Posted on 07/29/2010 9:08:46 AM PDT by papabrody
Gabriel Wilensky’s first book, “Six Million Crucifixions: How Christian Teachings About the Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust” traces the history of the Christian church (and specifically the Vatican) to plausible causes of the Holocaust. The author’s lifelong fascination with the subject and years of research culminated in his very detailed book on the subject.
With a foreword by world-renowned Holocaust scholar John K. Roth and endorsements by several Holocaust survivors, the book traces 2,000 years of history in an easy to read format.
The history of man as recorded in the Bible shows how God gives us the Truth and we twist it into something unrecognizable. It is a fallen world after all.
Sorry :( The author of this book is Gabriel Wilensky.
Uh-Oh ....., Hitler was a progressive was he not?
Also, many Jewish Rabbis have praised the Vatican and the Catholic Church for their heroic efforts to save the lives of Jews, during Hitler's reign.
I would examine his racial theories, and his ties to Islam, before I started looking at Christianity. After all, the Church was the Jews' most effective protector in occupied Europe.
There’s nothing Christian about Hitler, the Nazi Party, or his regime. Hitler was a Progressive Left-Winger even though he claimed Christianity. Fascism, like Communism, is atheist and against any power higher than the supreme leader.
The Nazis were Pagans.
Pope Pius XII saved 860,000 Jews during WW2
His efforts completely dwarfed all others, including those of the Red Cross.
Here are what the scholars of the day had to say about Pius XII.
The foremost Jewish Scholar of the Holocaust at its height in Hungary, Jeno Levai, insisted some years ago that it was a "particularly regrettable irony that the one person in all of occupied Europe who did more than anyone else to halt the dreadful crime and alleviate its consequences is today made the scapegoat for the failures of others."
The Israeli diplomat and scholar Pinchas Lapide concluded his careful review of Pius XII’s wartime activities with the following words: "The Catholic Church under the pontificate of Pius XII was instrumental in saving lives of as many as 860,000 Jews from certain death at Nazi hands."
He went on to add that this "figure far exceeds those saved by all other Churches and rescue organizations combined."
After recounting statements of appreciation from a variety of preeminent Jewish spokespersons, he noted. "No Pope in history has been thanked more heartily by Jews . . . .Several suggested in open letters that a Pope Pius XII forest of 860,000 trees be planted on the hills of Judea in order to fittingly honor the memory of the late Pontiff ("Three Popes and the Jews" pp. 214–215)."
Levai in his own book did not hesitate to argue that the attacks on the Pope’s wartime record are "demonstrably malicious and fabricated . . . . The archives of the Vatican of diocesan authorities of Ribbentrop’s foreign ministry, contain a whole series of protests—direct and indirect, diplomatic and public, secret and open. The nuncios and bishops of the Catholic Church intervened again and again on the instructions of the Pope," he wrote.
The former chief rabbi of Rome during the German occupation, Emilio Zolli, concluded his firsthand account of wartime events (Hungarian Jews and the Papacy: ) thus: "Volumes could be written on the multiform works of Pius XII, and the countless priests, religious and laity who stood with him throughout the world during the war." "No hero," he said, "in all of history was more militant, more fought against, none more heroic, than Pius XII in pursuing the works of true charity . . . and thus on behalf of all the suffering children of God."
Zolli was so moved by Pius XII’s work that he became a Catholic after the war and took the Pope’s name
Pinchas Lapide acknowledged in his book (Before the Dawn). that the Church "in an endless flood of sermons, allocutions, pastoral letters and encyclicals was a clear and unrelenting foe to all forms of racism at the time, and everyone knew it—Jews, Poles, Russians and most ominously the Nazi secret police." Their files mention recalcitrant Catholic clergy in this regard more than any other group.
The New York Times in its Christmas editorials of 1941 and 1942 praised Pius XII for his moral leadership as a "lonely voice crying out of the silence of a continent" and for, among other things, assailing "the violent occupation of territory, and the exile and persecution of human beings, for no other reason than race."
Golda Meir, Israel’s representative to the United Nations, was the first of the delegates to react to the news of Pope Pius XII’s death. She sent an eloquent message: "We share in the grief of humanity at the passing away of His Holiness, Pope Pius XII. In a generation afflicted by wars and discords he upheld the highest ideals of peace and compassion. When fearful martyrdom came to our people in the decade of Nazi terror, the voice of the Pope was raised for its victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking out about great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace."
Leonard Bernstein, on learning of Pope Pius XII’s death while conducting his orchestra in New York’s Carnegie Hall, tapped his baton for a moment of silence to pay tribute to the Pope who had saved the lives of so many people without distinction of race, nationality, or religion.
The great Jewish physicist, Albert Einstein, who himself barely escaped annihilation at Nazi hands, made the point well in 1944 when he said, "Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, but the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, but they, like the universities were silenced in a few short weeks. Then I looked to individual writers . . . . they too were mute. Only the Church," Einstein concluded, "stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth. . . . I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel great affection and admiration . . . . and am forced thus to confess that what I once despised, I now praise unreservedly."
You, know, I bet that none of these genuine scholars and contemporary observers were quoted in Wilensky's book. Just a feeling I have, LOL.
I think he is wrong. He does not explain why General Franco, a practicant Catholic, allowed Jews to escape through Spain, and promoted diplomats who risk their lives doing so.
The truth is that Franco, putting in practise what Christianity theaches, allowed them to flee, even when askhenazi Jews were considered then Communist supporters and in fact many askhenazim had fought in the international brigades against Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
The question that no one what to recognize now, is that Hitler was considered before World War II by many governments, included the British and the Vatican, as the savior of Germany from Communism, and that what a government does against his population is widely considered an internal problem among nations.
Only when allied troops reached the concentration camps, the “internal problem” became an allied problem, and allied governments had to recognize publicly why they already knew through eavesdropping.
As *Europe* grows more into secularism, the more people turn on the Jewish People and Israel....
Most people who dismiss G-d, embrace humanistic thinking hate the religion of the *Jews* and hate the teachings of Jesus Christ embraced by Christians.
Pay no attention to that Darwinist behind the curtains folks. There was no connection to elite academic Darwinists and the eugenics movement. It was those hard core Christians like Hitler who acted against Jews for killing their Messiah. Sure. Hope this asshat sells a lot of books.
You have a point. Eugenics was incredibly popular and socially acceptable to talk about before the war.
And not at all afterwards.
Divide and conquer, that’s been satans plan forever. Don’t take the bait. Sister’s & Brother’s, the love of Christ is more powerful than the mere slander of men. Now, shut up and act appropriately!
This guy makes a bunch absurd claims. I’ll give you two examples.
1. “Even a shunned, excommunicated Catholic bishop who Pope Benedict XVI brought back into the Catholic fold continues to openly deny the extent of the Holocaust.”
First off, the Bishop was a member of the SSPX society which isn’t Catholic!
Secondly, denying the Holocaust isn’t grounds for excommunication.
This leaves us in a culture that doesn’t understand excommunication.
2. “And this is the same pope who seems to be interested in eroding the progress made by the Second Vatican Council and reverting to a more traditional version of Catholicism, a version that taught for almost two millennia that Jews were Christ-killers and the enemies of Christianity.”
Now I’m personally offended. Traditional Catholicism taught that Jews were Christ-Killers?! That assertion is just plain stupid and it’s also silly.
Either this guy is short on brains or is schizophrenic.
The holocaust. The horrors must be re-taught with every generation. But when are the horrors of the Soviets going to be taught? A quick check of history will show that 1) Hitler learned a lot about extermination from Stalin & company. 2) Both the communists and fascists were vying over the soul of post WW1 Germany. 3) Everyone suffered under Stalin, but there were peoples who supported Stalin to the point of killing for him, including Jews (go ahead and call me an anti-semite, I’m not, but go ahead). But we cannot talk about that because it would indicate that tyranny is an equal opportunity destroyer that knows no race, color or religion.
Hitler may have claimed himself to be Christian, he certainly was no good Christian and used it in order to get votes.
Anti-Catholic/anti-Christian bigotry is no less repugnant and no more acceptable than antisemitism. The Jewish community should repudiate this “scientific research” with the same force that they ask others to repudiate antisemitism.
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