Very good Michael. One question respectfully asked: what is the point of the paragraph on Saints Crispin and Crispianus (spelling?), Shakespeare’s Henry V and Hollywood 410 (?) years later. (I’m citing from memory). Is there something I’m missing? Thanks. I’ve been reading you since 1993.
What Larry David did with his urination Sacrilege occurred on Saint Crispin Day —sacred to martyrs of the early church. Most people will say it was a coincidence. I have trouble believing in many of the acts that are explained away as coincidences.
I will refrain from wishing you a blessed Pascha/Resurrection and Alleluias until Easter Vigil. It seems English is the only language that uses the term Easter which I have no problem with but rankles the rabid anti-Catholics. Spanish, Italian, French all have variations on Pascha, paque, pascua etc. I even checked Irish Gaelic and we/they have “Casca” for Pascha/Easter. Leave it to the Irish. Go figure.
The blight on Christianity I dread most at Easter is self imposed. It's when we hear an admonition from the pulpit not to read anti-Semitism into the Jewish conspiracy to execute Christ. "Don't even go there," one priest said of the thing we wouldn't have thought of had the priest not mentioned it. This time I'll be ready with thoughts of the passion of Palestine and how so little has changed in all these years. Only now they are trying to get us to kill the Persians for them instead of doing the job themselves as in days of old.
It's a wonder of the world how the Jews can dish it out but can't take it (except from other Jews maybe. Larry David would probably agree, and for all I know, did a witty episode illustrating the point.) The difference is the Jews have backup and we don't. If it matters to them what you say, they can rain hell on you, to speak Trumpian. They've got organized watchdogs everywhere, at home and abroad, on the lookout for anti-Semitism: ADL, AIPAC, American Jewish Committee, World Jewish Congress, Hillel, Jewish Federation of North America, Combat Antisemitism Movement, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, AMCHA Initiative, Canary Mission, to name a few, all of them determined to stamp out the "plague of anti-Semitism" (thus our Catholic HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.).
And they've got the law and government on their side: the Civil Rights Act expanded into a tool to fight anti-Semitism; appointment of a cabinet-level Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism; anti-BDS laws; codification of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance into state law and its adoption by universities; passage of the Antisemitism Awareness Act in the House of Representatives; as much as 97% of FEMA security grants to non-profits goes to Jewish institutions; withdrawal of federal funding to universities who fail to protect Jewish students; the Justice Department's formation of a Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism; introduction of the Countering Antisemitism Act in Congress; Trump's Executive Order to Combat Anti-Semitism by marshalling "all federal resources to combat the explosion of anti-Semitism on our campuses and in our streets since October 7, 2023"; Trump's Executive Order titled Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism, requiring universities to monitor and report students involved in anti-Semitic activities and directing deportation of non-citizens for anti-Semitism activism; to name a few such enforcement tools.
We, on the other hand, have the Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism and Christians United for Israel. It seems Judaism is our established religion and you can't say anything that offends a Jew. That's a double whammy on the First Amendment, which prohibits an establishment of religion and guarantees the freedom of speech.
It gets worse. Speaking of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect, Trump just appointed a Chabad rabbi as his Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, replacing Deborah Lipstadt. His name is Yehuda Kaploun, quoted as saying “Our situation is similar to that of Jews in 1930s Germany, on the eve of Kristallnacht." https://israelpalestinenews.org/trump-appoints-new-u-s-antisemitism-envoy/ You can see Trump venerate the Lubavitcher Rebbe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcsjaSs8u5g The appointment requires Senate confirmation. I hope somebody inquires into Kaploun's view of the 613 Commandments (Mitzvot) as endorsed by Chabad, particularly No. 598: "Wipe out the descendants of Amalek." https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/756399/jewish/Th And for the record, here's Netanyahu exhorting his people to remember what Amalek has done to them as he launches their genocide of Palestinians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVs7akyMh0.
You have been seduced by a stereotype about Jews that is as destructive as Talmudic stereotypes about gentiles.
Your comment is filled with bigoted generalizations such as, "the Jews can dish it out but can't take it."
"...you can't say anything that offends a Jew..."
"The Jews...The Jews...The Jews..."
Don't you ever tire of your prejudice?
When you fail to make distinctions, fail to glimpse the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people working for peace in the Middle East, acting as missionaries for Jesus in the Israeli state, countering Zionist propaganda and risking the lethal penalties Maimonides established and this writer documented, it shows you have been captured by a Jew-hating belief system with a Nazi-like tendency to group all Jewish people into a category of iniquity.
Your comment is not really a comment on what I published on April 16. You are rather applying an ideology you picked up some time ago and you are editorializing about it now with almost no reference the facts I presented.
The Cryptocracy encourages your views given that what you write confirms the notion that all protest contra Israeli genocide or Talmuidic hate speech is itself racist hate speech.
Jesus is the Lord of love. Where is your love for Jews good and bad?
Where are your prayers for their conversion?
Where is your acknowledgment of the Karaite Jews who stood up to the Talmudists for centuries in defense of the Old Testament?
A Karaite Judaic man is responsible for helping me with translations for my book, "Judaism Discovered."
Noam Chomsky while he was Institute Professor of Linguistics at MIT spent two days contacting my employers after they terminated me at the radio station where, in 1982, I produced the program, "Zionism. Racism and the Beirut Massacre."
Norman Finkelstein and Max Blumenthal are among the most courageous and learned historians of the Israeli genocide of Arabs.
The secular Jewish kids I grew up with in New York knew nothing of the Talmud and were no fans of "Israel." There weren't saints and neither was I but they were as decent as anyone else I knew in my youth.
You need to lighten up. Your antisemitism sniffer is overworked. You might start with watching Dave Chappelle's shtick on the two words you should never put together, "the" and "Jews." It's a good send-up of those afraid to speak of the Jews. It applies to those, like yourself, who will not brook criticism of Jews without a warning preamble that this of course doesn't mean all Jews, and there are all sorts of good Jews out there, etc. You've internalized the demands of the anti-Semitism hunters.
My comment was meant to supply a reason why your catalog of horribles against the Holy Family and Christianity has gained little or no currency while the other side (the Jews and their goyish supporters, but not all Jews to be sure, etc.) prevails, as they evidently did against you when they dismissed you from the radio station for discussing racism and Zionism together--as bad as using "the" and "Jews" together. My point was it will take a little more than love to set things right.
By the way, I've read all the Israeli new historians and then some. I'm an ardent fan of Max Blumenthal and have read his books and subscribe to the Grayzone. I've watched the Karaite rabbis on YouTube and have downloaded their materials. I've read many of the early anti-Zionist Jews such as Alfred Lilienthal and Moshe Menuhin. I have read Norman Finkelstein's books. That's maybe a tenth part of what I've read on the topic, but enough.
As for your stereotyping me as a stereotypical anti-Semite, I'm a big fan of the sticks-and-stones retort and will continue to use "the Jews" without apology. I'm open-minded enough to know that when St. Paul said the Jews killed the Lord Jesus, he didn't mean all the Jews.
Katya here, thank you, Hobnob, for your impassioned comment. In his Afterword at the end, Michael says, "However, without courage we are lost..."
Boris Pasternak's epic, poetic novel is a living Pascha (Easter) ode written in the darkest of times under the Bolsheviks -- and that word simply means "the bigger ones", which was a lie. Of course, Pasternak risked his life writing it, and it was so powerful and threatening a work that we in the west through the great dumbing down and the total inanity of the Hollywood (disseminators of Mind Virus) don't know it at all. It was completely inverted with hypnotic music by the hasbara, I mean movie, makers.
Fast forward to today (Holy Thursday, Last Supper, night of the arrest) and Europe, through the leaders of the EU, have gone full Neo-Nazi. ( And what will the US do?) Dostoevsky described the dying of Christianity in Europe in the 1860's. There are Eastern Orthodox Church Fathers who maintain that the Great Schism between East and West didn't happen until the 1500's with the Occult takeover of Rome. Some even delay it up to the Roman Pope's formal declaration of infallibility, in 1877(?). Of course, now we have shamanic paganism and Churchianity and AI.
When I spent time in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), what astonished me was the beauty of Christian worship that could not be killed in the cathedrals, churches, monasteries that I saw, and I went deeply into the Kiev caves. On the surface, everything was atheist. But "the courage of genius," the death and resurrection and Transcendence of Dr. Zhivago did not die. Another astonishing thing was the reverence in ordinary people's speech, when they weren't too afraid to talk to the American, unlike anything I would hear here at home, for all our "superiority"-- see the blogspot on Lady Day that Michael left in his comment to me in the previous substack. In a very real sense, ordinary people still lived in medieval ways.
Our Orthodox Christian Church went bolshevik centuries ago, and we modern Christians have killed God in our hearts in conformity, which we call obedience. We are very much in danger of becoming what surrounds us, pharisaic murderers and neo-nazi as we clamor for crucifixion, calling it politics and tradition. And as we fail utterly to love our children. The trickery seems to have worked.
Sorry to be brief and to sound oblique, but my husband's phone is going extinct. So much for techno-wonders that come at such cost . . .
"When I spent time in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), what astonished me was the beauty of Christian worship that could not be killed in the cathedrals, churches, monasteries that I saw, and I went deeply into the Kiev caves. On the surface, everything was atheist. But 'the courage of genius,' the death and resurrection and Transcendence of Dr. Zhivago did not die.
"Another astonishing thing was the reverence in ordinary people's speech, when they weren't too afraid to talk to the American, unlike anything I would hear here at home, for all our 'superiority'-- see the blogspot on Lady Day that Michael left in his comment to me in the previous substack. In a very real sense, ordinary people still lived in medieval ways."
This is a fascinating insight. You should write a book about your time in Soviet Russia-- or an article at least.
Thank you, Michael. An inspiring suggestion, coming from you.
A couple of things to add about the long progressive and chronic disease of defamation of Christianity, especially during the debunked Holy Days: at the Last Supper, when Jesus said "One of you will betray me," each apostle asked, "Is it me, Lord?" I think it's a good question for all of us to ask. I think the Cryptocracy has ensured that we all betray Jesus every day in modern (western materialistic/ scientistic) life.
When you gave us the link to 2022 blogspot about "Lady Day" and the disappearance life lived by an orthodox Christian calendar, with lovely quotes from Eleanor Parker, I wondered whether the John Dee grid of Green Witch time laid upon the world as a sorcerer's trap, wasn't a major blow to the Church by it's great enemy.
And then, when I returned to the States from my sojourns in Europe and Russia, it seemed to me that everyone was talking like t.v., which of course is the language of mockery, and is now a fuller language of hatred.
Boris Pasternak (Dr. Zhivago -- means 'the living one') was a Jew who converted to Orthodox Christianity. There are words of hurt and anger in his work, but no language of hatred, which is ubiquitous with us today. Again thank you for your work ever-contra that sort of (neoplatonic hermetical kabbalistic) language and ideology. It is truly subtlely contagious, and our mother tongue no longer protects.
Katya wrote: "When you gave us the link to 2022 blogspot about "Lady Day" and the disappearance life lived by an orthodox Christian calendar, with lovely quotes from Eleanor Parker, I wondered whether the John Dee grid of Green Witch time laid upon the world as a sorcerer's trap, wasn't a major blow to the Church by it's great enemy."
This reminds me of the fierce struggle extending even unto our day with the Old Calendrists in the Greek/Russian Orthodox Church--they adhere to the Julian calendar and reject the Gregorian.
Very good Michael. One question respectfully asked: what is the point of the paragraph on Saints Crispin and Crispianus (spelling?), Shakespeare’s Henry V and Hollywood 410 (?) years later. (I’m citing from memory). Is there something I’m missing? Thanks. I’ve been reading you since 1993.
Dear Mr. O’Malley
What Larry David did with his urination Sacrilege occurred on Saint Crispin Day —sacred to martyrs of the early church. Most people will say it was a coincidence. I have trouble believing in many of the acts that are explained away as coincidences.
I will refrain from wishing you a blessed Pascha/Resurrection and Alleluias until Easter Vigil. It seems English is the only language that uses the term Easter which I have no problem with but rankles the rabid anti-Catholics. Spanish, Italian, French all have variations on Pascha, paque, pascua etc. I even checked Irish Gaelic and we/they have “Casca” for Pascha/Easter. Leave it to the Irish. Go figure.
Good point.
To my mind, the best description is “resurrection Sunday.”
The etymology of the word Easter is not particularly edifying but it has been hallowed by immemorial association with Our Lord’s victory over death.
The blight on Christianity I dread most at Easter is self imposed. It's when we hear an admonition from the pulpit not to read anti-Semitism into the Jewish conspiracy to execute Christ. "Don't even go there," one priest said of the thing we wouldn't have thought of had the priest not mentioned it. This time I'll be ready with thoughts of the passion of Palestine and how so little has changed in all these years. Only now they are trying to get us to kill the Persians for them instead of doing the job themselves as in days of old.
It's a wonder of the world how the Jews can dish it out but can't take it (except from other Jews maybe. Larry David would probably agree, and for all I know, did a witty episode illustrating the point.) The difference is the Jews have backup and we don't. If it matters to them what you say, they can rain hell on you, to speak Trumpian. They've got organized watchdogs everywhere, at home and abroad, on the lookout for anti-Semitism: ADL, AIPAC, American Jewish Committee, World Jewish Congress, Hillel, Jewish Federation of North America, Combat Antisemitism Movement, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, AMCHA Initiative, Canary Mission, to name a few, all of them determined to stamp out the "plague of anti-Semitism" (thus our Catholic HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.).
And they've got the law and government on their side: the Civil Rights Act expanded into a tool to fight anti-Semitism; appointment of a cabinet-level Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism; anti-BDS laws; codification of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance into state law and its adoption by universities; passage of the Antisemitism Awareness Act in the House of Representatives; as much as 97% of FEMA security grants to non-profits goes to Jewish institutions; withdrawal of federal funding to universities who fail to protect Jewish students; the Justice Department's formation of a Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism; introduction of the Countering Antisemitism Act in Congress; Trump's Executive Order to Combat Anti-Semitism by marshalling "all federal resources to combat the explosion of anti-Semitism on our campuses and in our streets since October 7, 2023"; Trump's Executive Order titled Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism, requiring universities to monitor and report students involved in anti-Semitic activities and directing deportation of non-citizens for anti-Semitism activism; to name a few such enforcement tools.
We, on the other hand, have the Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism and Christians United for Israel. It seems Judaism is our established religion and you can't say anything that offends a Jew. That's a double whammy on the First Amendment, which prohibits an establishment of religion and guarantees the freedom of speech.
It gets worse. Speaking of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect, Trump just appointed a Chabad rabbi as his Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, replacing Deborah Lipstadt. His name is Yehuda Kaploun, quoted as saying “Our situation is similar to that of Jews in 1930s Germany, on the eve of Kristallnacht." https://israelpalestinenews.org/trump-appoints-new-u-s-antisemitism-envoy/ You can see Trump venerate the Lubavitcher Rebbe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcsjaSs8u5g The appointment requires Senate confirmation. I hope somebody inquires into Kaploun's view of the 613 Commandments (Mitzvot) as endorsed by Chabad, particularly No. 598: "Wipe out the descendants of Amalek." https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/756399/jewish/Th And for the record, here's Netanyahu exhorting his people to remember what Amalek has done to them as he launches their genocide of Palestinians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMVs7akyMh0.
You have been seduced by a stereotype about Jews that is as destructive as Talmudic stereotypes about gentiles.
Your comment is filled with bigoted generalizations such as, "the Jews can dish it out but can't take it."
"...you can't say anything that offends a Jew..."
"The Jews...The Jews...The Jews..."
Don't you ever tire of your prejudice?
When you fail to make distinctions, fail to glimpse the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people working for peace in the Middle East, acting as missionaries for Jesus in the Israeli state, countering Zionist propaganda and risking the lethal penalties Maimonides established and this writer documented, it shows you have been captured by a Jew-hating belief system with a Nazi-like tendency to group all Jewish people into a category of iniquity.
Your comment is not really a comment on what I published on April 16. You are rather applying an ideology you picked up some time ago and you are editorializing about it now with almost no reference the facts I presented.
The Cryptocracy encourages your views given that what you write confirms the notion that all protest contra Israeli genocide or Talmuidic hate speech is itself racist hate speech.
Jesus is the Lord of love. Where is your love for Jews good and bad?
Where are your prayers for their conversion?
Where is your acknowledgment of the Karaite Jews who stood up to the Talmudists for centuries in defense of the Old Testament?
A Karaite Judaic man is responsible for helping me with translations for my book, "Judaism Discovered."
Noam Chomsky while he was Institute Professor of Linguistics at MIT spent two days contacting my employers after they terminated me at the radio station where, in 1982, I produced the program, "Zionism. Racism and the Beirut Massacre."
Norman Finkelstein and Max Blumenthal are among the most courageous and learned historians of the Israeli genocide of Arabs.
The secular Jewish kids I grew up with in New York knew nothing of the Talmud and were no fans of "Israel." There weren't saints and neither was I but they were as decent as anyone else I knew in my youth.
Zionists and Talmudists fear our love.
Where is yours?
Michael Hoffman
www.RevisionistHistory.org
You need to lighten up. Your antisemitism sniffer is overworked. You might start with watching Dave Chappelle's shtick on the two words you should never put together, "the" and "Jews." It's a good send-up of those afraid to speak of the Jews. It applies to those, like yourself, who will not brook criticism of Jews without a warning preamble that this of course doesn't mean all Jews, and there are all sorts of good Jews out there, etc. You've internalized the demands of the anti-Semitism hunters.
My comment was meant to supply a reason why your catalog of horribles against the Holy Family and Christianity has gained little or no currency while the other side (the Jews and their goyish supporters, but not all Jews to be sure, etc.) prevails, as they evidently did against you when they dismissed you from the radio station for discussing racism and Zionism together--as bad as using "the" and "Jews" together. My point was it will take a little more than love to set things right.
By the way, I've read all the Israeli new historians and then some. I'm an ardent fan of Max Blumenthal and have read his books and subscribe to the Grayzone. I've watched the Karaite rabbis on YouTube and have downloaded their materials. I've read many of the early anti-Zionist Jews such as Alfred Lilienthal and Moshe Menuhin. I have read Norman Finkelstein's books. That's maybe a tenth part of what I've read on the topic, but enough.
As for your stereotyping me as a stereotypical anti-Semite, I'm a big fan of the sticks-and-stones retort and will continue to use "the Jews" without apology. I'm open-minded enough to know that when St. Paul said the Jews killed the Lord Jesus, he didn't mean all the Jews.
Katya here, thank you, Hobnob, for your impassioned comment. In his Afterword at the end, Michael says, "However, without courage we are lost..."
Boris Pasternak's epic, poetic novel is a living Pascha (Easter) ode written in the darkest of times under the Bolsheviks -- and that word simply means "the bigger ones", which was a lie. Of course, Pasternak risked his life writing it, and it was so powerful and threatening a work that we in the west through the great dumbing down and the total inanity of the Hollywood (disseminators of Mind Virus) don't know it at all. It was completely inverted with hypnotic music by the hasbara, I mean movie, makers.
Fast forward to today (Holy Thursday, Last Supper, night of the arrest) and Europe, through the leaders of the EU, have gone full Neo-Nazi. ( And what will the US do?) Dostoevsky described the dying of Christianity in Europe in the 1860's. There are Eastern Orthodox Church Fathers who maintain that the Great Schism between East and West didn't happen until the 1500's with the Occult takeover of Rome. Some even delay it up to the Roman Pope's formal declaration of infallibility, in 1877(?). Of course, now we have shamanic paganism and Churchianity and AI.
When I spent time in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), what astonished me was the beauty of Christian worship that could not be killed in the cathedrals, churches, monasteries that I saw, and I went deeply into the Kiev caves. On the surface, everything was atheist. But "the courage of genius," the death and resurrection and Transcendence of Dr. Zhivago did not die. Another astonishing thing was the reverence in ordinary people's speech, when they weren't too afraid to talk to the American, unlike anything I would hear here at home, for all our "superiority"-- see the blogspot on Lady Day that Michael left in his comment to me in the previous substack. In a very real sense, ordinary people still lived in medieval ways.
Our Orthodox Christian Church went bolshevik centuries ago, and we modern Christians have killed God in our hearts in conformity, which we call obedience. We are very much in danger of becoming what surrounds us, pharisaic murderers and neo-nazi as we clamor for crucifixion, calling it politics and tradition. And as we fail utterly to love our children. The trickery seems to have worked.
Sorry to be brief and to sound oblique, but my husband's phone is going extinct. So much for techno-wonders that come at such cost . . .
Katya wrote:
"When I spent time in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), what astonished me was the beauty of Christian worship that could not be killed in the cathedrals, churches, monasteries that I saw, and I went deeply into the Kiev caves. On the surface, everything was atheist. But 'the courage of genius,' the death and resurrection and Transcendence of Dr. Zhivago did not die.
"Another astonishing thing was the reverence in ordinary people's speech, when they weren't too afraid to talk to the American, unlike anything I would hear here at home, for all our 'superiority'-- see the blogspot on Lady Day that Michael left in his comment to me in the previous substack. In a very real sense, ordinary people still lived in medieval ways."
This is a fascinating insight. You should write a book about your time in Soviet Russia-- or an article at least.
Thank you, Michael. An inspiring suggestion, coming from you.
A couple of things to add about the long progressive and chronic disease of defamation of Christianity, especially during the debunked Holy Days: at the Last Supper, when Jesus said "One of you will betray me," each apostle asked, "Is it me, Lord?" I think it's a good question for all of us to ask. I think the Cryptocracy has ensured that we all betray Jesus every day in modern (western materialistic/ scientistic) life.
When you gave us the link to 2022 blogspot about "Lady Day" and the disappearance life lived by an orthodox Christian calendar, with lovely quotes from Eleanor Parker, I wondered whether the John Dee grid of Green Witch time laid upon the world as a sorcerer's trap, wasn't a major blow to the Church by it's great enemy.
And then, when I returned to the States from my sojourns in Europe and Russia, it seemed to me that everyone was talking like t.v., which of course is the language of mockery, and is now a fuller language of hatred.
Boris Pasternak (Dr. Zhivago -- means 'the living one') was a Jew who converted to Orthodox Christianity. There are words of hurt and anger in his work, but no language of hatred, which is ubiquitous with us today. Again thank you for your work ever-contra that sort of (neoplatonic hermetical kabbalistic) language and ideology. It is truly subtlely contagious, and our mother tongue no longer protects.
Katya wrote: "When you gave us the link to 2022 blogspot about "Lady Day" and the disappearance life lived by an orthodox Christian calendar, with lovely quotes from Eleanor Parker, I wondered whether the John Dee grid of Green Witch time laid upon the world as a sorcerer's trap, wasn't a major blow to the Church by it's great enemy."
This reminds me of the fierce struggle extending even unto our day with the Old Calendrists in the Greek/Russian Orthodox Church--they adhere to the Julian calendar and reject the Gregorian.