{"id":1455,"date":"2019-12-15T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2019-12-15T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T15:31:56","slug":"who-is-really-pushing-the-cultural-marxist-ideology-of-white-christian-guilt-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Who is really pushing the cultural marxist ideology of white, Christian guilt in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jews, White Guilt, and the Death of the Church of England<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ANDREW JOYCE<br \/>\nThe Unz TReview<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"page-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-page-thumbsize size-page-thumbsize wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis-600x338.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis-380x214.jpg 380w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><span id=\"_top\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"contents-holder\" class=\"entry\">\n<section class=\"open\">\n<div class=\"section-holder\">\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_1\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><em>\u201cWrong theology in this area has been bound up with wrong action, giving legitimation for Christian support for persecution and discrimination of Jewish communities and eroding the recognition of Jewish people as neighbours whom Christians are bound to love \u2026 Christian communities may wish to consider whether there could be suitable opportunities in their public worship to focus and express repentance for Christian involvement in fostering antisemitism.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><em>\u201cGod\u2019s Unfailing Word,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Church of England Faith and Order Commission\u00a0<em>, 2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">If it can be said that Europeans are today largely blind to Jewish aggressions, then Christians are among those fumbling around in deepest darkness. Historian Jonas Alexis once remarked that, contrary to older Christian anger at depictions of Jesus and Christianity in the Talmud, no such reactions are evident in relation to modern the Jewish comedy in which \u201cJesus, Christians and the cross are routinely mocked, even obscenely treated.\u201d<a id=\"footnoteref_1\" class=\"footnote\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/#footnote_1\">[1]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Jewish aggression against Christianity is, of course, nothing new. In the fifth century, edicts had to be pronounced banning Jews from burning and desecrating crosses, and Socrates Scholasticus reported in\u00a0<em>Historia Ecclesiastica<\/em>\u00a0that Jews had taken a Christian boy during Purim and crucified him.<a id=\"footnoteref_2\" class=\"footnote\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/#footnote_2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0In his Princeton-published\u00a0<em>Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence\u00a0<\/em>(2006), Elliott Horowitz pointed out multiple cases of Jews urinating on, and otherwise exposing their genitals to, crosses from 12th-century Germany and 13<sup>th<\/sup>-century England.<a id=\"footnoteref_3\" class=\"footnote\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/#footnote_3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0Even today, Daniel Rossing, a former advisor on Christian affairs to Israel\u2019s religious Affairs Ministry, has\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/1.4715226\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/1.4715226\">commented<\/a>\u00a0on anti-Christian violence in Israel, which peaks during Purim. \u201cI know Christians who lock themselves indoors during the entire Purim holiday,\u201d he says. And yet, while Christians are spat upon and assaulted in Israel, and mocked and obscenely treated in the Diaspora, the majority of Christians remain among the most guilt-ridden and philosemitic of Europeans, applauding Zionist wars that kill their sons, and lauding a people that has done more than any other to overturn traditional Christian moral values. It is one of the most glaring contradictions in this age of contradictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The latest chapter in this sorry state of affairs is that the Church of England has, in its latest\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-11\/godsunfailingwordweb.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-11\/godsunfailingwordweb.pdf\">official treatise<\/a>, decided to announce formal repentance to the Jews for centuries of putative injustices, as well as the Church\u2019s unconditional adoption of Zionism. The\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_6\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Christians must repent for centuries of antisemitism which ultimately led to the Holocaust, the Church of England has said in a document that seeks to promote a new Christian-Jewish relationship. \u2026 The document,\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word<\/em>, is the first authoritative statement by the C of E on the part played by Christians in the stereotyping and persecution of Jews. Attitudes towards Judaism over centuries had provided a \u201cfertile seed-bed for murderous antisemitism\u201d, it said. Theological teachings had helped spread antisemitism, and Anglicans and other Christians must not only repent for the \u201csins of the past\u201d but actively challenge such attitudes or stereotypes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_7\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">I must confess to an overwhelming fatigue when reading statements like this. They blend a profound historical ignorance with the most septic obsequiousness. The first instinct is simply to protest, and then to try to provide a litany of factual correctives. But I have carried out this Sisyphean task so many times, and in so many prior articles. I now find myself asking only why we should even offer explanations or responses to such accusations as \u201cthe part played by Christians in the stereotyping and persecution of Jews.\u201d We owe nothing to the Jews. Any Christian intellectually and morally weak enough to be convinced that he does, probably isn\u2019t worth the effort of convincing otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_8\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">But how is it that yet another major Western institution has collapsed into White Guilt, in the process rendering itself pathetically pliable to Jewish manipulations? Having read\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word<\/em>, I argue that total Jewish dominance in the academic production of histories of the Jews and anti-Semitism has played a major role in shifting opinion in philosemitic directions. This has been amplified by Jewish activity in so-called \u201cinterfaith\u201d dialogue, which has been ongoing internationally for over a century and has served Jewish interests exclusively while undermining Christian theology, especially those elements that made Christianity beneficial to Europeans in the past. This poisonous combination possesses lethal power because the Church of England is already in its death throes.<span id=\"more-163531\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_9\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>The Diseased Church<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_10\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The publication of\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word<\/em>\u00a0is reflective of the Church of England\u2019s already-established position as the compliant lapdog of a GloboHomo master. The Church of England is one of the most homosexual-friendly denominations on Earth, going so far as to allow \u201cgay clergy\u201d to live with their partners in secular \u201ccivil partnerships.\u201d In February 2018, the Church of England\u2019s Education Office even published a policy supporting degenerate sex education among children which includes the statement that \u201cPupils should be taught that humans express their sexuality differently and that there is diversity in sexual desire.\u201d Newcastle\u2019s Anglican cathedral\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/news\/institute-challenges-cathedral-over-blasphemous-lgbt-festival\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/news\/institute-challenges-cathedral-over-blasphemous-lgbt-festival\/\">attracted attention<\/a>\u00a0in June, when it was revealed the church would host a weekend-long LGBT festival that included a panel discussion on \u201cQueering the Church.\u201d One of the four panelists was a Church of England curate who identifies as \u2018non-binary genderqueer transgender.\u2019 This is a church in the grip of terminal disease, and its policy on LGBT issues is unlikely to change the downward trajectory of its attendance, which has\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_England#Dwindling_congregations\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_England#Dwindling_congregations\">declined 1 percent\/year<\/a>\u00a0in recent decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_11\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">At the heart of this disease is the Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Church of England, Justin Welby, a man who looks like ten minutes of manual labor would actually kill him. He is the definition of all that is wrong in modern Man. Setting aside his uninspiring physical presence, Welby is a literal bastard, his mother Jane Portal having cuckolded her husband, the alcoholic Jew Gavin Welby (born Bernard Weiler) with her boss, Sir Anthony Montague Browne. The result of these chaotic origins is that Archbishop Welby\/Weiler\/Browne has fled entirely from any sense of meaningful identity,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-36002621\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-36002621\">asserting<\/a>\u00a0in 2016: \u201cI know that I find who I am in Jesus Christ, not in genetics, and my identity in him never changes.\u201d If Welby limited himself to personal genetic oblivion there might not be a problem. A problem does, however, emerge, when Welby uses his position and influence to attack those who do pursue their interests. In 2016, when Nigel Farage told the press that sex attacks by migrants were \u201cthe nuclear bomb\u201d of the EU referendum, Welby\/Weiler\/Browne\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/jun\/07\/nigel-farage-helping-to-legitimise-racism-justin-welby-says#img-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/jun\/07\/nigel-farage-helping-to-legitimise-racism-justin-welby-says#img-2\">told MPs<\/a>\u00a0in the home affairs select committee that he \u201cutterly condemned\u201d Farage for an \u201cinexcusable pandering to people\u2019s worries and prejudices, that is giving legitimization to racism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"i_1\" class=\"image imagecenter container\">\n<div class=\"image-holder\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis2-1030x774.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby-mirvis2-1030x774.png\" alt=\"Archbishop Welby\/Weiler\/Browne: In need of a Jewish father figure\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Archbishop Welby\/Weiler\/Browne: In need of a Jewish father figure<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1_12\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">If that wasn\u2019t bad enough, Welby\/Weiler\/Browne, who has confessed to\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.premier.org.uk\/News\/UK\/It-s-not-a-disgrace-to-suffer-from-mental-ill-health-Justin-Welby-shares-his-experience-with-depression\" href=\"https:\/\/www.premier.org.uk\/News\/UK\/It-s-not-a-disgrace-to-suffer-from-mental-ill-health-Justin-Welby-shares-his-experience-with-depression\">struggling with his mental health<\/a>, appears to have an almost Freudian desire to replace the Jewish father he thought he had with the current Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis. Welby\/Weiler\/Browne has taken to accompanying Mirvis on numerous excursions, echoing the Rabbi\u2019s sentiments on almost every subject, and even arranging for Mirvis to provide the Afterword for\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word<\/em>. In his own Foreword to the same document, Welby\/Weiler\/Browne (one might call him Welby\/Weiler\/Browne\/Mirvis) is glowing in his praise of Mirvis, and provides a delusional and ignorant elaboration of the history of Jewish-Christian relations:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_13\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">In simple terms, the Church is being less than its true self when it refuses the gift of Christian\u2013Jewish encounter. \u2026 Given the kindness, wisdom and scholarship of the Chief Rabbi, to count him among my friends is one of my greatest privileges. \u2026 Too often in history the Church has been responsible for and colluded in antisemitism \u2014 and the fact that antisemitic language and attacks are on the rise across the UK and Europe means we cannot be complacent. I reflected on this as I stood alongside other Christian leaders in ankle-deep snow within the camp of Birkenau in 2016, amid the ruins of the gas chambers. \u2026 The Chief Rabbi has opened, with characteristic honesty and affection, a challenge upon which we must reflect. We cannot do that reflection honestly until we have felt the cruelty of our history.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_14\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Such sickly musings are nothing new. In 2016, the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/jun\/07\/nigel-farage-helping-to-legitimise-racism-justin-welby-says\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2016\/jun\/07\/nigel-farage-helping-to-legitimise-racism-justin-welby-says\">reported<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_15\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The archbishop said Britain had a \u201cshameful record\u201d on antisemitism. \u201cAs a nation, we have to recognise that antisemitism has been the root and origin of most racist behaviour going back for the last thousand years in this country,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a shameful record until very recently, historically. It bubbles to the surface very easily indeed. When we see it, it tells us there are strains and stresses in society. It is the canary in the mine.\u201d Welby also said that hate crime against Muslims had increased, fuelled by irrational fear that resulted in a high level of prejudice. Integration of Britain\u2019s diverse population was a huge challenge, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been the biggest failure of the Church of England over the last 40 or 50 years, in terms of how we\u2019ve dealt with integration.\u201d It was a \u201cgreat cause of shame\u201d, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_16\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">In September, Welby\/Weiler\/Browne took his level of shame-promotion to an entirely new level when he prostated himself in front of crowds of amused and bemused Indians, apparently in supplication for a mass shooting by British troops that occurred in the garden of Jallianwala Bagh some 37 years before he was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"i_2\" class=\"image imagecenter container\">\n<div class=\"image-holder\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/welby.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1_17\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>Jewish Influence on\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_18\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The Anglican tendency toward navel-gazing self-recrimination, which has assumed pathological proportions under the current Archbishop of Canterbury, has collided with Jewish dominance of the historical narrative. Jewish dominance in the academic production of histories of the Jews and anti-Semitism has played a significant role in shifting opinion in this instance. Notes at the end of\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word<\/em>\u00a0reveal the document to rely heavily on ubiquitous, biased and factually dubious accounts of historical Jewish-Christian relations that have been written by Jewish academic activists (Jules Isaac [who was\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_Isaac#Relations_with_the_Roman_Catholic_Church\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jules_Isaac#Relations_with_the_Roman_Catholic_Church\">instrumental<\/a>\u00a0in orchestrating the pro-Jewish elements of Vatican II], Yehuda Bauer, Frederick M. Schweitzer, Marc Saperstein etc) or non-Jewish scholars who enjoyed lucrative and celebrated careers for their sympathetic portrayals of Jews (for example, the dreadful\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/2015\/03\/31\/on-history-religion-and-anti-semitism\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/2015\/03\/31\/on-history-religion-and-anti-semitism\/\">Gavin Langmuir<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_19\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Looked at objectively, this reliance in itself is maladaptive in the extreme. One struggles to find an equivalent case in history where one of two feuding parties fails to chronicle its own struggles, later adopts the narrative of the opponent, and thereby comes to perceive its entire history through the eyes of the opposing side. By way of explanation, we could suppose that the Church of England\u2019s Faith and Order Commission desired an academic gloss for its theological musings and, since Jews and philosemites dominate the mainstream discussion of Jewish history and anti-Semitism, the Commission was forced to turn to Jewish sources. I don\u2019t think this is a full explanation by any means, but it does provide some insight into the flow of ideas and intellectual influence, and should point to academia as one of the most important areas that must be contested if the West is to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_20\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Even without its highly revealing endnotes, Jewish intellectual fingerprints are all over\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word<\/em>, where they catastrophically combine with a flamboyant Anglican penchant for weakness and subservience. The primary stated objectives of the document are essentially Jewish, being that of \u201cchallenging antisemitism,\u201d and \u201cworking together [with Jews] for the common good of our society.\u201d Of course, working with Jews for \u2018the common good of our society\u201d invariably means the familiar recipe of \u201cfighting racism,\u201d \u201crejecting homophobia,\u201d \u201crooting out anti-Semitism,\u201d and campaigning on behalf of migrants and ethnic minorities. In other words, Christian \u201ctolerance,\u201d always a volatile and deeply problematic virtue, has been weaponized in modernity as a primary engine for self-dispossession, pathological altruism, perverse virtue signaling, and moral self-flagellation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_21\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Irrational shame, of the type exemplified and promoted by Welby\/Weiler\/Browne, saturates the pages of\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word<\/em>. The text, which purports to consist of \u201cTheological and Practical Perspectives on Christian\u2013Jewish Relations,\u201d is remarkably one-sided. You will search in vain for references to the Jewish trade in Christian slaves, or the mass practice of exploitative usury. You won\u2019t see any consideration of the impact of Jewish dissemination of pornography or the general degrading of morals. You will turn from page to page without encountering any mention of Jewish contempt for Christianity, and historical and contemporary violence against Christians. What you will instead find are multiple references to the assumption that \u201cthe Christian\u2013Jewish relationship is a gift of God, endless rumination on \u201cthe persecution and prejudice experienced by Jewish people through history,\u201d the blunt declaration that \u201cantisemitism is a virus that may appear dormant but can all too easily be reactivated in all kinds of contexts,\u201d and \u201cthe Church, which should have offered an antidote, compounded the spread of this virus.\u201d [The concept of anti-Semitism as a virus, now clearly rampant in the Christian churches, is a Jewish contrivance. See\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/2014\/05\/10\/reflections-on-some-aspects-of-jewish-self-deception-part-2-self-deception-in-jewish-historiography\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/2014\/05\/10\/reflections-on-some-aspects-of-jewish-self-deception-part-2-self-deception-in-jewish-historiography\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0for further discussion.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_22\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word\u00a0<\/em>promotes nothing more than nicely packaged Jewish ideas, including the notion that there should be a \u201crecognition on the part of the Church that it bears a considerable measure of responsibility for the spread of antisemitism,\u201d and demands \u201crepentance, for we are rightly reminded of the burden of responsibility the Christian tradition bears for its teaching of contempt over the ages.\u201d Jews are completely absolved of any responsibility for anti-Semitism, and any idea they may have engaged in provocative or antagonistic behaviors, their only role being one of \u201cgrave suffering and injustice.\u201d In order to address this assumed state of affairs,\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word\u00a0<\/em>effectively redefines the theological and dogmatic positions of the church in much the same way as the Catholic Church did with the 1965 Second Vatican Council declaration\u00a0<em>Nostra Aetate<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_23\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>A Redefined Theology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_24\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The Church of England now affirms that there has been a \u201cdifficult history\u201d involving Jews and Christians, but only in the sense that Christians have contributed to \u201cgrave suffering and injustice.\u201d The Church will henceforth teach that Christians \u201chave used Christian doctrine in order to justify and perpetuate Jewish suffering.\u201d Furthermore, they have \u201cfostered attitudes of distrust and hostility among Christians towards their Jewish neighbours, in some cases leading to violent attacks, murder and expulsion.\u201d Christians today must \u201creject such misuses of Christian doctrine\u201d and engage in \u201crepentance for the sins of the past.\u201d This new theological approach, which raises White Guilt to the position of dogma, is explicitly explained as adapting to \u201cscholarly research, particularly since the Second World War.\u201d This is, of course, refers to the products of Jewish academic activism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_25\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The historical narrative underpinning the new theology is laughable in its naivete. The mass presence of crypto-Jewish networks in 15th-century Spain, for example, which mainstream scholarship has established at one point threatened to\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/2017\/12\/26\/review-the-jesuit-order-as-a-synagogue-of-jews-part-one\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoccidentalobserver.net\/2017\/12\/26\/review-the-jesuit-order-as-a-synagogue-of-jews-part-one\/\">overcome and infiltrate even the Jesuit Order<\/a>, is held up merely as an example of the fact \u201cthe Church has never been without Jewish members.\u201d Suspicion of Jews is argued to have been rooted less in the insincerity of Jewish converts than in \u201cthe underlying structure of antisemitism.\u201d The authors of\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word\u00a0<\/em>avoid further digression on Jewish behavior, for reasons one can surmise with little effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_26\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The section of the document concerning anti-Semitism is awful. It begins by pointing out that the Church of England\u2019s College of Bishops accepted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism with its examples in September 2018. The document explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_27\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The examples highlight the way that antisemitism tends to weave together four interconnected claims, all of which should be vigorously resisted: (a) that there is something inherently wrong with Jews as a people; (b) that Jews always seek to control and influence others; (c) that because there is something inherently wrong with Jews, this influence is inevitably to the detriment of those others; (d) that therefore those with authority have a duty to restrict so far as possible the scope for Jews to exercise any influence over others.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_28\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The authors of\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word\u00a0<\/em>insist that although \u201cthese pernicious claims appear in secular forms of antisemitism, \u2026 it is also clear that theological ideas have been used to support them in church contexts, thereby contributing to the persistent grip of the \u2018virus\u2019 of antisemitism.\u201d Christians should mourn that \u201ccenturies of Christian government in European history include a long catalogue of anti-Jewish measures, such as legal discrimination and periodic expulsion, alongside bouts of communal violence leading in some cases to the massacre of entire communities.\u201d Martin Luther, without whom the Church of England would not exist, is castigated because he \u201cdescribed [Jews] as demonic and called for the burning of synagogues.\u201d England, meanwhile, is condemned as \u201cthe birthplace of what became known as the \u2018blood libel.\u2019 \u2026 England became the first country to order the entire Jewish community to leave, thereby seeking to be a Christian territory with no Jewish presence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_29\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The document then explains a total adoption of the perspective of the Jewish historical and activist Jules Isaac who, in 1947, began to wage a campaign designed to promote specific recommendations in Christian churches, mainly the Catholic Church, for the \u201cpurification\u201d of Christian teaching regarding the Jews. The Church of England Faith and Order Commission adds:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_30\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Jules Isaac, who wrote on Jewish\u2013Christian relations in the aftermath of the Second World War, saw a profound link between historic Christian anti-Judaism and the eruption of antisemitism in the twentieth century. If the first premise of antisemitism is the perception that \u2018there is something inherently wrong with the Jews as a people\u2019, then traditional Christian teaching that the Jewish people are collectively responsible throughout time for the death of the divine Christ, and therefore guilty together of deicide, imbues it with a terrible power. Isaac coined the phrase \u2018the teaching of contempt\u2019 (<em>enseignement du me<\/em><em>\u0301<\/em><em>pris<\/em>) to describe what he saw as key features of Christianity\u2019s sustained hostility to Judaism from earliest times.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_31\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Christians are now impelled to apologize for this \u201cteaching of contempt,\u201d and engage in \u201cecclesial repentance for complicity with the evils of antisemitism.\u201d The Church of England insists that \u201csuch ideas should have no place in Christian teaching and belief.\u201d Christian communities are urged \u201cto consider whether there could be suitable opportunities in their public worship to focus and express repentance for Christian involvement in fostering antisemitism, for instance in relation to observance of Holocaust Memorial Day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_32\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The cathedrals of Norwich and Lincoln have for centuries displayed stained glass windows depicting the boy martyrs William of Norwich and Hugh of Lincoln, both found murdered, and both determined by contemporary investigators to have been murdered by one or more Jews. The authors of\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word\u00a0<\/em>now take some pride in pointing out that supplementary notifications have been placed near these windows, explaining them as:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_33\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">a shameful example of religious and racial hatred, which, continuing down through the ages, violently divides many people in the present day. Let us unite, here, in a prayer for an end to bigotry, prejudice and persecution. Peace be with you: Shalom.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_34\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">From here, the Church of England moves to retreat from any theological claim that Christians might be God\u2019s \u201cchosen people.\u201d For fear of placing Jews outside salvation, the Anglican Church now insists on a bizarre \u2018acknowledgement of mystery regarding the claims of Jewish people,\u201d which is a vague and cowardly method of asserting that \u201cJewish people since the coming of Christ nonetheless remain recipients of God\u2019s promises.\u201d Of course, this is necessarily a theology that makes the coming of Christ utterly redundant, since God\u2019s promise can be fulfilled without a Messiah. The only explanation offered for this wholesale abandonment of Christian doctrine is that Christianity \u201ccarries a heavy burden of responsibility for antisemitism and its lethal consequences,\u201d and \u201cit has to accept that there is a mystery here that transcends its understanding in history, though its meaning will be revealed at the end of time.\u201d This is perhaps the greatest ever example of \u201ckicking the can down the road.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_35\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Christian teaching is to be adapted in several areas in order to avoid insulting or stereotyping Jews. For example, there is a clear retreat from the position that the Old Testament serves as an obvious prophecy of the coming of Christ:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_36\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Those who teach and preach in the Church of England should avoid implying that the meaning of Old Testament prophecy points to Christ in such a direct and obvious way that anyone who denies it must be refusing to pay attention to the text or be somehow defective in their understanding. Such implications feed directly into the negative stereotyping of Jewish people that forms the fundamental structure of antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_37\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">As part of the Church of England\u2019s fundamental revision of theology,\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Unfailing Word\u00a0<\/em>also articulates a new orientation in relation to Israel. This new orientation is profoundly Zionist, even going so far as to insist that \u201cthe approaches and language used by pro-Palestinian advocates are indeed reminiscent of what could be called traditional antisemitism, including its Christian forms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_38\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_39\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Perhaps the most ironic aspect of\u00a0<em>God\u2019s Chosen Word<\/em>\u00a0is that it isn\u2019t good enough for the Chief Rabbi, who ruminates on the putative blameless nature of his ancestors in his Afterword:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_40\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">As for my ancestors, their interaction with Christianity meant being faced with the brutality of the Crusades; it meant being forced to choose between converting to Christianity or certain death; it meant false accusations of sacrificing Christian children at Passover to obtain blood for matzah in what became the cruel Blood Libel; it meant requiring the great Rabbinic leaders, including a figure no less than the Ramban (Nachmanides, 1194\u20131270), to publicly defend their faith against prominent priests as part of the ignominy of the Disputations, resulting in censorship, violence and slaughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_41\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Mirvis acknowledges and celebrates \u201cthe document\u2019s honest appraisal of the destructive nature and origins of Christian perceptions of the Jewish people,\u201d but he expresses a \u201csubstantial misgiving \u2026 , despite the progress it undeniably represents and articulates. Namely, that it does not reject the efforts of those Christians, however many they may number, who, as part of their faithful mission, dedicate themselves to the purposeful and specific targeting of Jews for conversion to Christianity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_42\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">In other words, the meaning of so-called \u201cinter-faith dialogue\u201d is the same as that of multiculturalism\u2014Whites\/Christians must forever make room for Jews and others. They must engage in endless groveling apologies. And they must never try to convert others or attempt to imply that they should acculturate to their norms. In short, the best position for Whites, in the eyes of Rabbi Mirvis, is crawling on their bellies like his good friend Mr. Welby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_43\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">That\u2019s not my style. I think I\u2019ll stick with the historical reality of Christian-Jewish interactions over the centuries, a reality that leads naturally to the teaching of contempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_44\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_45\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><a id=\"footnote_1\" class=\"footnoteref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/#footnoteref_1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0J. E. Alexis\u00a0<em>Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: Surprising Differences, Conflicting Visions, and Worldview Implications \u2013 From the Early Church to Our Modern Time, Volume 1<\/em>\u00a0(Bloomington: WestBow, 2012), 300.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_46\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><a id=\"footnote_2\" class=\"footnoteref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/#footnoteref_2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0D. Chapman\u00a0<em>Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion<\/em>\u00a0(T\u00fcbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008), 238.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_47\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><a id=\"footnote_3\" class=\"footnoteref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/#footnoteref_3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0E. Horowitz,\u00a0<em>Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006),169.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/\">https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/jews-white-guilt-and-the-death-of-the-church-of-england\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jews, White Guilt, and the Death of the Church of England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}