Now really, is Christianity as drastically or essentially different from Islam as we’re asked to believe it is—or is this mostly a turf war that the polemics are engineered to suck us all into, generation after generation, each in his own ideological ghetto?

Well firstly, consider that Christianity in its history has gone through several far-flung and even contradictory trends (as have all religions!), many of which in fact were quite clearly influenced by non-Christian sects and esoteric schools: there was the Judaizer phase, the Pauline/Gnostic, Arian, Constantinian/Conciliar, Papist, Reformed, Counter-Reformed, Radical Reformed, Pentecostal (Corinthian/Neo-Gnostic), Evangelical, and whatever Pope Pius IX was—just to name a few.

The Arians (not Aryans!) were essentially pre-Mohammedan Muslims, and the minority group they exiled would say of them, “They have the Churches, but we have the true Faith”. In a way, it wasn’t that different from today, where churches would be converted into mosques and back again. Anyway, all that to sort of blow away the idea that Muslims worship “a different god” from the Christians—let alone a “less reasonable god”—particularly since Allah was Jesus’ term for God, Aramaic being far closer to Arabic than to Hebrew. (!)

And before that, the Gnostics are credited with having introduced into Christianity the quite Hindu ideas of:

• Trimurti (“Trinity”),
• compiling a canon of Christian Scripture (“New Testament”), and even
• monasticism (originally eremitic not cenobitic, the latter being a later militaristic modification, monos meaning of course recluse).

And then before the Gnostics, followers of “The Way” (which was at that point an all-Jewish sect) worshiped in common synagogues with their “non-Way-ward” fellow-Jews (more or less freely, though persecutions of course erupted here and there).

Truth be told, the Jesus of the canonical gospels did preach that he was sent only to the “House of Israel” and never called himself “God”, except to say to his fellow-Jews, “ye are gods”! so it’s understandable why these first three main (largely Semitic and non-Hellenic) branches of Paleo-Christianity would have cropped up, and right there you can sort of “give the devil his due” and grant that Muslims (or certainly many Muslims) might not be savage bat-wits like the image that’s beaten into us by the Jew-dominated influences on the American mind. After all, consider the Mohammedans’ contributions in mathematics, philosophy, and for heaven’s sake eye surgery!

Now let’s fast-forward to the modern world, because I think it perplexes less informed Americans to hear that a majority-Sunni nation is regimented by Shiite adherents…until you look at the makeup of the US Supreme Court: 1/3 Jewish, 2/3 Roman Catholic!

Anyway, American Christian culture in post-Enlightenment modernity has in many ways become a caricature of Islam, buckling down and pitting itself against Liberty and Reason in many quarters, sort of the way a virus mutates to defend itself against the immune system. One is sorely tempted to suspect intelligence connections and an overarching agenda to maintain our sheeple status by bolstering fideism in the populace.

Particularly the Evangelical Christians (but also many Protestants and Jesuits from the very beginning of the Reformation/Counter-Reformation) seem to take their cues in fact from Islam itself, reading the Bible literally and sort of making a game out of “quieting” their intellect in order to give fideism (that is, philosophical Lutheranism) and communitarianism free rein while paying lip-service to “independent thinking” to outsiders. As a phenomenon, this must be called absurd—and even absurdist! (This is not to say that radical secularism [i.e. the notion that government officials must not be openly religious] is any more rational!)

So the question I must ask these demonstrably two-faced Grahamite Evangelicals is this: Where do you get off asking people to “just have faith” and passively accept the politically expedient idea that the Biblical canon and theological specifications of this specific time and place is the one true faith God intended from the 6,000-year-old beginning? I mean, first off, can it get any shallower—any less spiritual—than that?

And if, God forbid, we analyze this trendy sentiment (which is truly covert modernism, committing the unforgivable sin of blasphemy against the spirit), we quickly see that the theology of our day came about through questioning the theology of its day that likewise “must not be questioned”! Jesus said “He who lives by the sword dies by the sword”, and it almost seems as if the same is true of mainstream or exoteric theologies—that implicitly deny spirit, never mind blaspheming against the Holy Spirit!

And a sword one could thrust through the belly of today’s (per)version of “Christianity” is simply this: If original sin was the knowledge of good and evil, what on earth are these “Christian” churches doing teaching about what’s right and what’s wrong? And if Jesus only taught in parables, what are these “Christian” churches doing teaching dogmatic and systematic theologies? Surely—surely!—something is rotten in Christendom.

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Prime suspects¹ in the case:

• “The Jews” (Judas Iscariot the Accountant, Caiaphas the High Priest, those present at the prosecuting Sanhedrin, those present in the Jerusalem praetorium that day, those leaders who incited them, and maybe Herod Antipas the Tetrarch?).
• “The Romans” (Pontius Pilate the Governor and the centurians who followed his orders by physically killing Jesus [amid verbal abuse from the crowd]).
• Jesus’s “Father” (“No man taketh [my life] from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again…” [John 10:18a]).
• Jesus himself (“Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above…” [John 19:11a]).

So if contemporary Jewish voices are to be believed, Christians supposedly claim that “the Jews killed Jesus”—which, even if it were the case, wouldn’t exactly come as a shock to anyone, since kill is exactly what they did to innumerable prophets before him, whom unlike Jesus—whom many consider the last of the prophets—they actually later came to believe!

(To corroborate this commentary, here is the impression of a Talmudic Jewish professor with a PhD in Ukrainian-Jewish history:)

But if you were to say sit down and read the Christian Gospels for yourself (*gasp*), you would quickly learn that Jesus’ countrymen did not kill him in fact, but rather they had attempted to kill him on several separate occasions (per tradition it would seem), but in the end resorted to tapping into their world-renowned expertise at handling the goyim², permitting the goyim to do their dirty work, handling the goyim like so many golems or marionettes, and playing groups off each other for their own advancement (then as now).

With that said, by the superstitions of the time, the Jews may as well have crucified Jesus, since Pilate washed his hands, a symbolic gesture that was met with a resounding “May his blood be on us and on our children!”³

By many outward appearances, the Temple Establishment steered Caesar’s representative toward killing Jesus, yet Jesus had clearly told Pilate that only with the former’s Father’s permission could the latter have any power over him whatsoever. (!)

But let us rewind even further, because Herod I the Client-King (who had also styled himself as king of the Jews) attempted to kill Jesus at about 2 years old by ordering “age-icide” on all the two-year-olds in his region.

And then when Jesus was grown an angry mob in Capernaum, the town of his local synagogue⁴, tried to shove Jesus off a nearby cliff for interrupting their get-together by proclaiming a Jubilee of debt cancellation. And then closer to Jesus’s death—in his last winter on earth—the Jerusalem Mafia tried to stone him to death.

Conclusion. Assuming that, by some amazing coincidence, Christian tradition is history, it’s literally a miracle that the Jews didn’t kill Jesus, but academically speaking they didn’t, end of story.

Verdict: Not guilty. The real culprit? Simple. The “peace” the world gives always requires the deaths of the best of men!

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¹ Suspects for murder, attempted murder or conspiracy to commit murder.
² If you don’t know what goyim means, you are one.
³ Again, that’s only if you opt to believe the gospels that Emperor Constantine’s bishop friends liked and not the accounts taught by Muslims, Jews, or any non-Christian group based in the Holy Land (!).
⁴ Interestingly, the synagogue irevy Hellenic fishing village of Capernaum (later Nanhum then Hum) features the first-ever Jewish hexagram (or “Star of David”) built a couple hundred years A.D.

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According to Google Ngram Viewer¹, in 2008 the word Christmas² reached a whopping 150-year high in written text, with 4 of every million written words being Christmas.

Yet in the USA, our early-ingrained ritual of sitting on Santa’s lap in these little gingerbread huts (which are clearly “materialistic confessionals”) shows that Christmas has become its own separate religious system, ostensibly opposed to classical Christianity.³

We Americans are raised on a steady diet of commercialism, and Christmas is become Materialism’s High Holyday. Time was, Nativity (“Christmas”, 25 December) was the third most important Christian holyday, after Pascha (“Easter”, calculated identically with Judaic Passover) and Theophany (“Epiphany”, 6 January)! Hence, the Twelve Days of Christmas⁴ were actually the twelve days from Christmas Day (25 December) to Epiphany (6 January), and prior to the Christmas Eve Vigil⁵, Advent⁶ was the only show in town. Moreover, the early part of Advent is actually not at all concerned with Christ’s First Coming as an infant but rather with his Second Coming as All-Judge or Pantocrator⁷!

In the West, since they changed Theophany (Christ’s Baptism by John in the Jordan) to Epiphany (Visit of the “Magi” or Zoroastrian Magicians⁸), they also attempted to appease honor⁹ by making early Advent also about John the Baptist, who in the Ancient and Eastern Christian churches is far more important than Joseph because of course John was far more perceptive of Christ’s hidden divine identity!

Incidentally, Evangelicalism is one of the newest forms of Christianity, and it treats the Bible much the way Muslims treat the Qur’an—i.e. literalistically—which of course explains the very similar proselytizing approach displayed by both groups. Gnostic and other esoteric persons, by contrast, realize that their experience is their own, that their job is to edify rather than troll. Not a one of the ancient churches (which are as varied as breeds of dogs anyway) believe the Bible to be literally inerrant, let alone infallible. (“Spirit and life” is about as far from “chapter and verse” as you can get.) Biblical literalism is an extremely Western/Anglophonic hermeneutic within Christianity, and it follows quite prodigiously the example of Muslim Moors. As if the dogmatism of Rome wasn’t spiritually stunting and socially dysfunctional enough, these quite Western European Neo-Lutherans reinterpret Scripture anachronistically, using a modern scientific paradigm and a militantly dogmatic ideology, which are at sharp odds with nearly all of the Christian patrimony, not to mention with what the Bible actually says. (!) As a for instance, the “Sinner’s Prayer”, one of the staples of the aptly named Billy Graham “Crusades”, and this completely twentieth-century notion of accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior (Ta-da!) are, speaking honestly, as modern as they are specious and shallow.

As Larken Rose aptly proclaimed, statism is a religionism/churchianity, and contrariwise religionism is a product of statism. And both abhor history. Many Christians today (Zionists) just want Jesus to return, bring the world to heel, and maybe get them out of here, so they don’t have to suffer life’s tribulations or even worse ponder the deeper mysteries or simply follow the Great Commandment that is Empathy, the virtue that time forgot and that ironically finds no home in zealous Christians who are too busy “evangelizing” (with an eye to escaping pain) to actually listen to their neighbor’s experiences, thoughts and pains! Even supposing God revealed all the books contained in the Bible, he did so millennia ago to folks long dead. And nowhere in the books Constantine called “Bible” does it say that God had switched off the microphone, that revelation was somehow finished, that we’d just have to wait out the rest of history, while inching toward the closest exits. Orthodox Christians, who are one branch of the Ancient Church, emphatically do not hold the Bible (in which they include more books than anyone else does) as being either inerrant, linearly self-interpreting or the “last word”. The Church of Constantinople pushed hard against including The Apocalypse of John (or what Protestants call “Revelations”) in the Bible, and the Church of Rome pushed against including Hebrews—but both sides compromised. The bottom line is this: The consistent anarchist, if he’s a Christian at all, is a Gnostic Christian, because Gnostic Christianity is uncompromisingly Free Christianity and refuses to even start down the path that ends in materialism, in denying the spirit, and in committing along the way the totally un-Christian and therefore unfogivable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which is also called Modernism, and which guarantees a soul passage into utter darkness.

Merry Christmas!

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¹ https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=christmas%2Ccandlemas%2Cmichaelmas&year_start=1840&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cchristmas%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccandlemas%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cmichaelmas%3B%2Cc0
² Other feasts in the Church Calendar ending in -mas include Candlemas (Presentation or Groundhog Day, 2 February) and Michaelmas (Feast of St. Michael [and other angels], 29 September).
³ This is similar to how we have Zionism sort of gnawing away at Christianity as well with its rampant usury and nationalism. We are, as a culture, burning a candle at both ends! Question Israel and see how far you get with Churchy Christians these days, even though no one would have batted an eye before the 60s, and it’s all due to the Scofield Study Bible and the Parushim Society.
⁴ Since the 90s, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” has apparently falsely been rumored to have been a coded catechism (supposedly after the pattern of other singsong nursery rhymes of England that did indeed tell of royal and top-level conspiracies), but given the lack of difference between the faiths taught respectively by the Pope of Rome and the King of England, this doesn’t seem likely, as it would have involved a rather labored futility when taken in historical context.
⁵ In Spanish, “Nochebuena”.
⁶ “O Come Emmanuel” was never a “Christmas Carol” but a key Advent hymn—with gnostic subtexts.
⁷ As in the earliest surviving icons.
⁸ The three Magi are often erroneously portrayed as some kind of rag-tag international band of kings, which makes no historical sense whatsoever. In truth they were Persian astrologers and followers of Zoroaster (Zarathustra), who is often considered the founder of monotheistic religion as we know it.
⁹ Also, it seems that since by 1955 the Epiphany had really become about the Magi and nothing else, Pope Pius XII abolished the Octave of the Epiphany and instead made 13 January the Commemoration of the Baptism of Our Lord.

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It really is high time USAmericans looked seriously at the scandalous lack of “Affirmative Action”, impartiality or sense of the common good among our government bureaucrats (e.g.: Supreme Court justices, professors, etc.)—among the same exact people who one-sidedly demand and oversee “Affirmative Action” upon the rest of us: (e.g.: students, “private” business employees, etc.)! Situated so croneyistically in those cushy ivory towers of tenured and lifelong positions for which the taxpayer foots the bill are a disproportionate number of a certain ethnicity—not to mention of a certain political party. This constitutes a true travesty and a serious transparency issue regarding what is being done with our taxes. Never mind the fact that 1/3 of US foreign aid goes to the already extremely rich State of Israel, whose by contrast rightist regime doesn’t reflect any of the policies their contacts endorse so ham-handedly (“diversity”, “open borders”, “nuclear disarmament”, etc.) for the USA. Something is very, very wrong with the USA, the hypocrisy is inestimable, and the apathy is slowly killing our humanity. I love Jews—as I love all people—individually. But I am not comfortable with the percentage of my taxes that is clearly being used to fund their clubs and their families without any meaningful accountability, reciprocity or representation. Until bureaucrats represent a cross-section of Americans there will not be freedom. And this is without even mentioning the fact that the Federal Reserve hasn’t been audited by Congress in forever—and yes, alarmingly enough, all Federal Reserve chairmen of recent memory have been Jewish. Who, I must ask, elected King David to rule over an allegedly “Christian” nation! In the words of William Shakespeare, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (substitute “Denmark” with “America”).

Come on, America…YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS.

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As much as the term anti-Semite [1] has expanded through crass misuse by the fascist types of what I like to call “Greater Israel” [2]—and perhaps by no one quite so much as by Italo-Swedish Facebooker James “Jimmy” Quaresmini—let that not obscure the fact that there still is a place for thinking people to use the term anti-Semite.

But before continuing, let me rephrase my thesis: there is still a semi-appropriate way to use the term anti-Semite—and I caution “semi-appropriate” because the term Semite strictly refers to Sephardic Jews and Arabs such as you’ll find for example in Spain or pre-Israeli Palestine, and not to the Ashkenazim say of Germany, who appear and can indeed be genetically proven to have descended predominately from the Kuzarim, or Khazars, who in turn descend from Turkic, Hunnic, and Rus’​ stock [3] rather than any Hebrew stock, though let it be known that the Khazars in their conversion process did import rabbis and later immigrated Babylonian Jews (with their rather repulsive Babylonian Talmud!) as the latter group were evacuating what is today a complete ghost town. [4]

But for argument’s sake, let’s just say that the Ashkenazim are “Semites” in that highly restricted sense. The cultural issue of “anti-Semitism” is basically this: The nationalist crowd tends to draw (or even to produce) genuine anti-Semites. Nationalism [5] is really an older term meaning “racism”, and all racial supremacists and purists [6] are going to tend to be anti-Semites—not exactly because they hate Ashkenazim quo Ashkenazim, but rather because they are xenophobes and the Ashkenazim [7] have proved a uniquely resilient, adaptable and clever people, which is why the latter group find a great facility—even a compulsion—to be disruptive of the host-cultures whose paradigms were frankly constructed by comparatively dull peoples—so with Ashkenazim and other gypsy/nomadic groups, you have quite the “bull in a china shop” phenomenon, which together with the rabbinical tyrannies [8] must have played a key role in the Ashkenazim’s prodigious isolationism up until the so-called “Age of Enlightenment”.

In short, the Ashkenazim have done a better job than any other group of being a “nation among the nations”. The Irish diaspora, by contrast [9], don’t really have much of a global network, nor do they do a good job of preserving their own language anywhere outside of Ireland. Then again, the only groups that are still self-contained—many of whom for precisely this reason are difficult to research at all—would go to include the Chasidim (i.e. “Hasidic Jews”), the Amish, the Mennonites, the Wahhabis, Nation of Islam agrarian compounds, and one expects a slew of other communes, monasteries, sketes, cave dwellers, independent and misfit communities of all sorts—both new and old.

In view of this, one could make the case that classical anti-Semitism is best represented by the socialist partisans who relentlessly attack those who persist in a simpler and more self-contained way of life, much the way Mr. Quaresmini, ever the paragon of hypocrisy and intrepid incoherence, attacks North America’s “redneck militia groups” on his Facebook wall. In conclusion, in the spirit of tolerance for all, it is incumbent upon us to write a letter to the Swedish government outlining James’ actions, which seem motivated to cause an international incident through trolling. Thank you very much for your consideration.

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[1] And by extension even the overtly euphemistic term Nazi.
[2] “Greater Israel” would include the Anglophone world, Scandinavia, and all other states currently indebted to the “World Bank”.
[3] The Ashkenazim could rightly claim a sliver of ancestry among certain bastardized Jews whose Talmud reflects their the extent of their assimilation into the ways of Babylon and who are never mentioned in the writings of the Jews of the Middle East beyond their immigration into Khazaria following the drought in Babylon, which continues to this day.
[4] On the other hand, the Kuzarim are nowhere written about by the Sephardim, so draw your own conclusions as to how genuine their conversion appeared to the brethren!
[5] The term Nationalism doesn’t always mean “Patriotism” in the sense of “Statism”, which by the way has its own intellectual flaws: see Larken Rose.
[6] With the obvious exception of Sephardic, Arabic or Ashkenazic supremacists and purists, such as Jihadists (among Arabs) and Zionists (among “Jews”).
[7] For most of history Western Europeans supposed the Ashkenazim originated from “Palestine” (yes, they really called it that quite habitually: see for example some of Immanuel Kant’s best known quotes about “the Jews”).
[8] These rabbis, founders that they were of the ghettos, have always been careful to use the Hebrew Scriptures as a pretext for their forced separateness, right up until it became logistically too absurd to sustain.
[9] The Irish diaspora were mostly dispersed through the draconian policies of Oliver Cromwell, who, interestingly enough, was famously Ashkenazi-friendly.

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The Canandaigua Writers Group (NY) ran the following rhetorical letter (by yours truly) in their blog today. And with it I begin making posts to my blog, which until now had functioned strictly as a website full of webpages, any one of which I recommend you take a look at by hovering around the drop-down menu. Peace be to all!

FROM: Patient A-240 by John McGuire

An Alternate Response to George Orwell’s 1984

Dear Death Panelists of the Mental Hygiene Department:

I am in receipt of the Euthanization Determination Appeal Form.

Do not await my submission. Await anything else. Await springtime or sunrise. Await grace or peace. Await roses or rainbows. Await snarks or grumpkins. Await nymphs or dryads. Await hobgoblins. Await Jove. Await all manner of mystery and life-giving wonder.

Be sure that you see that me you have not known, and you I have not needed. You I consider unreal, a zombie entity, a puppet propped up by your education monopoly you shamelessly leverage to instill counterintuitive nauseas and paralyzing terrors. All this you do to cultivate a few emotionally crippled dependents and useful idiots whom you ridicule privately and call on occasionally.

Feel free, then, to keep your audience captive, but do take care, if and when our paths cross. If they do, then I am happy to report there will be something you can expect from me, so do not tempt me to part that veil for all to see the diminutive dog-and-pony showman it harbors.

They call you “Big Brother”, but in truth you’re neither big nor a brother, but simply a hybrid of small-time con artist and sanctimonious control freak, that is, a classic gangster (or more appropriately “bankster”). You so loved the bribes, the lies and the insurance that you gave up all hope of Purpose, much less Meaning, consigning these and all subtle sensibilities to the file you psychopathically labeled “UNPRODUCTIVE AND ANTISOCIAL OBSTACLES TO PROGRESS”. You never honestly intended progress to connote common improvement but strictly elitist dominance, didn’t you? We both know better than the worker bees, you and I, don’t we?

As such, esteemed Panelists, if hypothetically I valued your well-being any more than you value mine, I would ask you to lock it in your mind that all those you despise as livestock, I cherish as neighbors, and they can always count on me.

Sincerely not yours,

Patient A-240

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