NO GROUP of people has so effectively utilized their own alleged hurt feelings for political goals as have Jews. You might even say Jews have conquered the modern world not with guns or armies, but with hurt feelings.

Holocaust propaganda, for one, is largely focused on hurt feelings. Holocaust history overwhelmingly involves emotional accounts of survivors and not physical evidence.  A survivor recounts his experience with gut-wrenching details. Should anyone question the physical evidence of actual gas chambers or even make a simple request for physical evidence of them, battalions of combatants rise up and decry the “hurtfulness” of questioning history. These hurt feelings, we are told, are genetically inheritable.

Should anyone publicly or even privately criticize Jews, he is immediately accused of “hatred.” This puts the focus on the hurt feelings of the victims of hatred.

Reducing an issue to the emotional level can be very useful. It deflects attention from the facts.

Noah Feldman, writing on “The New Anti-Semitism” for Time magazine, resists tears:

Sitting in my office in leafy Cambridge, Mass., a proud citizen of the freest country in the world, in which Jews have been safer than in any other country in history, I am not free of emotion on the topic. Nor could I be.

Fortunately, his head is clear enough to call those who criticize Jews “neo-Nazis” — a term everyone knows is popularly synonymous with mass genocide — and to accuse them of being so many boobs who traffic “in us-vs.-them stereotypes,” as if using the term “neo-Nazi” is not trafficking in “us-vs.-them stereotypes.” How easily the emotionally sensitive traffic in defamation.

Criticism of Jews is always irrational or based in religious prejudice. So we are told. In reality, the “new anti-semitism” is not coming from mindless boobs or criminal personalities but from intelligent, informed and conscientious individuals who have thoughtfully studied the subject rather than engage in stereotypes and have courageously spoken out despite the threat of personal destruction. Though the victims of Jewish domination have always existed more abundantly in the lower classes and therefore a certain mindlessness was easily associated with their outrage, the fact is that the critics of Jewish strategies of domination throughout history include many artists, scientists, historians, philosophers and other intellectuals who did not traffic so much “in us-vs.-them stereotypes” as piercingly truthful insights into reality.

The “new-anti-semitism” is characterized by this informed truthfulness, which is precisely why it is raising such alarms.

Having insulted others, Feldman turns to the feelings of his compatriots: Read More »

THIS clip is from the 1977 British TV series, Jesus of Nazareth, noted for the outstanding performance of actor Robert Powell, who played Jesus. The series can be seen in full here.

Jesus’ Entry into Jerusalem, 1544 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Those that thronged around the Saviour on Sunday do not so much acclaim Him as they acclaim themselves.

ON this Palm Sunday, the profound reflections below by Fr. Edward Leen in Why the Cross? may help you better understand that day in history and challenge the common misconception that because Jesus was hailed by palm-waving crowds in Jerusalem he therefore had popular support. He did not have popular support then, he certainly does not have popular support now and he would never in all human history be accepted by the majority of the human race, not even by the majority of Christians.

From Fr. Leen’s book:

On the morning of the Sunday in the last week of His mortal life, Jesus entered Jerusalem amidst the enthusiastic acclamations of a multitude composed of citizens and strangers. His malignant enemies saw their snarling protests drowned in the tumult of rejoicing. They felt themselves to be like straws tossed helplessly on the swelling tide of popular favour on which the Nazarene was borne triumphantly. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves : ‘Do you see that we prevail nothing? Behold the whole world is gone after him.’ And yet, five days later, Jesus was hurried through the streets of the city of His triumph amidst the execrations of the multitude and the silent dismay of His friends. Such a sudden reversal in the fortunes of the prophet of Nazareth baffles human reason. Some explanation might be furnished by the ordinary laws of mob psychology, but the explanation is far from satisfying and, to a mind approaching the problem without prejudice, appears wholly inadequate.

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Much has been made of the supposed devotedness of great numbers of the simple country people to the cause of the Saviour. The entry into Jerusalem is pointed to as the occasion on which this enthusiastic devotion overbore all opposition and had a free course. The mood of the populace is supposed to have undergone a complete change in the course of a few days, owing to the machinations and the skilful propaganda of the priests. It is undeniable that the Nazarene had some sincere and devoted followers, but they must have been comparatively few in numbers. They did not constitute the great throng that went out at the city gates, on the morning of Sunday, to welcome Him with loud acclamations and the waving of palms. Read More »

“THE Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired.”

— St. Nicholas of Flüe, d. 1487

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STATES and the federal government have represented the interests of Big Agriculture for many years and have engaged in a longstanding war against the small farmer, which appears to be intensifying. Read More »

A READER writes:

I thought I’d commend you for being a thinking housewife. As a believer in male headship, as well as a great admirer of the Brontë sisters, I hold that the ideal wife is a thinking being who is a complement to her husband.

From Charlotte Brontë’s novel Shirley:

“Solomon’s virtuous woman … had something more to do than spin and give out portions: she was a manufacturer – she made fine linen and sold it: she was an agriculturist – she bought estates and planted vineyards. That woman was a manager: … a worthy model! … Men of England! Look at your poor girls … envious, backbiting, wretched, because life is a desert to them; or, what is worst of all, reduced to strive, by scarce modest coquetry and debasing artifice, to gain that position and consideration by marriage, which to celibacy is denied. … Seek for them an interest and occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the maneuverer, the mischief-making talebearer.” Read More »

WHO can understand sins? From my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord; and from those of others spare thy servant.
If they shall have no dominion over me, then shall I be without spot; and I shall be cleansed from the greatest sin.
And the words of my mouth may be such as may please: and the meditation of my heart always in thy sight.
O Lord, my helper and my redeemer.

Psalm 18, 13-15

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Altichiero da Zevio, Crucifixion (detail) 1376-79

“IT IS NOT in the power of man gladly to bear the Cross, to chastise the body and make it submissive to the will of the spirit, to flee honors gladly, to sustain reproofs, to despise himself and to desire to be despised, patiently to suffer adversities with all the displeasures that accompany them, and not to desire any manner of profit in this world. If you trust in yourself, you will never bring this about. But if you trust in God, he will bring you strength from heaven, and the world and the flesh will be made subject to you.”

—- The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis

“The concept of ‘racism’ posits that preference for those closest to you genetically is immoral.”

“The fact that anti-racists oppose family is …. the concept of racism taken to its logical conclusion.”

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