STAR OF DAVID RISING
By Harmony Grant
15 Aug 07
“They won’t allow Bibles in schools but if it was
a Koran or anything else, it’d be fine,” a repairman
named Chris recently complained to me. In my leftwing city, I regularly
encounter other conservatives who are eager to vent about the dominant
liberalism in education, media, and culture.
Disgusted, Chris retold how a 23-year-old university student faces
prison time for flushing a Koran down a toilet. The student could
be jailed for his “hate crime.” Meanwhile, artists win
praise for suspending a crucifix in urine or displaying a naked,
anatomically correct Jesus made of chocolate. How did we get here?
How did our culture plummet from public school primers of wholesome
Bible stories to a society that purges crosses, Ten Commandment plaques
and Christian evangelism from public view?
For 60 years, militant advocacy groups worked to establish the
myth that “separation of church and state” is a Constitutional
guarantee of freedom from religion. Jewish activists especially prevail
in movements and organizations that strip Christianity from public
life.
But as Judaism and Zionism both gain political and social power,
a huge double standard emerges. As Chris the repairman pointed out,
not all religions are treated like bird flu -- some are given special
legal protection and social power that rises as Christian influence
declines.
In countries including Canada, England and Australia, hate crime
laws are used to silence critics of Islam and Judaism. Socially as
well as legally, public criticism of Judaism is forbidden as "anti-Semitism" under
hate crimes bureaucracies. In contrast, Christ and His followers
are routinely held up to mockery and virulent criticism -- with no
protection.
The US Supreme Court, in its 1980 landmark ruling, established
that an 18-foot Jewish menorah displayed at a downtown Pittsburgh
county courthouse did not violate church/state separation, while
a nativity scene did. The menorah was permitted, while the Christian
symbol was removed. (County of Allegheny vs.
ACLU, Greater Pittsburgh Chapter, 1989) Like so many times before,
the Jewish-dominated American Civil Liberties Union had prevailed.
(See, ACLU
Top Heavy with Jews)
The state of California recently provided another example of the
Jewish star overshadowing the cross.
Separation of Synagogue and State?
California, one of our bluest and most radical states, has long
censored Christian expression. In May, a court ordered San Diego
to remove the white cross rising from Mt. Soledad, another victory
for the American Civil Liberties Union.
A California government employee was told he couldn’t pray
with clients and needed to hide his Bible in a drawer. His appeal
was rejected by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. His attorney pointed
out the double standard: "There are government employees
who are flagrantly demonstrative in regards to their sexual orientation.
It's inequality to say employees of faith don't have that same right
to exhibit who they are as a Christian." In Oakland, CA
two Christian women were recently censored for the “hate speech” of
promoting the “natural family” in their workplace, in
response to homosexual activism.
Given California's history of ardent secularism, citizens
of Palo Alto were outraged to hear that Jewish residents wanted to
use public space to create an eruv, a sacred Sabbath space for Orthodox
Jews. Since 1999, Palo Alto citizens successfully blocked construction.
Last month, city bureaucrats approved the eruv without holding
any more public hearings. The Jewish daily Forward says “Many
of the eruv’s old opponents didn’t know it was an issue
again until local newspapers reported it as a done deal.”
Forward comments, “The situation in Palo Alto is illuminating
because it’s taking place in one of America's most famous
university communities, with all the secular and sometimes anti-religious
sentiments that come with it.” Of course, the Jewish daily
says nothing about the conclusions we can draw from this illumination!
The Palo Alto event is evidence of a counter-intuitive and unspoken
truth: Christians outnumber Jews in the United States, but Jewish
influence far outstrips Christian influence in the opinion- and even
policy-making sectors (See, Jews
Confirm Big Media Is Jewish). Jewish activists have used the
currency of Holocaust blame to advance an ultra-liberal agenda with
which most Americans strongly disagree. Shielded from criticism,
they work to purge Christian religion from public life; the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith seeks to actually criminalize
Christian “hate speech” through a federal hate crimes
law (Watch, Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians). In fact, no one mixes "synagogue" and "state" as
thoroughly as ADL. As the "civil liberties" branch of a
Jewish religious organization, B'nai B'rith International, ADL wields
federal authority to teach its twisted definitions of hate and hate
crimes to the U.S. Justice Department, FBI, and all police in America.
Remove the Cross, Put up the Star
Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a Jewish activist and the Navy’s
chief ethical consultant, recently established new anti-Christian
rules for the Navy. The Navy subsequently disgraced
and discharged a Christian chaplain, Gordon Klingenschmitt, for
praying “in Jesus’ name” at a public ceremony.
Just two years before, an $8 million, three-story Jewish chapel
and learning center was built on naval grounds (public property),
the first US military building ever adorned with a Jewish star
on its outer walls. A 12-foot-high Star of David illuminates the
interior.
If a privately funded $8 million Christian chapel and learning
center were built on a Navy base, you can imagine the protest! Judge
Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments were stripped from the courthouse
walls, primarily as a result of a suit by the ACLU and another Jewish "civil
liberties" organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Yet, a Star of David is plastered proudly on this building on tax-supported
property. Liberal Jews attacked the Christian chaplain’s use
of government property to honor Jesus' name, but they offered no
church/state objection about Jewish religious use of public property.
Concerning the Jewish chapel, the president of Friends of the Jewish
Chapel unabashedly told
the Washington Post, ''This is a national shrine. To us it is
the end of the beginning."
Beginning of what? Jews compose just 1.5% of the American population
and until the 1980s only 1% of the naval academy. Yet this tiny minority
commands the social power to erect a “national shrine.” The
new Navy chapel is vividly symbolic of the Christ-displacing rise
of Zionist Judaism in our national culture, legal system and foreign
policy.
The Real Estate God Wants: Your Heart
Inside the new Jewish chapel, a marble stone states God’s
ancient command: "Let them make me a sanctuary and I will dwell
among them."
Ultimately, religious temples and buildings are only meant to point
us to the spiritual. True religion isn’t about building monuments
or taking them down. It’s about becoming, yourself, a dwelling
place for God. Jesus Christ came to purify those who would trust
in Him, so that the hearts of Jewish (and then Gentile) believers
could become God’s true temples on earth.
For nearly two hundred years, the United States has been a uniquely
Christian nation where this good news has been freely and proudly
preached. Even today, Americans
are far more concerned with serving God than people of any
other wealthy nation. Almost twice as many Americans (59%) as Canadians
(30%) say religion is very important in their lives. The CIA World
Factbook says 78% of Americans believe in Jesus Christ—a staggering
majority.
So why is this staggering majority so slow to protect Christ’s
name and the right to preach His miraculous gospel in public? Part
of the reason is because evangelical leadership won't preach the
Bible's warnings about unbelieving Jews. This deprives the church
of the spiritual power and authority to confront Jewish activist
groups such as ADL and SPLC. Consequently, Jewish power rises as
Christians’ public influence and freedom of evangelism fade.
Like the deadly squeeze of a python, the unbiblical unhealthy relationship
between Zionist Jews and Christian Americans tightens.
Christians know that all the mega-churches in the world matter
less to God than the hearts of trusting people who love Him more
than personal and social cost. Speaking the truth about Jewish and
Zionist activism does have a price tag today. But for us as believers,
the name of our Savior must be worth any price. The precious light
of His spiritual message will only grow scarcer in this nation, unless
American Christian leaders and laymen are willing to boldly identify
with everything Christ said and stood for. This includes His no-nonsense
warnings against the Jewish leadership that is now banishing Christian
values from public life.
Harmony
Grant writes and edits for the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative
watch dog organization.
Let the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith teach you how they
have saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians: http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
Learn how ADL took away free speech in Canada and wants to steal
it now in the U.S. Congress. Watch Rev. Ted Pike's Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians at video.google.com. Purchase
this gripping documentary to show at church. Order online at www.truthtellers.org for
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