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American Protestants and the Threat of Political Judaism

Posted in Israel, tagged , , , , , , , on June 23, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Pastor John MacArthur speaks with Ben Shapiro

“This is like the modern version of Amalek. Until they’re (apparently referring to the Palestinians) wiped out, this is just going to go on and on and on and on.”

These were the words of no less an Evangelical light than John MacArthur in an interview with Ben Shapiro. 

I’d like to say that MacArthur’s words were a rarity among American Protestants, but they are not.  A substantial portion of the American Evangelical church is caught up in the superstition that is dispensationalism, a view of the end times that rose to prominence in the 19th century.  For them, dispensationalism is the lens that colors their view of events in the Middle East. And so great is that coloring that they end up supporting anti-liberty political Judaism while destroying the Biblical system of political Protestantism set up by their forebears.    

I’m not an expert on John MacArthur’s views on the end times, but I did find this article that seems to be consistent with his statement to Ben Shapiro. In it, MacArthur calls himself a “leaky dispensationalist,” by which he seems to mean that he’s not one of those crazy sorts of dispensationalists but is of a more rational spirit.  Very well.  But for all that, his stance on how Israel should conduct the war in Gaza, and by implication America’s obligation to support Israel’s war efforts, is not much different than Zionist wingnuts like Sen. Lindsey Graham, who called for Israel to nuke Gaza[1] or Nikki Haley writing “finish them” on an Israeli shell.[2]

What I find interesting about men such as MacArthur is that they continue to push the position that the American people have a God-given responsibility to ask “how high” every time the Israel lobby commands them and their elected officials to jump.  By their words and actions, they show that they believe that the American people are, in fact, subordinate to the Israelis based on their warped interpretation of eschatology. 

Take, for example, the Israel lobby’s attack on the First Amendment.  At the behest of Jewish Zionists,[3] the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill called the Antisemitism Awareness Act that would, in effect, make all criticism of Israel and Jews illegal on college campuses.[4] Given the antisemitism laws in effect in Europe and Canada, it’s reasonable that the Israel lobby won’t be satisfied with quashing all criticism of Israel and Jews only on college campuses.  They will work to impose such laws on American society at large, the First Amendment notwithstanding.

The First Amendment prohibits Congress from establishing a church, abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government. It is among the crowning achievements of political Protestantism.  The First Amendment guarantees that Christians have the right to proclaim the gospel of Justification by Faith (Belief) Alone. If faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God, then, of course, freedom of speech is critical to the spread of the gospel. And since spiritual liberty begets political and economic liberty, free speech is also necessary to the creation and maintenance of our republic and the rights guaranteed under our Constitution.   

So why do John MacArthur and others, instead of taking the side of political Protestantism as they should, prefer instead to support Zionism, which is an expression of political Judaism?  Political Judaism lacks the necessary ideas to create or sustain a free society.  Do these Christian Zionists not understand that Zionism and our God-given liberties protected by our Constitution are incompatible?  

In the New Testament, we have several clear examples of what those who adhere to political Judaism think about free speech.  They hate it.  They had Christ crucified because they didn’t like his sermons.  Even before the crucifixion, there were attempts on Jesus’s life simply for what he said.

The Sanhedrin beat Peter and John for what? For preaching the gospel. The Sanhedrin didn’t believe in freedom of speech.  In 2024, the modern-day Sanhedrin in the form of the ADL, AIPAC, and other Jewish organizations and individuals[5] likewise do not believe in free speech and call for college kids and professors who protest Israel to be beaten, suspended, doxed, and prevented from working. They are political thugs whose ideas and actions are incompatible with a free society. Many Christians, who, like the Sanhedrin, also do not believe in freedom of speech, agree. But the Constitution, an expression of political Protestantism, says that college students have the right to peacefully protest Israel. 

Political Judaism says, “Don’t say that, or we’ll throw you in jail.” Why do American Protestants fail to take their own side by defending political Protestantism’s principle of free speech? Why do they side with political Judaism against the commands of Scripture and their own best interests? A big part of the answer is their foolish and unscriptural dispensationalist eschatology.

Other Protestants, seeing the problems with political Judaism, prefer to side with Rome instead. One popular expression of political Romanism is Christian Nationalism, which calls for Protestants to make a grand alliance with Romanism and Eastern Orthodoxy to rebuild Christendom. Christians should not side with political Romanism or Orthodoxy, which, like political Judaism, are forms of unbelief lacking the necessary ideas to create and sustain a free society.

Satan fills this world with all manner of distractions, including false theologies and philosophies designed to fool, if possible, even the elect.  It’s time for American Protestants to take Jesus’s words seriously, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”

[1] “U.S. Senator Says Israel Should Nuke Gaza,” by Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy, May 12, 2024, https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/12/senator-lindsey-graham-israel-nuclear-weapons-gaza/, accessed 6/23/2024.

[2] “Nikki Haley writes ‘Finish Them’ on Israeli artillery shell, drawing criticism,” by Kanishka Singh, Reuters, May 29, 2024, https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nikki-haley-writes-finish-them-israeli-artillery-shell-drawing-criticism-2024-05-29/, accessed 6/23/2024.

[3] See this post of X from AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) from May 1, 2024.  AIPAC, an organization committed to advancing political Judaism, is delighted at the Antisemitism Awareness Act’s attack on the First Amendment.

[4] “New US Antisemitism Law Turns Critics Against Israeli Genocide Into Criminals,” by Joachim Hagopian, Global Research, May 3, 2024, https://www.globalresearch.ca/antisemitism-law-critics-israeli-genocide/5856331, accessed 6/23/2024.

[5] One of the most vocal individuals attacking the right to protest Israel is billionaire investor Bill Ackman.  Ackman demanded that Harvard University (his alma mater) name the Harvard students blaming Israel for the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023.  This is a tactic known as “doxing,” which is “Typically…a malicious act, used against people with whom the hacker disagrees or dislikes. Doxing…is the act of revealing identifying information about someone online, such as their real name, home address, workplace, phone, financial, and other personal information.” (Kaspersky, https://usa.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-doxing).  Ackman claims to believe in free speech while at the same time acting like some mafia Don, saying to student protestors, in effect, “You’ll never work in this town again!”

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Treason Bishop Mark Seitz Whines about Asylum Restrictions

Posted in Immigration, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, center, and other Catholic clergy from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso take part in a binational Mass on Nov. 5, 2022, in memory of migrants who died crossing the border as a result of the Roman Church-State’s irredentist immigration policies. (CNS photo/Gabriel Barraza, Reuters)

Once again, Mark Seitz, Bishop of El Paso and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’s (USCCB) Committee on Migration, is out there whining because the Biden Regime has put some minor restrictions on the flood of illegal aliens pouring across our nation’s southern border. 

In this case, the Biden Regime’s new proclamation “would bar migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials deem that the southern border is overwhelmed.”[1] It’s all nonsense.  As the AP states, the measure is designed “to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections.”  Put differently, the Biden Regime is making a weak attempt to fool voters into forgetting its border treason by putting in place a rule that will do very little to change the disastrous, Jesuit-run illegal alien disaster on our southern border.

But Treason Bishop Mark Seitz’s press release on the USCCB’s website paints it as a humanitarian disaster. Here’s his whine in full.

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The Treasonous American Political Class

Posted in Israel, Roman Catholicism, Rome and Immigration, tagged , , , , , , , on May 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »

US Rep. Elise Stefanik speaks at a Knesset caucus meeting on May 19, 2024 (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

“The U.S. government is manipulated by foreign interests.  Both Israel and the Vatican see the United States as their proxy in this religious war.”

  • John W. Robbins, “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century”

As long-time readers of this blog know, John Robbins has done more to shape my thinking on a whole range of topics than any other writer. 

Dr. Robbins was blessed with extraordinary insight into theology, philosophy, politics, and economics.  I doubt there is a sentence that I’ve written in the 15 years of writing the Lux Lucet blog that has not been shaped by his influence.

And just to prove the remarkable insight that he had, I’m going to once again refer to Robbins’ Trinity Review published in 2006, “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century.” The whole essay is well worth reading and commenting on.  But for the sake of time, I’m going to restrict myself to just the two sentences quoted at the top of this post. 

Robbins’ insight in these lines is both brilliant and simple at the same time.  Note that he understands, correctly, that both Israel and the Vatican manipulate the U.S. government for their own ends.  It’s not just one or the other.  It is both. This is a great danger to our republic in that neither Judaism nor Roman Catholicism has the necessary ideas to create or sustain a free society.  The greater their influence on our government, the more liberty Americans lose. 

Here are a few examples of why I say this.

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Rome Controls the Immigration Media Narrative

Posted in Immigration, Rome and Immigration, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Illegal alien invaders arrive at Annunciation House in El Paso after being released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody, on June 24, 2018. Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune

Rome controls the immigration media narrative.  If you doubt this, consider the press coverage of the lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against Annunciation House.

The story, if you’re not familiar with it, is that Ken Paxton’s office announced on 2/202/2024 that he was suing Annunciation House, an El Paso-based NGO “after discovering Potential efforts to facilitate illegal immigration.”  You can read the press release here. 

According to Paxton, there is significant public record information strongly suggesting Annunciation House is engaged in legal violations such as facilitating illegal entry to the United States, alien harboring, human smuggling, and operating a stash house.” Paxton’s aim is to revoke Annunciation House’s registration to operate in Texas. 

Predictably, the Roman Catholic propaganda machine immediately kicked it into high gear, with nearly every article posted on Paxton’s lawsuit portraying this a David and Goliath struggle, with Paxton in the Goliath role and Annunciation House as the poor little put upon David. 

Here’s a sample of the media headlines from the past two weeks to show you what I mean:

“Ken Paxton’s Annunciation House investigation is the latest attack on religious organizations aiding migrants at the border” – Texas Tribune, 2/24/2024

“Flowers: Texas off base to go after Annunciation House efforts” – Delco Times 3/1/2024

“Opinion: An attack on Annunciation House is an attack on Texas” – El Paso Matters, 3/1/2024

“Editorial: Annunciation House’s charitable acts for immigrants are not crimes” – San Antonio Express News, 2/27/2024

“Texas attorney general sets off religious liberty alarms by attacking a Catholic charity in El Paso” – Baptist News Global, 2/23/2024

“El Paso’s Saint Of The Border Negotiates A New Reality” – New Yorker, 2/23/2024

“Catholic immigrant shelter battles Texas AG, who wants to shut it down” – NBC News, 2/21/2024

Many more such headlines can be found, but I think you get the point.  There is a massive media campaign to paint the Annunciation House as the innocent victim of a rogue Attorney General.  Note well, these are, for the most part, secular sources.  I avoided headlines from openly Roman Catholic sources intentionally, although there are plenty of those as well. 

Worth noting is the headline from Baptist News Global.  I don’t know much about this organization.  A quick perusal of its website suggests that it’s a liberal Baptist group.  That it would come out in defense of Antichrist’s treasonous immigration policies is not all that much of a surprise, as many Evangelical and Protestant organizations, even putatively conservative ones such as the Southern Baptist Convention, have echoed Rome’s immigration philosophy of mass welfare migration.   

Worth asking is this question, Is it an accident that Rome’s profoundly destructive immigration theory and practice receive such favorable coverage in the new media?  The answer is no, it is not.  Rome controls the immigration narrative presented to the public in the media.

By “narrative,” I mean the context in which the news stories are set, the way events are explained.  Take the headline above, “Editorial: Annunciation House’s charitable acts for immigrants are not crimes.”  Calling the millions – some say up to 10 million – people who have poured across our southern border “immigrants” is simply dishonest.  This is an invasion, not an immigration, and I’m fairly certain that the editorial writers at the San Antonio Express News know that full well.

A book published in the 1980s titled American Democracy & The Vatican: Population Growth & National Security provides some interesting insights as to how Rome goes about controlling the media narrative.  The short answer is that they attack “offending” newspaper’s advertisers. 

Father Mullaly concluded this revealing document with a platform of action for punishing critical American newspapers:

1. Do not attack a magazine or newspaper through its editorial department but act through its business office.

2. When a magazine or newspaper is attacking your religion, write to the business manager and inform him that you will not buy the offending periodical again, and mean it.

3. Call the attention of the merchants with whom you deal to the insults and tell them that as long as they advertize in any offending paper you will not buy their goods, and mean it.

4. Tell your news-dealer that as long as you see the magazine or newspaper on his stand as an open insult to you, you will not buy from him, and mean it.[1]

Note that Mullaly’s first rule is not to argue against the publication’s editorial department.  That is, Mullaly is not interested in debating ideas.  He wants to shut down debate by silencing the opposition. 

A survey of American press coverage on the faceoff between Ken Paxton and Annunciation House suggests that Mullaly’s approach to censorship via threat has been highly effective. 

[1] Mumford, Stephen D. American Democracy and the Vatican: Population Growth and National Security. Church and State Press. Kindle Edition. Worth noting, the ADL and other Jewish groups use similar tactics when attacking publishes who refuse to bow to their censorship demands.  This tweet by the ADL from 2022 is an example of their handiwork https://twitter.com/ADL/status/1588587735711121408?lang=en.

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Violate American Immigration Law, Win Fabulous Cash and Prizes

Posted in Immigration, tagged , , , , , on February 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »

My Comments: The sanctuary state of Massachusetts is – big surprise! – getting overrun by illegal alien invaders, and it’s costing taxpayers a pretty penny.

The lesbian, Roman Catholic governor of the state, Maura Healey, has encouraged the mass influx of indigent illegal aliens and is dumping the cost off on the people of Massachusetts.

The story below from the Daily Mail indicates that Healy declared a state of emergency over migrant arrivals last August. When confronted with a phenomenon causing an emergency, most people would look for ways to stop whatever it is that’s causing the problem. Suppose you walked into your kitchen and found the sink was overflowing and the faucet was wide open. You’d probably shut off the faucet, then go grab a mop and bucket.

But not Maura Healey or her other partners in crime in other cities and states. No sir.

The only complaint any of them has is that the federal government has not provided enough funds for them to build enough migrant shelters. None of them, not Healey in Massachusetts, no Adams in New York, not Johnson in Chicago, has ever, so far as I’m aware, uttered a word about shutting off the illegal alien invasion set in motion by the Biden Regime.

Their refusal to demand that the federal government do its job tells you they’re in on the Vatican’s treasonous, irredentist replacement migration plot.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13101037/Bostons-migrant-shelter-hotel-cost.html?ito=windows-widget-push-notification&ci=573372

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Casa Del Migrante

Posted in Immigration, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Would be illegal aliens shelter in the Casa Del Migrante in Piedras Negras, Mexico. They hide in this “Roman Catholic church-run” Scalabrinian shelter to avoid being rounded up by the Mexican army. One can have sympathy for these people, who are being used as pawns by the Roman Church-State, without condoning their actions. Photo by Todd Bensman.

“But because the Biden campaign simply could not brook the bad polling part, the last and only migrants who can be found anywhere in the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras today cower in fear behind the skirts of nuns inside the tall, barbed-wire-rimmed compound of a Catholic Church-run shelter called Casa Del Migrante.”

https://sanangelolive.com/news/politics/2024-02-16/biden-forced-ruthless-mexico-immigration-crackdown-and-its-working

My Comments: In the link below to a piece by immigration reporter Todd Bensman, we read that the Biden Regime, seeing its precipitous drop in the polls, has decided to crack down on the border invaders. Who knew that destroying America with an illegal alien invasion would prove unpopular politically?

But of special interest to me is what Bensman writes in his article’s second paragraph, which I’ve quoted above, where he talks about the Casa Del Migrante (Migrant House). It turns out that the Casa Del Migrante in Piedras Negras is just one franchise of a whole network of Casas Del Migrante run by the Scalabrinians, a Catholic organization dedicated to subverting the United States and other nations using Rome’s irredentist immigration policies and practices.

The article even quotes a nun who admits that she knows she’s helping to shelter what the article calls “intending U.S. border-crossers” but should be called illegal alien invaders.

The role of the Antichrist Roman Catholic Church in the illegal alien invasion of America and other Western nations cannot be overstated. It’s almost comically easy to find evidence of this “conspiracy theory,” but almost no one connects the dots that are all but shoved in our faces on a daily basis.

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Catholic Community Services Helps Fly Illegal Aliens to a Community Near You: “Very Shady Stuff” Says James O’Keefe

Posted in Immigration, Romanism and Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »

My Comments: ”Like shooting fish in a barrel” is an old saying used to describe something ridiculously easy. If you asked me for an example of “shooting fish in a barrel,” I’d have to say it’s finding examples of the Roman Catholic Church subverting American immigration law to promote its irredentist immigration policies, policies designed to win the United States for the Vatican. 

The Roman Catholic program of conquering America through mass immigration, legal and illegal, asylum seeking, etc. has been going on at least since the 1850s and probably much longer.

In this report, James O’Keefe goes undercover to expose an illegal alien smuggling operation run by Casa Alitas, an organization funded by Catholic Community Services, that pays to have illegal aliens put on planes and flown all over the United States. 

This is the work of the papal Antichrist.

I’ll review O’Keefe’s post further in my Radio Lux Lucet podcast for 2/10/2024. 

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Elon Musk Exposes the Establishment on Immigration

Posted in Immigration, tagged , , , , , , , on February 7, 2024| 2 Comments »

Elon Musk takes on the Biden Regime over its border invasion.

My Comments: Sometimes you find allies in unexpected places. I never thought of Elon Musk as someone willing to take a stand against Biden’s Border Rush, but he seems to have a genuine interest in standing up to the powers that be and fighting the immivasion of the United States. See the link below featuring a number of his posts on the subject.

While I’m at it, I’d like to give a shout-out to Allan Wall, one of the few Evangelicals to write with understanding about immigration and the author of the article in the link. I’ve followed his work for about 20 years now and have always found his work insightful. So few Evangelicals seem to be willing to speak out against the destruction of our republic by mass illegal and legal immigration and refugee resettlement. And the Evangelicals who do write on immigration sadly often echo Roman Catholic talking points, promoting the same tired socialist immigration dogma one can find in any U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops press release, just without the Roman Catholic distinctives. 

You can follow Allan’s work on Border Hawk.  

https://borderhawk.blog/worlds-wealthiest-man-using-his-own-social-media-platform-to-expose-biden-border-invasion

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Your Government Hates You

Posted in Immigration, Zionism, tagged , , , , , , on February 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

My Comments: Not content with Biden’s Border Rush as it, apparently, Republican Senators have managed to help craft a bill that amps up the border treason and codifies it into law. So not only do Americans get “a new and improved” Biden Border Rush, but in exchange for such a blessing, we get to give more of our money away to Ukraine and Israel. 

In response, House Speaker Mike Johnson has promised that the Senate bill is DOA (good) and has also promised to de-link border security and aid to Israel. Instead, Johnson has promised to introduce a clean bill to send Israel $14.3 billion of your hard-earned dollars to Israel to continue its destruction of Gaza. 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-deal-allows-15-million-illegals-year-slides-23b-ngos-trafficking-them-and-gives?ref=biztoc.com

In a bit of good news, Congressman Thomas Massie posted on X stating that he’d be voting “no” on Johnson’s bill. Masssie was immediately set upon by Zionist John Podhoretz who called him a “disingenuous piece of anti-Semitic filth” because he doesn’t want to rob Americans to pay for Israel’s wars. So in the mind of John Podhoretz and many other supporters of Israel, not robbing Americans to pay for Zionist wars is “antisemitism.” This is pathetic and shows that such men have no arguments other than to call their opponents names. Thomas Massie is one of the few men in Congress who doesn’t hate the American people and sees himself as a guardian of liberty. Well done, Congressman! Podhoretz, on the other hand, could not care less about the American people.

By the way, those Palestinians Israel doesn’t kill with your tax dollars, they want to export to America and Europe, so instead of being Israel’s problem, they can be our problem. That’s our “greatest ally” for you.

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