When persecution of the Christians was undertaken by Diocletian (303-311), it was because he wanted to establish a church-state in the worship of the sun-god (Baal).
"The moon, from the angle of the esoteric knower, is simply an obstruction in space, an undesirable form which must some day disappear." - Alice Bailey
The first commandment the Jews were given as a people is the mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh, the New Moon: “And God said to Moses...in the land of Egypt ... This month is for you, the head of the months. First it is for you among the months of the year.” - Ex 12:1-2
This is a strange first commandment. You'd think the development of the calendar would only come after the establishment of the basic fundamentals like the Ten Commandments. And yet the Torah considers the process of establishing the new month as a major breakthrough in creating a nation. And what was wrong with the solar calendar that everyone else had been using? What is the significance of basing the Jewish calendar on the moon? First of all, by focussing the attention of the people on the moon, Moses hoped to expungle from their mmory the the astrological lore of the Egyptian solar religion as expressed in the famous hymn of pharaoh Akhenaten in which we find verses that are anticipating Darwin's image of the “little, worm pond.”
You who bring children into being in women,
and make fluid into mankind,
Who nourishes the son in the womb of his mother,
and soothes him that he weeps not,
O Nurse in the womb!
Who gives breath in order to keep alive
all that he has made;
When he comes forth from the womb on the day of
his birth,
You open his mouth in speech, and give all that
he needs.
According to Aquinas, the active part of the semen (the animal spirit) remains until the generative process is completed. This part also obtains heat from the sun, confirming the claim of Aristotle, that “man is generated by man and the sun.” Coperncius pictures the sun in his book (Revol. I,10) as All Seeing Being, visible god and mentions the stars as his “family” according to the classical definition of the sun as Father of All.http://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/2008/04/april-1st-on
How wise was the pharaoh Akhenaten, the hero of the modern heliocentric science? Consider the passage of his famous Hymn to Aten: “Thy rays, they embrace the lands to the limits of all thou hast made.” Really? Take a look how far the sunrays reach during a solar eclipse! Not far really. Only a small corona is visible.
We find an amazing parallelism between Akhenaten’s and Constantine’s religious worldviews. In Plutarch’s “Isis and Osiris” we find a story that Akhenaten in his childhood had a dream: a god resembling the sun god Ra took him by his hand and from an exceedingly high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world and then said to him: All these things will I give to you, if you restore my rule. And Akhenaten, in a bloody revolution, did restore the rule of the sun god (heliocentrism). He built for his new god and for himself a new capital Akhetaton (presently known as El Amarna) and proclaimed the new divine rule Aton worshiped by the Germanic tribes under the name of Wotan.
The concept of the flat earth mentioned 420 times in the Quran's 6200+verses and suggested by Mt 4:8 story about Jesus being tempted by devil on a exceedingly high mountain from which all kingdoms of the world could be seen was embraced by a early Church father Lactantius who rejected the spherical shape of the earth.
Lactantius’s Divinae institutions (Divine precepts) published in Lyons in 1541 include a chapter titled De antipodes, ridiculing the notion of a round earth: “Can there be anyone so inept to believe that men exist whose extremities lie above their heads…that trees can grow downwards, and that rain, and snow , and hail go upwards instead of falling to earth?” Lactantius, taught Crispus, Constantine's son that the earth was flat like a cake and surrounded by heaven filled with fire and water. Crispus was killed by his father.
www.zazzle.co.uk/yggdrasil_tree_of_life_poste.. www.answers.com/topic/world-tree
Moses rejected this dogma of the Egyptian solar religion because he knew of the precious fruits put forth by the sun and moon (Dt.33:14). The precious things put forth by the moon refers to those plants that depend on moonlight, as many plants do. Making all life dependent on solar energy as the solar religions do betrays a deep ignorance of the processes proceeding in nature. Take for example vernalization.
Many temperate plants have a vernalization requirement and must experience a period of low winter temperature to initiate or accelerate the flowering process, or, as the case with many fruit tree species, to actually break dormancy, prior to flowering. Many plant species, including some ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana and winter cereals such as wheat, must go through a prolonged period of cold before flowering occurs. This ensures that reproductive development and seed production occurs at the optimum environmentally favorable time, normally following the passing of winter. The needed cold is often expressed in chill hours. (Wiki)
Moses Rejected Racism of the Aryan Solar Religion
And here is a teaching about the sun from Hindu cosmology expressing its immobility and the creative power, The real substance of the concealed (Sun) is a nucleus of Mother substance. It is the heart and the matrix of all the living and existing Forces in our solar universe. It is the Kernel from which proceed to spread on their cyclic journeys all the Powers that set in action the atoms in their functional duties, and the focus within which they again meet in their Seventh Essence every eleventh year. He who tells thee he has seen the sun, laugh at him as if he had said that the sun moves really onward on his diurnal path . . .
“When we speak of ’Light Bodies’ we are referring the consciousness of the central sun that existed before the beginning outside of time and space. In many cultures the Sun has been revered as a god. The Sun is not just a burning form of gas as our scientists would have us believe, it is a portal of initiation to the intelligence of the Great Central Sun of even Greater Central Suns.” (Hugh Fitzroy Colmer The Celestial Man of Light. Eph 5:8)
Let me remind here that Aldous Huxley told T. Leary that the obstacle to the evolution was the Bible: “Drugs that open the mind to multiple realities inevitably lead to a polytheistic view of the universe. We sensed that the time for a new humanist religion based on intelligence, good-natured pluralism and scientific paganism had arrived.” Indeed, it had arrived along with N. Copernicus.
The same heliocentric, racist teaching echoes in an official prayer of Avalokiteshvara, who emanated from the right eye of his spiritual father Amitabha (Spiritual Sun) is described as a puer aeternus (cp. Baby Jesus): “Generated from ten million rays his body is completely white (the favoured race of the Romans). His head is adorned and his locks reach down to his breast”.
Even now, the average Brahminic (The Sanskrit term Brahma means 'energy', the solar energy) psyche treats the cow as sacred, but not the buffalo. Why does the buffalo remain a non-sacred and most invisible animal? Why did it not get constitutional protection as the cow did? Simply because the cow belongs to the white race in the animal kingdom and the buffalo belongs to the black race. This is an Indian variety of racism.
All white races constructed their color (the color of the sun god) as superior, the Indian Aryans also made the color sacred. The color black in general and dark people, buffaloes and other animals, irrespective of their utility or beauty were/are condemned both in social and spiritual realms (Kancha Ilaiah, Caste and the UN meet – The Hindu. Online edition of India's National Newspaper, Tuesday, August 21, 2001)
In more remote times, products now known to be poisonous were used to whiten the skin. For example, as early as 400 B.C.E. The Greeks whitened their skin with a face powder of lead carbonate. Poppea Sabin, the wife of Roman Emperor Nero, used this toxic substance to whiten her face. In the 16th c., arsenic was used by some Italian women to give their faces a translucent appearance.
Relativity of Light
Creatures like us who see only in visible light deduce that everyone in the entire Universe, including God, must see in visible light. The difference between black and white is not a matter of color, but of how much light they reflect. The terms are relative, not absolute. Black and white are fundamentally the same thing; the difference is only in the relative amounts of light reflected, not in their color. The fraction of incident light that human skin reflects varies widely from individual to individual. Skin pigmentation is produced mainly by an organic molecule called melanin, which the body manufactures from tyrosine, an amino acid common in proteins. Albinos suffer from a hereditary disease in which melanin is not made. Their skin and hair are milky white. The irises of their eyes are pink. Albino animals are rare in nature because their skins provide little protection against solar radiation, and because they lack protective camouflage. Albinos tend not to last long.
There is a particular organic pigment responsible for the absorption of light in such flowers as roses and violets – flowers so strikingly colored that they’re named after their hues. It’s called anthocyanin. Remarkably, a typical anthocyanin is red when placed in acid, blue in alkali, and violet in water. Thus, roses are red because they contain anthocyanin and are slightly acidic; violets are blue because they contain anthocyanin and are slightly alkaline. Blue pigments are hard to come by in nature. The rarity of blue rocks or blue sands on earth is an illustration. Only the heavens radiate blue and declare the Glory of God.
Whereas the sun is the symbol of unchanging nature, rising in the east, setting in the west, day in and day out every day of the year, the moon changes and it seems to be telling us something. And her message thwarts all matematical calculations. The moon is mathematically unpredictable. By commandment of the New Moon which meant the rejection of Egyptian mathematical and godless science Moses consolidated his nation.
Jews calculated the month according to the phases of the moon, each month consisting of either twenty nine or thirty days, and beginning with the appearance of the new moon. It was impossible to know in advance whether a particular month would have twenty-nine or thirty days. The length of the moon was never determined until the thirtieth day actually arrived.
When the Sages of Israel decided to adopt the Calculated Rabbinical Calendar to avoid further tragic political persecutions the Moon of that calendar became a mean or average moon moving uniformly, in the same way as the artificial moon of Hilarius (or Dr. Jarvik's artificial heart), which is used in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. The beginning and duration of the months depend on the moladoth (the times of the new moon) and the time which elapses from one molad to the next. The average figure given by tradition for this interval is 29 days and 12 hours and 793 parts.
This mathematical hoax was invented by the ancient Egyptian astrologers who used the time when the old crescent was invisible in the morning as the beginning of their month. This Egyptian custom of using the old crescent was embraced by our modern astronomers who also use the conjunction as the marker. And that also explains why the Torah considers the process of establishing the new month as a major breakthrough in creating a nation. The Jewish national uniqueness is reflected in their calendar which became the catechism of this nation. There is no room for flawed mathematical formula in Science of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew prophets did not express their teachings in the imaginary mathematical equations. The Biblical Calendar is the science of synchronicity between the heavens and the earth.
Only God can expose heliocentrists' pretentious ignorance and He actually did that to prove the Truth of His teaching. “Owing to inequalities in the rate of both the solar and the lunar motion in longitude, the mean conjuntion (molad) may precede or be preceded by the true conjunction.” (Cecil Roth, editor, Enc. Judaica, Vol.5, p. 46, article: Calendar.)
Moses Thrashes 'Big Bang'
The Vedic god Surya was a solar bull. According to the Assyrians, the bull was born of the sun. So, Moses took the calf, which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the people of Israel drink it. (Ex. 32:20). Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do unto thee, that you hast brought a great sin upon them?”
Moses posed a direct question to the high priest, who led the people astray in their wickedness. It is written: thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil (Ex. 23:2). Here, Aaron has immediately done exactly that. Note Aaron’s response:
“And Aaron said, 'Let not the anger of my lord burn hot; you know the people, that they are set on evil. 23 For they said to me, `Make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' 24 And I said to them, `Let any who have gold take it off'; so they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and there came out this calf." (RSV Exodus 32:22-24 22) Why gold? Well, Egypt was rich in gold, which was valued for its beauty and because it was believed to be of the flesh of the sun god. So this calf came out of the fire exactly like Daniel's Bar Elahin came out of the fiery furnace, because m=E/c². Apollo was called Eleleus because he orbited in a collected mass of fire. The first principle alternately creates the world from itself and again itself from the world, and all things, Heraclitus says, are an exchange for fire, and fire for all things, as goods are for gold and gold for goods.” (Plutarch, On the E at Delphi 388DE). Christianity regards Daniel as a saint and as prophet. Judaism considers the Book of Daniel a part of its canon, but does not regard Daniel as a prophet.
Evolving Bull
In later Jewish folklore the Biblical story was supplemented with remark that the “calf was walking by itself and grazing in the pasture.” (See, Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer 25: “Satan entered it and mooed in order to misled Israel.”).. As a result of its relentless evolution the golden calf mutated to a Moses of the British Israelites, aka John Bull wearing Union Jack with the Babylonian solar cross on his chest.
Encyclopedia Britannica calls Moses “This former stammering murderer”* because he dared to kill a sadistic slave master thus preventing a senseless murder of a helpless human being. But can a slave be considered a human being in the context of Malthus's Essay on Population?
*The Elizabethan poor laws of the 1580s treated the able-bodied poor as prisoners in workhouses and gave the rest starvation-level aid (the royal welfare, or the royal euthanasia). The labor market meant that the costs and restraints that serfdom imposed on the lord could be rudely jettisoned. Now the landlord could just hire workers in exchange for cash. As the villagers grew older and less capable of hard labor, the lord would not renew their contracts and would turn them loose on the highways, and into the town and forests. The towns restricted immigration. In the forests, if the peasants were not too old they could join groups, such as the one headed by Robin.
Nimrod Conquers the Hebrew University
Babylonian culture displays a systematic assault on Biblical government. Modern science is only the capstone of a long philosophical maturation that includes evolutionists and heliocentrists from the Babylonian “mighty hunter before the Lord, Nimrod, Pharaohs to Roman emperors-gods to Hitler who tried to replace God's Law with Aryan myths. From Genesis throughg the Prophets (e.g., Micah 5:6) to Revelation, Nimrod's Babylon is associated with seduction, and the boldest element of political seduction seems to be economic. If Babylon is the great political organizer of men and merchants, it is the Canaanites who are the slaves of the slaves (Gen 9:25); not living for themselves (to say nothing of God) but existing as worker-drones, fulfilling the lusts created by Babylon. And Roman empire was a copy of Babylon in every respect. The Roman did not accumulate their wealth by working hard; they stole the wealth of other nations by turning them into slaves after their conquest.
In 1938-1939 sculptor Yitzhak Danziger created his statue “Nimrod”. The unveiling of the statue caused a scandal. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem which commissioned Danziger's statue was not happy with the result and religious circles made strong protests.
The Nimrod Statue was also taken up as the emblem of a cultural-political movement known as “The Canaanites”* which advocated the shrugging off the Jewish religious tradition, cutting off relations with Diaspora Jews and their culture, and adopt in its place a “Hebrew Identity” based on ancient Semitic heroic myths – such as Nimrod's. Though never gaining mass support, the movement had a considerable influence on Israeli intellectuals in the 1940 and early 1950s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(king).
*Olympian Zeus was equated, in local terms, with the Syrian and Phoenician (Canaanite) Baal Shamin, already worshipped by the Syrian troops in Jerusalem. Throughout the entire history of Israel there had existed a conflict between Yahwist belief and the nature worship of the Canaanites. Now, Hellenistic suzerains were actually identifying Yahweh with Baal. (See, below)
The New Agers anticipate the return of Horus as the reincarnation of Nimrod who will at last unite mankind in a victorious rebellion against God. (Gen. 10 and 11). The Gilgamesh Epic describes the first "God is dead" movement. (J. Lennon's song Imagine is their mantra)
It is from one of the Sun temples in Palmyra, Syria, namely from the temple of Bel (Baal), that the great image of Bel was removed and taken to Rome, where it was erected. This was done by emperor Aurelian of Rome, who was known as “the sun-emperor”. Aurelian also took the image of Helios, another Sun-deity, from Palmyra, and erected it in Rome. So, the worship of Bel, the founder of Babylon, eventually became established in Rome. No wonder that the Church Father Augustine candidly wrote that “Rome was funded as the second Babylon and as the daughter of the former Babylon.”
The Chair of St Peter in the Vatican was claimed to be a holy relic, but in 1968 it was exposed by a scientific commission as being no older than the 9th century More significantly, according to the Catholic Encyclopaedia, is that it is decorated by twelve plates portraying the twelve labours of Hercules. This same work claims that Hercules was another name for Nimrod before becoming a deity of the Greeks
The classic depiction of the Devil also has Draco-like horns. Nimrod was given the title Baal (the Lord) and Semiramis was Baalti (My Lady). The Latin term for my lady is Mea Domina which in its corrupted Italian form became Madonna. Nimrod was represented in a dual role of God the Father and Ninus, the son of Semiramis
The father of Nimrod in the text of Genesis was Cush, also known as Bel or Belus. Nimrod was the fish-god Dagon who was depicted as half man, half fish. It is possible that this was symbolic of him being half human, half scaled reptile.
The Canaanites in Action: Baal over YHWH
Hebrew University Prof wants Academic Freedom to be
Denied to God and Moses
Tel Aviv University – Ran HaCohen's (Dept of Comparative Literature)
continues to serve as Hamas' Mouthpiece
Dr. Rantisi, Hamas's dead leader used to argue that Allah - many times wrongly translated as 'God' - is not the God of the Bible, nor the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Allah is another deity, one who drinks blood as water, who loves jihad and terror, and promises virgins in his so-called paradise to those who kill Jews - the more the better. Accordingly, we learn from a Palestinian post stamp that the true god of Palestine is Baal-Zephon who was a principal mighty one of Ugarit or Ras Shamra, and of the Canaanite people who lived in that area of Syria. Israel was given a choice; they could follow Yahweh to their permanent freedom in the Promised land or they could return to enslavement in Egypt with its idol worship, wherein the idolatry of Baal-Zephon was popular.
Baal was originally, it appears, associated with specific places and sanctuaries; in Ugarit temple he is equated with Dagon. Baal was also known as the sun idol, Baal-Hannan. He had received the name Hannan, or the “grace”. That is exactly what the Pauline Christians teach, that the manner of spiritual life is all grace. “The law has been done away with the Christ’s death; now, do anything you please” is the teaching of Pauline churchianity.
(A. Hislop in his Two Babylons wrote: “From the historian Castor (in Armenian translation of Eusebius, pars. I, p. 81) we learn that it was under Bel, or Belus, that is Baal, that the Cyclops lived; and the Scholiast on Æschylus [chapter II, section II, sub-section I, note 22] states that these Cyclops were the brethren of Kronos, who was also Bel or Bal, as we have elsewhere seen [chapter II, section II, sub-section I]. The eye in their forehead shows that originally this name was a name of the great god, for that eye in India and Greece is found the characteristic of the supreme divinity. The Cyclops, then, had been representatives of that God—in other words, priests, and priests of Bel or Bal. Now, we find that the Cyclops were well-known as cannibals, Referre ritus Cyclopum, "to bring back the rites of the Cyclops," meaning to revive the practice of eating human flesh. (Ovid, Metam., XV, 93, Vol. II, p. 132. The term cannibal is derived from Cahna-Baal, priest of Baal. Pagan Rome of old offered human sacrifices to Baal on these crosses.”
Human sacrifice was fundamental to the religion of Babylon and wherever the Babylonian Brotherhood and their reptilian bloodlines have traveled, human sacrifice has always gone with them because the “reptilians” demand these rituals. The malevolent ones seem to be addicted to blood and this has been passed on to their crossbreeds.The Babylonian priests were required to eat some of their sacrificial offerings and so the word for priest, Cahna-Bal, became the term for eating human flesh, cannibal. Moloch, the name of that flying lizard was another name for Nimrod-Tammuz.
Excavations in Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath reveal dog and pig bones which show signs of having been butchered, implying that these animals were part of Philistines' diet. Philistines were identified by KJV as Palestinians.
There is no doubt about it that it was A. Hitler himself who inspired Dr. Rantisi to identify the god of Palestinians with the pagan Canaanaite sun god Baal (Bull). The Nazi leader said once about his Palestinian ally Mufti Haj Amin al Hussein: “ He
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Science and Denying Israel's Legitimacy
Hebrew University Prof wants Academic Freedom to be Denied to God and Moses
When Malcolm Hoenlein made his acceptance speech after receiving the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies in Jerusalem last month, he quoted Rashi’s opening to his commentary on the Bible. Hoenlein, the longtime executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, wasn’t engaging in talmudic casuistry, however. What he was doing was making an impassioned defense of Israel’s legitimacy and its historic connection and right to the land, and in particular to Jerusalem.
Answering the question, put in the name of Rabbi Isaac, as to why the Torah does not begin with the first mitzva, Rashi replies that the Torah begins with an account of the Creation so that if there ever comes a time when the nations of the world accuse the Jewish people of having stolen the Land of Israel, the Jews can respond: “The entire world was created by and belongs to God. He created it and He granted it to whomever He deemed fit.” For Hoenlein, that time has come.
Current attempts to deny the Jewish claim to the Land of Israel, and in particular to deny the Jewish claim to Jerusalem, bear out the wisdom of that commentary, says Hoenlein. “The dismissal of the biblical account by people who supposedly believe in the Bible and say they took the Bible and added to it, I think underscores the hypocrisy of the position, but also reveals their true intent,” he declares.
From Y. Danziger to B. Obama
Babylonian culture displays a systematic assault on Biblical government. Modern science is only the capstone of a long philosophical maturation that includes evolutionists and heliocentrists from the Babylonian “mighty hunter before the Lord, Nimrod, Pharaohs to Roman emperors-gods to Hitler who tried to replace God's Law with Aryan myths. From Genesis throughg the Prophets (e.g., Micah 5:6) to Revelation, Nimrod's Babylon is associated with seduction, and the boldest element of political seduction seems to be economic. If Babylon is the great political organizer of men and merchants, it is the Canaanites who are the slaves of the slaves (Gen 9:25); not living for themselves (to say nothing of God) but existing as worker-drones, fulfilling the lusts created by Babylon. And Roman empire was a copy of Babylon in every respect. The Roman did not accumulate their wealth by working hard; they stole the wealth of other nations by turning them into slaves after their conquest.
Copernicus's Virgil-inspired work suggests tht the Bible has nothing to do with divine revelation, or that the God revealed to the first parents and especially in the history of Israel is a liar. The founding fathers of modern astronomy, using the words of the Pslamist:
“They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.”
“And they say, how doth God know” And “Is there knowledge in the Eternal God?” (Ps 73: 9-11)
In 1938-1939 sculptor Yitzhak Danziger created his statue “Nimrod”. The unveiling of the statue caused a scandal. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem which commissioned Danziger's statue was not happy with the result and religious circles made strong protests.
The Nimrod Statue was also taken up as the emblem of a cultural-political movement known as “The Canaanites” which advocated the shrugging off the Jewish religious tradition, cutting off relations with Diaspora Jews and their culture, and adopt in its place a “Hebrew Identity” based on ancient Semitic heroic myths – such as Nimrod's. Though never gaining mass support, the movement had a considerable influence on Israeli intellectuals in the 1940 and early 1950s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(king).
The Holocaust of the Polish, mostly religious Jews was not a bad news among these circles (See below).In 1938-1939 sculptor Yitzhak Danziger created his statue “Nimrod”. The unveiling of the statue caused a scandal. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem which commissioned Danziger's statue was not happy with the result and religious circles made strong protests.
The Nimrod Statue was also taken up as the emblem of a cultural-political movement known as “The Canaanites” which advocated the shrugging off the Jewish religious tradition, cutting off relations with Diaspora Jews and their culture, and adopt in its place a “Hebrew Identity” based on ancient Semitic heroic myths – such as Nimrod's. Though never gaining mass support, the movement had a considerable influence on Israeli intellectuals in the 1940 and early 1950s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(king). The Holocaust of the Polish Jews was not a bad news among these circles.
In the middle of the war, the British government sent Freya Stark (During World War II, she joined the Ministry of Information and contributed to the creation of a propaganda network aimed at persuading Arabs to support the Allies or at least remain neutral) , a pro-Arab archaeologist and author, on extensive lecture tour of the U.S. Her mission was to build American support for British policies, especially for those regarding Palestine. In other words, her mission was to logjam and undermine Polish emissary Karski's mission seeking political help of the Allies in in rescuing Jews from the exterminating policy of the Nazis. Miss Stark, a non-Jew, was impressed by the amount of anti-Semitism she ran across among well-to-do, well-educated Americans. Her activities were foreshadowed by a Nazi propaganda film Erbkrank.
A. Bailey's goal is not “reorganization of world religions”, that Goal calls for:
“the gradual dissolution – again if in any way possible – of the Orthodox Jewish faith, with its obsolete teaching, its separative emphasis.”
Bailey consistently, in the spirit of the British maniacal anti-Semitism – denied everything negative in the world as “Jewish” then called for the total destruction of Judaism – and even hints at the destruction of the Jews themselves as well. She saw nothing wrong with the Holocaust – it was just that “old “Jewish karma” coming back at last.
Bailey's Apostles or the Enemy Within
Philosopher M. Polanyi observed, “Newtonian physics and Darwin’s notion of the survival of the fittest were key elements both in the Marxist concepts of class warfare and of racial philosophies which shaped Hitlerism and scientific world view.”
And we focus attention and concern on the Jewish Holocaust because
somehow we all have the feeling that it might just happen again.
Tel Aviv University - Daniel Breslau (Dept. of Sociology) gives “advice” to President Obama on how to manipulate Israel for Palestinian Benefit
Tel Aviv University – Ran HaCohen's (Dept of Comparative Literature) continues to serve as Hamas' Mouthpiece
Tel Aviv University - Chaim Gans (School of Law) thinks Israel has a right to exist only if it destroys all the settlements and withdraws to the Green Line. That is his "defence" of Zionism!
Tel Aviv University Marxist sociologist Yehuda Shenhav explains why the "Palestinian refugees" deserve compassion, but the Jewish refugees from Arab countries (or what he calls "Arab Jews") do not:
Award-winning blogger Doug Ross reports that a reliable source has provided an eyewitness account of what he saw on the videotape of the Rashid Khalidi farewell bash that the LA Times is suppressing. The eyewitness source, who Ross calls "a person who has provided useful, accurate and unique data from LA before" writes:
Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can't release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying "Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine" plus there's been "genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis."
The Universal Religion in the Space Age will be nonsectarian because its founding principle is pantheism:”If we move on to other planets, we may find that planetary religion must give way to solar religion – ONE FAITH for the solar system, and this in turn implies the ultimate need for a cosmic religion. We seem to be approaching universal citizenship, which implies the need for a universal religion.” Well, emperor Septimus Severus proposed to bring all his subjects together under the worship of Sol Invictus – the Unconquered Sun – and to subsume under that worship all the various religions and philosophies then current. All gods were to be accepted, as long as one acknowledged the Sun. Will the people who use the lunar calendar be exterminated?
The Myth of Our Time
“Ex arte et facultate astrologica dudum antea et ad hucusque (1520) tempora eciam apud exteras remotissimasque nations nominitassima et honoratissima semper existit.”
This quotation was excerpted from the resolution of the faculty of the Cracow University appropriating funds for the position of astrologer, Matthew of Miechow. The decision was approved of by Bishp Tomicki, chancellor of the University. The University was Europewide famous for its astrological horoscopes and mathematics, which N. Copernicus was studying during a period of five years (in qua atrium liberalium scola floret, arte mathematica celebris – Eneas Silvius). It will be instructive to remind in this context that the term “Genesis” meaning, nativity, horoscope was given by the Greek translators to the first book of the Bible. Suetonius mentions that Vespasian was admonished by the mathematicians to take head of Metius Pomposianus, because he had an imperial genesis. For the same reason Herod wanted to kill infant Jesus; he also had an imperial genesis which, by chance, as Ch. Darwin would say, came true. Shortly before Copernicus came to Cracow an astral alphabet for genethliacal purposes (i.e. to calculate nativities) was published in that town. Its impact on the mind of the young Copernicus is clearly recognizable in one of the passages of his “revolutionary” book.
The most famous Queen of all witches of the British Empire Sybil Leek in her memoirs entitled My Life in Astrology described how credulous the modern luminaries of the space are: “Florida proved to be the means of adding yet another group of people to my astrological portfolio. I live some twenty miles from the famous Cape Kennedy, home of the US space program…Through the help of my old friend, Ann Fague, formerly of Connecticut but now working as social aide in the protocol office of General David Jones at Patrick Air Force Base, I began to meet many people working on the space program. Scientists, engineers, astronauts, and their families, all seemed to trek to the house on the river, and I was amazed at how interested everyone was in my kind of scientific astrology (In case you don’t know, scientific astrology is a bastard sister of Science). Then I was invited to give a talk about astrology at one of the monthly luncheons, and I understand I broke a record for attendance. More amazing still were the questions from the enthusiastic audience. Not that everyone was pro-astrology, but to a lecturer, an avid interest is much more satisfying than a mutual admiration society. Many ladies came to me afterward, saying they had questions to ask not for themselves, but about their families. After this talk, there was a never-ending stream of inquiries about astrology, many of them from men at the Cape whose names later became household words in the space program. Practically all the top brass at their base also had their horoscopes done, and many predictions on world events were solemnly taken to the base to be locked in one of the many safes where they could be checked at appropriate times…Reading any of the magazines and papers, the astronauts emerge either as rare, godlike creatures unable to relate to the rest of mankind, or as cardboard characters with little depths or dimension to them as people.”
In a lecture delivered by Mr. Hiram Corson, Professor of Anglo-Saxon Literature at the Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., before the alumni of St. John's College, Annapolis, in July, 1875, the lecturer thus deservedly rebukes science:
"There are things," he says, "which Science can never do, and which it is arrogant in attempting to do. There was a time when Religion and the Church went beyond their legitimate domain, and invaded and harried that of Science, and imposed a burdensome tribute upon the latter; but it would seem that their former relations to each other are undergoing an entire change, and Science has crossed its frontiers and is invading the domain of Religion and the Church, and instead of a Religious Papacy, we are in danger of being brought under a Scientific Papacy -- we are in fact already brought under such a Papacy; and as in the sixteenth century a protest was made, in the interests of intellectual freedom, against a religious and ecclesiastical despotism, so, in this nineteenth century, the spiritual and eternal interests of man demand that a protest should be made against a rapidly-developing scientific despotism, and that Scientists should not only keep within their legitimate domain of the phenomenal and the conditioned, but should reexamine their stock in trade, so that we may make sure how far the stock of bullion in the cellar -- on the faith of whose existence so much paper has been circulating -- is really the solid gold of Truth. If this is not done in science as well as in ordinary business, scientists are apt to put their capital at too high a figure, and accordingly carry on a dangerously-inflated business. Even since Prof. Tyndall delivered his Belfast Address, it has been shown, by the many replies it has elicited, that the capital of the Evolution-School of Philosophy to which he belongs, is not nearly so great as it was before vaguely supposed to be by many of the non-scientific but intelligent portion of the world. It is quite surprising to a non-scientific person to be made aware of the large purely hypothetical domain which surrounds that of established science, and of which scientists often boast, as a part of their settled and available conquests."
Allow Me:
I am the Lord that maketh all things, that stretched forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth the earth by myself. That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise man backward and maketh their knowledge foolish” - Is 44:24-25
A mantra of the heliocentric astronomy proclaims: “Halley working in Newton’s program, calculated on the basis of observing a brief stretch of a comet’s path that it would return in 72-years’ time; he calculated to the minute when it would be seen again at a well-defined point of the sky. 72 years later, Halley’s comet returned exactly as Halley predicted.” Did it really? Halley predicted the return of his comet in 1758, but, according to Chinese and European records, the comet returned in March of 1759. Then the Halley’s comet returned in 1910, or 3.5 years earlier than predicted.
Indeed, every return of this comet brought significant changes with it, for instance, in 1986, declining from all previous orbits, this comet appeared in the Southern Hemisphere. The confusion of the Soviet scientists is mirrored in an article published in the journal Astronomiya i Astrofizika (1989) whose authors argued that “the motions of Halley’s comet are chaotic” and that “the model of its motions is not determined!” In political terms it meant an earthquake. On Oct. 4, 1957 when the first sputnik was launched from the Soviet Union, the Soviet scientists assured that its speed and trajectory were calculated using Newton’s Laws, the same laws that Halley used to calculate the trajectory of his comet. The nauseating prostitution of Soviet scientists to the immoral aims of their state seems to be overcome.
A Shooting-Star to the Rescue
Andrew D. White in his book History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom wrote: “Seneca, had the scientific instinct and prophetic inspiration to declared that the time would come when comets would be found to move in accordance with natural law.” The “prophecy” of Seneca had not been forgotten. Obviously, Copernicus rejected the Biblical interpretation of comets as extraordinary sent by God. The thoughts of Newton in science and Bayle in philosophy were evidently tending to accomplish the “prophecy” of Seneca.
Pierre Bayle, in tearing down the pretended scriptural doctrine of comets, tore down much else: of all men in his time, no one has so thoroughly prepared the way for Voltaire. He declared: “Comets are bodies subject to the ordinary law of Nature, and not prodigies amenable to no law.”
Newton, in 1686, having taken the data furnished by the comet of 1680, demonstrated that comets are guided in their movements by the same principle that controls the planets in their orbits. Halley recognized the comet of 1682 a one which had already appeared at stated periods, and foretold its return in about 75 year; and the battle was fully won when Clairaut, seconded by Lalande and Mme. Lepaute, predicted distinctly the time when the comet would arrive at its perihelion, and the prediction was reportedly verified.
Seneca, Copernicus, Galileo, Cassini, Newton, Halley, and Clairaut had gained the victory. The natural law cometary concept means that we are part of a system (Copernicus's machina mundi) not requiring constant patching and arbitrary interference. Interestingly, Kepler disagreed; he insisted on a compromise formula that comets might be heavenly bodies moving in regular orbits, and even obedient to law, and yet be sent as “signs in the heavens.”
It was total war of Science on Jewish people and their Biblical Science. That's exactly the same what the Psalmist expressed in his words: “Come, let us cut them off from nationhood, that Israel's name not be remembered anymore!” (Psalms 83:5)
Seneca, Copernicus, Galileo, Cassini, Newton, Halley, and Clairaut “killed the God of the Bible with their science” and their disciples sacrificed million of Jews to Copernicus's sun god (Baal, Molech etc) in the ovens of Auschwitz and in other places.
Following my Message to the National Ego
By striving to prevent, and then to roll back and destroy (through processes of ceaseless vilification, homicidal slander in the media, arming and inciting hostile neighbors, etc) Jewish sovereignty, the nations, led by the greatest powers in the world, have for a long time been engaged in a process of de facto de-legitimization, even banning, of Judaism according to Ms. Bailey's postulate. Under Western pressure, exerted through local stooges (See the reduced list of the Israeli scientsists above), Muslims control or ban Jewish worship at Judaism's holiest sites. "Ethnic cleansing" - remember that watchword of anathema? The nations intend that more and more of Israel be made Judenrein. How quaint, how supremely cynical, that this is concomitant with their crocodile (and very belated) tears about Auschwitz.
Let's be clear. In instituting and sustaining, by all means short of nuclear war, a process that prevents Jews from settling their land, the nations reject the bedrock of Judaism and deny the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and that means, too, the Scriptures in which His promises to them are recorded. True, intact Judaism is to be erased. As Hannah Newman so succinctly stated: "Some people are working for a world that is free -- free of Jews." (Condi's Gift: Partition Plans Redux by Eugene Narrett, February 09, 2005, IsraelNationalNews.com)
At first in June and then in July of 2006 Israeli soldiers were kidnapped. Rockets came raining down on major population centers. 1 million Israelis had to live in bomb shelters. A war was being waged in the North and the South and terror activity was up in the West. In the same year Ch. Darwin's bloody fanged bulldog Richard Dawkins published his maniacal attack on the God of the Bible titled The God Delusion. Here is his character assassination of not only of the God who created the Heaven and the earth, but also of His people who still refuse to abandon their God who liberated them from slavery:
The god of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction; jealous and proud of it; petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak, a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a mysogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those of us schooled from infancy in his ways can become desentisized to their horror.
The media lost an opportunity to encourage and strengthen the populace during last summer's war, Drucker, the diplomatic commentator for Channel Ten, charged: "During the war, we sinned by fanning the public hysteria... What the public wanted was some kind of massage to the national ego; it wanted all's-clear sirens. But during the war, we did not succeed in calming down the hysteria or in reducing the element of tension - and sometimes we did the exact opposite." (Hillel Fendel, Israeli Media Self-Criticism: “We Fanned the Hysteria” Arutz Sheva, 2.7.07)
In those days when the Jewish people were attacked on two fronts I sent “a message to the national ego”, a paraphrase of the well known Biblical verse (Jdg 5:20), which was published on July 24, 2006 8:10 PM by Yediot Achronot (Ynetnews): “Stars from their courses will be fighting against enemies of Israel.”
Two weeks or so the comet became visible to the naked eye:
Fact File:
Discovery date: August 7, 2006
Discoverer: Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught
Alternate designations: C/2006 P1, Comet McNaught, Great Comet of 2007
Core Size: 300metres - estimate
Coma Size: 100,000km - estimate
Tail Length: Up to 300,000,000km – estimate
Reuter, Thu Jan 25, 3:54 AM ET
The McNaught Comet was seen in the southern New Zealand sky from Dunedin in the country's South Island January 23, 2007. The comet, named after Australian astronomer Rob McNaught, has a tail about 30 million km.
McNaught is 100 times brighter than Halley's Comet was in 1986. “"We might get a comet this bright once every 30 years or so, but we can only predict them once they have been discovered," Ms Hambly said. In other words I. Newton nd others were wrong.
The logic of my message to Ynetnews was totally unscientific; I would says it was an interventionist logic based on prophecy of Amos:
“And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall built the waste cities, and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof. And they shall no more be torn up of their land which I give them, says the Lord your God.” Did you catch that phrase, “and they shall no more be torn up out of their land which I give them, says the Lord your God.” When God orders, the “stars from their courses fight against enemies of Israel…” - Amos 9:14-15
How come, that NASA with its orbiting Hubble telescope or the Russian Star City’s astronomers, or the sojourners of the International Space Station did not predict its appearance? See official NASA website: “A Bright Comet is coming: That object is comet C/2006 P1 (Comet McNaught). It was discovered on August 7th, 2006 by the hugely successful comet discoverer Rob McNaught…)”.
I would say that interventionist logic expressed in Biblical phrase: “He Never sleeps or slumbers the Guardian of Israel” is better than the logic of Seneca and his admirers. God's “Starfighter” circled the earth for over five months. Consider in this context the title of an article published by the German magazine SPIEGEL-ONLINE: “The Greek Inferno, The Left at the Mercy of God.” Like Soviet Union after Halley's Comet had swerved in 1986 foreshadowing the fall of the “first Scientific government in the human history”three years later.
Roman Pytel, Ph.D.
I was invited to publish my article At the sources of the Copernican astronomy in a Polish magazine of the Friends of Astronomy (Urania) by a Polish astronomer who studied in Moscow. The man, in order to survive, is now teaching ecology i.e. the science of worshiping the Copernican goddess Gaia whom pope John Paul II hugged on his every pilgrimage.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
How Israeli Technology Can Help Clean Gulf Oil Spill
Av 25, 5770, 05 August 10 10:38, by Baruch Gordon
(Israelnationalnews.com) It’s taken millions of dollars to cap it, and it could take billions more to clean it up. BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps the environmental catastrophe of the century. But Tel Aviv University has a solution that may help remedy the remaining oil residue through a natural, biological process.
Prof. Eugene Rosenberg and Prof. Eliora Ron of Tel Aviv University’s (TAU) Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology are using naturally occurring oil-munching bacteria, grown at the TAU lab, to clean the hard-to-reach oil pockets that occur when oil mixes with sand and organic matter on beaches and forms a thin layer on the Gulf’s precious waterways.
“It’s worked to clean up an oil spill on the coast of Haifa, Israel, so we’ve already got good evidence it could work in Florida too,” says Prof. Ron. Details of their decades of research appear in The Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology, published this year by Springer Verlag.
Using nature itself to fight contamination
The researchers identified a naturally occurring variety of sea-borne bacteria that digests oil. By studying the bacteria’s genetic background, developing methods of growing the bacteria, and increasing their capacity to ingest the oil, the scientists have developed a solution that could clean up the residual oil that can’t be removed by mechanical means.
Prof. Ron says that sucking up surface oil pools and containing the oil are important and necessary first-step actions. But her solution addresses the smaller amounts of oil left behind ― that which isn’t easily removed from sand and water. It is this small percentage of oil that sits under rocks and forms a thin film on the water’s surface. Her bacterial solution can remove this oil, which is necessary to protect the sea’s wildlife.
“We see sad pictures of birds covered in oil and people with good intentions cleaning bird wings,” says Prof. Ron. “But by the time the oil is on their wings, it’s too late. Birds die because oil gets into their lungs.”
Going the last mile
“The problem is huge and even with just a little bit in your lungs, oil is bad. Even when cleanup crews reduce the amount of oil at sea, there will probably be enough left behind to kill birds and wildlife.” At this level of oil removal, the researcher says, the only solution is bioremediation ― using nature itself to do the final cleanup.
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
(Israelnationalnews.com) It’s taken millions of dollars to cap it, and it could take billions more to clean it up. BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps the environmental catastrophe of the century. But Tel Aviv University has a solution that may help remedy the remaining oil residue through a natural, biological process.
Prof. Eugene Rosenberg and Prof. Eliora Ron of Tel Aviv University’s (TAU) Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology are using naturally occurring oil-munching bacteria, grown at the TAU lab, to clean the hard-to-reach oil pockets that occur when oil mixes with sand and organic matter on beaches and forms a thin layer on the Gulf’s precious waterways.
“It’s worked to clean up an oil spill on the coast of Haifa, Israel, so we’ve already got good evidence it could work in Florida too,” says Prof. Ron. Details of their decades of research appear in The Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology, published this year by Springer Verlag.
Using nature itself to fight contamination
The researchers identified a naturally occurring variety of sea-borne bacteria that digests oil. By studying the bacteria’s genetic background, developing methods of growing the bacteria, and increasing their capacity to ingest the oil, the scientists have developed a solution that could clean up the residual oil that can’t be removed by mechanical means.
Prof. Ron says that sucking up surface oil pools and containing the oil are important and necessary first-step actions. But her solution addresses the smaller amounts of oil left behind ― that which isn’t easily removed from sand and water. It is this small percentage of oil that sits under rocks and forms a thin film on the water’s surface. Her bacterial solution can remove this oil, which is necessary to protect the sea’s wildlife.
“We see sad pictures of birds covered in oil and people with good intentions cleaning bird wings,” says Prof. Ron. “But by the time the oil is on their wings, it’s too late. Birds die because oil gets into their lungs.”
Going the last mile
“The problem is huge and even with just a little bit in your lungs, oil is bad. Even when cleanup crews reduce the amount of oil at sea, there will probably be enough left behind to kill birds and wildlife.” At this level of oil removal, the researcher says, the only solution is bioremediation ― using nature itself to do the final cleanup.
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
WTC Mosque, Meet the Auschwitz Nuns
Pope John Paul offers a model of tolerance for a heated controversy.
By WILLIAM MCGURN
With every passing day, the dispute over the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero grows more acrimonious. These feelings will probably only get worse today, when the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission is expected to remove another hurdle by ruling against landmark status for the undistinguished old building the center will replace.
So maybe it's time to look beyond the lawyers and landmark preservation commissions and regulatory agencies. When we do, it will be hard to find a better example than the grace and wisdom Pope John Paul II exhibited during a similar clash involving another hallowed site on whose grounds innocents were also murdered: Auschwitz.
In the 1980s, Carmelite nuns moved into an abandoned building on the edge of the former Nazi death camp to pray for the souls taken there. As with the dispute over the mosque near Ground Zero, the convent's presence escalated into a clash not only between different faiths but between competing historical narratives. As with today's clash too, it seemed intractable until the Polish pope stepped in.
For Jews, Auschwitz is a symbol of the Shoah, and the presence of a convent looked like an effort to Christianize a place of Jewish suffering. Suspicions were further aroused by a fundraising brochure from an outside Catholic group, which referred to the convent as a "guarantee of the conversion of strayed brothers." The protests mounted over the course of several years and various interfaith agreements, and pointed to the real strains that remained between Poles and Jews over a shared history with very different perspectives.
Many Catholics, not just in Poland, could not understand how nuns begging God's forgiveness and praying for the souls of the departed could possibly offend anyone. There was also a nationalist element. Many members of the Polish resistance had also been murdered at Auschwitz. And again like our present controversy at Ground Zero, intemperate reactions and statements from both sides only inflamed passions.
So what did Pope John Paul II do? He waited, and he counseled. And when he saw that the nuns were not budging—and that their presence was doing more harm than good—he asked the Carmelites to move. He acknowledged that his letter would probably be a trial to each of the sisters, but asked them to accept it while continuing to pursue their mission in that same city at another convent that had been built for them.
Let's remember what this means. By their own lights, the nuns believed they were doing only good. They may have had a legal title to be where they were. And it is likely that they never would have been forced to move by local authorities had they insisted on staying.
There's a lesson here. Even those who favor this new Islamic Center surely can appreciate why some American feelings are rubbed raw by the idea of a mosque at a place where Islamic terrorists killed more than 2,700 innocent people. If feelings in Auschwitz were raw after nearly half a century, it's not hard to see why they would remain raw at Ground Zero after less than a decade.
On the other hand, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is right about the law: Our freedom of religion means nothing if it doesn't mean freedom of religion for all. Indeed, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty—a sort of ACLU for freedom of religion—has spent decades defending churches, synagogues, mosques and even a Zoroastrian temple against public officials who have tried to invoke zoning laws or arcane regulations to keep them off a property.
More
9/11 Memorial Pledged as Part of Mosque Plan
Yet not all big questions can—or should—be reduced to legal right. Living together as neighbors in a free and inescapably diverse society requires more skills than just knowing how to hire sharp lawyers. Sometimes it requires leaders willing to sound a grace note, even yielding to the feelings of others who may not see our plans the same way we do.
For their part, the two people at the heart of this center—Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan—defend the center as an antidote to 9/11. "Our religion has been hijacked by the extremists," Ms. Khan told National Public Radio, "and this center is going to create that counter-momentum which will amplify the voices of the moderate Muslims."
Perhaps. But it's hard to argue with the Anti-Defamation League's assessment that the controversy created by building the center at this location "is counterproductive to the healing process."
Without doubt Pope John Paul II did not share the more malevolent interpretations attached to the presence of the Carmelites at Auschwitz. By asking the nuns to withdraw, he didn't concede them either. What he did was recognize that having the right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
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By WILLIAM MCGURN
With every passing day, the dispute over the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero grows more acrimonious. These feelings will probably only get worse today, when the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission is expected to remove another hurdle by ruling against landmark status for the undistinguished old building the center will replace.
So maybe it's time to look beyond the lawyers and landmark preservation commissions and regulatory agencies. When we do, it will be hard to find a better example than the grace and wisdom Pope John Paul II exhibited during a similar clash involving another hallowed site on whose grounds innocents were also murdered: Auschwitz.
In the 1980s, Carmelite nuns moved into an abandoned building on the edge of the former Nazi death camp to pray for the souls taken there. As with the dispute over the mosque near Ground Zero, the convent's presence escalated into a clash not only between different faiths but between competing historical narratives. As with today's clash too, it seemed intractable until the Polish pope stepped in.
For Jews, Auschwitz is a symbol of the Shoah, and the presence of a convent looked like an effort to Christianize a place of Jewish suffering. Suspicions were further aroused by a fundraising brochure from an outside Catholic group, which referred to the convent as a "guarantee of the conversion of strayed brothers." The protests mounted over the course of several years and various interfaith agreements, and pointed to the real strains that remained between Poles and Jews over a shared history with very different perspectives.
Many Catholics, not just in Poland, could not understand how nuns begging God's forgiveness and praying for the souls of the departed could possibly offend anyone. There was also a nationalist element. Many members of the Polish resistance had also been murdered at Auschwitz. And again like our present controversy at Ground Zero, intemperate reactions and statements from both sides only inflamed passions.
So what did Pope John Paul II do? He waited, and he counseled. And when he saw that the nuns were not budging—and that their presence was doing more harm than good—he asked the Carmelites to move. He acknowledged that his letter would probably be a trial to each of the sisters, but asked them to accept it while continuing to pursue their mission in that same city at another convent that had been built for them.
Let's remember what this means. By their own lights, the nuns believed they were doing only good. They may have had a legal title to be where they were. And it is likely that they never would have been forced to move by local authorities had they insisted on staying.
There's a lesson here. Even those who favor this new Islamic Center surely can appreciate why some American feelings are rubbed raw by the idea of a mosque at a place where Islamic terrorists killed more than 2,700 innocent people. If feelings in Auschwitz were raw after nearly half a century, it's not hard to see why they would remain raw at Ground Zero after less than a decade.
On the other hand, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is right about the law: Our freedom of religion means nothing if it doesn't mean freedom of religion for all. Indeed, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty—a sort of ACLU for freedom of religion—has spent decades defending churches, synagogues, mosques and even a Zoroastrian temple against public officials who have tried to invoke zoning laws or arcane regulations to keep them off a property.
More
9/11 Memorial Pledged as Part of Mosque Plan
Yet not all big questions can—or should—be reduced to legal right. Living together as neighbors in a free and inescapably diverse society requires more skills than just knowing how to hire sharp lawyers. Sometimes it requires leaders willing to sound a grace note, even yielding to the feelings of others who may not see our plans the same way we do.
For their part, the two people at the heart of this center—Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan—defend the center as an antidote to 9/11. "Our religion has been hijacked by the extremists," Ms. Khan told National Public Radio, "and this center is going to create that counter-momentum which will amplify the voices of the moderate Muslims."
Perhaps. But it's hard to argue with the Anti-Defamation League's assessment that the controversy created by building the center at this location "is counterproductive to the healing process."
Without doubt Pope John Paul II did not share the more malevolent interpretations attached to the presence of the Carmelites at Auschwitz. By asking the nuns to withdraw, he didn't concede them either. What he did was recognize that having the right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
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