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Chapter 5
“God’s First Love”
Still hazy on how Catholics should view Jews? Drift no longer. ☧arental advisory: explicit divine content. Perennial Catholic teaching without the usual politically correct Newspeak. Are you man enough?!
by J. P. F. McGuire
a| Most catholics, due to the same apparent amnesia that plagues them in all the foregoing topics, don’t seem to have the first notion on how to deal with the so-called “Jews,” which comes mainly as a consequence of the Catholic leadership of our age, though divinely appointed to be just that, not acting as a particularly reliable guide of late as compared with, say, the Gospels, Apostles, Pauline Epistles, Fathers, Doctors, past Popes and Saints
. But since, at any rate, these sources of Sacred Tradition seem unanimous
on the matter at hand plus carry the weight of both papal and conciliar approval the speech habits and human sensibilities of two recent colleague popes
, sometimes unsettlingly lavish in their praise of lifestyles that do not lead to salvation, shouldn’t necessarily be an obstacle for a laity who I must assume (a) can read (or at least hear) and (b) sincerely seeks clarification on matters of Christian salvific import.
b| The question is most commonly couched, on the one hand, in such words as
Are we to embrace or somehow silently coexist with the Jews as our elder brothers whose standing with God we daren’t challenge on the sole basis of “seniority” (and maybe also clout)? On the other hand
Are we to boldly condemn them as the professed apostates and deicides they are as the first Christians did? But these questions are pretty much smokescreens compared with the burning question behind them both:
Do the Jews still carry God’s promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or don’t they? Firstly every Catholic, if he is to be thus termed, had better be crystal-clear that there is nothing Judaism, Paganism or anything outside Catholicism offers, provided it be of God, that Catholicism (universal) withholds.
c| Disclaimer #1. Catholicism opposes all racial supremacism and preference as do I. Catholicism, or at any rate, Pre-Second-Vatican-Council Catholicism, was not the impetus behind Naziism or Communism and had no sympathies or direct ties therewith even though Protestantism and especially “Evangelicalism” (Quietism) and Russian “Orthodoxy” played the enabler rather well
as long as it behooved them. Moreover it seems, given the Third Reich’s policies
, that the (Pre-Conciliar) Catholic Church proved quite the bane
to the Fuhrer’s global goals. As to Naziism and Communism’s underpinnings it tended to be men who fraternized with unconverted Jews and Masons as did Martin Luther, Carl Gustav Jung
and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche who let this rather Semitically inspired
affinity for confusing religious, cultural and racial identity influence their thoughts and, in turn, most heavily influenced the Neopagan German Volk Movement which, in all fairness, was no more “Antisemitic”
than the average Jew is “Antigentilic” or “Antiaryan” Adolf Hitler is known to be of Jewish descent as are Karl Heinrich Marx, Sigmund Schlomo Freud,
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. Not a one of these eight men had any tolerance for traditional or orthodox Catholic teaching—much to the contrary—and if the historical record is to be believed it was just such Jewish, Jew-friendly, Anticatholic and antidox men as these who seeded and oversaw the development of the worst aspects of German and Russian nationalist
ideas such as social Darwinist eugenics.
d| So let’s start by tackling the last question:
Do the Jews still carry God’s promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or don’t they? We ask this bearing in mind that, at the instigation of their anointed leaders, they in unison demanded Jesus’s crucifixion. But let’s make it even more general so it reads:
Can an individual or a people do something to break a covenant with God? Some marginally Christian quacks—Calvinists
being the most infamous case—think, or at any rate preach, that God’s elections and covenants are inescapable, that there is nothing we can do to get out of them try as we may. They Protest that you can’t wiggle out of God’s covenants no matter what you do even though neither the New Testament nor the Old endorses this cavalier or disincarnational view
. Also because they buy into “predestination” in the absolutized sense Calvin preached, they would say the Jews were obliged to crucify Jesus so the Gentiles could have a crack at Him. This is another very boldfaced, very Zionist lie because Jesus came from day one as man’s universal Savior, nor is there anything to indicate that Jesus would have contented Himself to save just the Jews in the event that these accepted Him. What the Father willed and in fact did occur was that “salvation comes from the Jews”
and all the men sent
to preach to the “Nations”
were Jews. So to say the Jews had to do evil
in order that the Gentiles might receive Jesus runs completely contrary to what we know. Further, to say or imply that the end justifies the means, one may as well just admit to being a Gnostic and say that Jesus commanded Judas, against Judas’s will, to betray Jesus and that, all in all, God is a monster. This mechanical predestination is, always was, a profoundly preposterous sentiment and generally quacky theological position.
e| Disclaimer #2. Grace is a reality. It is true that everything good, covenants included, starts with God’s initiative
. For instance St. Paul explains the
Roman Catholics (using the term advisedly) that “Christ died for us while we were still sinners”
. Moreover God is certainly faithful and on his end won’t break a covenant. But it seems pretty clear in both Old and New Testaments that a person and a people can exchange God’s blessing for their own curse, sometimes just for a time as with the many exiles and sometimes for all eternity. King Saul for instance: who could have seen that coming? Or Yahweh giving Israel “divorce papers”?
Yet my appeal is ever to common sense.
f| Disclaimer #3. Earthly or heavenly Jerusalem: take your pick. United States foreign policy has made its choice, but I again reiterate that we Catholics are essentially citizens neither of the United States nor of the Earthly Jerusalem but of the Heavenly Jerusalem. This is definitely an either/or proposition. Or was it in vain that Jesus told his disciples to stop marveling at the Temple? I know we in the United States, this Puritan Empire, have all been brainwashed with Calvinist and Zionist ideas. But “[t]ake and read” as the Angel said to St. Augustine. Read the Gospels, Apostles, Pauline Epistles, Fathers, Doctors, Popes and Saints, the whole of Church Patrimony, again but for the first time without the nagging Hebrew Nationalism that you’ve been told through much innuendo is somehow part of Christianity. Racism is not part of Christianity. If you tell yourself, as some have, that in saying this I’m “Antisemitic,” know that I don’t begrudge you. I’ve accepted that no one tells the truth about the Gospel today without receiving that and other labels as badges of honor as Mel Gibson did simply for making a movie about what Jesus suffered for you and me. I still invite you not to do a reverse of St. Paul’s conversion. I invite you to do a search on the word “Jew” in the Gospels, Apostles, Pauline Epistles, Fathers, Doctors, past Popes and Saints. I think your eyes will be opened if they haven’t yet been sewn shut.
g| One crucial factor in the earthbound saints’ perseverance in orthodoxy is to keep the habit of shunning novelty. “Yahweh, my heart has no lofty ambitions, / my eyes do not look too high”
. St. Thomas Aquinas
, who observed, “Change for its own sake is bad” also said that “[t]he simplest answer is usually the correct answer.” This dude knew what he was talking about. Curiosity and needless complexity are in all cases the first steps toward sorcery. Persons and peoples that habitually embrace fashions are inviting decline and enslavement. In the Age of Christendom people got this right away. They had the prerational, instinctive sense to trust to kin, coreligionists and later countrymen who had it in their best interest to be honorable toward them. But
honor has no meaning today. We still have that latent sense but it’s been covered by much ideological gobbledygook. Part of this issue, no doubt, is that we’ve allowed distance to be put between ourselves and the land, which is why we no longer see fairies and think a “fairy” is a homosexual. If our culture hasn’t died it is comatose. As I’ve stated there is no legitimate reason for a Catholic to refer to Church-era Neojudaism any more than to Church-era Neopaganism. Again it’s the principle of never committing the blasphemy of placing the highest good under the second-highest good and the idea that Catholicism is nothing less than a whole (holy) life. We learn much from the Old Testament and from several “Pagans” of the ancient world. But with those who come after Christ we must, if we value our souls, base the amount of time we spend on them on where they stand with relation to Christ and his Church.
h| The Evil One and the Masons who serve him would like nothing better than to scatter Jesus’s fold: a few into Judaism, a few others into Protestantism, Druidism, Rastafarianism, Reiki, Yoga, Voodoo, Wicca, Scientology, Mormonism, Islam, Bahá'í, Unitarianism, Universalism, the Moonies, Gnosticism, Theosophy, Masonry, Buddhism, Hinduism, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventists, Spiritualism, Pentecostalism, Calvinism, and why not Satanism—can’t you see what’s happening here? It’s anything to pique your curiosity just so long as it won’t fill your deepest need and it gives the devil an in so he can scatter Jesus’s flock. St. Augustine, who at one time had probably belonged to several of the groups I’ve listed, said, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” If you come to the place St. Augustine and St. Paul came to, whatever your past flirtings, you will have such peace and joy you won’t believe it.
i| What the devil doesn’t want you to know is that he’ll offer any color on the spectrum provided it isn’t the whole (holy) spectrum merged into the pure white light of Truth. He can stand everything except holiness, wholeness, universalism, Christendom. “Once the hand is laid on the plow, no one who looks back is fit for the kingdom of God”
. Jesus, being Yahweh’s Son, is understandably exacting and jealous. It “runs in the Family.” Remember the manna in the desert? God wants us to think about today only, looking back at his having freed us from slavery, looking forward to heaven. If you’re wondering why you’re not living right it would have to be because you’re not thinking this way, simply. God will save the simple and humble, and the rest will burn either temporarily or permanently. Thanks to Jesus salvation is for all, but for no man on his own terms. We ought to entrust the Jews to Jesus and Mary, not tell them that it’s okay in hopes of appeasing them. Maria Valtorta wrote that, when asked what was the meaning of the apostles’ abandonment of Jesus, the Master replied to them that it was because they were Jewish men and to get rid of their pride so they would be of use to his purpose. This is solely to illustrate God’s determination to simplify and mold those He would sanctify and use. All peoples have their pet vices, and the Jews are no exception whatever wild-eyed narrative you may have been sold on.
We all have the sickness, as my mentor who
hates all peoples equally would say. This is common sense. This is how Christians have to think if the rubber is to meet the road for us as it did for the Evangelists, Apostles, St. Paul, Fathers, Doctors, past Popes and Saints. If you want elaborate, complex jibber-jabber of so-called “Enlightenment” there is the Occult for that, and there’s the door, and don’t forget to punch out. If you want Salvation there is the Church for that. Only make up your mind already, for, really, “you do not know either the day or the hour”
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A.M.D.G.
