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THE PLANS OF SATAN - the Programme of Antichrist - † IMPRIMATUR † "The first and obvious duty the priest owes to the world about him is service to the Truth, the whole Truth, the unmasking and refutation of error in whatever form or disguise it conceals itself." "The kingship of Christ" Imprimatur: † 1953 "Satan spreads perplexity and disorder in minds by confusing the "false tolerance of Liberalism," by which equal rights are granted to truth and error.." "Jewish Naturalistic (Global Zionism) opposition to Christ the King is keeping Catholics blind to the danger that is arising from the clever extension of the term “Anti-Semitism,” with all its war-connotation in the minds of the unthinking, to include any form of opposition to the Jewish Nation’s naturalistic aims. For the leaders of the Jewish Nation, to stand for the rights of Christ the King is logically to be “anti-Semitic.”' "In the work of elimination of the supernatural life from society, the Jewish nation has been powerfully aided by Freemasonry." "A day will come when the Jewish Nation will cease to oppose order and will turn in sorrow and repentance to Him Whom they rejected before Pilate. That will be a glorious triumph for the Immaculate Heart of Our Blessed Mother. Until that day dawns, however, their naturalistic opposition to the True Supernatural Order of the world must be exposed and combated."

Anti-Semitic passage. What is Free Republic coming to???

It takes brass to accuse Jews of naturalism when the Catholic Church has done more to spread evolutionism and higher criticism throughout the religious world than any other group in history. It also takes a lot of guff to accuse the Jews of opposing the messianic kingdom when the whole Catholic "social kingdom" thing is a non-literal repudiation of a genuine literal G-dly messianic kingdom.

It's too bad you ruined your post with this passage. Everything else was spot on, but you just couldn't resist.

What I find interesting is that Jewish naturalism was recognized as early as 1953. It's not conducive towards the pursuit of truth to have a knee-jerk reaction and brand anything not glowingly positive as "anti-Semitic."

You're getting a bit mixed up comparing evolution, for example, to the author's impression of Jewish naturalism. Catholic thought on the matter fundamentally seeks to explain how God chose to accomplish something, rather than explain God away. The tendency in Jewish naturalism is to seek to somehow preserve "Jewish life" or the "Jewish experience" without the sole reason for the existence of Judaism -- God Himself.

The proof is in the pudding. Jews in the US are overwhelmingly non-practicing, and 90% of Jews in Israel, last I saw a number, identify as non-practicing. And yet, they maintain their identity as a Jewish people and a Jewish state. The reason for this is the implicit, and in some circles explicit, rise in Jewish naturalism. There has been quite a lot of scholarship on the subject, but the gist is that to the vast majority of Jews, most particularly Israeli Jews, have developed a sense of identity, a form of religion-based nationalism, if you will, that is devoid of God. The form, the functions, the rituals (Bar Mitzvahs, etc), are all mere tools that reinforce the communal sense of a Jewish identity. I would hazard a guess that most Israelis don't go around thinking, "my outlook on life is informed by Jewish naturalism." It gets stickier, in terms of polite discussion, when this sense of Jewish identity butts heads with Catholicism, but the truth is that the Social Kingship of Christ is incompatible with Jewish naturalism.

It's interesting to trace the rise of Jewish naturalism going back all the way to the OT. The Jews existed not just as an ethnic group, but an ethnic group that was chosen by God. While the Romans, Greeks and everyone else freely adopted and renamed and worshiped each other's gods, the Jews, those peculiar people, refused to even acknowledge any God but their own. Getting beat on by just about every other nation in the ancient world at one time or another made them dig in their heels even more and hold their identity close. And so it went right up to the 1940's, and into today.

There is no other example of a group of people clinging so tenaciously to a religio-ethic identity, even in the midst of the abandonment of faith itself except maybe Catholic Spain, which of course doesn't date back anywhere close as far as the Jewish.

This isn't antisemitism. It's merely a study on the social trajectory of Jews through history. I won't deny that some people can mix in antisemitism when discussing the incompatibility of the Social Kingship with Jewish naturalism (just as those coming from the other end of the argument can mix in anti-Catholicism), but that doesn't mean that any and every acknowledgement of the incompatibility includes and arises from some kind of hatred towards Jewish people.