Post by monsieurblobthe following sort of summarising yet another crisis for the
christians or conservatives (same thing really).
gibson, who belongs to an extremist catholic group, is being
criticised not only for playing with the 'dangerous flames of
antisemitism', but also, above anything else, for being an ignorant.
his repetitive defense when its come to justifying every single
sequence in his movie has been that he has not invented anything, that
'its all in the bible'. christopher hitchens, in an article in vanity
fair, says: 'it seems like gibson thought the gospels were written by
eyewitness accounts. perhaps he doesnt know that the gospels were
written years after christ's death and that in them intervened many
different hands.'
gibson's said his main sources were the bible and two nuns: saint
maría de ágreda and anne catherine emmerich. the first one, spanish,
wrote in the 17th century that the guilt would follow the jewish
people, punished with 'horrible impurity'. the second, a german of the
19th century, had a vision in which she saved a jewish woman from
purgatory. that woman confessed to her how the jews killed christian
children and used their bowels to prepare the bread for jewish easter.
the vision was one of the favourite antisemitic illustrations for the
nazis.
The Romans at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ were pagans or
polytheists, and the supreme sky god of the pagan Roman pantheon was
Jupiter, also known as Deus [ Zeus for the pagan or polytheist Greeks ].
When the Romans later began to convert to Christianity, they began to call
the originally supreme God of the Jewish religion, called Yahweh, by the
Latin name of Deus. The Arabs when they converted to Islam, a religion that
grew out of the Prophet Muhammad's interpretation of the Jewish and
Christian religions, called the Hebrew God Yahweh by the Arabic name -
Allah.
The early converts to Christianity included the Jews as well as the pagan or
polytheist inhabitants of the Roman Empire. The Jews who converted to
Christianity in the early centuries of the A.D. era believed that Jesus
Christ when He was on earth was the God Yahweh Himself in the body of a man,
The Word of God made flesh [ see the Gospel of St. John, chapter 1, verses
1 - 5 ], whose coming had been prophesied in the Old Testament. Jesus Christ
Himself told His disciples that someday after His Ascension back into
heaven, that He would one day return again to earth as the Son of Man, or to
use the Greek term, as the Parousia. Although Jesus might have shared the
same genetic material as his earthly father, Joseph, this was not brought
about as the result of sexual reproduction, but as the result of a miracle,
because nothing is impossible with God [ see Mark 10 : 27 ].
Although the pagan Romans forbade the Jews from living within the city walls
of Jerusalem after they crushed a patriotic or nationalistic war of
independence launched by the Jews against their pagan Roman imperial masters
in 135 A.D., the pagan Romans did not forbid the Jews from living within the
other parts of the Roman province of Judea. In the early 300's A.D., the
Romans, now officially converted to Christianity, allowed the Jews to again
live within the city walls of Jerusalem. Many of the Jewish inhabitants of
the province of Judea converted to either Christianity or the Greco - Roman
pagan religion. When the Arab Muslims began to invade the then Christian
Byzantine or East Roman province of Judea from the 630's A.D. onwards, many
of the Christian inhabitants of Judea began to convert to Islam, in order to
avoid the higher poll tax levied on non - Muslims by the Arab Muslims. The
Roman Empire split into an eastern and a western half in 395 A.D., with the
western half collapsing by 476 A.D., and the eastern half collapsing by 1453
A.D. Since the first century A.D., until the reestablishment of the Jewish
state of Israel in 1948, a Jewish minority continued to live in the region
of Galilee.
Jesus Christ did tell His Apostles to preach the Christian Gospel to all the
nations of the world according to Matthew 28 : 18 - 20. But Jesus Christ
also taught in Matthew 7 : 12 and Luke 6 : 31 that we should do to others
what we would want them to do to us. Therefore, Jesus Christ would not have
sanctioned the use of force and violence in converting people to
Christianity.
Martin Luther the German [ born in 1483 and died in 1546 ], published in
1543 an essay called "On the Jews and Their Lies ," in which Luther urged
that Jewish synagogues be burnt, because most of the Jews refused to convert
to Christianity on a large scale, which Martin Luther hoped would be a sign
of the return of Jesus Christ in the near future. This essay, as also the
other printed and published essays of Martin Luther, were often reprinted,
studied, taught, and preached in Germany, at least before Germany's final
defeat in the Second World War in 1945. In 1938, in Nazi Germany, on
Kristallnacht [ Crystalnight, or The Night of Broken Glass ], many Jewish
synagogues were burnt, as Martin Luther had urged in his often reprinted and
preached 1543 essay called "On the Jews and Their Lies." This essay was
often preached by most German Lutheran pastors, with a few exceptions, until
May 8, 1945. After the German federal election of the 5th of March, 1933,
Alfred von Hugenberg, the leader of the mainly Lutheran laypersons' [ non -
pastors ] "German National Peoples' Party," formed a coalition with the
Nazis, in order to outvote the Communists and Social Democrats. By Lutheran
laypersons' or non - pastors, we should remember that Martin Luther called
Christians "the priesthood of believers." The Nazis gained about 44% of the
seats in the lower house of the German federal parliament, the Reichstag, in
the German federal election of the 5th of March, 1933. On the 14th of July,
1933, all political parties except the Nazi Party were prohibited in Nazi
Germany. However, Alfred von Hugenberg, who died in 1951, and who was the
leader of the mainly Lutheran laypersons' "German National Peoples' Party,"
continued to be a member of the German Reichstag until 1945, even when all
political parties except the Nazi Party were banned in Germany after the
14th of July, 1933.
From 1929 - 1933, the Nazis gained the largest votes in German state
elections where the Lutherans formed the majority of the states' population.
Between 1929 - 1933, these following German states, all of them with a
mainly Lutheran population, had state governments where the Nazis were
either coalition leaders or partners : Braunschweig [ Brunswick in
English ], Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg - Strelitz, Lubeck, Thuringia, Saxony -
Anhalt, Harzburg, Oldenburg, and Lippe. Only the German state of Schleswig -
Holstein, another mainly Lutheran state, had a state legislature between
1929 - 1933 where the Nazis had a majority of the seats in that state
legislature. Schleswig - Holstein had been taken from Denmark by Germany in
a war that had broken out in 1864 and again in 1866, although in 1920 the
northern third of Schleswig was returned to Denmark after a League of
Nations sponsored referendum had been held on the issue as one of the terms
of the Versailles Peace Treaty with Germany. The Nazis gained their lowest
votes in the rural and mainly Catholic areas of southern Bavaria, while they
gained more votes in the northern parts of Bavaria ,also known as Franconia,
an area of Germany that has a mixed Catholic and Lutheran population. Most
of the Catholics of Germany live in the southern, south-eastern, and western
parts of Germany.
Here are some of the writings of Martin Luther on how to deal with the Jews
of Germany:
When Martin Luther was asked whether it is morally justifiable to box the
ears of a Jew, he said "certainly. I for one would smack him on the jaw.
Were I able, I would knock him down and stab him in my anger. It is lawful,
according to both the human and the divine law, to kill a robber; then it is
even more permissible to slay a blasphemer".
"If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang
a stone round his neck and push him over with the words ' I baptise thee in
the name of Abraham' ".
"We ought to take revenge on the Jews and kill them".
"The Jews deserve to be hanged on gallows seven times higher than ordinary
thieves".
"Set fire to their synagogues and schools; and what will not burn, heap
earth over it so that no man may see a stone or relic of them forever".
Pages 50 - 51 in
"http://www.tentmaker.org/books/MartinLuther-HitlersSpiritualAncestor.html",
Martin Luther ~ Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor, by Peter F. Wiener, Author of
German For the Scientist, and German With Tears, Hutchinson & Co. (
Publishers ) Ltd. London : New York : Melbourne : Sydney. The work was put
into electronic format by Patsy Jackson for Tentmaker Publications - 118
Walnut - Hermann, Missouri, 65041, U.S.A.
See also Who voted for the Nazis?(electoral history of the National
Socialist German Workers Party), by Dick Geary, Professor of Modern History
at the University of Nottingham and the author of Hitler and Nazism (
Routledge 1993 ), in History Today, October 1998, in association with The
Gale Group and LookSmart, 2000,
"http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1373/n10_v48/21207858/print.jhtml"
One of the reasons why Germany, out of all the other nations, had the Nazis
come to power during the economic Great Depression of 1929 - 1939, was
because Germany lacked a strong democratic tradition. Between 1850 - 1919,
the German state of Brandenburg - Prussia had a three class electoral law,
although the state of Bavaria had introduced universal adult male suffrage
in 1904, followed by Baden - Wurttemberg [ formerly Swabia ], in 1906 . The
German state governments nominated the members of the German federal upper
house, the Bundesrat, which, along with the German Chancellor and Kaiser,
had final veto powers over the German federal lower house, the Bundestag.
The German Catholics are found mostly in the southern, south-eastern, and
western parts of Germany, and in March 1938 German-speaking Austria was
"forcibly" annexed by Nazi Germany.
Martin Luther the German [ born in 1483 and died in 1546 ], basing his views
on St. Paul's epistle to the Romans ch. 13 : 1 - 7, urged that the German
peasant revolt of 1525 be brutally suppressed by the German knights, in his
1525 printed and published essay called "Against the Thieving and Murdering
Hordes of Peasants." St. Paul the Apostle wrote in his epistle to the
Romans, chapter 13 : 1 - 7, that all authorities who wield the sword are
appointed by God to enforce the law. The word "authorities" is a plural word
however. In the U.S.A., the adult male citizen voters, who have the
constitutional authority to elect their politicians, also have the
constitutional authority under the Second Bill of Rights to bear arms as
members of a well regulated state militia, for example, the U.S. National
Guard, which the U.S. Supreme Court interpreted as being a safeguard
intended by the American law makers of the 1780's to protect the states from
any likelihood that the U.S. federal government would become dictatorial,
although the state, county, and municipal governments are just as likely to
become dictatorial, as the southern U.S. states often treated their black,
or very dark brown minorities, in a dictatorial manner. However, I still
believe that rioters should be dispersed by firing rubber-coated metal
bullets into their legs, stomachs, and chests, with the use of scopes for
accurate aiming and semi-automatic rifles to control the rate of fire. The
safety of the riot police comes before the safety of rioters, because
peaceful and legal protesters lose many civil rights when they decide to
become violent rioters and cowardly mob tyrants.
Martin Luther's views on predestination and God's foreknowledge are set out
in his 1525 published essay called "On the Bondage of the Will." Although
free will exists according to 1 Timothy 2 : 1 - 4 and 2 Peter 3 : 9, since
these two references from the New Testament says that God wants everyone to
be saved, God, who is eternal, with no beginning and no end, and who is all
knowing, knows what choices people will make in the future [ see the Acts of
the Apostles 15 : 18 ]. God is not the author of evil, but Satan, the fallen
angel, is. Personally, I have up to a certain extent great admiration for
Girolamo Savonarola [ 1452 - 1498 ] and Cornelius Otto Jansen [ 1585 -
1638 ]. From faith and the gift of God's grace, good works flow [ see
Ephesians 2 : 8 - 10 by St. Paul the Apostle ]. Repenting out of fear or
attrition is acceptable according to Proverbs 13 : 13, Proverbs 14 : 26 - 2,
and Proverbs 19 : 23, but repenting out of contrition or genuine sorrow is
even better.
Most of the Japanese are Mahayana Buddhists and Shintoists at the same time.
The Mahayana Buddhists are the Protestants of Buddhism, as opposed to the
Theravada Buddhists, who are the Catholics of Buddhism. The Mahayana
Buddhists believe that members of the Buddhist laity, as well as members of
the Buddhist monkhood, can achieve nirvana more quickly. The Mahayana
Buddhists also tend to place greater emphasis on the sincerity of a
believer's faith, the relationship between motives and methods, and the role
of divine grace, then Theravada Buddhists do.
In 1925 universal adult male suffrage or voting rights was introduced for
national elections for the first time in the history of Japan, although by
1941 Japan had become a one-party state military dictatorship.
Since 1911, the martial art of judo, which traces its ancestry to the
samurai martial art of jujitsu, has been a compulsory subject in Japanese
schools for students above the age of 8 years, although it was banned as a
compulsory subject in Japanese schools from 1945 - 1951, after which it was
again reintroduced as a compulsory school subject from the age of 8 years
and upwards. After 1945, the requirement of all able-bodied Japanese males
over the age of 21 to do three years of compulsory military service was
abolished , although the martial arts still figure prominently in the
training of the members of Japan's voluntary Self - Defense Forces and
police force to this day. The three techniques of judo are nagewaza [
throwing ], katamewaza [ wrestling ], and atemiwaza [ punching and
kicking ]. Atemiwaza may only be taught to judokas above the rank of white
belt, and may only be used by them in training and self - defense, but never
in judo sporting contests. Katamewaza may only be used in judo sporting
contests by judokas who are at least above the age of 13. During the Second
World War, when low on bullets and food, the Japanese soldiers would often
launch a banzai bayonet charge and judo - atemiwaza attack, preferring a
heroic death to humiliating surrender.
Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the German Nazi Gestapo, who looked a bit
like Emperor Hirohito, the somewhat puppet of Premier Hideki Tojo of Japan,
the 20th Century Japanese Shogun and Temujin or Genghis Khan of Asia, once
ridiculously tried to prove that the Japanese are undercover Aryans, since
the Japanese racially mixed with the indigenous peoples of the Japanese Home
Islands, the Ainu, who once had some Caucasian - like physical features, and
that the Japanese were really Germans who physically and linguistically
separated from the Germans of the European part of the Eurasian Continent
many thousands of years ago, genetically mutating in the process in order to
adapt to their new Asian environment. Today, there are few or no Ainu
without some Japanese ancestry. The Ainu are the distant cousins of the
Eastern Finns, who arrived in Japan from northern Russia and Siberia. The
Japanese themselves are a mixture of Altaic people [ speakers of the closely
related Korean, Manchurian, Tungus, Inner Mongolian [ Chinese province ] ,
and Outer Mongolian [ Occupied by the Russian military from 1916 - 1991 ]
languages, and the Malay people ,including the Indonesians and Filipinos.
The southern Chinese, Taiwanese Chinese, and Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian
and Thai languages show a heavy Malay substratum, a result of racial mixing
between indigenous or earlier arrived people and foreign invaders .