And Noah said: My Lord! Leave not one of the disbelievers in the land."
"Ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers... and let them find harshness in you."
"Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender and pay tribute."
"O believers, do not treat your fathers and brothers as your friends,
if they prefer unbelief to belief, whosoever of you takes them for friends, they are evil-doers."
"Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends... whoso does that belongs not to God."
"The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished."
"If someone becomes a Muslim then apostatizes, he would be asked to repent; if he does not repent, he should be killed."
"Somebody may say: 'Do you want to deny freedom to people?' We say to him:
'If what is meant by freedom is to disbelieve in God's religion, or the freedom of infidelity and apostasy,
then that freedom is abolished and we do not recognize it; we even call for its eradication, and we strive to oppress it.
We declare that publicly and in daylight'."
"I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race.
I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god,
is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system."
"Yes, indeed. It was a bishop of the Church of Rome who burned the great library at Alexandria because he was uncomfortable with the reminder on such a grand scale
that there were successful human enterprises that pre-dated Jesus. You have any appreciation of what was lost in that fire? The science, the records, the scholarship,
the wisdom, the literature? Our understanding of the past and what it may portend for the future was irreparably sabotaged by arrogant Christian firebugs.
The second greatest library in the world happened to be in Timbuktu, and it was torched by Islamic revisionists for the very same reason.
Let history begin with Muhammed! If these religious assholes are really convinced of the power and the truth of their big boohoos,
why are they so scared by historical fact, by thought, by knowledge?"
"To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim... I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never
in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from...
The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth,
and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death."
"With a Jewish father (stern patriarch) and a Christian mother (obsession with guilt and heaven) it is not surprising that Islam grew up a bit of a tartar.
Early civilizations arose in many parts of Arabia, long before Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Islam arose as an adaptation of old ideas, not something new.
Yet initially, far from imposing a severe theocracy, the early caliphs were tolerant, even urbane. Despite the mutual hostility of kindred monotheisms,
Islam endorsed a great deal of Judeo-Christian theology and adopted many of its practices. In its heyday, from the Atlantic to central Asia, Islam produced
scholars and refinement. Europe's recovery owed a huge debt to Islamic civilization. Battered by both East and West the enlightenment failed and theology triumphed."
"Abraham (Abram, Ibrahím) - This amazingly 'righteous' phantom has a lot to answer for. Father of 'many nations' his supposed behaviour set a terrifying example
- not only attempted murder of his favourite son but abandoning to the desert the offspring of his various concubines. Sadly, Judaism, Christianity and Islam
all pay homage to this con' man and warlord. Never actually existed, of course, but that hardly matters to religious zealots."
"Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all.
The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or,
in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right
to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent."
"And there is the clear exhortation on almost every page of the Koran to destroy unbelievers - but also the Jews and Christians of the book
- their religion, their culture, their civilization, all in the name of a merciful God!"
"To my knowledge, no popes, princes, kings, caliphs, or emirs have excelled in the practice of virtue, so outstandingly did Moses, Paul, and Muhammad
excel in murder, torture, and orgies of plunder - I call the biographies to witness."
"The etymology of 'Muslim', which according to the dictionary means submissive toward God and Muhammad, the impossibility of thinking or acting outside
the Torah [religious texts of Judaism], which has laws regulating every tiniest detail of daily life - all these things militate against reason and in favor of submission...
It's almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!"
"Should we point out to them the instances of hatred of Jews and non-Muslims that stuff the pages of the Koran? They would point to the practice of dhimma,
theoretically intended to assure non-Muslim people of the book of their right to exist and be protected. But they would be careful not to add that this protection
exists only after payment of a staggering tax, the gizya. Which aligns the professed Muslim tolerance with the Mafia's 'protection' of an individual
forced to finance the organization that persecutes him."
"A reading of the Koran shows the obvious kinship between the two religions [Judaism and Islam]. Islam clearly proclaims the superiority of males over females,
for God prefers men to women (4:34). Hence a series of diktats: prohibition on exposing the hair out of doors - the veil (24:30) - or exposing bare arms and legs;
no sexuality outside legitimate relations with a member of the community, who may himself possess several spouses (4:3); prohibition of polyandry for women,
of course; praise for chastity, of course (17:32 and 33:35); prohibition on marrying a non-Muslim (3:28); prohibition on wearing men's clothing;
no mingling of the sexes at the mosque; no question of shaking hands with a man unless wearing gloves; marriage mandatory, with no tolerance for celibacy (24:32)
even in the name of religion; passion and love advised against in marriage, which is celebrated in the interests of family (4:25), tribe, and community;
recommendation that the wife submit to all the sexual desires of the husband, who 'plows his wife whenever he likes, for she is his tillage'
- the metaphor is Koranic (2:223); permission to beat one's spouse on mere suspicion (4:34); the same ease of repudiation,
the same existential minor status,
the same legal inferiority (2:228), with a woman's courtroom testimony worth half that of a man, while a barren woman and a woman deflowered before marriage
possess exactly the same value: none at all."
"The Koran consists of one hundred fourteen suras or chapters. Except for sura 9, each chapter begins by repeating the first line of the first sura:
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Duly noted. According to Islamic tradition, God has
ninety-nine names; the hundredth will be revealed only in a
future life. Many of these names are variations on the theme of mercy and compassion.
... 'Mercy' may be defined as 'forgiveness extended to those
one might punish'. The specifically religious definition is 'the goodness through which God extends
his grace to men and to sinners'. In that case, how is it that, among the ninety-nine Beautiful Names of Allah, there is also Al-Mudhill: the Humiliator,
the Degrader, Bringer of Dishonor and Disgrace. Al-Mumît: the Taker of Life, the Creator of Death. Al-Muntaqim: the Avenger, the Inflictor of Retribution.
Al-Dârr: the Punisher, Bringer of Harm to Those Who Offend Him. Debasing, killing, avenging, harming - strange ways of showing mercy!
But justified on page after page of the Koran."
"Allah is constantly presented in the Koran as a warrior immune to pity. Of course he can exercise his magnanimity: it is after all one of his attributes.
But when? Where? With whom? There is much more putting to the sword, subjecting to the yoke, torturing, burning, pillage, and slaughter than love of one's neighbor.
And all this as much in the deeds and gestures of the Prophet as in the text of the holy book. Muslim theory and Islamic practice are not shining examples of compassion."
"For Muhammad himself did not excel in chivalrous virtues, as his story attests: the Muhammad of Medina was a great raider during tribal wars,
rounding up captives, sharing out booty, sending his friends into the thick of the fighting to commit deeds of extraordinary violence. And again,
slightly injured by a flying stone, he watches his demoralized troops seek refuge in a trench, entrusting close friends with the liquidation of this or
that dangerous rival, happily slaughtering Jews, and so forth."
"Magnanimous, then? Here is a listing of contrary qualities: Allah excelled in strategy, battle tactics, and punishment - including killing (8:30)
- he deployed his cunning, that virtue born of cynicism, more closely resembling a vice than anything else, with flair. He resorted willingly to violence
and decided on questions of life and death (3:156); he devised ignominious punishments for doubters (4:102); he was the Master of vengeance
(5:95 and 3:4); he annihilated evildoers (3:141); indeed he practiced that sublime virtue so assiduously that he did not even tolerate a belief that diverged
from his wishes; thus he punished those who conceived a false idea about him (48). Magnanimity - nothing like it!"
"Inheriting this, as they inherited all the rest, the Muslims practiced slavery and the Koran did nothing to suppress it. On the contrary: it legitimized slave-
and booty-hunting raids, loot in gold, silver, women, animals, men. Indeed, we owe the invention of the slave trade to Islam. In the year 1000 there was a regular
traffic between Kenya and China. Muslim law banned the sale of Muslims, but not that of other believers. Nine centuries before the transatlantic trade, trans-Saharan
traffic began its dismal career. It is estimated that ten million men were deported over a period of twelve hundred years by the faithful of Allah,
the Compassionate, the Most Great, the All-Wise."
"Muslims divide the world in two: friends and enemies. On one side, brothers in Islam, on the other the rest, all the rest. Dar al-islam against dar al-harb:
two separate and incompatible worlds, governed by savage and brutal relations - a predator and a prey, an eater and an eaten, a dominator and a dominated.
As in the most elemental of jungles, the big cats keep to themselves while the rest wait to be conquered, enslaved, and possessed. The law that governs relations
among animals. It is a world vision not too distant from Hitler's, justifying the logics of branding, possession, administration, and extension
of territory.
The fox and the chickens, the falcon and its prey, lion and gazelle, weak and strong, Islam and the others. No law, no justice, no communication,
no exchange of information - just muscles, instinct, strength, battle, war, and blood."
"A book dating from the beginning of the 630s, theoretically dictated to an illiterate camel herdsman, regulates down to the smallest detail the daily lives
of billions of people in the era of supersonic travel, space conquest, worldwide information networks, the real and universal time of generalized communications,
the sequencing of the human genome, nuclear energy, the first glimpses of the post-human. The remark applies equally for the Torah- and Talmud-obsessed Lubavitchers,
who share a similar ignorance of the passage of time."
"The two waves of Muslim expansion, the Arab from the seventh century and the Turkish from 4 centuries later-are remarkably similar ...
the great Arab and Turkish conquerors used the same military tactics and the same policies of consolidating Islamic power.
This continuity resulted from the fact that the conquests took place within the framework of the common ideology of jihad and the administrative and judicial
apparatus of the sharia - a uniformity that defies time, since it adapts itself to diverse lands and peoples, being integrated into the internal coherence of
a political theology. In the course of their military operation, the Turks applied to the conquered populations the rules of jihad,
which had been structured 4 centuries earlier by the Arabs and enshrined in Islamic sacred law."
"From the very beginning ... the Turks tried to consolidate their position by the forcible imposition of Islam. If (the Ottoman historian) Sukrullah
is to be believed, those who refused to accept the Moslem faith were slaughtered and their families enslaved.
'Where there were bells, Suleiman broke them up and cast them into fires. Where there were churches he destroyed them or converted them into mosques.'"
"The conquest of the Balkan Peninsular by the Turks meant not only the massive destruction of productivity, the depopulation of the occupied regions,
mass enslavement, and forced colonization, but also the founding of a new feudal system. This feudal system was the continuation, in a subsequent phase of development,
of the Osmanli military feudalism that had been created in Asia Minor during the first half of the fourteenth century.
In essence, this system did not modify the feudal ties that existed in the Balkan states at the time when they were conquered by the Turks,
but compared with them, the system was at an inferior, barbarous level, having as its foundation brutal coercion and terror, since the Muslims
had the privilege of resorting with impunity to violence against the Christian population and of subjecting it to unlimited exploitation."
"There one could find carefully selected boys and girls, with beautiful faces, sweet young boys and girls who shone more brightly than the sun.
To what nations did they belong? They were Byzantines, Serbs, Walachians, Albanians, Hungarians, Saxons, Bulgarians, and Latins.
Each of them sang songs in his own language, although reluctantly. He himself (the sultan) unceasingly gave himself over to pleasure, to the point of exhaustion,
by indulging in debauchery with these boys and girls."
"The next morning they were paraded before him, naked and in groups of 3 or 4. The mass beheadings began early in the morning and continued through the day."
"The execution of all those who were 10 years or older; and so it happened. They gathered their heads and bodies, put them together, and built a big tower outside the city, which can still be seen nowadays."
The Greek revolution of 1821 was the culmination of the resistance to Muslim Ottoman domination which was:
"... characterised by economic spoliation, intellectual decay and cultural retrogression ... restrictions of all kinds, unlawful taxation, forced labour,
persecutions, violence, imprisonment, death, abductions of girls and boys and their confinement to Turkish harems, and various deeds of wantonness and lust ...
they defied every sense of human decency."
Preaching from mosques encouraged the attackers and promised them the rewards of Armenian property as allah decreed.
"In Urfa, koranic verses were recited before people had their throats slit and women and children were burnt alive (8 thousand died)."
"The butchers and tanners, with sleeves tucked up to the shoulders, armed with clubs and cleaves, cut down the Christians, with cries of 'allahu akbar'.
... Then when mid-day came they knelt down and said their prayers, and then jumped up and resumed their dreadful work ... they fired the houses with petroleum."
"To the end of the 19th century, where the Turks had control, Christians could be accused of anything... and killed.
There was no liberty of conscience. Religious persecution was never absent. Justice applied a double standard and depended on Muslim judges and crowds.
The claimed policy of religious tolerance by the Ottomans is not supported by the facts."
"A Christian... lost to all sense of human dignity. ... The meanest expression of human degradation; to speak to him would by a humiliation for our intelligence
and an insult ... the presence of such miscreants among us is the bane of our existence ... their doctrine is a direct insult ... contact with them is a defilement
of our bodies; any relation with them a torture to our souls ... and goes on to explain how they will take our weapons etc. given through our own agency."
Researcher Alan fisher's conservative estimate of the slave raids against the Christian populations of southern Poland and Muscovite Russia indicate that at least
3 million people-men, women, children were enslaved during the 'harvesting of the steppe' by Muslim Crimean Tartars in 1463-1694.
Numbers could be huge, eg. from Moscow (1521), 800,000 were taken and from Valynia (1676), 400,000 were taken.
He notes the fast, long march in chains to the Crimea to avoid cossacks, who freed the slaves.
Those who couldn't keep up were killed - often given to Tartar youths to stone, throw into the sea or kill in any way they liked. The mortality rate was high.
Crimean tartars also enslaved and sold Ukranians, Armenians, Circassians, Georgians, Bulgarians, Slavs and Turks.
Shiite Safavids were also involved in slave raids eg Shah Tahmasp (d. 1576) and Shah Abbas (1588-1626) into Christian Georgia, and Armenian areas of the Caucasus.
Georgians, Armenians, Circassians were enslaved in large numbers and converted to shia Islam – or slaughtered.
In 1553, Georgia was attacked, and 30,000 women and children were enslaved. Other such campaigns occurred in 1540, 1546, 1551.
"In 1604, Shah Abbas I demanded that people and possessions be deported from Armenia so the Ottomans would have nothing when they came.
Nothing was left and those that refused to go were killed. Homes and buildings, grain stores etc were burnt and areas pillaged. The Persians drove the people ahead
... beating them, cutting off ears, noses, and heads and putting them on posts! They were tortured to make them hurry and driven into the river with many swept away.
Children were taken, abused and thrown on the road as they were marched to Persia. Then they went and brutally captured those Christians that had hidden.
From a high cave where some hid, Christians were thrown to their death while others chose to jump rather than be slaughtered or raped and enslaved.
A huge area of beautiful Armenia was depopulated. Further expeditions took animals, and enslaved more. People were made to carry goods when even the animals had died."
"From the mid 14th century to the early 18th century, some 500,000 to 1 million boys (primarily Balkan Christian) were enslaved or taken from their families
in the Devshirme system, forcibly converted to Islam, raised in special barracks and trained to kill their own countrymen and others, to control the population and carry out further conquests for Allah."
"As the essential principle of his faith [Islam] is the subjugation of others by the sword; it is only by force, that his false doctrines can be dispelled, and his power annihilated."
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog,
there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce,
and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
"The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture - it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization."
"A moderate Islam does not exist. It does not exist because there is no difference between Good Islam and Bad Islam. There is Islam and that it the end of it.
Islam is the Koran, and nothing other than the Koran. And the Koran is the Mein Kampf of a religion that desires to eliminate others - non-Muslims -
who are called infidel dogs, and inferior creatures. Read the Koran, that Mein Kampf, yet again. In whatever version and you will see that the evil which the sons
of Allah against us and themselves has perpetrated comes from that book."
"The problem is that the solution does not depend upon the death of Osama bin Laden. Because the Osama bin Ladens are too many, by now: as cloned as the sheep
of our research laboratories. In fact, the best trained and the more intelligent do not stay in the Muslim countries... They stay in our own countries, in our cities,
our universities, our business companies. They have excellent bonds with our churches, our banks, our televisions, our radios, our newspapers, our publishers,
our academic organizations, our unions, our political parties. Worse, they live in the heart of a society that hosts them without questioning their differences,
without checking their bad intentions, without penalizing their sullen fanaticism."
"To make you cry I'll tell you about the twelve young impure men I saw executed at Dacca at the end of the Bangladesh war. They executed them on the field of Dacca
stadium, with bayonet blows to the torso or abdomen, in the presence of twenty thousand faithful who applauded in the name of God from the bleachers.
They thundered 'Allah akbar, Allah akbar.' Yes, I know: the ancient Romans, those ancient Romans of whom my culture is so proud, entertained themselves in the Coliseum
by watching the deaths of Christians fed to the lions. I know, I know: in every country of Europe the Christians, those Christians whose contribution to the History
of Thought I recognize despite my atheism, entertained themselves by watching the burning of heretics. But a lot of time has passed since then, we have become a little
more civilized, and even the sons of Allah ought to have figured out by now that certain things are just not done. After the twelve impure young men they killed
a little boy who had thrown himself at the executioners to save his brother who had been condemned to death. They smashed his head with their combat boots.
And if you don't believe it, well, reread my report or the reports of the French and German journalists who, horrified as I was, were there with me.
Or better: look at the photographs that one of them took. Anyway this isn't even what I want to underline. It's that, at the conclusion of the slaughter,
the twenty thousand faithful (many of whom were women) left the bleachers and went down on the field. Not as a disorganized mob, no. In an orderly manner,
with solemnity. They slowly formed a line and, again in the name of God, walked over the cadavers. All the while thundering Allah–akbar, Allah–akbar.
They destroyed them like the Twin Towers of New York. They reduced them to a bleeding carpet of smashed bones."
"I am not speaking, obviously, to the laughing hyenas who enjoy seeing images of the wreckage and snicker good–it–serves–the–Americans–right.
I am speaking to those who, though not stupid or evil, are wallowing in prudence and doubt. And to them I say: 'Wake up, people. Wake up!'
Intimidated as you are by your fear of going against the current—that is, appearing racist (a word which is entirely inapt as we are speaking not about a race
but about a religion) - you don't understand or don't want to understand that a reverse–Crusade is in progress. Accustomed as you are to the double–cross,
blinded as you are by myopia, you don't understand or don't want to understand that a war of religion is in progress. Desired and declared by a fringe of that religion,
perhaps, but a war of religion nonetheless. A war which they call Jihad. Holy War. A war that might not seek to conquer our territory, but that certainly seeks
to conquer our souls. That seeks the disappearance of our freedom and our civilization. That seeks to annihilate our way of living and dying, our way of praying or
not praying, our way of eating and drinking and dressing and entertaining and informing ourselves. You don't understand or don't want to understand that if we don't
oppose them, if we don't defend ourselves, if we don't fight, the Jihad will win. And it will destroy the world that for better or worse we've managed to build,
to change, to improve, to render a little more intelligent, that is to say, less bigoted - or even not bigoted at all. And with that it will destroy our culture,
our art, our science, our morals, our values, our pleasures... Christ! Don't you realize that the Osama Bin Ladens feel authorized to kill you and your children
because you drink wine or beer, because you don't wear your beard long or a chador, because you go to the theater or the movies, because you listen to music and
sing pop songs, because you dance in discos or at home, because you watch TV, wear miniskirts or short–shorts, because you go naked or half naked to the beach or the pool,
because you ... when you want and where you want and who you want? Don't you even care about that, you fools? I am an atheist, thank God.
And I have no intention of letting myself be killed for it."
"I have nothing against Islam because it educates the men in this division for me and promises them heaven if they fight and are killed in action. A very practical and attractive religion for soldiers."
"Islam grew with blood... The great prophet of Islam in one hand carried the Qur'an and in the other a sword; the sword for crushing the traitors and the Qur'an
for guidance. For those who could be guided, the Quran was their means of guidance, while as for those who could not be guided and were plotters,
the sword descended on their heads."
"Islam says: The only good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which can be opened only
for holy warriors! There are hundreds of other Quranic psalms and hadiths saying of the Prophet urging Muslims to value war and to fight.
Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who made such a claim."
"Unbelievers, slaves, and women are considered fundamentally inferior to other groups of people under Islamic law."
"The Mahommedan religion on the whole with all its dogmatic and moral principles, and with all its positive and negative laws has been a curse to human society.
Mahommed pretended to confer by his religion a boon, at least on his own countrymen, by giving them in place of gross idolatry a purer faith, and surer moral habits,
but in this attempt he has miserably failed and has hopelessly fallen into the very sin he so vehemently assailed.
"The spread of Islam is military. There is a tendency to apologize for this and we should not. It is one of the injunctions of the Koran that you must fight for the spreading of Islam."
"To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Muhammad and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing."
"Consider, for example, the Koran. This wretched book was sufficient to found a religion of the world, to satisfy the metaphysical need of millions of men for
twelve hundred years, to become the foundation of their morality, and of no small contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and most extended conquests.
We find in it the saddest and the poorest form of Theism. Much may be lost through translation; but I have not been able to discover one single valuable thought in it."
"All those who promote the mingling of sexes at workplace or in education are apostates that shall be killed.
Anyone who accepts that his daughter, sister or wife works with men or attend mixed-gender schooling cares little about his honor and this is a type of pimping."
"The woman was taken to the public grounds where she was buried up to her waist. She was then stoned to death in front of the crowd of about 200 people on Tuesday afternoon.
A judge working for the militant group al-Shabab said she had had an affair with an unmarried 29-year-old man.
The judge, Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, said her unmarried boyfriend was given 100 lashes at the same venue."
"A girl of 13 begged for mercy moments before a mob buried her up to her shoulders and stoned her to death.
The Somalian youngster is said to have pleaded 'Don't kill me, don't kill me' before her horrific execution in front of a 1,000-strong crowd.
According to Amnesty International, the girl was 13 and had been raped by three men.
Her family is said to have tried to report the crime to the militia who control Kismayu, only for Aisha to be arrested and accused of adultery. None of the men she accused of rape was detained.
A witness told the BBC the woman had begged for her life and had been crying as she was forced into the hole in the ground.
He said the girl had asked the Islamic administration in Kismayo: 'What do you want from me?'
They replied : 'We will do what Allah has instructed us.'
She said: 'I'm not going, I'm not going. Don't kill me, don't kill me.'
The witness added: 'A few minutes later more than 50 men tried to stone her.'
He said no one tried to stop the Islamist officials, who were armed."
"A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.
As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du'a Khalil Aswad as
'an abhorrent murder' and demanded that her killers be brought to justice. Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident,
but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life.
Miss Aswad, a member of a minority Kurdish religious group called Yezidi, was condemned to death as an 'honour killing' by other men in her family and hardline
religious leaders because of her relationship with the Sunni Muslim boy. The teenager was dragged outside by 8 or 9 men and stoned for half an hour until she died.
They said she had shamed herself and her family when she failed to return home one night. Some reports suggested she had converted to Islam to be closer to her boyfriend.
Miss Aswad had taken shelter in the house of a Yezidi tribal leader in Bashika, a predominantly Kurdish town near the northern capital, Mosul.
A large crowd watched as eight or nine men stormed the house and dragged Miss Aswad into the street. There they hurled stones at her for half an hour until she was dead.
The stoning happened last month, but only came to light yesterday with the release of the Internet video.
It is feared her death has already triggered a retaliatory attack. Last week 23 Yezidi workmen were forced off a bus travelling from Mosulto Bashika
by a group of Sunni Muslim gunmen and summarily shot dead. An Amnesty International spokesman in London said they receive frequent reports of honour crimes from Iraq,
particularly in the predominantly Kurdish north. Most victims are women and girls who are considered by male relatives to have shamed their families by immoral behaviour."
"Your wife, who is your possession, is in fact, your slave."
In Somalia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Nigeria and Mauritania gays and lesbians are punished with the death penalty.
In most other Muslim countries homosexuality is punishable by flogging, forced labour and various prison sentences, up to 25 years and even lifetime.
"Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who made a controversial film about Islamic culture, has been stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam.
Van Gogh, 47, had received death threats after his film Submission was shown on Dutch TV. The film was made with liberal Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
a Somali refugee who fled an arranged marriage. Eyewitnesses quoted by Radio Netherlands said Van Gogh was attacked while cycling by a man dressed in
a traditional Moroccan jallaba. Both the suspect and a policeman suffered bullet wounds and are now in hospital. The film Submission told the story
of a Muslim woman forced into an arranged marriage who is abused by her husband and raped by her uncle."
"On 2 November 2004, Theo van Gogh was assassinated in public by Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch-Moroccan Muslim with a dutch passport.
A letter, stabbed through and affixed to the body by a dagger, linked the murder to Van Gogh's film and his views regarding Islam.
It was addressed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and called for a jihad against kafir (Kafir refers to somebody who veils the truth) against USA, Europe, the Netherlands,
and Hirsi Ali herself. Following the murder of Van Gogh, tens of thousands gathered in the center of Amsterdam to mourn Van Gogh's death.
There were fire-bombings of mosques and Muslim schools, and counterattacks against Christian churches. Besides Bouyeri, eleven other Muslim men were arrested
and charged with conspiracy to assassinate Hirsi Ali."
"In 2005, Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf was among the top bestsellers in Turkey, behind a book about a Turkish national hero detonating a nuclear bomb
in Washington D.C. Adolf Hitler remains widely popular in many other Islamic countries, too. At the same time, Turkish PM Erdogan stressed that Islamophobia must
be treated as 'a crime against humanity'. It is banned by law to discuss the Armenian genocide in Turkey, a genocide that allegedly inspired the Nazis
in their Holocaust against Jews. Would a country the size of Germany, with a history of a thousand years of continuous warfare against its neighbors
and where Adolf Hitler is a bestselling author, be hailed as a moderate, Christian country?
"I grew up in New York, the world's most multicultural city, and for some time lived only a few blocks from the imposing Islamic Center on Third Avenue
between 96th and 97th Streets. But it wasn't until I moved to western Europe in 1998 - living first in Amsterdam, then in Oslo -
that fundamentalist Islam became a daily reality for me.
This section is exposing some essential characteristics of Jewism, including Judaism, Jewish tribalism, Jewish moralism, Judeocentrism, Zionism, and their disastrous effect on Jews, Palestinians, on the development of Islamic and Christian doctrines, Western culture and capitalism. Christianity and Islam are branches of Judaism, the cornerstone of these despotic authoritarian religions. The quotes above, related to Islam and Christianity, including those pertaining to the Old Testament in the Bible, are principally relevant also for Judaism. The religious books of Judaism 'proper' include Tanakh, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, Commentaries, other Rabbinic literature and Kabbala.
Numerous sources have been used in this section, including Jewish Tribal Review, Judaic sources, writings on Judaism, Jewish authors and newspapers, and more.
Judaism
(See also Jewish Slave Business - Jewish Criminality - Jewish Factor - anti-Semitism)
"We have to recognize that Jewish blood and the blood of a goy are not the same thing."
"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail."
The Talmud gets its name from the word Lamud - taught, and means The Teaching. By metonymy it is taken to mean the book which contains the Teaching,
which is called Talmud, that is, the doctrinal book which alone fully expounds and explains all the knowledge and teaching of the Jewish people.
...This twofold Gemarah, added to the Mischnah, makes also a twofold Talmud: The Jerusalem version, which, on account of its brevity and obscurity,
is not much used; and the Babylonian version, which has been held in the highest esteem by Jews of all times.
"The authority of the Babylonian Talmud is also greater than that of the Jerusalem Talmud. In cases of doubt the former is decisive."
"The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs, or
ceremonies we observe-whether we are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common law."
"The modern Jew is the product of the Talmud."
If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there.
If a gentile (heathen) hits a Jew, the gentile must be killed.
A Jew need not pay a gentile the wages owed him for work.
If an ox of an Israelite gores an ox of a Canaanite there is no liability; but if an ox of a Canaanite gores an ox of an Israelite...
the payment is to be in full.
The gentiles are outside the protection of the law, and God has 'exposed their money to Israel'.
If a Jew finds an object lost by a gentile it does not have to be returned.
God's approval is applied only to the saving of Jewish lives.
When a Jew murders a gentile, there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep.
Jews may use lies (subterfuges) to circumvent a Gentile.
All gentile children are animals.
Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (filth) from birth.
Gentiles prefer sex with cows.
Declares that agriculture is the lowest of occupations.
A woman who had intercourse with a beast or demon is eligible to marry a Jewish priest.
Adam had sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden.
"When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing."
A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old.
A law regulating the rule for how to urinate in a holy way is given.
On coming from a privy (outdoor toilet) a man should not have sexual intercourse till he has waited long enough to walk half a mile,
because the demon of the privy is with him for that time; if he does, his children will be epileptic.
There is not a whore in the world that the Talmudic sage Rabbi Eleazar has not had sex with. On one of his whorehouse romps, Rabbi Eleazar leanred
that there was one particular prostitute residing in a whorehouse near the sea, who would receive a bag of money for her services.
He took a bag of money and went to her, crossing seven rivers to do so. During their intercourse the prostitute farted.
After this the whore told Rabbi Eleazar: "Just as this gas will never return to my anus, Rabbi Eleazar will never get to heaven."
No rabbi can ever go to hell.
Allegedly 4 billion Jews were killed by the Romans in the city of Bethar.
Allegedly 16 million Jewish children were wrapped in scrolls and burned alive by the Romans.
Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.
A Jewish man is obligated to say the following prayer every day: 'Thank you God for not making me a gentile, a woman or a slave'.
Claims that Jesus is in hell, being boiled in 'hot excrement'.
Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament.
Israelis burned hundreds of New Testament Bibles in occupied Palestine on March 23, 1980
A rabbi was asked whether wine stolen in Pumbeditha might be used or if it was defiled, due to the fact that the thieves might have been gentiles
(a gentile touching wine would make the wine unclean). The rabbi says not to worry, that the wine is permissible for Jewish use because the majority of the thieves
in Pumbeditha, the place where the wine was stolen, are Jews.
“He went therefore to the boy's mother whom he saw sitting in the market place selling vegetables and said to her: 'My daughter, if you will answer truthfully
what I am going to ask you, I promise that you will be saved in the next life.' She demanded that he would swear to keep his promise, and Rabbi Akibah did so
- but with his lips only, for in his heart he invalidated his oath. Then he said: 'Tell me, what kind of son is this of yours?' To which she replied:
'The day I was married I was having menstruation, and because of this my husband left me. But an evil spirit came and slept with me and from this intercourse
my son was born to me.'" ... "And they exclaimed: 'Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who revealed his secret to Rabbi Akibah the son of Joseph!'"
In Chagigah 4b it says:
In Sanhedrin 107b it says:
The book Zohar, III, (282), tells us that Jesus died like a beast and was buried in that "dirt heap... where they throw the dead bodies of dogs and asses,
and where the sons of Esau (the Christians) and of Ismael (the Turks), also Jesus and Mahommed, [and all the] uncircumcized and unclean like dead dogs, are buried."
As in our languages Christians take their name from Christ, so in the language of the Talmud Christians are called Notsrim, from Jesus the Nazarene.
But Christians are also called by the names used in the Talmud to designate all non-Jews:
In Abhodah Zarah 22b it says:
In Iore Dea (198, 48) Hagah it says:
In Kerithuth (6b p. 78) it says:
In Makkoth 7b it says:
In Midrasch Talpioth (fol. 225d) it says [non-Jews, incl. Christians (unlike Jews), are animals in human form, and they shall forever serve Jews, as slaves]:
Rabbi Schelomo Iarchi (Raschi), famous Jewish commentator, explaining the law of Moses (Deuter. XIV, 21) forbidding the eating of meat of wounded animals,
but which must be given to the 'stranger in thy gates', or which, according to Exodus (XXII, 30) is to be thrown to the dogs, has this to say:
"...for he is like a dog. Are we to take to word 'dog' here literally? By no means. For the text in speaking of dead bodies says,
Or thou mayest sell it to an alien. This applies much more to the meat of wounded animals, for which it is permitted to accept payment.
Why therefore does the Scripture say it may be thrown to 'dogs'? In order to teach you that a dog is to be more respected than the Nokhri [non-Jew, Christian]."
In Choschen Ham. (34, 19) it says:
In Iore Dea (81, 7, Hagah) it says:
In Iore Dea (155, 1) it says:
In Iore Dea (153, 1, Hagah) it says:
In Iore Dea (154, 2) it says:
In Choschen Hamm. (183, 7) it says:
In Babha Kama (113b) it says:
In Iore Dea (157, 2 Hagah) it says:
In Abhodah Zarah (54a) it says:
Schabbuoth Hagahoth of Rabbi Ascher (6d):
In Zohar (I, 160a) it says:
In Iore Dea (158, 1) it says:
In Choschen Hamm. (425, 5) it says:
In the Abhodah Zarah (26b) it says:
In Choschen Hammischpat (388, 10) it says:
In Hilkhoth Akum (X, 2) it says:
In Iore Dea (158, 2 Hagah) it says:
In Abhodah Zarah (26b, Tosephoth) it says:
In Speher Or Israel (177b) it says:
In Zohar (III, 227b) the Good Pastor says:
In Zohar (I, 38b, and 39a) it says:
In Hilhoth Akum (X, 1) it says:
In Hilhoth Akum (X, 7) it says:
In Choschen Hamm. (338, 16) it says:
In Pesachim (49b) it says:
Thus the Jews picture their Messiah and Liberator whom they expect, as a persecutor who will inflict great calamities upon non-Jews.
The Talmud lists three great evils which will come upon the world when the Messiah comes. In Schabbath (118a) it says:
"Accordingly, if we see an idolater (gentile) being swept away or drowning in the river, we should not help him.
If we see that his life is in danger, we should not save him."
"It is a mitzvah [religious duty], however, to eradicate Jewish traitors, minnim, and apikorsim, and to cause them to descend
to the pit of destruction, since they cause difficulty to the Jews and sway the people away from God, as did Jesus of Nazareth and his students,
and Tzadok, Baithos, and their students. May the name of the wicked rot."
"To what is this like? It is like a beast which touches a corpse or overshadows it. And this applies not to corpse uncleanness only
but to any other kind of uncleanness: neither gentiles nor cattle are susceptible to any uncleanness."
"A Jew who killed a righteous gentile is not executed in a court of law. It says in Exodus 21:14, 'If a man schemes against his fellow man
and kills the man deliberately, take him away from the altar and put him to death.' But a gentile is not considered a man, and even more so,
a Jew is not executed for killing an unrighteous gentile."
"As for the goyim... Zalman's attitude (was): 'Gentile souls are of a completely different and inferior order. They are totally evil,
with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.' ...
Consequently, references to gentiles in Rabbi Shneur Zalman's teachings are invariably invidious. Their (non-Jews) material abundance derives
from supernal refuse. Indeed, they themselves derive from refuse, which is why they are more numerous than the Jews, as the pieces of chaff
outnumber the kernels... All Jews were innately good, all gentiles innately evil.
... Moreover, this characterization of gentiles as being inherently evil, as being spiritually as well as biologically inferior to Jews,
has not in any way been revised in later Habad writing."
A non-Jew permitted to reside in a land ruled by Jewish law "must accept paying a tax and suffering the humiliation of servitude".
If Gentiles refuse to live a life of inferiority, then this signals their rebellion and the unavoidable necessity of Jewish warfare against their very presence.
At a symposium ("Is Autonomy for Resident Aliens Feasible?") organized by Israeli Minister of Education Shulamit Aloni, the Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren
repeated the Talmudic teaching on resident aliens: that Judaism forbids "granting any national rights" to them. He ruled that such
"Autonomy is tantamount to a denial of the Jewish religion."
"Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons
in their arms and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers and their queens thy nursing mothers;
they shall bow down to thee with their face towards the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet."
"Kings shall come from you [Israelites] and shall rule wherever the foot of the sons of man has trodden. I [God] shall give to your seed all
the earth which is under heaven, and they shall rule over all the nations according to their desire; and afterward they shall draw the whole earth to themselves,
and shall inherit it forever."
"When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace. If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you,
then all the people in it shall serve you at forced labour. If it does not submit to you peacefully, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it;
and when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children,
livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you."
"When the Lord your God gives them [the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites -
all contestant tribes against the Jews for parts of the ancient land of Israel] to you and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them;
you shall make no covenant with them and show them no mercy."
"So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings;
he left none remaining but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded."
"Ye are called man (Adam) but gentiles (goyim) are not called man (Adam)."
"A Jewish priest was standing in a graveyard. When asked why he was standing there in apparent violation of the Mosaic law, he replied that it was permissible,
since the law only prohibits Jews from coming into contact with the graves of humans (Adamites), and he was standing in a gentile graveyard..."
Claims that gentiles are sub-human. It also teaches that anyone (even a Jewish man) who reveals this Talmudic teaching about
non-Jews deserves death, since revealing it makes Gentiles wrathful and causes the repression of Judaism.
"This is the saying of Rabbi Simon ben Yohai: Tob shebe goyyim harog ('Even the best of the gentiles should all be killed')."
"This country [Israel, the Jewish State on occupied Palestinian land] exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself.
It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."
"The Editio Princeps of the complete Code of Talmudic Law, Maimonides' Mishneh Torah - replete not only with the most offensive precepts against all Gentiles
but also with explicit attacks on Christianity and on Jesus (after whose name the author adds piously: 'May the name of the wicked perish')"
The ideologies and policies of Nazism and Zionism exhibit striking similarities,
where the latter has its racist roots in the 'Chosen People' doctrine of Judaism,
a dangerous tribal insanity that has been a tragic curse for Jews and non-Jews for a long time.
"At the heart of the Zionist critique of liberal [Jewish] assimilation [into German society] lay the conviction that Jews constituted a unique race ...
That [Jewish marriage to non-Jews] might become a serious problem for the Jews prompted Zionist leaders in the Berlin Jewish community to authorize
a report identifying intermarriage as a threat to the 'racial purity of the stock'."
Rabbi Meir Kahane, told CBS News that his teaching that Arabs are 'dogs' is derived 'from the Talmud'.
University of Jerusalem Prof. Ehud Sprinzak described Kahane and Goldstein's philosophy:
"They believe it's God's will that they commit violence against goyim", a Hebrew term for non-Jews.
"The Khazars and their king are all Jews."
"All of the Khazars are Jews. But they have been Judaized recently."
"What is the basis of Judaism? A practical passion and greed for profit. To what can we reduce his
(the Jew's) religious worship? To extortion. What is his real God? Cash!"
"In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism."
"Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew.
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.
Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time."
"We recognize in Judaism, therefore, a general anti-social element of the present time, an element which through historical development -
to which in this harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed – has been brought to its present high level, at which it must necessarily begin to disintegrate."
"The Jew has emancipated himself in a Jewish manner, not only because he has acquired financial power, but also because, through him and also apart from him,
money has become a world power and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of the Christian nations. The Jews have emancipated themselves
insofar as the Christians have become Jews."
"Judaism has held its own alongside Christianity, not only as religious criticism of Christianity, not only as the embodiment of doubt in the religious derivation
of Christianity, but equally because the practical Jewish spirit, Judaism, has maintained itself and even attained its highest development in Christian society.
The Jew, who exists as a distinct member of civil society, is only a particular manifestation of the Judaism of civil society."
"Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities.
Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world – both the world of men and nature – of its specific value.
Money is the estranged essence of man's work and man's existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it."
"The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only
an illusory bill of exchange."
"The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general."
"Judaism could not develop further as a religion, could not develop further theoretically, because the world outlook of
practical need is essentially limited and is completed in a few strokes."
"Christianity sprang from Judaism. It has merged again in Judaism.
From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is, therefore, the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
Christianity had only in semblance overcome real Judaism. It was too noble-minded, too spiritualistic to eliminate the crudity of practical need in any
other way than by elevation to the skies. Christianity is the sublime thought of Judaism, Judaism is the common practical application of Christianity,
but this application could only become general after Christianity as a developed religion had completed theoretically the estrangement of man
from himself and from nature. Only then could Judaism achieve universal dominance and make alienated man and alienated nature into alienable,
vendible objects subjected to the slavery of egoistic need and to trading."
"We explain the tenacity of the Jew not by his religion, but, on the contrary, by the human basis of his religion - practical need, egoism."
"Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism - huckstering and its preconditions - the Jew will have become impossible,
because his consciousness no longer has an object, because the subjective basis of Judaism, practical need, has been humanized, and because the conflict
between man's individual-sensuous existence and his species-existence has been abolished."
"The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism."
A double standard ethic was endemic to traditional Jewish teachings. The Old Testament laws were for the benefit of Jews, and it always aggravated relations
with their non-Jewish neighbors. The medieval Christian world held open doors to Jewish converts to the purported universality of their own faith,
but most Jews opted for their own perception of themselves as an elite group - God's special Chosen People - despite the inevitable hazards that such
a self-perception engendered from the surrounding non-Jewish communities. The old adage to avoid trouble, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do",
was studiously dismissed by Jews to the extreme. They were even permitted talmudic (religiously-founded) self-governance by Christian authorities
and were only called to the greater laws of the state for extraordinary transgressions. This situation provided Jews the uninhibited capacity
to act within favorable, double-standard, self-aggrandizing laws created for themselves against the wider society.
"The belief that Jewish law was of divine origin, whereas Gentile law was purely a human invention, linked any evaluation with the most
fundamental theological tenet of Judaism. The moral conduct of the Jew towards Gentiles, if it was not to be determined solely by expediency and prudence,
could have been influenced only by principles derived exclusively from Jewish sources." [Jacob Katz, Ex, p. 59]
The combination of insular self-governance, their languages of Hebrew and/or Yiddish, and self-imposed isolation, also inferred (and was in fact understood
by Jews to be) a Jewish "sub-nationality" within the broader Christian state. This too was much resented by the indigenous European populace.
It was a politically volatile situation. Each faith, the majority Christian and minority Judaic, was entrenched in its respective belief system,
each implicitly hostile to the other, with the only significant intercourse between them being the world of commerce, a field in which Jews were rapidly building,
despite their small numbers - through trade and the hated usury - a profound advantage.
In this context of mutual hostility, Jacob Katz paraphrases the sociologist Max Weber with regards to the Jewish community's "extreme"
use of its moral double standard in its treatment of non-Jews, commercially or otherwise:
"[While it is a] universal phenomena... [that] members of any cohesive social unit observe ... different moral standards among themselves
from those observed by it in relation to strangers, [the sociologist Max Weber] was right in depicting the medieval Jewish community
as an extreme case in point..." [Jacob Katz, p. 56]
"Rabbi Shemeul says advantage may be taken of the mistakes of a Gentile. He once bought a gold plate as a copper one of a Gentile for four zouzim,
and then cheated him out of one zouzim in the bargain. Rav Cahana purchased a hundred and twenty vessels of wine from a Gentile for a hundred zouzim,
and swindled him in the payment out of one of the hundred, and that while the Gentile assured him that he confidently trusted his honesty.
Rava once went shares with a Gentile and bought a tree, which was cut up into logs. This done, he bade, his servants to go pick out the largest logs,
but to be sure to take no more than the proper number, because the Gentile knew how many there were. As Rav Ashi was walking abroad one day he saw
some grapes growing in a roadside vineyard, and sent his servant to see whom they belonged to. 'If they belong to a Gentile', he said,
'bring some here to me, but if they belong to an Israelite, do not meddle with them'. The owner, who happened to be in the vineyard,
overheard the Rabbi's order and called out, 'What? Is it lawful to rob a Gentile?' 'Oh, no,' said the Rabbi evasively,
'a Gentile might sell, but an Israelite would not.'"
"When an Israelite and a Gentile have a lawsuit before them, if they canst, acquit the former according to the laws of Israel,
and tell the latter such is our laws; if they cannot get him off in accordance with Gentile law, do so, and say to the plaintiff such is your law;
but if he cannot be acquitted according to either law, then bring forward adroit pretext and secure his acquittal. These are the words of Rabbi Ishmael.
Rabbi Akiva says, 'No false pretext should be brought forward, because if found out, the name of God would be blasphemed, but if there be no fear of that,
then it may be adduced.'"
"The economic behavior of the Jew simply moved in the direction of the least resistance which was permitted them by [their] legalistic ethical norms.
This means in practice that the acquisitive drive, which is found in varying degrees in all groups and nations, was here directed primarily to trade with strangers
[i.e. non-Jews], who were usually regarded as enemies."
It was not only the Jewish vagabonds, unscrupulous shopkeepers, or exploitive upper strata Court Jews who played the
role of swindler with the Gentiles. No less an authority than Heinrich Graetz, one of the greatest Jewish historians whose History of the Jews was a pioneer work,
had this to say, generally, about the Jews in Poland. It was a mainstream ethic among Polish Jews.
"To twist a phrase out of its meaning, to use all the tricks of the clever advocate, to play upon words, and to condemn what they did not know ...
Such were the characteristics of the Polish Jew. ... Honesty and right thinking he lost as completely as simplicity and truthfulness. He made himself master
of all the gymnastics of the Schools (of religious interpretations) and applied them to obtain advantage over any one less cunning than himself.
He took a delight in cheating and overreaching which gave him a sort of joy of victory. But his own people he could not treat in this way:
they were as knowing as he. It was the non-Jew, to his loss, that felt the consequences of the Talmudically trained mind of Polish Jew."
"As we may recall, Jacob the tent dweller, who used his head, outsmarted Esau, the skilled hunter, who uses his hands, and cheated Esau out of his inheritance, with Isaac's blessing.
The blessing was the birthright of Esau by virtue of his being the firstborn child. In Jewish tradition, Jacob came to symbolize the Jews and Esau the Gentiles.
Thus, an image of contrasting roles were formed whereby the Jews were supposed to use their heads and the Gentiles their muscles."
Orthodox Judaism is, in its very construct, motivated by "a combination of hypocrisy and the profit motive."
Even in Israel today, secular Jews look with disdain upon the Orthodox religious community for its "duplicity and venality."
"It is actually true, that the Jewish religious establishment does have a strong tendency to chicanery and graft due to the corrupting influence of the
Orthodox Jewish religion."
"[The Jews], living among us, or at least the greatest number of them, have through their usurious spirit ... received the not unfounded reputation as deceivers ...
They do not seek civil honor, but rather wish to compensate their loss by profitably outwitting the very people among whom they find protection ... We may suppose
that their dispersion throughout the world, with their unity in religion and language, must not be attributed to a curse that had been afflicted upon this people.
On the contrary, the dispersion must be considered a blessing, especially since the wealth of the Jews, if we think of them as individuals, apparently exceeds per capita
that of any other nation at the present time."
This ethic was of course brought by Jews, particularly from Eastern Europe, to America. As Jewish commentator James Yaffe notes:
"The Lower East Side [the turn-of-the-century Jewish section of Manhattan] pushcart peddler who prided himself on his honesty wouldn't hesitate to sell
damaged goods to the gentile housewife." [Yaffe, J., 1968, p. 68] Max Weber notes this quality in Jewish identity through history, referring to it as
"the dualistic nature of [Judaism's] in-group and out-group moralities." [POLL, S., 1969, p. v]
As Mary Antin, a Jewish immigrant to the United States from Russia, once observed in her autobiography, The Promised Land:
"[Jewish merchants and money lenders] preyed upon [Christians], and our shopkeepers gave false measure. People who want to defend the Jews ought never to deny this.
Yes, I say, we cheated the Gentiles whenever we dared, because it was the only thing to do ... Is not that the code of war? Encamped in the midst of the enemy,
we could practice no other. A Jew could hardly exist in business unless he developed a dual conscience, which allowed him to do to the Gentile
what he would call a sin against a fellow Jew." [Traxel, D., 1998, p. 29]
Jules Carlebach argues that a "dual morality" - if, in his view, it ever existed - was no big deal; he likens the Jewish medieval communities in Europe to
"political states", saying: "If an independent political state adopted legislation which is intended to further the interests of its citizens,
but which has no parallel provisions in neighboring states, then it is both logical and essential to create a dual system." [Jules Carlebach, p. 224]
Jews had always closed ranks as a completely "foreign" body in mainstream Christian society. While some Jewish religious teachings certainly supported the
notion that they should live in obedience with the laws of the host country they lived in, this was largely expedient and prudent for their own survival.
Less supportive Jewish texts included prayers that anticipated the downfall of surrounding non-Jewish society. During Arab-Christian hostilities,
for instance, Jews appealed to God to drain them both in war. They had a prayer, notes Salo Baron, "composed in the geonic period which was unheard
of in any other period of Jewish history in the dispersion: 'Be it Thy will, O Lord, that the Kings should wage war on one another.'" [Baron, Asoc&Rel, p. 186]
Jewish communities in Europe, as insular self-entities always searching for their own best interests, had been known to betray non-Jewish lands in which they lived.
Both Hebrew and Yiddish were Jewish languages that were impenetrable to most non-Jews. (For centuries rabbinical dictate even forbade the teaching of Hebrew to Gentiles).
These "secret" languages tended to heighten non-Jewish suspicions of them. The Muslim invasion of Christian Spain was aided by the Spanish Jewish community
who expected better treatment under Islamic rule. The French city of Bordeaux was believed by some to have been betrayed by Jews in 848 to invading Normans;
the same charge was made against Jews for the fall of the French town of (Visigothic) Arles to Catholics. Poles charged Jews with abetting invading Swedes
in the 17th century. [Hagen, p. 23] In the 12th century, Byzantine Jews aided invading Turks (Constantinople was breached with help from - and through -
the Jewish quarter); in the 17th century Spanish and Portugese Jews intrigued with the Dutch. [MacDonald, p. 64-65] On the other hand, in the early 1800s,
when Napoleon invaded the Pale of Russia, "the pattern of German-Jewish behavior during the Napoleonic invasion was largely repeated in Russia." [Howard Sachar, p. 79]
The Jews, in other words, did nothing, laid low, and waited to see who was victorious. "With the exception of the Jewish community of Lithuania,
the citizens of the Pale were not obliged to commit themselves until the war was won." [Howard Sachar, p. 79]
"In effect, Polish Jews together with German Jews held a monopoly over all exports and imports of goods between Germany and Russia. Certain branches
of manufacture in Poland were also under their control, particularly the textile industry in Lodz. It is of little wonder, then, that the Jews often manifested
their true, undeniably existing feelings of solidarity with the Prussians. In Pomerania, during the 1848 insurrections, groups of Jews greeted the insurgents
with shouts such as: 'We do not want Poland, we are Prussians.' Almost a half century later, during the Warsaw manifestations in favor of Polish autonomy
in the Russian sphere, the Jews took a similar position against the demonstrators, shouting, 'Why should Poland exist? Down with Poland!
Down with the white eagle [the symbol of Poland].'"
In Morocco under French rule, notes Nahum Goldmann, "the Jews were on such poor terms with the Arabs that they were nearly all pro-French -
which brought them the hatred of those who aspired to independence." In Algeria, also bucking under French colonialism, Jews
"even had automatic French citizenship, unlike the non-Jews." [Goldmann, N., 1978, p. 48] Even in 1996, notes the American Jewish Yearbook,
"Between 800 and 900 Jews were known to be living in Bosnia-Herzegovnia ... During the [civil] war, about 300 people who before the fighting
had not declared themselves as Jewish, joined the Jewish community, presenting written documentation such as marriage or birth certificates.
Before the war, these people had declared themselves as 'Yugoslavs'. Some of them remained in Bosnia-Herzegovinia while others went to Israel." [Singer/Seldin, 1997, p. 378]
"I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race.
I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god,
is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system."
"The first millennium of Jewish history as presented in the Bible has no empirical foundation whatsoever."
"'About the year 1000 B.C. there was nothing distinctive about the Jews ethnically, linguistically, politically or economically."
First mention of Israelites by their neighbours is The Moabite Stele - Large slab of basalt that records King Mesha of Moab's defeat of Israel, "which hath perished forever".
"The Bible writers projected backwards into time the kind of political rivalry that was happening in their own day [6th c BC] in order to explain that rivalry and perhaps justify the Israelite position over current border disputes."
"One of the curious features of the book of Genesis is the absence of any reference to what is going on in the ancient Near East during the second millennium BC."
"'Neither Moses, nor an enslaved Israel nor the event of this Exodus are recorded in any known ancient records outside the Bible
... Although its climate has preserved the tiniest traces of ancient bedouin encampments and the sparse 5000-year-old villages of mine workers
there is not a single trace of Moses or the Israelites."
From Jesus Never Existed. The Myth of the Jewish ‘Race'. Just Who Were the Jews? First invent your Jew, then invent your Christ. By Kenneth Humphreys.
"Much of Judaism is a dialogue with Egypt - that towering civilization which overshadowed the whole of the Levant.
But the ancient Egyptians knew nothing of 'the Jews'."
"Abraham (Abram, Ibrahim) - This amazingly 'righteous' phantom has a lot to answer for. Father of 'many nations' his supposed behaviour set a terrifying example
- not only attempted murder of his favourite son but abandoning to the desert the offspring of his various concubines. Sadly, Judaism, Christianity and Islam
all pay homage to this con' man and warlord. Never actually existed, of course, but that hardly matters to religious zealots."
"At two sites, Kuntilet Ajrud in the southwestern part of the Negev hill region, and Khirbet el-Kom in the Judea piedmont, Hebrew inscriptions have been found
that mention 'YHWH and his Asherah', 'YHWH Shomron and his Asherah', 'YHWH Teman and his Asherah'. These inscriptions, from the 8th century BCE, raise the possibility
that monotheism, as a state religion, is actually an innovation of the period of the Kingdom of Judea, following the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel."
"It will come as an unpleasant shock to many that the God of Israel, YHWH, had a female consort and that the early Israelite religion adopted monotheism
only in the waning period of the monarchy and not at Mount Sinai."
"I pose a hypothetical question. As a man of some fifty-seven years of age, I am discovered sucking the penis of a baby boy. I ask you to picture your own outrage
and revulsion. Ah, but I have my explanation all ready. I am a mohel: an appointed circumciser and foreskin remover. My authority comes from an ancient text [of Judaism],
which commands me to take a baby boy's penis in my hand, cut around the prepuce, and complete the action by taking his penis in my mouth, sucking off the foreskin,
and spitting out the amputated flap along with a mouthful of blood and saliva."
"They may perform on the Sabbath all things that are needful for circumcision: excision, tearing, sucking [the wound], and putting thereon a bandage and cumin.
If this had not been pounded up on the eve of the Sabbath a man may chew it with his teeth and then apply it."
"The method to be adopted is laid down thus: 'One excises the foreskin, [that is] the entire skin covering the glans, so that the corona is laid bare.
Afterwards, one tears with the finger-nail the soft membrane underneath the skin, turning it to the sides until the flesh of the glans appears.
Thereafter, one sucks the membrane until the blood is extracted from the [more] remote places, so that no danger [to the infant] may ensue;
and any circumciser who does not carry out the sucking procedure is to be removed [from his office].'
... The operation itself, then, consists of three distinct acts: the excision of the prepuce; the laceration of the mucous membrane covering the glans;
and the sucking of the blood from the interior of the wound."
"The traditional practice of metzitzah b'peh [sucking freshly circumcised infant's penis, as the third step in the Jewish circumcision ritual],
which has its roots in the earliest history of the Jewish people and has survived unchanged to the present time, should be viewed with great respect.
It is spoken of very positively in the Jewish literature on circumcision both as an essential part of the ritual and as a health measure
which prevents infection and promotes healing."
"Thirty centuries, from the earliest texts of the Old Testament to the present day, teach us that the assertion of one God, violent, jealous,
quarrelsome, intolerant, and bellicose, has generated more hate, bloodshed, deaths, and brutality than it has peace...
There is the Jewish fantasy of a chosen people, which vindicates colonialism, expropriation, hatred,
animosity between peoples, and finally an authoritarian
and armed theocracy."
"We find a similar horror of abortion in the three religions. The family functions as the fixed horizon, the basic cell of the community.
It implies children, whom Jews consider to be the condition of their people's survival, whose number the Christian church wishes to see grow and multiply,
whom Muslims see as a mark of the Prophet's blessing. Everything that disturbs this demographic metaphysics arouses monotheist anger.
God does not approve of planned parenthood. Yet immediately after childbirth the Jewish woman is considered unclean. Blood, always blood...
If she gave birth to a boy, the ban on entering the temple lasts forty days; if she bore a girl... sixty! Thus spake Leviticus.
To the present day, Orthodox Jewish men in their daily morning prayer recite, 'Praised be God that he has not created me a gentile.
Praised be God that he has not created me a slave. Praised be God that he has not created me a woman' (Talmud, Menahot 43b).
Not to be outdone, the Koran does not explicitly condemn the pre-Islamic tribal tradition that ascribed shame to a man who fathered a daughter
and legitimized his deliberations on whether to keep the child or bury it beneath the dust (16:58)."
"Leviticus and Numbers clearly state the rules on the question of Jewish sexual intersubjectivity: no sexual relations outside marriage;
legitimization of polygamy; divorce at the husband's discretion and without too many formalities (a letter, a guet, to the repudiated spouse is sufficient);
illegality of marriage to a non-Jew; transmission of Jewishness through the mother (she has nine months to prove that she really is the mother,
the identity of the father being always uncertain); prohibition on women studying the Torah (mandatory for men); no authorization for the daughters
of Eve to recite payers, wear the shawl, sport the phylactery, blow the shofar, build the ritual hut (the sukha), or belong to groups often
(the minimum necessary for prayer); permission to own but not manage or administer her own financial assets (the husband's role)."
"What is certain is the staggering historical sweep we confront. We do not even possess an official date of birth for worship of a one God.
Some locate it around the thirteenth century BCE, but Jean Soler insists on the neighborhood of the fourth and third - in other words very late, and
even here, fuzziness persists. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it - even drawing inspiration from the Egyptian solar
cult -
to ensure the coherence, cohesion, and existence of their small, threatened people. The mythology they fashioned engendered belief in a warrior God,
a fighter, bloodthirsty, aggressive, a war leader highly effective at mobilizing a people without a land.
The myth of a chosen people founded the essence and existence of a nation thereafter blessed with a destiny.
...in Deuteronomy 7:1, the same Yahweh steps in to justify the Jews in their extermination of certain peoples explicitly named in the Torah:
the Hittites (settlers who came originally from Asia Minor), Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, no fewer than seven peoples,
constituting most of the population of Palestine. Against these tribes,Yahweh authorizes anathema, racism -
mixed marriage is forbidden - and a ban on contracts.
Spurning compassion, he demands the demolition of their altars and monuments and legitimizes book burnings. His reasons: the Jews are the chosen people
(Deuteronomy 7:6) singled out by God and exalted above all others and despite all others.
... Understood is 'thou, a Jew, shalt not kill Jews.'
... Yahweh speaks to his chosen people and has no concern at all for the others. The Torah invented the ethical, ontological, and metaphysical inequality of races."
"Let us give credit where it is due. The Jews invented monotheism and everything that went with it. First divine right and its mandatory correlative:
the chosen people exalted, other peoples discounted; a logical enough sequence.
... The clergy transforms that speech into orders upheld by iron-plated, caparisoned, determined troops, armed to the teeth. Hence the three founding pillars
of all civilizations: the prince representing God on earth, the priest providing the prince with ideas, and the soldier guaranteeing the priest's brute strength.
And the people, of course, always pay the costs of theocratic perfidy.
The Torah tells the story without beating about the bush.
On Mount Sinai, God spoke to Moses. At the time the Jewish people were weak, threatened with annihilation in wars with surrounding peoples.
It badly needed God's backing to envisage the future with confidence. An only God, bellicose, mail-clad, merciless, fighting and giving no quarter,
capable of exterminating
the enemy without a twinge of conscience, galvanizing his troops: such was Yahweh, whose type - like Muhammad's -
suggested a tribal war leader promoted to cosmic rank."
"God promised a land that would be theirs 'for an everlasting possession' (Genesis 17:8) to his people. They were the elect, the chosen,
singled out from among all others, raised above the common herd, a 'peculiar treasure unto me' (Exodus 19:5). Did some unassuming race already inhabit that land?
Did people cultivate its fields? Did its soil nourish children and the aged? Did men of mature age tend herds of livestock there? Did women give birth?
Did their young receive schooling? Did the people worship gods? But these Canaanites were of little importance,
and God had decided on their extermination:
'and I will cut them off', he declared (Exodus 23:23)."
"Yahweh blessed war and those who waged it. He sanctified combat, led it, supervised it, although admittedly not in person - ectoplasm has trouble wielding
a sword - but by inspiring his people. He sanctioned crimes, murders, assassination, gave his blessing to the liquidation of innocents, killed animals like men
and men like animals. He could be humane (unless he was dealing with Canaanites). He proposed an alternative to battle, offering slavery - a token of goodness
and love - in its place. To the indigenous population of Palestine, already living there when the Hebrews arrived, he promised total destruction - holy war,
to use the terrifying and ultramodern expression of Joshua (6:21).
For two thousand five hundred years, no leading figure descended from the chosen people has declared that these pages are rooted in fable, in prehistoric
and highly dangerous - because criminal - fictions and nonsense. Quite the contrary. There exist on this planet a considerable number of people who
live, think, act, and conceive of the world on the basis of these texts that call for generalized butchery. And there isn't the slightest danger that
they will be denied the right to publish on the grounds that they encourage murder, racism, and other incitements
to breaches of the peace.
Yeshiva students memorize these
passages, no more inclined to change a single comma than to touch a single one of Yahweh's hairs. The Torah
offers the first Western version of the many arts of war published in the course of the centuries."
"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly."
(See also Judaism - Jewish Criminality - Jewish Factor - anti-Semitism)
"The female slave was a sex tool beneath the level of moral considerations. She was an economic good, useful, in addition to her menial labor,
for breeding more slaves. To attain that purpose, the master mated her promiscuously according to his breeding plans. The master himself and
his sons and other members of his household took turns with her for the increase of the family wealth, as well as for satisfaction of their
extra-marital sex desires. Guests and neighbors too were invited to that luxury."
"They came with ships carrying African blacks to be sold as slaves. The traffic in slaves was a royal monopoly, and the Jews were often appointed
as agents for the Crown in their sale... (They) were the largest ship chandlers in the entire Caribbean region, where the shipping business was mainly
a Jewish enterprise... The ships were not only owned by Jews, but were manned by Jewish crews and sailed under the command of Jewish captains."
"Slave trade was one of the most important Jewish activities here (in Surinam) as elsewhere in the colonies."
"The West India Company, which monopolized imports of slaves from Africa, sold slaves at public auctions against cash payment.
It happened that cash was mostly in the hands of Jews. The buyers who appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews,
and because of this lack of competitors they could buy slaves at low prices. On the other hand, there also was no competition in the selling of the slaves
to the plantation owners and other buyers, and most of them purchased on credit payable at the next harvest in sugar. Profits up to 300 percent
of the purchase value were often realized with high interest rates... If it happened that the date of such an auction fell on a Jewish holiday
the auction had to be postponed. This occurred on Friday, 21 October 1644."
"It remains a fact which cannot be gainsaid that in his own native home, and generally throughout the world, the unfortunate negro is indeed
the meanest of slaves. Much had been said respecting the inferiority of his intellectual powers, and that no man of his race has ever inscribed his name
on the Parthenon of human excellence, either mental or moral."
"The Negroes found in the remote South, and those who resemble them from among them that are with us in these climes.
The status of those is like that of irrational animals. To my mind they do not have the rank of men, but have among the beings a rank lower
than the rank of man but higher than the rank of apes. For they have the external shape and lineaments of a man and a faculty of discernment
that is superior to that of the apes."
"We know not how to speak in the same breath of the Negro and the Israelite. The very names have startlingly opposite sounds; one representing all that is debased and inferior in the hopeless barbarity and heathenism of six thousand years the other, the days when Jehovah conferred on our fathers the glorious equality which led the Eternal to converse with them, and allow them to enjoy the communion of angels. Thus the abandoned fanatics insult the choice of God himself, in endeavoring to reverse the inferiority which he stamped on the African, to make him the compeer, even in bondage, of His chosen people.
There is no parallel between such races. Humanity from pole to pole would scout such a comparison.
The Hebrew was originally free and the charter of his liberty was inspired by his Creator. The Negro was never free and his bondage in Africa
was simply duplicated in a milder form when he was imported here... The judicious in all the earth agree that to proclaim the African equal
to the surrounding races, would be a farce which would lead the civilized conservatism of the world to denounce the outrage."
"There is liberty under the name of slavery. A field negro has his cottage, his wife, and children, his easy task, his little patch of corn and potatos,
his garden and fruit, which are his revenue and property. The house servant has handsome clothing, his luxurious meals, his admitted privacy, a kind master,
and an indulgent and frequently fond mistress."
"In the period from the fifth to eight centuries [Jews] gradually took the place previously occupied by the Syrians as 'international' traders; and they continued, and perhaps, developed, the trade in slaves...
While the Jews were... never... the only traders, it is possible that the slave trade through north-eastern Europe to the Slav countries and the land trades to the East were for practical purposes Jewish monopolies...
It would appear that Jews had little difficulty in obtaining slaves in the eastern provinces of the empire and Poland, in spite of the protection which acceptance of Christianity in those regions should have given the inhabitants.
References to this traffic in Christian slaves are not infrequent...
The evidence is thus enough to show that the Church possessed a genuine grievance against the section of the Jewish population involved in the slave trade.
But the misdeeds of slave traders did not cease at the purchase of Christians in eastern Europe. Agobard quotes cases - and there is no reason to refute his evidence -
of the theft of children in France for sale to the Moors of Spain; and a chronicler of the middle of the tenth century brings an even more unpleasant story
of the castration of boys in eastern France for their sale as eunuchs to the Moorish harems, a trade which was, apparently, extremely profitable."
"In the tenth century the Jews possessed salt mines near Nuremberg. They also traded in arms, and exploited the treasuries of the churches.
But their great specialty ...was their trade in slaves."
"The first Jews that Poles encountered, must certainly have been traders, probably slave traders, of the type called in the 12th-century Jewish sources
holekhei rusyah (travelers to Russia)."
"In the tenth century, the Spanish Jews often owed their wealth to their trade in slaves."
"Traveled everywhere from England to India, from Bohemia to Egypt. Their commonest merchandise in those days, beginning with the eighth century, was slaves.
On every high road and on every great river and sea, these Jewish traders were to be found with their gangs of shackled prisoners in convoy...
Slave trading seems irredeemably vile and hateful to us today, but we must remember here again the standards have changed... And in light of the customs of those times,
the slave-traffickers were actually doing almost a moral act. They alone were keeping the conquering armies from slaughtering every one of their defeated foes
after each battle. "
Jewish apologists further argue that Jews were involved in the trade of European slaves (the English word 'slave' is reputed to come from 'Slav') because 'they were forced into it' by others, they were only 'doing the dirty work for Christians', it was a norm of the era, or that extensive Jewish slave trading was a 'Christian ecclesiastical myth'. Another Jewish apologist justifies the Jewish slave trade of Europeans during the era of Pope Gregory this way: "Had the Jews been prevented from owning slaves it is likely that they would have given up the slave trade and had they done this the labor shortage that would have been created might have caused an inestimable loss of life through sheer starvation. [Abel, p. 197]"
"Slave traders were proverbially dishonest." [Baron, p. 193] And there were many legal hurdles that Jewish slave traders had to face, both from Christian authorities (who grew increasingly outraged by Jews owning Christian slaves), and their own rabbinical authorities when faced with the necessity of slaves' castration, for instance, to be eunuchs. Jewish religious texts forbade mutilation. This problem was easily resolved by resorting to a technicality; prospective Jewish slave owners merely hired non-Jews to do the operation before they formally bought them. [Baron, p. 191]. Jewish writers in Spain complained more frequently than other places about the ethics of having slave concubines in Jewish households. [Baron, p. 194]
"Not a single Jew has been identified among the abolitionists in Charleston, South Carolina, which had been home to the largest Jewish community
in the United States at one time."
"And how very often he [The Jew] gets his own back on the black Negro: in the Southern States more often than not it is the Jew
who is one of the most fanatical upholders of white supremacy."
"Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall ...brought the full force of Jewish learning to a defense of slavery, preaching a lengthy sermon that defended
its biblical roots and noting that 'Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job - the men with whom the Almighty conversed, with whose names he emphatically connects
to his own most holy name ...all these men were slaveholders'. Raphall was no fringe figure. He was one of the most prominent rabbis of his day;
the year before he had been chosen to be the first Jew to open a session of the House of Representatives with a prayer."
"Rabbi [Morris] Raphall delivered a sermon entitled 'The Bible View of Slavery'. Raphall attempted to prove 'that according to the Talmud there is no
difference between a lost ox, donkey, or slave, and that the Talmud recommends turning over a fugitive slave to its master'. The discourse of Rabbi Raphall
which appeared in print caused a public stir. It was reprinted many times in the pro-slavery press. It produced a sensational effect coming from a popular rabbi
who had the reputation of being a biblical scholar ...Raphall was right in his Biblical exegesis."
Jews played disproportionately significant role in slave trade, and have always been (and still are) disproportionately highly represented in virtually any activity where serious money could be made. According to one survey noted by Jewish scholars Lee Soltow and Ira Rosenwaike, 75% of Jewish households surveyed in the American South owned slaves, more than double the average 36% for all southern households. [Rosenwaike, in Sec. Life, p. 180] In 1680 in Port Royal, Jamaica, 16% of Jewish households had no slaves; this figure in the non-Jewish community was over 47%. Further, 73.7% of Jewish households had between one and four slaves; this figure in the non-Jewish community was 41.8%.
"Some writers of the eighteenth century, in attempting to account for repeated flights by Negro slaves, accused Jewish owners of mistreating their charges,
and indictment the [Jewish] authors of the Historical Essay [on the Colony of Surinam, 1788] ascribed to anti-Jewish prejudices and vigorously denied.
It is a fact, however, that the wars against the French and the Bush Negroes called into being among the Jewish planter class a specific type of individual:
the aggressive, brutal fighter, politically ambitious and resentful of every limitation and infringement of their personal liberty."
(See also Judaism - Jewish Slave Business - Jewish Factor - anti-Semitism)
"[There was] picking pockets, the theft of textiles and gold or silver, and church robbery with its concomitant violence against priests and clergy.
None of these was the exclusive domain of Jews, who were involved in various other subcategories of theft and burglary as well, but in these particular offences
Jews were especially prominent ... [Egmond, p. 108] ... Some Jewish groups specialized in church robbery ... From 1680 to 1795 the robbery of churches and priests
and clergy was the nearly exclusive domain of Jews ... [Egmond, p. 109] ... Jews robbed not only Roman Catholic priests but Protestant ones too.
It looks rather as if most Christian thieves stayed away from all churches, while Jewish thieves selected churches for more reasons that just convenience."
"Jewish bandits stole almost exclusively from Christians. No breaking into houses of Court Jews or representatives of the Jewish community or synagogues
(in contrast to the many burglarized churches) were reported."
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"Two equally salient characteristics of Jewish organized crime [were] its near monopoly on the buying and selling of stolen goods and the central
importance of towns to all its activities ... The near monopoly of Jews in the fencing business [trading stolen goods] indirectly contributed to the prominence of other Jews in organized crime
... The period between about 1740 and 1765 can be regarded as the phase of expansion of Jewish crime. After that Jewish involvement in organized crime continued
at a consistently high level."
One of the privileges that Jews often sought and acquired from European aristocracies in the Middle Ages was the right to demand full payment from aggrieved owners when stolen objects found their way into Jewish hands for sale. This caused deep resentment amongst the Gentile population; it was often charged that this policy paved the way for lucrative Jewish "fencing" operations where stolen goods could regularly find their ways to Jewish shops and hiding spots in the their community. [Baron Ehoj, p. 42] These Jewish agents of receivership were called in Hebrew ba'al ha-davar, literally meaning 'wire pullers', figuratively meaning "Masters of the Affair". [Breuer, p. 249]
Jewish itinerants (perhaps 10% of the Jewish population in Germany in the Middle Ages), as well as Jewish thieves, and robbers were common in European life.
Evidence of Christian criminals' linkage to the Jewish economic underworld is reflected in the fact that "some 20%" of the vernacular for illicit activity
in the jargon of non-Jewish criminals contained words and terms derived from Yiddish and Hebrew.
"That was the first time that I ever came into contact with the dregs of society. I was shaken to the core at the language and behavior.
I never had the slightest notion that such people ever existed ...The thing that shook me most was that these criminals were Jews."
"After the first World War, Jewish Gangsters became major figures in the American underworld and played prominent roles in the creation and extension
of organized crime in the United States. During Prohibition fifty percent of the leading bootleggers were Jews, and Jewish criminals financed and directed
much of the nations narcotics traffic. Jews also dominated illicit activities in a number of America's largest cities, including Boston, Cleveland, Detroit,
Minneapolis, New York, and Philadelphia."
Prominent Jews in Chicago's criminal underworld included Louis 'Diamond Louie' Cowan, Hymie 'the Loud Mouth' Levine, Sam 'Sammy the Greener' Jacobson,
Maxie Eisen, Murray 'the Camel' Humphreys, and non-Jewish Al Capone's Jewish money man, Jake Guzik. In 1924 'Chicago Jewish leader' S. M. Melamed warned
about the 'great number of Jews in the underworld'. "Bootlegging in Boston was controlled by Charles 'King' Solomon...
He headed one of the largest liquor, vice, and narcotics smuggling syndicates in New England
...In the 1920s, Solomon ran the Boston underworld.
...Much of [Minneapolis'] illicit business was managed by Isadore 'Kid Cann' ...Blumenfeld and his all-Jewish syndicate...
In 1942, the FBI identified Kid Cann as 'the overlord of the Minneapolis, Minnesota underworld."
...Minneapolis included 'Kid' Cann (Isador Blumenfeld), Yiddie Bloom, and the Berman brothers (Davie and Chickie).
Cann is believed to have been responsible for the murder of Walter Ligget, publisher of Midwest America, for a series of articles the paper
printed about the Minneapolis criminal underworld. Ligget was gunned down in front of his family while Christmas shopping.
"90% of the crimes committed against society in this city are committed by Jew gangsters
...It is Jew, Jew, Jew, as long as one cares to comb over the records. I am launching no attack against the Jewish people as a RACE.
I am merely calling attention to a FACT."
Cleveland mob leaders included Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, Sam Tucker, and Lou Rothkopf. After prohibition,
"the Cleveland mob joined with Lansky and his confederates ...and formed the core of the most sophisticated national crime syndicate in America."
Shondor Birns (Szandor Birnstein) was another prominent Cleveland mobster, lasting in the criminal underworld for decades til 1975,
when he was assassinated by a car bomb. In early years, he was part of the Maxie Diamond (also Jewish) gang. Among Birns' crime partners
was Mervin Gold who "was accused of defrauding banks and the Small Business Administration by using stolen Canadian bonds as collateral for loans.
He fled to Israel", but eventually returned. Birns, noted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for his reputation as a 'charming killer',
was suspected of Gold's eventual murder.
"Reading at that time, in the thirties and forties, was run by the Minkers - Abe and his brother Izzy. They had a nephew named Alex Fudeman
who fronted for them ...Even though my father was connected right to Sicily, he had to do what the Jews wanted done in Reading, because that was their town.
They eliminated the Italians. At one time it was a two-mob town ...One thing I learn as I go through life is if you come up against a Jew or an Italian,
you check him out. You don't do nothing against him - you check him out careful. Jews don't belong to the [Italian] mob, but they're connected strong.
An awful lot of Jews are connected strong."
In Missouri, Charlie Birger (born Sachna Itzik Berger), prominent bootlegger, was hung in 1928 for the murder of the mayor of West City, Missouri.
He is believed to have been "responsible directly or indirectly for the murders of at least a dozen people, many of whom had been his loyal followers."
One of the killed who was not a follower was a local Ku Klux Klan leader.
"During Prohibition (1920-1933), Jewish gangsters became major operatives in the American underworld and played prominent roles in the creation of
organized crime in the United States. At the time, Jewish gangs dominated illicit activiites in a number of America's largest cities,
including Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, New York, and Philadelphia. The gang dealt in bootlegging, gambling, extortion, drugs, and murder,
and developed a reputation for being more ruthless than Al Capone's mob in Chicago. The Purple's decade-long reign of terror ended when most of the gang's
members either went to prison or were murdered by rivals ...During the Prohibition era 50 percent of the country's leading bootleggers were Jews,
and Jewish criminals financed and directed much of the nation's narcotics traffic ...While Jews predominated in their quarter [in Purple Gang-era Detroit],
other immigrants and ethnic groups lived there as well. One former resident of the old neighorhood joked that it was easy to distinguish the Jewish dwelling
from those occupied by non-Jews. 'The non-Jews grew flowers in front of their houses', he said. 'The Jews grew dirt.'"
Like many of the modern respectable Jewish fortunes, Seagram's alcohol fortune (the Canadian Bronfman family) was multiplied by smuggling their alcohol
into the United States through criminals like Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky.
Another modern Jewish fortune similarly constructed is that of the Annenbergs, which was founded upon Moses Annenberg's horse racing news monopoly
that he arranged with the criminal underworld. "That Annenberg and the Prohibition and gambling mobs had interests in common is indisputable.
...An information monopoly, nominally independent, gave the mobs the wherewithal to police the complex, sprawling kingdom of the Book [i.e. gambling bookies];
it was an instrument of their sovereignty. In return Annenberg was allowed to reap inordinate profits and become one of the richest men in the land,
the founder of one of its singular dynasties."
"Bootlegging in Prohibition-era Philadelphia was directed by Max 'Boo Boo' Huff ...Huff's successor as Philadelphia's dominant Jewish mobster was Harry Stromberg,
alias Nig Rosen ...He also led what was called the '69th Street Gang' that dealt in prostitution, extortion and labor racketeering. His influence extended as far as
Washington, Baltimore, and Atlantic City ...When Stromberg left Philadelphia, he was superceded by his driver and bodyguard, Willie Weisberg, a long-time member
of the city's Jewish underworld."
Jewish fraud and crime could be measured by the chutzpah of Bernie Barton (originally Blaustein), who set up a fake church with a junkie as preacher
as a "front for fencing stolen goods." [trading stolen goods]
The "fabulously rich Pritzker family from Chicago" (another prominent Jewish American family fortune) was involved as
"clients of the [Bruce] Kanter firm", who ran a variety of shady Caribbean companies. Kanter, who "had direct ties to organized crime",
served on the Hyatt hotel company's Board of Directors (Hyatt is one of many companies owned by the Pritzkers). "A little digging into their background produced
troubling questions. "It was discovered that the source of some Pritzker money comes from the racket-ridden Teamsters Pension Fund ...Investigators
probing the Pritzker empire were intrigued by its connection to the Pension Fund. This was especially so when it discovered that both [mob-linked] Jimmy Hoffa
and Allen Dorfman personally worked on Pritzker loans."
The Jewish conmen of international reputation, Adam Worth, started out re-joining and re-deserting various Civil War regiments (both Union and Confederate)
for enlistment bonuses and later expanded his exploits into forgery, larceny, robbery, burglary, and other criminal mainstays. In England, Sir Robert Anderson,
head of Criminal Investigations at Scotland Yard, observed in 1907 that "Adam Worth was the Napoleon of crime. None other could hold a candle to him."
The Pinkerton security agency noted that "in the death of Adam Worth there probably departed the most inventive and daring criminal in modern times
...Among all the men Pinkertons have known in a life time, this man was the most remarkable criminal of them all." Novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
used Worth as his model for Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis. An important associate in Worth's earlier years was 'Mother' Mandelbaum,
described in her era as "the great crime promoter of modern times, ...the most successful fence [trading stolen goods] in the history of Newy York", the woman who
"first put crime in America on a syndicated basis." Starting in 1862, over the next two decades she was reputed to have
"handled between 5 and 10 million USD worth of stolen property."
The Kray twins, Reginald and Ronald, were the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in London's East End during the 1950s and 1960s,
involved in armed robberies, arson, protection rackets, violent assaults including torture and murder.
"of Jewish and Romany stock, ...the best-known gangsters in Britain ...By 1963, through their networks of thugs and thieves,
Ronnie and Reggie were lording it over London's underworld and became figures in London society."
Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky were also famous Jewish underworld figures in USA. Siegel was instrumental in creating the
criminal playground of Las Vegas, starting things off at the Flamingo Hotel. Joseph Sacher headed the nearby Sands Hotel;
Sacher "was second only to Lansky in the [crime] Syndicate. Years ...[later] he fled USA into exile in Israel."
Moe Sedway was the faithful lieutenant of organized crime czar Meyer Lansky.
"The real potential of Las Vegas was not understood until Moe Sedway arrival in 1941."
After a long and successful criminal life, Meyer Lansky eventually retired with ca. 300 million USD. His crime history includes corrupt escapades
in Florida's 'Gold Coast', the Bahamas, and a gambling resort in pre-Castro Cuba. "At the height of his notoriety, Meyer Lansky was reckoned to be,
and was targeted by the US Justice Department as, the biggest gangster in the United States - a dangerous lawbreaker of extraordinary power.
He was identified as the Mafia's banker, the boss of the National Crime Syndicate, the head of the Combination - the Chairman of the Board."
Bernie Rothkopf also owned the MGM Hotel. Allen Glick was, between 1974-79, "the mob's front man at the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda, and Marina hotels."
"In July, 1979 Allen Glick was stripped of his Nevada gambling license and fined over 500,000 USD for a variety of improprieties."
Glick sold his interests in casinos to Allan Sachs, who was, with a partner, "figureheads for the Chicago mob responsible for providing skim monies"
from Las Vegas gambling operations.
"Most of the [Las Vegas] hotel builders were Jewish Americans. Jay Sarno and Nate Jacobson were associated with Caesar's Palace
[Sarno later created Circus Circus]; Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, and Sam Tucker with the Desert Inn
(and, along with Jake Factor, with the Stardust after [Italian-American Tony] Cornero's death);
Sidney Wyman, Al Gottesman, and Jake Gottleib with the early years of the Dunes; Gus Greenbaum, Moe Sedway, and Charlie Resnick with
managing the Flamingo after Bugsy Siegel's death; Ben Goffstein, Willie Alderman, and David Berman with the booking and running of the Riviera;
Milton Prell with the establishment of the Sahara and then with the transformation of the Tally-Ho into the Aladdin; Hyman Abrams, Carl Cohen,
and Jack Entratter with the ownership and operation of the Sands; and Ben Jaffe, Phil Kastel, and Jell Houssels (of Anglo-Saxon background)
with the construction and operation of the Tropicana ...A few Italian-Amerians hold minor ownership shares in casinos."
Jerome Mack, past president of the Dunes and Riviera, was a former national chairman of the Israel Bonds Campaign. Jewish entrepreneur Hank Greenspon owned the Las Vegas Sun newspaper and a local TV station. Arthur Goldberg is the CEO of Park Place Entertainment, a conglomeration of 29 hotel-casinos [Jenkins, P., p. 5, 30, 99] worldwide (Caesar's Palace, Bally's, etc.) that is twice the size of its nearest competitor. Its Stardust division is the world's largest hotel company. Elsewhere, Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Sands, is also the owner of Venetian, a new Las Vegas complex built in 1999 at a cost of 1.6 billion USD. Adelson is "one of richest men in America", in 1998 worth about 600 million USD. [Stoll, I., 2000, p. 1] Adelson, noted the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "is one of the country's largest donors to Jewish groups and he has influence in the national Jewish community." [Ralston] Adelson, notes the (Jewish) Forward, "has paid for 75 congressmen to visit Israel with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [the pro-Israel lobbying organization]." [Stoll, I., p. 1] As Joe Gelman noted in 1999, "A number of these sin-palace operators are Jewish and strong supporters of Israel." [Gelman, p. 15B]
The chairman of the Mirage, Steve Wynn, is also Jewish. (The funds for Wynn's first casino, the Golden Nugget, was in large part raised by convicted Jewish financier Michael Milken). [Johnston, D., p. 74] The Las Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman, elected in 1999, is the former president of Temple Beth Sholom. He also has a reputation as a 'mob lawyer', defending, among others, Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky and Frank Rosenthal. Rosenthal, notes the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "is credited by some with founding the modern day Las Vegas sports book but was repeatedly denied a gambling license because of association with organized crime members." [Zapler, p. 1A]
All of this, in more recent years, has its mirror image in Atlantic City and, increasingly, other American gambling Meccas. Kenny Shapiro, for instance,
was "the Atlantic investment banker for [Italian American mafioso] Nicky Scarfo, the vicious killer who ruled the Philadelphia Mafia,
the most murderous mob family in America."
Another influential Jewish gambling mogul today is Sol Kerzner, founder and principal owner of Sun City (also known as 'Sin City'), a resort playground created in 1979 in a poverty-stricken area of apartheid South Africa. Kerzner's modern empire has expanded with extravagant casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Bahamas, Mauritus, France, and a Native American site in Connecticut. An alleged bribery scheme involving the Jewish mayor of Capetown, David Bloomberg, in 1986 held up - for a while - his United States investments. "Sun City started out as a 'Sin City', a place where South Africans could let their hair down because it was located then in the so-called 'independent homeland' of Bophuthatswana. Gambling, show-girl revenues, and prostitution were the lures." [Jay Clarke, p. TR1] "If ever there was an appropriate setting for corruption it is Sun City," noted the (London) Guardian, "situated as it is in one of nine homelands which represent the cornerstones of that most corrupt of social systems, apartheid." [Beresford, p. 18] One of the Israelis who made millions off the immoral socio-political system surrounding Sun City is Shabtai Kalmanovitch; he worked as an 'economic advisor' to Bophuthatswana's dictator. [Beresford, p. 18]
Many Jewish (and other) mob figures were also involved in the gambling industry in Cuba until the communist revolution destroyed their operations.
"After the loss of Cuba and the clampdown on the Mafia by the Kennedy Justice Department, Meyer Lansky and the organized crime syndicate
had targeted the Bahamas as its new off-shore gambling and narcotics empire."
In the casino-resort-hotel world of the Bahamas, and its criminal underworld, Jews have also been prominent.
The Jewish organized crime on these islands included prominent figures like Louis Arthur Chesler (Lansky's point man), Morris Mac Schwabel (Manhattan attorney),
Joseph Jacob Frankel (major organized crime figure), Arthur Millgram (president of Automated Ticket Systems), Joel Mallin (lawyer),
Irving Kahn (partner with "mob attorney Morris Shenker"), C. Gerald Goldsmith (Chairman of the [Nassau] Port Authority, DEVCO, and several related firms),
Ben Novack (owner of Miami's Fountainbleau hotel, "associate of prominent gangsters Lansky, Coppola, and others including Max Eder,
a loanshark and suspected labor racketeer with a history of gambling, robbery, narcotics, and homicide arrests."),
"Cleveland racketeers Morris Kleinman and Moe Dalitz.", Burt Kanter (a lawyer with "direct ties to organized crime",
senior member of the law firm Kanter, (Milton) Levenfeld, (Charles) Lippitz and (Roger) Baskes),
Allen Dorfman ("murdered in 1985 to prevent him from talking about mob investments ...[He] was in the same league as Glick, Shenker, and Malnik.")
The Jewish criminal underworld was also helpful to Israel in getting weapons to Israel in its early years. Yehuda Arazi, an arms purchaser for the Haganah organization,
even made contacts with the Jewish-based Murder, Inc. gang, looking for help.
"In my busines We can't be too fussy who we do business with. Sometimes they're not nice people."
Other underworld contacts arranged for Israeli agents to conceal arms smuggling out of New York City. Jewish criminals even had links to the President of Panama
who allowed illegal Israeli arms shipments to sail under the Panama flag.
In 1947 gangster Mickey Cohen helped fund-raising efforts for the terrorist Irgun gang fighting the British in Palestine.
Many Jews romanticize brutal crimes and murders committed by their tribesmen. Jonathan Sarna writes that Susan Berman's father, gangster David Berman, was "a Jewish role model... extremely proud of being Jewish... He felt that for a Jewish child to be properly brought up, there must be a synagogue, a rabbi, and a cantor in evidence." [Jonathan Sarna, Jewish, p. 55] Rich Cohen writes: "When [Abe] Reles took a mark [murdered someone], he was not just ending a life: he was expressing the essential freedom of the Jew in America." [Kayfman, p. 2] "America is embracing Bugsy Siegel's vision; his martyrdom [this prominent Jewish gansgter was murdered by other mobsters] was not in vain.", wrote Albert Fried. [Jonathan Sarna, Jewish, p. 55] In Chicago, the death of criminal Samuel 'Nails' Morton attracted "five thousand Jewish mourners, including rabbis [who] accompanied Morton's hearse to the cemetery. Local reporters wanted to know why so many Jews would attend the funeral of a notorious gangster." The reason, argues Robert Rockaway, is an old one: Jewish unity against non-Jewish enemies. [Robert Rockaway, p. 218]
"From Arthur Rothstein and Meyer Lansky to their modern day successors in the Americas, Israel or the Soviet Union, Jewish criminals have succeeded in everything from murder for hire to smuggling. Yet, even in crime, both emphasis and cultural preference lay with the successful use of sechel (smarts) rather than brute force." [Joel Kotkin] Kotkin concedes a Jewish criminal tradition but accepts another mythology about modern Jewry - that Jews were and are smart, but never violent. One of the many Jewish mobsters recruited to help Israel was Bugsy Siegel, who "remained enthusiastic about violence. Even after he became a major crime boss, he wanted to do the killing himself rather than simply arrange matters. This may explain his willingness to help Israel once he learned that Jews were willing to kill to achieve their state." [Rockaway, p. 231] Other exceptionally prominent Jewish murderers in America's criminal underworld included Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter, head of Murder, Inc., and "one of the most vicious gangsters in the annals of American crime ...Between sixty and eighty men died on Lepke's orders. They were burned in gasoline, buried in quicklime, shot, stabbed with ice picks, or garroted." [Rockaway, 1993, p. 17] Lewis 'Pretty' Amberg "was one of New York's best known killers, having 'rubbed out' from eighteen to a hundred men, no one knew for sure." [Rockaway, 1993, p. 22] Charley Workman "was said to have killed twenty men ...he was so expert at assassination." Rockaway, 1993, p. 193] Harry 'Pittsburg Phil' Strauss was "perhaps the most famous professional killer in American gangster history ...[He] killed over 100 (some say over 400) men from the late 1920s to 1940s, making him the most prolific killer in New York." [Rockaway, 1993, p. 149] "Detroit police credit the [the all-Jewish Detroit] Purple Gang with over 500 killings, more than the Capone mob. This caused Herbert Ausbury, a historian of American crime, to call the gang 'the most efficiently organized gang of killers in the United States.'" [Rockaway, 2001, p. 113-]
Rich Cohen, who wrote a book about Jewish crime, noted his own family's reaction to what he discovered in his research:
"They really had no idea just how bad [Jewish criminals] were. I didn't really know how violent they were, or how many people they killed or how many times
they were arrested. You come to see them as people. Even within that world, some of them were worse than others. With some, it was just the situation.
And some of them were just killers."
Cohen also noted that some of New York's Jewish gangsters gathered at his grandmother's restaurant:
"When I told [my grandmother] of my interest in writing about the restaurant and also about the gangsters and their table in back, her face clouded over,
'They'll kill you', she said, 'These men, they're not like you. They'll kill a boy like you.' When I pointed out that these men - Reles, Strauss, Goldstein,
Maione, Abbandando - were long dead, she shook her head and said, 'They'll kill you.'"
"That I know all this is thanks largely to my estimable cousin Ben, a fount of information on Jewish gangster matters. I phoned him the other night and he told me,
just as I might tell someone that Arensal are top the league by a point, that of 60,000 Jews living in Argentina by the 1920s, 9,000 were involved in prostitution rackets.
You have to admit it's a conversation stopper. Ben - a big fan of Rich Cohen's book 'Tough Jews', not the least for its story of Red Levine, a hitman who wouldn't
kill anyone on Shabbat - is a Glaswegian, whose own father was threatened with imprisonment in 1916 for his involvement in a gambling den.
And, according to Ben, some of the nastiest loan sharks in pre-war Glasgow were Jewish."
"We were always conditioned to believe Jews didn't do these things, but here is Sandy Sadowsky [author of My Life in the Jewish Mafia] with her hair-raising
stories of gangland murders, prostitution, rackets, strong-arm men - the shtarkers who exacted revenge and protected their bosses - and one wonders if believing
in the myth of Jewish crimelessness (other than a spot of fraud here and there) wasn't anything more than a huge collective ostrich act."
"The concept of Jewish convicts serving serious jail time runs counter to a popular stereotype that Jewish felons tend to be nonviolent types who serve their sentences in minimum security cells ...Jews outside of prison often find this [fact of Jewish murderers] hard to deal with." [Los Angeles Times, 1995] "The people who know about it are kind of amazed", Howard Cohn, a part-time rabbi at the Pennsylvania State Corrections Institute told the Times. "They can't believe there are really Jews in a prison like this." [Beale, p. A5]
In the most sensational genre, New York serial killer David Berkowitz ('Son of Sam') was Jewish (he was adopted by a Jewish family as an infant), as was Joel Rifkind [Eftmiades, p. 75] of Long Island, who into the early 1990s strangled to death at least 17 women, mostly New York prostitutes. "He went, picked up a prostitute, had sex with her, killed her, and dumped her." [Eftmiades, p. 90-91] In the 1920s, one of America's most sensational crimes, splashed all over the country's newspapers, was that of the Leopold and Loeb boys: "A pair of wealthy young members of Chicago's Jewish bourgeoisie in the early 20s, they kidnapped a young man, Bobby Franks, and murdered him as a kind of Nietzchean experiment; after their arrest, it was revealed that they had a sexual relationship too." [Barbour, D., 1998] At the time, it was popularized as "the crime of the century". [Abrahamsen, D., 1983, p. 41] Amy Fisher, who received a great deal of press in New York tabloids as the "Long Island Lolita", was jailed in 1992 for shooting the wife of her lover. [Porter, B., 5-11-1999, p. A6]
Jewish Week, 1990, wrote about New York Satmar Chasidic community (an orthodox religious community),
"notorious for its violent actions against other Jewish groups [which] has imploded into a war against itself. Pitting supporters of the deceased Satmar Rabbi
against supporters of his successor ...In the Brooklyn area of Williamsburg, home to more than 30,000 Satmars, four cars belonging to one faction were set on fire
last week, while as many as 500 Satmars watched and cheered. Three Satmars, in one of the burning cars, needed to be rescued by police, who were also trying to
control the Satmar onlookers."
More on Satmar violence: "Recent years, have seen an explosion of tension between all chasidim and their Black and Hispanic neighbors. Most recently,
Hispanic groups have complained that the Satmars act like they have the right of eminent domain over Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, where many Satmars reside.
They have charged that chasidic men have sexually harassed non-Jewish women, that chasidic security patrols are actually racially motivated vigilantes."
Only political "assassination events" were itemizes to 91 cases by Israeli scholar Nachum Ben David, committed by Jews from 1882 to 1988. An assassination is defined by this author in his title as "a rhetorical device for justice". Most murder victims were other Jews who were considered "traitors/collaborators/squealers/informers". [Nachum Ben David, p. 418] "We are not dealing with a lone fanatic killer [in these cases], but with a premeditated planned act, committed by a group or by a representative of a group." [Ben Yehuda, p. xxi]
Mark Zborowsky, for instance, (a later immigrant to America where he became a university professor), in league with fellow Jews Naum Eitingon and Grigory Rabinovich,
was instrumental in the operation to murder Trotsky's son, Lev Sedov... "The murder of two Jews whom Stalin hated [Efraim Sklyansky and Isiah Khurgin] had been organized
by two other Jews, Kanner and Yagoda. Let us add that Kanner's assistant, Bombin, and Mekhil's assistants, Makhovev and Yuzhak, were all Jewish."
"When Jews thronged into the party after 1881 the number of Jewish terrorists was very high. There were important Jewish terrorists, like Gershuni, for example,
in the socialist revolutionary party which evolved during the present century as the heir of the 'People's Will' ...In more recent times one could cite the
extensive Jewish participation in the savageries of the Red Terror of the Cheka [the secret police] - or even events in Palestine."
Jewish Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubinstein), the murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who is believed to have killed John F. Kennedy), had interests in six Dallas-area striptease clubs.
"Ruby often resulted to violence with his employees, and lost the tip of his left index fingers when one bit it off during a scuffle.
He beat one of his musicians with brass knuckles, cracked another's head with a blackjack, knocked another's teeth out, and put the club's handyman in the hospital
with a severe beating. To avoid paying the club's cigarette girl 50 USD in back wages, he threatened to throw he down the stairs until she relented her claim
...He was not above attacking people from behind, kicking men in the groin or face once he had them to the floor, or even striking women ...He was often malicious,
forcing beaten victims to crawl out of the club on hands and knees."
"Lenny [Bruce, the famous Jewish comic] told me, 'I know other comics who have worked for Jack Ruby. Dig this. They say he has a tattoo of a vagina on his
upper arm, and whenever he flexes his muscle, the vagina dilates open.'"
At Jack Ruby's trial, Patrick Dean (the police sergeant in charge of security where Oswald was killed) testified that shortly after the shooting he talked to Ruby about what he had just done. One of the reasons Ruby killed Oswald, the killer told him, was "because he wanted the world to know that Jews do have guts." [Belli, p. 167] Ruby's killing of Oswald erased his looming testimony, as well as any other person's or organization's involvement in the most famous political assassination in US history. "In Dallas, Texas, a man born with the name Rubinstein who subsequently eliminated its Jewish-sounding suffix took it upon himself to avenge the martyrdom of a President. He gave his Jewishness as one of the reasons for doing so." [Barnet Litvinoff, p. 18] Ruby mingled with a variety of underworld figures, and was involved in gun smuggling to Cuba [Jim Marris, p. 391].
"Our sons are used as involuntary organ donors", Palestinian mothers told Donald Boström, a writer, photograph and journalist for Aftonbladet,
about the organ harvest by IDF (Israeli Defense Forces).
"Rabbi Yosef Crozer fell because of his big mouth. 'I launder money, a lot of money', he once told an acquaintance. 'Every day I take $300,000 from 47 Street
in Manhattan, bring it to the synagogue, give a receipt and then take a commission'. The man who heard that story from Crozer was, how sad, an undercover Jewish agent
of the US agency for fighting drug use, DEA. A month later, in February 1990, Crozer was arrested by agents on his way from 47 Street to Brooklyn.
They found on him prayer books, five passports, and also $280.000 dollars in cash in the trunk of his car. He traveled that route every day.
He would arrive at the gold trading oflice on 47 Street in the afternoon, and leave shortly later, carrying suitcases and bags loaded with cash.
From there he drove to the "Hessed Ve'Tzadaka" ["Mercy and Charity"] synagogue in Brooklyn, which was turned into an instrument for laundering millions of dollars,
the revenue from drug sales in the New York area." ... "In exchange for a lenient sentence, he supplied his interrogators with valuable information which helped them to capture a person whom they had been seeking
for a long time: Avraham Sharir, another pious Jew, the owner of a gold trading office on 47 Street, who was really one of the biggest sharks of laundering drug money
in New York City. Sharir, an Israeli Jew aged about 45, to whom we will later return, subsequently confessed to having laundered $200 million
for the Colombian drug cartel of Kali." ... At least 50% of the diamond traders there are Israelis. ...
Not a few Israelis also operate in the field of jewels, precious stones and gold. ...
But Jewish presence on 47 Street is much greater than that. Experts in the field estimate that 75-80% of the active traders on the street are Jews.
A large part of them are very talous Orthodox Jews, mainly Hassids. There is also a respectable representation of Jews from Iran and Syria, usually also very pious.
One can get along fine in Hebrew on 47 Street. There are many more kosher restaurants in the area than in the entire Tel-Aviv.
The place is also the biggest laundry for drug money in the US. ... It is termed The Cocaine Triangle. Its sides are:
Colombian drug barons, Israeli-Jewish money launderers. Jewish-Russian mafiosi. ... One reason for the growing power of the Jews
in the laundering drug money business is the Law of Return with its easy possibility of escape to Israel. ...
The Americans know that the chances of any one of them being extradited to the US are close to nil.
...undoubtedly one of the most popular and successful ways to launder money is through Jewish religious institutions, such as yeshivas and synagogues.
... The attitude of the pious Jewish community, according to the same source, is 'drugs are sold anyway. As long as it does not harm our own community
and only does good for it, it doesn't matter if we benefit from drug trade'. The role of the Israel is is, in many cases, to make the connection between
the religious Jewish communities of New York and the Colombians."
"... the Russian mafia does have a strong, safe base in Israel - a story that American and Israeli journalists have largely overlooked.
One FBI report observes, for example, that most members of Mogilevich's criminal organization have Israeli passports. And Jonathan Winer told Friedman
(when Winer was still the State Department's crime expert), 'There is not a major Russian organized crime figure whom we are tracking who does not
also carry an Israeli passport.'"
"A chartered accountant, who played a key role in an international plot to launder millions of pounds worth of Israeli drug money, has been told by the judge
to expect a jail sentence. Appearing in Southwark Crown Court, Philip Lyons, from Stanmore, pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to converting the proceeds
of drug trafficking and criminal conduct between June 1 and March 7 this year. The dad-of-three, who was part of a gang that laundered the proceeds of numerous
heroin and ecstasy deals and then sent the money to Spain, was remanded in custody."
"In recent months the [US government] Eldorado agents discovered a new center of operations. It is termed The Cocaine Triangle.
Its sides are: Colombian drug barons, Israeli-Jewish money launderers and Jewish-Russian mafiosi. The Colombians funnel the money, the Israelis launder it,
the Russian mafiosi (who have recently overrun New York in droves) provide the security and the muscle. A New York journalist recently told 'Maariv';
'The Israeli Jews are gaining notoriety in the money laundering market. You need only look at the list of arrests and the inditements of the past 3 years,
in order to grasp the enormous scope of Israeli involvement in that field."
"In the 1970s, more than forty thousand Russian Jews settled in Brighton Beach, the formerly stolid working-class Jewish neighborhood that inspired Neil Simon's
gentle play Brighton Beach Memoirs. It was under the shadow of the elevated subway tracks on Brighton Beach Avenue, bustling with Russian meat markets,
vegetable pushcarts, and bakeries, that the Russian gangsters resumed their careers as professional killers, thieves, and scoundrels. By the time of [Monya] Elson's
arrival, Brighton Beach had already become the seat of the dreaded Organizatsiya, the Russian Jewish mob."
"The enigmatic leader of the [Russian] Red Mafia is a 52-year-old Ukrainian-born Jew named Semion Mogilevich. He is a shadowy figure known as the 'Brainy Don' -
he holds an economics degree from the University of Lvov - and until now, he has never been exposed by the media. But the Voice has obtained hundreds of pages
of classified FBI and Israeli intelligence documents from August 1996, and these documents - as well as recent interviews with a key criminal associate and with dozens
of law enforcement sources here and abroad - describe him as someone who has become a grave threat to the stability of Israel and Eastern Europe ...
The FBI and Israeli intelligence assert that he traffics in nuclear materials, drugs, prostitutes, precious gems, and stolen art. His contract hit squads operate
in the US and Europe. He controls everything that goes in and out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, a 'smugglers' paradise', says [Monya] Elson.
Mogilevich bought a bankrupt airline in a former Central Asian Soviet republic for millions of dollars in cash so he could haul heroin out of the Golden Triangle.
Most worrisome to US authorities is Mogilevich's apparently legal purchase of virtually the entire Hungarian armaments industry, jeopardizing regional security,
NATO, and the war against terrorism."
"The deputy head of the Russian Jewish Congress, Mikhail Mirilashvili, has been arrested in St Petersburg and charged with kidnapping two people.
The chairman of the congress, Vladimir Gusinsky, a media magnate, is already under house arrest in Spain after Moscow demanded his extradition."
"An Israeli [Oded Tuito] described as a major international smuggler of the drug Ecstasy is in custody in Spain awaiting a court decision on an American
request for his extradition... Spanish newspapers report that Tuito ran a massive smuggling operation in Europe, Israel, and the United States...
Israeli crime syndicates with links to Russian mobs are the primary source of Ecstasy smugglied in the United States, according to the DEA."
"A celebrated mob informant's trial on drug-distribution charges is opening a window on an aspect of the drug trade that many New Yorkers would rather ignore.
According to federal and local law enforcement officials, Israeli criminals have cornered the market on the drug ecstasy, controlling by some accounts
as much as 75% of the American market."
"Over the past year, the number of calls about children abusing drugs in Orthodox communities 'has skyrocketed', says Benzion Twerski, a physician who runs
the substance-abuse program at Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, N.J. Among the reported problems: young (Jewish) Orthodox dealers selling drugs such as ecstasy,
heroin, and crack cocaine to their schoolmates, and Orthodox drug users stealing from their parents to support their habits.
... In January, federal investigators charged a Brooklyn businessman and four other ultra-Orthodox Jewish men with conspiring to sell 180,000 ecstasy
pills to an informant, then laundering the money through a local Jewish religious school."
"Ecstasy, along with marijuana, hashish, heroin, and cocaine, is heavily used and traded in Israel today, in what some call a sign of the times.
Contemporary Israel is an affluent, drug-consuming country - with an estimated 300,000 casual drug users and some 20,000 junkies
[from at total man, woman, and child population of about 6million]."
"The Orthodox Jewish community has been shocked by a series of arrests of its members for alleged heroin smuggling.
Police and Customs inquiries are centering on a drugs link between Israel, Antwerp and London.
... Dror Hazenfratz from Antwerp, was jailed for 11 years for trying to smuggle heroin... Hazenfratz, who was born in Haifa and holds an Israeli passport
as well as a Belgian identity card, appeared in Canterbury court wearing traditional dress and carrying the Talmud ... Hazenfratz said he had been told
to meet a Georgian Orthodox Jew at a north London hotel. The ultimate destination of the drugs was reputedly David Santini, a Glaswegian who,
at the time, was Scotland's leading heroin dealer ... British drugs officers suspect they are seeing the beginning of a new drug operation
involving Antwerp's Orthodox Jews and the Russian Mafia ... Last week, evidence of the violence associated with drug crime surfaced again in Antwerp.
A Jewish trader in precious metals in the city, Rachmeil 'Mike' Brandwain, also reputed to be a leading figure in the Russian Mafia, was shot dead."
"For a long time, American law enforcers have been aware that the major cocaine and heroin dealers are located in South America, whereas the kingpins
of the Ecstasy trade - a drug manufactured mainly in Europe and particularly in Holland and Belgium - are Israelis."
"An Israeli who was involved in smuggling $3.9 million worth of ecstasy tablets into New Zealand has been jailed for nine and a half years,
newspapers reported yesterday. Dan Dora, 23, had earlier been convicted of supervising a courier who tried to get 61,000 ecstasy tablets through Auckland airport.
The man was caught but cooperated with police, who arrested Dora when he tried to pick up the drugs at an Auckland hotel. Prosecutor Louise Freyer said
it was the largest quantity of ecstasy tablets ever intercepted while being brought into the country by a courier."
"Israel has acknowledged that US-origin military helicopters were sold to Colombia and might have landed in the hands of drug dealers.
Israeli officials said five MD-500 surveillance helicopters were sold by the Defense Ministry and ended up in the hands of a Colombian national."
"Israel is third in the world in the smuggling of drugs through its postal system, a Knesset committee dealing with the fight against drugs revealed on Sunday."
"Who dominates the Russian mafia? And, per the story below, what about Jewish crime in former Soviet Georgia? Menachem Amir notes what happened when these
Jews from Georgia moved to Israel: 'These new immigrants arrived by the thousands in the mid-1970s. In 1980-82 there were repeated reports in the [Israeli] media
and in police statements that among the Georgian Jews were 'special' types of criminals, engaged in 'big and serious' crimes, which they had previously practiced
in Georgia ... What became a hallmark or specialty of Georgian criminal organizations, however, was their control, by the use of violence, of carting and hauling
services at air and sea ports. They used this position for large-scale theft of passengers' luggage, as well as theft from cargo planes and anchored ships.
In addition, there were reports of grand scale thefts from warehouses, sophisticated frauds of religious objects and diamonds, counterfeiting of money and documents
(drivers' licenses and professional diplomats), and large-scale fencing."
"Amir further notes formal Israeli anthropological studies into the Georgian Jewish crime community. These investigations concluded that the Georgians'
"original normative system" f crime 'favored their immediate entrance and persistence into organized criminality and organized crime.'
The results of fifteen years of Israeli efforts to dissuade Jewish Georgians from crime were a 'success' only to the degree that they left Israel and had
'continued their criminal activities in their new 'places' while maintaining criminal relations with their brethren who remain in Israel
(e.g. contraband goods, drugs, laundering money or distributing counterfeit money, produced in Israel [and] in Europe.'"
"Robert I. Friedman's account of Russian organized crime activity is a stunning, eye opening story of the menace facing United States law enforcement agencies today.
... Among the Russian mobsters Friedman introduces are Monya Elson, Evsei Agron, Emile Puzyretsky, the Nayfeld brothers, Marat Balagula, the Zilber brothers,
Semion Mogilevich, and Vyacheslav Ivankov. While these names are not as familiar to us as those of Gotti, Gambino, Anastasia or the Gallo brothers,
these individuals have proven to be just as crafty, if not as deadly, as their Italian counterparts. What surprised me, something I had not released before,
is that the majority of these criminals are Jewish."
"The conquest of Canaan was but one more instance of a hungry nomad horde falling upon a settled community.
The conquerors killed as many as they could find, and married the rest. Slaughter was unconfined, and (to follow the text)
was divinely ordained and enjoyed. Gideon, in capturing two cities, slew 120,000 men; only in the annals of the Assyrians
do we meet again with such hearty killing."
"The disgraced [Jewish] financier Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding a $65bn (Ł38bn) fraud that wrecked the lives of thousands of investors.
The US district judge Denny Chin described the fraud as "staggering" and said the 'breach of trust was massive' and that a message was being sent by the sentence.
There had been no letters submitted in support of Madoff's character, he said. Victims in the courtroom clapped as the term was read out.
(See also Judaism - Jewish Slave Business - Jewish Criminality - anti-Semitism)
"In contrast to the lack of any meaningful discussion of the organized American Jews and their power, which in my view is due to their great political influence
in general and their predominance in the media in particular, the Hebrew press does not have such inhibitions. This is due, among other reasons, also to the fact that
the power of the State of Israel depends to a considerable extent on its ability to use the organized American Jews and their power for its own interests."
The rabbi of 'Adath Yisrael' synagogue in Cleveland Park, Washington, dedicated his Sabbath sermon:
"For the first time in American history, we no longer feel that we live in diaspora. The U.S. has no longer a government of Goyim [Gentiles],
but an administration in which the Jews are full partners in the decision making at all levels. Perhaps the aspects of the Jewish religious law connected
with the term 'government of goyim' should be re-examined, since it is an outdated term in the US."
Warm Jews in Clinton's Court:
During PDB - President's Daily Briefing by CIA, Clinton holds a short discussion on the contents of the document with the five other addressees.
Two of the addressees are warm Jews: National Security Adviser to the Vice-President Leon Perth and Deputy National Security Adviser Samuel ("Sandy") Berger.
"The enormous Jewish influence in Washington is not limited to the government. In the Washingtonian media a very significant part of the
most important persons and of the givers of the most popular programs on the TV are warm Jews. A significant part of senior media correspondents,
newspaper editors and analysts are Jewish and many of them are warm Jews too. Many of them are influenced in Israel's favor by attending suitable synagogues."
The Haiti crisis started to accelerate. I phoned the US State Department and requested a briefing from the person in charge of that area.
They referred me to Yehuda Mirsky. I introduced myself to his secretary. Suddenly someon picked up the receiver and then t heard a voice saying in perfect Israeli Hebrew:
'Good morning, how can I help you?' For a moment I thought that I had mistakenly dialed the Israeli Foreign Ministry. 'do you know Hebrew from, and are you an Israeli?'
'No, I am American, but I spent three years, mainly studying the bible and the Talmud, at the military 'Har Etzion' Hesder Yeshiva, with Rabbi Lichtenstein and
Rabbi Amital in Gush Etzion."
"Incidently, although the Jewish power in the current Democratic Administration is so huge,
there are also many warm Jews heading for the top positions in the Republican Party."
[Paul Wolfowitz, Lieutenant-Colonel Crimkowitz, Caspar Weinberger, Richard Hass]
The following is a list of Jews in the Clinton adminstration in early 1998 (it doesn't include lower level staff):
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that... I want to tell you something very clear:
Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
"The most effective component of Jewish connection is probably that of media control. It is well known that American public opinion molders have long been largely
influenced by a handful of powerful newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, owned respectively by the Sulzbergers,
Meyers, and the Pulitzers, (all Jewish families)."
"We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them."
"We shall drive the Christians into war by exploiting their national vanity and stupidity. They will then massacre each other, thus giving room for our own people."
"But as time went by, as the level of insanity, hatred, and incitement kept rising, as the generals were turning the Israeli Defense Forces into
a terror organization, the decision was turning into an outcry: 'If you can't see that this is one big crime leading us to the brink of annihilation,
then something is terribly wrong with you!'"
"The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which
will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever."
"Five men meet in London twice daily and decide the world price of gold. They represent Mocatta & Goldsmid,
Sharps, Pixley Ltd., Samuel Montagu Ltd., Mase Wespac Ltd. and M. Rothschild & Sons."
"You cannot be English Jews. We are a race, and only as a race can we perpetuate. Our mentality is of Edomitish character,
and differs from that of an Englishman. Enough subterfuges! Let us assert openly that we are International Jews."
"We Jews have spoiled the blood of all the races of Europe. Taken as a whole, everything is Jewdified. Our ideas animate everything.
Our spirit reigns over the world. We are the Lords. ...
We Jews have spoiled the blood of all races. We have tarnished and broken their power. we have made everything foul, rotten, decomposed and decayed."
"We are Jews and nothing else. A nation within a nation."
"Medieval Jewry, much as it suffered from disabilities and contempt, still was a privileged minority in every country in which it was tolerated at all."
"A Jew remains a Jew. Assimilalation is impossible, because a Jew cannot change his national character.
Whatever he does, he is a Jew and remains a Jew. The majority has discovered this fact, but too late. Jews and Gentiles discover
that there is no issue. Both believed there was an issue. There is none."
"With him (Bela Kun) twenty six commissaries composed the new government [of Hungary], out of the twenty six commissaries eighteen were Jews.
An unheard of proportion if one considers that in Hungary there were altogether 1,500,000 Jews in a population of 22 million."
"We have the Israelis coming to us for equipment. We can say we can't possibly get the Congress to support a program like this.
And they say don't worry about the Congress. We will take care of the Congress. This is somebody from another country, but they can do it.
They own, you know, the banks in this country. The newspapers. Just look at where the Jewish money is."
"Ambassador Henry Morgenthau declared 'America is our Zion.'"
"I do not believe that the primal difference between gentile and Jew is reconcilable. You and we may come to an understanding, never to a reconciliation.
There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution and vision divide us from all of you forever."
"Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]:
they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill."
Usury is considered immoral by some Jews. The Jewish theologian, Maimonides, wrote "why is [usury] called nesek [biting]? Because he who takes it bites his fellow, causes pain to him, and eats his flesh." [Minkin, p. 362] Usury was forbidden to Jews, as well as Christians, in the Old Testament. (The Islamic Quran also expressly states its prohibition of 'interest'). But there was a qualifier. Jews conjured a double moral standard; usury upon others in their own community was prohibited, but usury upon non-Jews was acceptable. The Torah states that one cannot practice usury upon a brother, but can to a stranger. [Deuteronomy, 23:20] Who is a brother and who is a stranger? "Brother", in Jewish religious teachings means "Jew". "Stranger" is anyone else.
"The picture of the Jew waiting at home for the Gentile to come to borrow money or pay a debt is a realistic one ...[but] many Jews also had also to call at the house of the Gentile to offer their services as traders or money-lenders." [Jacob Katz, Ex, p. 38] The exploitive nature of Jewish usury invariably alienated the Christian populace. The Cortes of Portugal, for instance, complained in 1361 that Jewish usury was becoming "an unbearable yoke upon the population." [Abram Leon, p. 165] "The continual complaints against Jewish moneylenders, coming from all classes of the medieval population, particularly in the 14th and 15th centuries, necessarily made the Jew an unpopular figure." [Guido Kisch, p. 328] Usurious Jews who did no physical labor, who were segregated in their own communities, who did not serve in the local military, and who were agents of the hated aristocracy, were commonly accused of parasitism by local non-Jewish populaces. "Jewish money lending [was a] lucrative business... For the most part, the accepted rate ranged between 33 and 43 per cent, although sometimes they went up to double and treble those percentages, or more... When the European economy entered a period of deceleration in the late thirteenth century, further aggravated by recurrent famine and pestilence, such exorbitant charges, though economically doubly justified because of the increased risks, created widespread hostility." [Baron, EHoJ, p. 45] Money lending was not usually for a borrower's business expenses or expansion, but for subsistence survival. [MacDonald, p. 263] The victims were desperate people who often enough stood to perish from their web of increasing debt.
"It was not luxury needs, but the direct distress which forced the peasant or the artisan to borrow from the Jewish usurer.
They pawned their working tools which were often indispensable to assure their livelihood. It is easy to understand the hatred that the man of the people
must have felt for the Jew in whom he saw the direct cause of his ruin... In this role as petty usurers exploiting the people, [Jews] were often victims
of bloody uprisings... [uprisings that were] first and foremost efforts to destroy the letters of credit which were in [Jewish] possession."
In 1431, for instance, armed peasants demanded that the city of Worms surrender its Jews to them,
"in view of the fact that they had ruined [the peasants] and taken away their last shirt."
"All Jewish converts [to Christianity] of early sixteenth century Germany attacked the practice of Jewish money lending." [R. Po-Chia Hsia] One convert, Johannes Pffeferkorn, argued that profits from usury was the main reason that Jews remained Jews, that they were reluctant to become Christians and do "honest work". Another, Anton Margaritha, argued that such "honest work by Jews would humble them." [R. Po-Chia Hsia, p. 172] (Conversely, in England, the Jewish "monopoly of usury brought them such wealth that some Christians undoubtedly went over to Judaism in order to participate in the Jewish monopoly in lending.") [Leon, p. 140, quoting Brentano]
"Everyone knew everybody in the [Jewish community], and there was no need for official code or written law. The only formal law was the Torah and
its halakhic interpretation as understood by the local rabbi ...It was a basis communal conduct ... ('You help me, and I'll you') ...
The attitude towards the formal law of the land was suspicion ...One has to survive it, not respect it. The art of Jewish survival within the ghetto
included an elaborate system of using, avoiding, and sidestepping the [Gentile] law."
"The feeling of separation ... leads to a special Orthodox morality. Ultimately because the moral value of every act is determined by halakhah,
by Jewish law, they develop a rather cavalier attitude toward 'gentile' law. For example, a tiny minority of Hasidim [in USA today] engage in jewelry smuggling.
In the shtetl [Jewish Eastern European village] this was a traditional trade. Nobody looked upon it as a crime, because nobody recognized the existence
of national borders; the only borders that mattered were those that divided the Jewish from the gentile world."
"What is amazing is the extent to which they succeeded in promulgating this fiction throughout the world. By making a 'shadow' America,
one which idealized every old glorifying bromide about the country, the Hollywood Jews created a powerful cluster of images and ideas - so powerful that,
in a sense, they colonized the American imagination... Ultimately, American values came to be defined largely by the movies the Jews made."
Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a Jewish conman, arrived in Hawaii in 1887, and "ingratiated himself with King David Kalakaua by his chanting and so-called occult powers.
He soon became the King's soothsayer and astrologer, acquiring such power over the monarch that the Hawaiian press bitterly denounced him as a 'Holy Moses'.
Rosenberg taught the King some Hebrew and was persuaded to appoint him appraiser of customs. He was given quarters in the Iolani Palace, where he practiced magic,
read the stars, and chanted Bible stories in Hebrew."
Trebitsch Lincoln, a Jewish fraudster, a human chameleon, was "the king of dupers, ...a thwarted megalomaniac who was also a champion con man."
Born in Hungary in 1879, he immigrated to England and converted to Christianity. He became a member of Parliament, and later tried to become a British,
and then a German, spy. He turned up as a supporter of the right-wing Kapp Putsch in Berlin in 1920, became an abbot of a Buddhist temple in Shanghai,
fleeced his devotees, welcomed invading Japanese, became a Nazi apologist and propagandist and so on, and so on...
"War for the bourgeoisie was already revolting enough, but war for the Jews now! I can't find any adjectives that are really sufficiently phlegm-covered,
sufficiently myriakilogrammatically full of shit, of green decay of corpses to describe to you what this means."
"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...
Everything we don't grab will go to them."
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time.
The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."
"The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple."
"(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls."
"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, 'What is to be done with the Palestinian population?'
Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'"
"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."
"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."
"If I knew that it was possible to save all the [Jewish] children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel,
I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel."
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves...
The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography
books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta;
Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a
former Arab population."
"We must expel Arabs and take their places."
"God gave the Jewish people the Land of Israel. Without that, the only claim the modern State of Israel can make is that it is stronger
and was able to take the land from the Arabs."
Radio Interview, 9 February 1999:
"I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want."
"Sharon's history offers a monochromatic record of moral corruption, with a documented record of war crimes going back to the early 1950s.
... Sharon's first documented sortie in this role was in August of 1953 on the refugee camp of El-Bureig, south of Gaza. An Israeli history of the 101 unit records 50
refugees as having been killed... Major-General Vagn Bennike, the UN commander, reported that 'bombs were thrown [by Sharon's men] through the windows of huts
in which the refugees were sleeping and, as they fled, they were attacked by small arms and automatic weapons'. ... In October of 1953 came the attack by Sharon's
unit 101 on the Jordanian village of Qibya, whose 'stain' Israel's foreign minister at the time, Moshe Sharett, confided to his diary 'would stick to us and not be
washed away for many years'. ... Israeli historian Avi Shlaim describes the massacre thus: 'Sharon's order was to penetrate Qibya, blow up houses and inflict heavy
casualties on its inhabitants. His success in carrying out the order surpassed all expectations. The full and macabre story of what happened at Qibya was revealed
only during the morning after the attack. The village had been reduced to rubble: forty-five houses had been blown up, and sixty-nine civilians,
two thirds of them women and children, had been killed...' ... 'In August 1971 alone, troops under Mr Sharon's command destroyed some 2,000 homes in the Gaza Strip,
uprooting 16,000 people for the second time in their lives. Hundreds of young Palestinian men were arrested and deported to Jordan and Lebanon. Six hundred relatives
of suspected guerrillas were exiled to Sinai. In the second half of 1971, 104 guerrillas were assassinated. 'The policy at that time was not to arrest suspects,
but to assassinate them', said Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza City'. ... As defense minister in Menachem Begin's
second government, Sharon was the commander who led the full dress 1982 assault on Lebanon, with the express design of destroying the PLO, driving as many Palestinians
as possible to Jordan and making Lebanon a client state of Israel. It was a war plan that cost untold suffering, around 20,000 Palestinian and Lebanese lives,
and 30,000 wounded [between 4 June and 31 August 1982]. ... Sharon also oversaw the infamous massacres at Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps.
The Lebanese government counted 762 bodies recovered and a further 1,200 buried privately by relatives. However, the Middle East may have been spared worse,
thanks to Menachem Begin. Just as the 1982 war was getting under way, Sharon approached Begin, then Prime Minister, and suggested that Begin
cede control over Israel's nuclear trigger to him. Begin had just enough sense to refuse."
"On Sept. 19, 1982, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 521, harshly condemning the massacres at the camps. In a distant mirror of the
current genocide in Jenin, Ramallah, and Bethlehem, Sharon ignored the international condemnations. Today, Sharon faces war crimes prosecution in court in Belgium
for his role in the Sabra and Shatila massacres, as the result of a lawsuit filed on June 18, 2001 by 23 survivors of the attacks."
"In January 1986, Edgar Bronfman, the Jewish mafia don and president of the World Jewish Congress, admitted, in a New York Post interview, that he was negotiating
on behalf of the Israeli government with Moscow, to secure Soviet permission for 400,000 Jews to emigrate to Israel - in return for massive shipments of grain to
the Soviet Union. The deal was cynically dubbed 'Jews for wheat', in recognition that this scheme was leading to the annexation of the occupied lands by Israel.
A year earlier, in another sop to the American- and British-based Jewish criminal interests bankrolling Sharon's 'Judiazation' scheme, the Knesset
had passed laws dropping all restrictions on cash flows into Israeli banks - so long as the money was invested in Israel."
"In the minutes of a secret 1975 meeting of the National Security Council attended by President Ford reveal Henry Kissinger grumbling,
'It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.'"
"An indictment of Henry Kissinger for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes would include (but not be confined to) the following.
"The 'secret bombing' of Cambodia by the Nixon-Kissinger gang may have killed as many Cambodians as were executed by the Khmer Rouge and surely
contributed to the ferocity of Khmer Rouge behavior toward the urban elite and citizenry whose leaders had allied themselves with the foreign terrorists.
... The US-imposed holocaust was a 'sideshow' to the Vietnam War, the United States bombing Cambodia heavily by 1969, helping organize the overthrow of Sihanouk in 1970,
and in collaboration with its puppet Saigon government making periodic incursions into Cambodia in the 1960s and later. 'US B-52s pounded Cambodia for 160
consecutive days [in 1973], dropping more than 240,000 short tons of bombs on rice fields, water buffalo, villages (particularly along the Mekong River)
and on such troop positions as the guerrillas might maintain', a tonnage that 'represents 50 percent more than the conventional explosives dropped on Japan
during World War II'. This 'constant indiscriminate bombing' was of course carried out against a peasant society with no air force or ground defenses.
The Finnish government study estimates that 600,000 people died in this first phase, with 2 million refugees produced."
Here comes an unbelievable fact about an extremely bloody fascist Jewish war criminal, a fact as justifiable as it would be e.g. to give Soviet Medal of Honour to Joseph Goebbels.
Henry Kissinger was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to establish a ceasefire and US withdrawal from Vietnam!
"The story of the Jews in America begins with Christopher Columbus. On August 2, 1492, more than 300,000 Jews were expelled from Spain and on August 3,
the next day, Columbus set sail for the west, taking a group of Jews with him. They were not, however, refugees, for the prophetic navigator's plans had
aroused the sympathy of influential Jews for a long period previously. Columbus himself tells us that he consorted much with Jews. The first letter he wrote
detailing his discoveries was to a Jew. Indeed, the eventful voyage itself which added to men's knowledge and wealth 'the other half of the earth'
was made possible by Jews. The pleasant story that it was Queen Isabella's jewels which financed the voyage has disappeared under cool research.
There were three Maranos or 'secret Jews' who wielded great influence at the Spanish court: Luis de Santagel, who was an important merchant of Valencia and who was
'farmer' of the royal taxes; his relative, Gabriel Sanchez, who was the royal treasurer; and their friend, the royal chamberlain, Juan Cabrero.
These worked unceasingly on Queen Isabella's imagination, picturing to her the depletion of the royal treasury and the likelihood of Columbus discovering
the fabulous gold of the Indies, until the Queen was ready to offer her jewels in pawn for the funds. But Santagel craved permission to advance the money himself,
which he did, 17,000 ducats in all, about 5,000 pounds, perhaps equal to 40,000 pounds today.
Associated with Columbus in the voyage were at least five Jews: Luis de Torres, interpreter; Marco, the surgeon; Bernal, the physician; Alonzo de la Calle,
and Gabriel Sanchez. Luis de Torres was the first man ashore, the first to discover the use of tobacco; he settled in Cuba and may be said to be the father
of Jewish control of the tobacco business as it exists today."
"From that beginning, Jews looked more and more to America as a fruitful field, and immigration set in strongly toward South America, principally Brazil.
But because of military participation in a disagreement between the Brazilians and the Dutch, the Jews of Brazil found it necessary to emigrate, which they did
in the direction of the Dutch colony of what is now New York. Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor, did not entirely approve of their settling among his people
and ordered them to leave, but the Jews had evidently taken the precaution to assure their being received if not welcomed, because upon revoking the order of Stuyvesant,
the Directors gave as one of the reasons for the Jews being received, 'the large amount of capital which they have invested in the shares of the Company.'
Nevertheless they were forbidden to enter public service and to open retail shops, which had the effect of driving them into foreign trade in which they
were soon exercising all but a monopoly because of their European connections."
"The motion picture industry; the sugar industry; the tobacco industry; fifty per cent or more of the meat packing industry; over sixty per cent of the shoemaking
industry; most of the musical purveying done in the country; jewelry; grain; cotton; oil; steel; magazine authorship; news distribution; the liquor business;
the loan business; these, to name only the industries with national and international sweep, are in control of the Jews of the United States,
either alone or in association with Jews overseas."
"Two organizations, both of which are as notable for their concealment as for their power, are the New York Kehillah and the American Jewish Committee.
The Kehillah is the most potent factor in the political life of New York; it is the organization which today wields so large an influence on the rest of the world,
which consciously issues a program which on one side is pro-Jewish and on the other anti-Gentile. It is the central group, the inner government,
whose ruling is law and whose act is the official expression of Jewish purpose. It offers a real and complete instance of a government within a government
in the midst of America's largest and politically most powerful city, and it also constitutes the machine through which pro-Jewish and anti-Gentile propaganda
is operated and Jewish pressure brought to bear against certain American ideas. That is to say, the Jewish government of New York constitutes the essential part
of the Jewish Government of the United States.
... The United States is divided into 12 parts by the American Jewish Committee and every State belongs to a district headed by the most powerful and representative Jews.
The Committee represents the focusing point of the religious, racial, financial and political will of Jewry. It is also the executive committee of the New York Kehillah.
... At the meeting which organized the Kehillah a number of sentiments were expressed which are worthy of consideration today,
Judah L. Magnes, then rabbi of Temple Emanu-el, chairman of the meeting, set forth the plan:
'A central organization like that of the Jewish community of New York City is necessary to create a Jewish public opinion,', he said.
Rabbi Asher was loudly applauded when he said:
'American interests are one, Jewish interests are another thing.'"
"Judaism is the most closely organized power on earth. It forms a State whose citizens are unconditionally loyal wherever they may be and whether rich or poor.
... The means of power of the State of All-Judaan are capital and journalism, or money and propaganda.
Judaism is passionately in favor of perpetuating nationalistic divisions for the Gentile world. For themselves, Jews never became assimilated with any nation.
They are a separate people, always were and always will be.
... All-Judaan has its vice-governments in every capital. Having wreaked its vengeance on Germany, it will go forth to conquer other nations.
Britain it already has. France and Russia it has long held. The United States, with its good-natured tolerance of all races, offered a promising field.
All-Judaan is here. The scene of operations changes, but the Jew is the same throughout the centuries."
"Zionism has in reality revealed itself as one of the varieties of the theory and practice of the most aggressive imperialistic circles striving for world supremacy.
In this respect it is related to fascism. ... We have never put an equation mark between the notions of a 'Jew' and a 'Zionist'.
The spread of Zionist ideology among the Jewish people
is by far not the fault, but a misfortune of the Jewish people.
... Our people are not blind. They cannot but see that Zionization of the government authorities of Russia was one of the reasons of
the present catastrophic conditions of the country, mass impoverishment and dying out of its population.
... They cannot turn a blind eye to the aggressive, destructive role of Zionist capital in ruining Russia's economy and plundering her property owned by all.
... There is a growing understanding among the people that the origin of all the current troubles
is the criminal course of an anti-people, supra-national oligarchy that seized power."
"The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was 'given' by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state.
The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased.
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland
from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being
expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.
We are frequently told that we must sympathise with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis.
... What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy."
"That Jews control a disproportionately large share of the Russian economy and Russian media certainly has some basis in fact. Between 50 and 80 percent
of the Russian economy is said to be in Jewish hands, with the influence of the five Jews among the eight individuals commonly referred to as 'oligarchs' particularly
conspicuous. (An oligarch is understood to be a member of a small group that exercises control in a government. The five oligarchs of Jewish descent are Boris Berezovsky,
Mikhail Friedman, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Alexander Smolensky. The other oligarchs are Vagit Alekperov, Vladimir Potanin, and Rem Vyakhirev.)
Perhaps the most famous (and simultaneously the most infamous) of the oligarchs is Boris Berezovsky. In common with most of the other Jewish oligarchs, Berezovsky
controls industries in three critical areas: the extraction and sale of a major natural resource, such as oil, as a source of great wealth;
a large bank (useful in influencing industry and transferring assets abroad); and several major media outlets (useful for exerting influence and attacking rivals).
He also controls a significant share of the Aeroflot airline and the Moscow automobile industry.
... Berezovsky's leading lieutenant is another Jew, Roman Abramovich, a shadowy individual in his early 30s. Abramovich manages Berezovsky's vast oil interests
(Sibneft and related companies), arranges major financial and industrial positions in the Russian Cabinet, serves as cashier to the Yeltsin family, and controls
access to Berezovsky himself
Vladimir Gusinsky owns a large stable of media outlets through Media Most, including NTV, several newspapers, and a news magazine; interests in oil, construction,
and pharmaceuticals; and a bank (Most Bank). He was the leading organizer in financing the 1996 election campaigns of Boris Yeltsin and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
Mikhail Friedman and his Jewish colleague Peter Aven are the principals in a large bank (Alfa Bank) and also are prominent in construction materials and food processing.
The banking interests of Alexander Smolensky (SBS Agro) and Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Menatep) were damaged severely in the 1998 financial crisis.
However, Smolensky shares holdings in some media and oil concerns with Berezovsky, and Khodorkovsky remains influential in an oil company (Yukos),
mining and construction enterprises, and businesses producing chemicals, textiles, and paper.
Jewish oligarchs made their considerable holdings in Russian media available to the Yeltsin and Luzhkov 1996 political campaigns. The victory of the oligarchs
in the elections - and it was as much their victory as it was victory for Yeltsin and Luzhkov - empowered them to lobby the President and the Mayor for
business-friendly policies and various privileges. President Yeltsin and Mayor Luzhkov have responded accordingly."
"Because advertising was forbidden in the Soviet Union, skilled trades people turned to unofficial brokers (fartsovshchiky) who could obtain key items,
such as tools or spare parts, that were 'in deficit', i.e., in short supply. Other brokers could find gifted surgeons for private patients or arrange stays at
elite vacation resorts. Many of these brokers were Jews.
A similar field of work on a larger scale was that of a tolkach, an expediter or fixer in industry. These were the underground wheelers and dealers
who performed vital roles in addressing the failures of the centrally planned Soviet economy. They found the raw materials that the behemoth central planning
system had lost, they arranged transportation links, they cleared bottlenecks. Most had the protection offered by a conventional job, perhaps as an engineer,
but their wheeling and dealing skills became known and every competent factory manager had at least one on the payroll.
When Mikhail Gorbachev permitted the development of cooperatives and private trade as components of his perestroika policy in 1987, the expediters were
well-positioned to step forward. Many of them fashioned their contacts together into cooperatives. Within a short time, the cooperatives developed into conglomerates."
"The various Jewish oligarchs occupy a range of positions regarding Jewish identity and identification. Vladimir Gusinsky is the founding president of the
Russian Jewish Congress, the largest indigenous Jewish organization in the successor states today. His deputy in business, Boris Khait, is a vice-president,
as is Mikhail Friedman of Alfa Bank. Alexander Smolensky, however, has converted to Russian Orthodoxy, is a generous contributor to the Orthodox Church,
and has requested that he not be listed in the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia. Mikhail Khodorkovsky shows considerable irritation whenever his Jewish origins are noted.
Boris Berezovsky sought Israeli citizenship as protection during the initial period of his life as a tycoon, but subsequently renounced it when his
loyalty to Russia was questioned. He now suggests that he has converted to Russian Orthodoxy, although he continues to regard himself as an ethnic Jew."
"Sometime during the autumn of 1996, a small group of the most powerful men in Russia gathered in a villa on Moscow's Sparrow Hills district and worried
aloud about antisemitism. They were Russia's famous 'oligarchs', men who, in the aftermath of communism's fall, ran banks, oil companies, television stations and,
increasingly, the country, and they had reason to worry: Most of them were Jews.
'In earlier years, when the moguls gathered to talk or make deals, when they dined in the villa on Sparrow Hills, or when they entered the Kremlin to warn Yeltsin,
they were largely hidden from public view,' writes former Washington Post Moscow correspondent David E. Hoffman in his recent book,
'The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia'.
But in the autumn of 1996, it was no longer possible to conceal their ambition and their presence in the highest councils of the state."
"Why is it, and what does it mean, that so many of these men - men who ruthlessly acquired and manipulated Russia's resources and, for a time, its government - are Jewish?"
"The Russian Jewish Congress, a powerful new group headed by one of Russia's most prominent and controversial millionaires, has signed a landmark agreement
with American Jewry's top umbrella organization [the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations], pledging joint cooperation and consultation
... The National Conference on Soviet Jewry, another U.S. umbrella group that encompasses many of the same Jewish organizational members as the Presidents
Conference, was also a signatory... Some, including a top Russian Jewish Congress official, says it marks a milestone in the emergence of the Russian group
as an influential diaspora player on the international stage ... In a separate initiative, the Russian Jewish Congress signed an agreement at
about the same time with the World Jewish Congress..."
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: It represents, notes Jewish journalist Wolf Blitzer,
"more than thirty of the most important national Jewish organizations; it has come to be viewed as the authoritative voice of the mainstream Jewish leadership
... Because the Presidents' Conference, like AIPAC [the leading American Jewish Israel lobbying organization], can almost always be found in support of
the official Israeli position, U.S. officials in all recent administrations have to view it as a de facto arm of the Israeli government."
At least three of the posted four Board Members of Open Russia Foundation' are members of international Jewry: Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky,
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, and Lord Jacob Rothschild.
"With 3.5 billion barrels of oil reserves, Priobskoye is a black gold mine for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chief executive and main shareholder of AO Yukos Oil Co.,
Russia's second-largest oil producer ... Khodorkovsky is one of the so-called oligarchs who took control of state assets after the collapse of the Soviet Union
and oversaw some of Russia's worst violations of shareholder rights. Amid the country's financial crisis in 1998 and 1999, Khodorkovsky transferred stakes
in Yukos subsidiaries to offshore tax havens like the Isle of Man and Cyprus."
"All but one of the eight leading [Russian] bankers are Jewish, and four of them - Goussinsky, Boris Hait, Mikhail Friedman, and Vitaly Malkin -
occupy the top positions at the RJC [Russian Jewish Congress] ... In addition to these business titans, often referred to here in the [Russian] media and
on the street as the 'oligarchs', many of the leading political figures in Russia are also Jewish or partly Jewish. These include fomer prime Minster Sergei Kiriyenko
and top Kremlin aides Yegor Gaidar and Boris Nemtsov. Grigori Yavlinsky, the leader of the Yabloko, the largest democratic party in the Duma today,
has one Jewish parent ... In the new Russia, the most important fields ... to which Jews [have] gravitated [are] banking, trade, the media, and show business."
In late 1998, Viktor Ilyukin, the head of the Russian Parliament's Security Affairs Committee, said this about the Yeltsin government:
"The large-scale genocide [i.e., Russian social and economic collapse with resulting mass sufferings and deaths] wouldn't have been possible
if Yeltsin's inner circle had consisted of the main ethnicity groups, and not exclusively of one group, the Jews."
"When key Washington policy advisor Richard Perle sat down this week for a meeting with leading Russian political analysts, he had an unsolicited word of advice:
Lay off Yukos Oil Co., the Russian energy giant locked in a showdown with criminal prosecutors.
... Not only has Khodorkovsky given millions of dollars to two liberal parties that might block Kremlin policy in parliament,
but he also urged Russia not to oppose the US in the war on Iraq"
"[Simon Spector] is a man in power, representative of a disproportionately high number of prominent local Jews who are revealing their ethnic roots and transforming the face of Russian Jewry.
... Spector is the deputy governor for the Sverdlovsk region, an influential area of 4.5 million in Russia's Ural Mountains, where Europe and Asia meet.
Yekaterinburg, the regional center and Russia's third largest city, is home to just 13,000 Jews, or 0.05 percent of the population.
... Three other Jews also serve as deputy governors, including the health and property ministers. There are 10 Jewish cultural directors in the region,
including the head of the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Russia's Motion Picture Union. Other prominent local Jews include the head coach
of the Russian chess team, the dean of the local university, Yekaterinburg's chief cardiologist, the region's chief doctor, who oversees 33 hospitals,
and dozens of businessmen, including a bank president. Indeed, Yekaterinburg can be seen as a microcosm of Russia, where five of 12 owners or majority
stockholders of the largest industrial or financial institutions are Jewish - a considerable number for Russia, where Jews make up less than 2 percent of the population."
"Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) officials acquired virtual carte blanche over the US economic aid program to Russia,
with minimal oversight by the government agencies involved. With this access and their close alliance with Chubais and his circle, they allegedly profited on the side.
Yet few Americans are aware of HIID's role in Russian privatization, and its suspected misuse of taxpayers' funds.
... One result was the evaporation of much potential investment capital: the substantial savings of Russians.
... Anne Williamson, a journalist who specializes in Soviet and Russian affairs, details these and other conflicts of interest between HIID's advisers and their
supposed clients - the Russian people - in her forthcoming book, How America Built the New Russian Oligarchy.
For example, in 1995, in Chubais-organized insider auctions of prime national properties, known as loans-for-shares, the Harvard Management Company (HMC),
which invests the university's endowment, and billionaire speculator [Jew] George Soros were the only foreign entities allowed to participate.
HMC and Soros became significant shareholders in Novolipetsk, Russia's second-largest steel mill, and Sidanko Oil, whose reserves exceed those of Mobil.
HMC and Soros also invested in Russia's high-yielding, IMF-subsidized domestic bond market. Even more dubious, according to Williamson, was Soros's July 1997
purchase of 24 percent of Sviazinvest, the telecommunications giant, in partnership with Uneximbank's Vladimir Potanin. It was later learned that shortly
before this purchase Soros had tided over Yeltsin's government with a backdoor loan of hundreds of millions of dollars while the government was awaiting
proceeds of a Eurobond issue; the loan now appears to have been used by Uneximbank to purchase Norilsk Nickel in August 1997."
"Israel has granted citizenship to a Russian tycoon who could be targeted in Russia's tax evasion and fraud investigation of oil giant Yukos,
the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
... Israeli opposition legislator Colette Avital said it appeared the process was unusually quick. 'Suddenly, overnight he became a dedicated Zionist and he got
citizenship in a speedy manner and we have to ask why?' Avital told The Associated Press.
Nevzlin is No. 386 on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people, with an estimated wealth at $1.1 billion. Forbes ranks him as the 11th richest Russian."
... Putin assured Sharon that the cases were purely criminal, according to Gissin.
"Control of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's shares in the Russian oil giant Yukos have passed to renowned banker Jacob Rothschild, under a deal they concluded prior to
Mr. Khodorkovsky's arrest, the Sunday Times reported. Voting rights to the shares passed to [Jew] Mr. Rothschild, 67, under a 'previously unknown arrangement'
designed to take effect in the event that Mr. Khodorkovsky could no longer 'act as a beneficiary' of the shares, it said.
... The two have known each other for years 'through their mutual love of the arts' and their positions as directors of the Open Russia Foundation,
Yukos' philanthropic branch, it said."
[Khodorkovsky, and most of the arrested or fugitive billionaire Russian oligarch crooks (Boris Berezovsky, 'the Godfather of the Kremlin' (fugitive); Vladimir Gussinsky (fugitive); Mikhail Mirilashvili (Deputy Head of the Russian Jewish Congress, now in jail; Arkady Angelevich, who heads Moscow's Montazhspetsbank and is a member of the presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress, imprisoned for embezzlement) are Jewish, as are many o |
