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Separation of Synagogue and State

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londo [OP]

2004-09-15 02:32 | User Profile

HATE LAWS: Brainchild of the ADL

[I] I especially thought this was insightful. - londo*

....This brings us to a remarkable observation: The ADL has always insisted on rigid "separation of church and state," vehemently opposing Christian symbols in public places or any government encouragement of Christianity. Yet, for the past fifteen years, the U S government has given "carte blanche" to a religiously affiliated organization, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith," not only to speak for the American government but to teach the justice department, the FBI, and all police departments nationwide concerning what is "hate" and who is "hateful."

B'nai B'rith is a Jewish religious, educational, fraternal organization with 500,000 male and 2,300 female members promoting Jewish religious and cultural values through its 2,300 lodges worldwide. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, founded by B'nai B'rith in 1913 to combat anti-Semitism, proudly remains a part of this faith-based organization.

If a similar "civil liberties" arm of a large Christian denomination, such as the "Methodist Federation for Social Action," were given such privileges, there would be a holy howl from church-state separatists!

Not so, when the government teams up with B'nai B'rith.

Focus on Hate

As “anti-hate” legislation is introduced, and reintroduced, into Congress, the media are focusing as never before on the problem of racial violence, holding up the Aryan Nations, the Klan, and the Skinheads, as examples of what society should outlaw. Yet it is you and I, thinking Christians of a conservative bent of mind, who are in danger of being silenced.

While gays, communists, abortionists, radical feminists, etc. are not seen as those who “hate,” every kind of “right winger” from Jerry Falwell to “The Order” is increasingly, perceived as a source of “hurtful words.” In fact, Christianity itself is coming under scrutiny. A widely distributed book called Armed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Survivalist Right by James Coates accuses fundamentalist Christianity of providing an unwholesome seedbed out of which intolerance emerges. This reflects the common Jewish belief that Christianity, by its charge that the Jews and their leaders were behind the crucifixion of Christ, has caused more “mental anguish” to the Jews than anything else in the history of the world. Although an extremist in Israeli politics, Rabbi Meir Kahane’s view of Christianity was similar to Coates’:

*"I have not the slightest sympathy for Christianity or Jesus. As a believing Jew, not only is Jesus not “God” but also he is neither Messiah nor prophet. For the Jew he was a blasphemer, one who attacked the Torah as unchanging divine law and who was a false prophet and heretic.

As for Christianity, this is the faith that, in the name of Jesus, has made life for the Jewish people a living hell for 19 centuries. In its name, and in the name of Jesus, millions of Jews were massacred and the agony of life under Christians can never be sufficiently described in all its horror.”*

[url=http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=8537] Read the rest here. [/url]