{"id":198599,"date":"2023-12-06T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=198599"},"modified":"2023-12-06T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:35:56","slug":"zionism-is-the-antichrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=198599","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b>ZIONISM IS THE ANTICHRIST<\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Zionism Is Antichrist: Western Judeo-Christianity and the Gaza Genocide<\/h1>\n<h3>E. Michael Jones responds with &#8220;Of Camels and Unitarians&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>By Kevin Barrett, Senior Editor<br \/>\nVT<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zionism-is-antichrist.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><picture class=\"entry-thumb\" title=\"zionism is antichrist\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zionism-is-antichrist.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) 1052px, (min-resolution: 192dpi) 1052px, 526px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zionism-is-antichrist.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/zionism-is-antichrist.jpg 1052w\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA\/Israel<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_top tdi_25 td_block_template_1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">$ 280 BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US\/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation; $ 150B direct &#8220;aid&#8221; and $ 130B in &#8220;Offense&#8221; contracts<br \/>\nSource: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/u4\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v3wn8hm\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v3wn8hm\",\"div\":\"rumble_v3wn8hm\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v3z8m4s-elon-goes-to-israel-and-henry-goes-to-hell-ffwn-with-e.-michael-jones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Rumble link<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/61H7V2HvDaWZ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Bitchute link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s False Flag Weekly News co-host, Dr. E. Michael Jones, is a brilliant and erudite man. Some consider him America\u2019s leading Catholic intellectual. Dr. Jones strikes me as smarter and more Catholic than the Pope\u2014though that could be because Francis plays the holy fool in public while saving his incisive analysis, including his real thoughts about the Jews, for the privacy of the papal boudoir. (That\u2019s why Francis is pope while E-Mike co-hosts False Flag Weekly News.)<\/p>\n<p>While Dr. Jones and I have our theological differences, we agree on most things. We used to disagree about \u201cthe Jews\u201d\u2014I thought it was an oversimplified and rhetorically counterproductive epithet, instead opting for \u201cZionists,\u201d while he insisted that you can\u2019t win without accurately identifying your enemy. By\u00a0<em>the Jews<\/em>\u00a0Dr. Jones means the Jewish tribal power configuration rooted in Jewish ideology\u2014\u201cnot all Jews\u201d as he repeatedly points out.<\/p>\n<p>The more I learn about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yahweh-Zion-Jealous-Promised-Civilizations\/dp\/0996143041\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1515033229&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=guyenot+yahweh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Jewish ideological history<\/a>, the more I realize that E. Michael Jones is right: The phenomenon of Zionism, with all the evil associated with it, is the product of Jewish ideology, and to defeat it we do indeed need to \u201cblame\u00a0<em>the Jews,<\/em>\u201d meaning the active carriers of the ideological virus. It\u2019s no accident that here in the Arab world, which has had a front row seat for the bloody 75-year spectacle of the genocide of Palestine, the terms\u00a0<em>yahood<\/em>\u00a0(Jew) and\u00a0<em>sahyuni<\/em>\u00a0(Zionist) are pretty much interchangeable.<\/p>\n<p>E. Michael Jones correctly notes that the basis of Jewish ideology is the rejection of Jesus. Those among Jesus\u2019s people who accepted Jesus\u2019s message became Christians\u2014and later, in many cases, Muslims, who are still \u201cChristians\u201d in the sense of accepting Jesus\u2019s message and embracing Jesus as the one and only true Messiah; while those who scorned, hated, and rejected Jesus became \u201cJews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even today, the main criterion for being accepted as a Jew by the relevant authorities, namely the rabbinical establishment and the laws of Israel, is rejecting Jesus. As long as you reject Jesus (and are therefore neither Christian nor Muslim) you can be pretty much anything: an atheist, a bit of a Buddhist or Taoist, a practitioner of Hare Krishna or whatever form of Eastern meditation you like, or even a Satanist of the Zevi, Crowley, LaVey, or Aquino persuasion, and as long as you either have a \u201cJewish\u201d mother or intone some conversion mumbo-jumbo while allowing a rabbi to slice off the tip of your penis, you constitute a perfectly acceptable Jew. Jesus is the one and only real anathema.<\/p>\n<p>So Judaism is, above all, an anti-Christ religion. Its most profound and definitive roots are in its decisive rejection of Jesus. No wonder the Jews of Israel routinely spit on Christians and desecrate the holy sites of pro-Jesus monotheists, whether Christian or Muslim. And no wonder they love killing the babies, and the mothers\u2014especially the pregnant mothers\u2014of the people of Jesus, the Palestinians. Every time the Jewish snipers put a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindipendente.eu\/wp\/en\/2009\/03\/24\/one-shot-two-kills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">\u201cone shot two kills\u201d<\/a>\u00a0bullet through the swollen belly of a pregnant Palestinian woman or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2010\/08\/hedgess-2001-account-of-attack-on-boys-anticipated-goldstone-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">the emaciated belly of a malnourished Gazan child<\/a>, urged on by Ayelet \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/world\/mid-east\/israeli-lawmakers-kill-all-palestinians-remarks-resurface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">kill the little snakes and themothers who bear them<\/a>\u201d Shaked, they are symbolically murdering the infant Jesus and his mother Mary.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for Judaism and Jewish identity to be foundationally anti-Christ? The power establishment of Jesus\u2019s community expected their Messiah to be a brutal military conquerer who would slaughter and subjugate the goyim (non-Jews) and establish Paradise, meaning perpetual Jewish supremacy, on Earth. Every Jew would live a life of luxury, lording it over a hundred goyim slaves who were created to be mere \u201chewers of wood and drawers of water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, the actual Messiah, turned out to be very different. He advocated pushing pacifism to its limits by \u201cturning the other cheek,\u201d while making an exception for the Jewish bankers operating out of the Temple (today\u2019s Federal Reserve, Wall Street, City of London, BIS, etc.\u2014if Jesus were here today he would presumably lead a military attack on those unholy \u201ctemples\u201d). Despite his willingness to use violence against usurious banksters, Jesus\u2019s vision was that Earth was not so far from paradise, if we just let go of ego, surrender to the one true universal God (not some bloodthirsty tribal deity monopolized by Sanhedrin) and love each other.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019s emphasis on universalism and love was a full frontal assault on those high priests who had distorted their religion to ground it in tribalism and hate. Faced with Jesus\u2019s message, the Palestinians of 2000 years ago faced a sharp choice. Some surrendered to God, let go of their (tribal) egos, and became followers of Jesus. Others, especially rich usurers and their pet high priests, scorned and crucified Jesus\u2014and have been scorning and pillaging and crucifying and ceaselessly scheming to subjugate his followers, whenever and wherever they can get away with it, ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict between the Middle Eastern monotheists who followed Jesus and became Christians or Muslims, and those who rejected Jesus and became Jews, has waxed and waned over the centuries. Today it seems to be coming to a head in the Holy Land. The movement to establish and idolatrously worship a \u201cJewish state,\u201d and that movement\u2019s obscene desecration of Jesus\u2019s homeland and ongoing crucifixion of Jesus\u2019s people the Palestinians, identifies Zionism with the eschatological notion of Antichrist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Western Judeo-Christianity\u2019s Complicity in the Antichrist Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that E. Michael Jones will generally agree with what I\u2019ve said so far, except maybe the part about him being smarter and more Catholic than the Pope (especially when the Pope is speaking ex-cathedra). Where we differ is in our respective evaluations of the role of Western Christianity. Dr. Jones is a faithful Catholic. He views Catholicism as the primary vehicle of Jesus\u2019s message, and therefore as an inveterate opponent, indeed\u00a0<em>the<\/em>\u00a0most inveterate opponent, of Antichrist. If today\u2019s church keeps making concessions to the legions of Antichrist, and often even seems to side with them, that\u2019s because today\u2019s church bureaucrats, not the institution itself, are corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>I disagree. I think all of Western Christianity, especially Protestantism but including Catholicism, is inherently flawed. What we are seeing in these end times of apocalypse or \u201cunveiling\u201d are not only the full consequences of the horrific flaws in what passes for Judaism and Jewish identity, but also similar if less-extreme flaws in Western Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t get into the history of who was right in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_guy-mettan-on-creating-russophobia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Great Schism<\/a>, the inherent flaws of building a religious bureaucracy full of ambitious and worldly people, and the murderous lunacy of the Church Militant and its Crusades (which slaughtered Jesus\u2019s people, including women and children, just as the Zionist are doing now). I will pass over the almost unimaginable corruption of the Vatican of various eras, most notoriously the Renaissance, which can make\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_mainstream-journalist-paul-williams-takes-the-red-pill-with\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">today\u2019s P2-infiltrated sexual-freemasonic CIA-drug-money-laundering Vatican\u00a0<\/a>look relatively tame. In short, I will skip the historical details and go straight to the theological problem most responsible for them.<\/p>\n<p>As I see it, the original sin of Western Christianity is\u2026well,\u00a0<em>original sin<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/paulkingsnorth.substack.com\/p\/suffer-little-children?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=250836&amp;post_id=139347774&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=b9vf2&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Paul Kingsnorth<\/a>\u00a0just published an essay entitled \u201cSuffer Little Children\u201d mourning the countless Irish babies who were consigned to unmarked mass graves and presumptive hellfire or purgatory because they had not yet been baptized:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s worth noting here that \u2018sin\u2019 is originally an archery term: it literally means \u2018to miss the mark.\u2019 Adam and Eve, the original humans, missed the mark by rebelling against God and the laws of creation. This set future humans up, according to the version of the story told by the Eastern Orthodox Church, for an \u2018inclination towards sin, a heritage from the sin of our progenitors.\u2019 What this means is that all human beings have an inbuilt tendency to rebel against God, and a tendency instead to follow the path offered by the serpent in Eden \u2013 the path that leads us to try and \u2018become like gods\u2019 ourselves. The purpose of the Christian Way is to root out this tendency, and thus to help us return to our intended state as \u2018God-bearers.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Roman Catholic church has always seen the matter differently. Beginning with the teachings of St Augustine, Christians in the West taught that what Augustine called \u2018Original Sin\u2019 was personally inherited: in other words, that every human born on Earth inherits not simply a tendency to rebel against God, but personal responsibility \u2013 and thus personal guilt \u2013 for the actions of their ancestors. It is interesting to see that this notion has made a comeback today on the secular left, which likes to talk, for example, of the inherited sin of \u2018whiteness,\u2019 and the consequent guilt that all Western people bear for various historical crimes which their ancestors may or may not have committed. Politics is often just sublimated religion.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to wash away the guilt of Original Sin, in the Catholic tradition, is through baptism. But a question quickly arises: what happens to people who are unbaptised? This, of course, includes every non-Christian human being, and everyone who existed before Christ, as well as Christians who die young before they can be baptised. What is their fate to be in the next world?<\/p>\n<p>According to St Augustine, the answer was straightforward: they all go straight to hell. This is a useful reminder that even saints can be wrong. Rebelling against the grimness of this teaching, later Catholic thinkers, notably Thomas Aquinas, sought to sweeten the pill. The unbaptised, theorised Aquinas, rather than burning in eternal fire, instead enter an intermediary state between heaven and hell, which, from the Latin\u00a0<em>limbus<\/em>, meaning boundary, came to be known as \u2018Limbo.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The unbaptised, headed as they were for Limbo, could not be buried in consecrated ground, and so, in Ireland, the\u00a0<em>cillin\u00ed<\/em>arose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I mentioned this to my wife, she said: \u201cNo wonder Western Christians are becoming atheists! How could anyone possibly believe that innocent babies who haven\u2019t done anything wrong are sinful?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that the doctrine of Original Sin, which the Catholics radicalized and the Protestants radicalized even further, resonates with the Jewish doctrine of Tikkun Olam: \u201cThe world is broken, so humans, led by Jews, must repair it.\u201d Just as Jewish Tikkun Olam privileges the Jews as the fixers (and in traditional versions casts the goyim as broken garbage to be swept away) Western Original Sin divides the world between the repaired or saved, meaning baptized and obedient members of that particular sectarian flock, and the damned\/broken\/fallen rest of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>All of that is insane on so many levels it\u2019s hard to know where to start. But the obvious place, I suppose, is the notion that a perfect God would create a fundamentally broken, screwed up, fallen world, and then populate it with fundamentally screwed-up creatures, the vast majority of whom will never be exposed to whichever sect\u2019s teachings are the One True Way to salvation.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously if there is only one true perfect God, as monotheism teaches, then God\u2019s creation must also be perfect (as a creation). By extension, all creatures, including humans, are born (created) perfect. Neither they nor the universe they inhabit are inherently \u201csinful\u201d or \u201cbroken.\u201d And the last thing they need is one or more armed sects run by wealthy, powerful bureaucrats marching around claiming that they and their world are horribly screwed-up and that they need to submit to the rule and belief system of the Masters of Salvation or the Chosen (World-Repairing) People or whatever the cult leaders are calling themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The Western (post)Christian world domination project headquartered in DC and London looks a lot like the Zionist one headquartered in Occupied Jerusalem. Western Christians and post-Christians have treated the rest of the world, and sometimes even each other, pretty much the same way the Jews treat the goyim: as subhuman vermin to be exploited, enslaved, or exterminated. And while Eastern Christians and Muslims aren\u2019t perfect either, I don\u2019t think they are nearly as driven by murderous millenarian mania rooted in the notion that nature\u2014the world as God created it\u2014is radically \u201cfallen\u201d or \u201cbroken.\u201d*<\/p>\n<p>All of this helps explain why Sheikh Imran Hosein, the leading Islamic eschatologist, sees the End Times battle taking shape around us as a contest between the party of God (led by Jesus and the Mahdi) and the party of Satan and his minions (Gog and Magog, featuring the Zionist Antichrist). According to Sheikh Imran, the real Muslims and the real (mainly Eastern Orthodox) Christians are the party of God, while the Zionist Jews and the Western \u201cJudeo\u201d-Christians are on the side of Satan and the Antichrist\/Dajjal.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is becoming clear in the blood-drenched rubble of Gaza, where the Zionists try to \u201crepair the world\u201d by exterminating the goyim, aided by the descendants of Western Original Sin extremists who endorse \u201ccreative destruction\u201d of God\u2019s world, and His unregenerate creatures, because they hate God and His world and imagine they can make something better. They try to cover the monstrous evil of their murderous deeds with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/war-crimes-and-atrocity-hoaxes-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">equally monstrous lies<\/a>, which dominate the \u201creporting\u201d of every Western news outlet. But the apocalypse\/unveiling is proceeding apace.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019s harsh words to the Jewish leaders also apply to most of today\u2019s Western Christians: \u201cYou belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father\u2019s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>*How do we reconcile the doctrine of a perfect God and hence perfect creation with the manifest unpleasantness, perhaps even the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/kbarrett\/god-exists-the-rest-is-speculation\/?highlight=gawd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">actual as opposed to apparent evil<\/a>,\u201d that we see and experience around us? Well, the mystics tell us that if we learn to see Reality, all that apparent evil turns out to be illusory. But setting that aside, since few are vouchsafed the mystical vision, let\u2019s remember that a genuinely omnipotent God has the power to limit His own power by setting creation free. That may sound paradoxical and abstract, but the idea that the powerful have the power to let go of some of their power is clear enough, as in the case of a powerful parent who has the power to control the behavior of his children, but chooses not to use it in order to let them learn from experience. Since God\u2019s creation is more perfect in that it enjoys a degree of freedom, despite the downsides of that freedom, there is no necessary contradiction between a perfect God and a perfect creation whose creatures (perhaps even including inanimate ones, if<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ji-CbMctc-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">\u00a0panpsychism\u00a0<\/a>is correct) have the freedom to rebel against God if they so choose, and wind up creating a lot of unpleasantness by doing so.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Many aspects of Christianity have never made sense to me. An anthropomorphic God, the Trinity, vicarious salvation, original sin, papal infallibility\u2026all of this has always struck me as bizarre, utterly divorced from the real world as I experience and learn about it, and obviously irrational. And yet much of Christianity also seems beautiful and true. Since the whole Catholic package works fine for Dr. E. Michael Jones, who is uncommonly intelligent and rational, I can only shrug my shoulders and say \u201cAllah knows best.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Below is Dr. Jones\u2019 response to my article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/kbarrett\/zionism-is-antichrist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Zionism Is Antichrist<\/a>\u201d, specifically the part about original sin. It seems that the Catholic and Orthodox positions may not be all that different. In any case, they are both different from the Islamic position, which is that we are accountable only for our own sins, not for those of our ancestors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile, if you get tired of serious theology, check out my new theo-satire \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinbarrett.substack.com\/p\/adl-says-gods-mercy-is-an-anti-semitic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">ADL Says \u2018God\u2019s Mercy\u2019 Is an Anti-Semitic Trope<\/a>.\u201d-KB<\/em><\/p>\n<picture class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714445\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/emerson-on-camel.jpg.webp 578w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/emerson-on-camel-194x300.jpg.webp 194w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/emerson-on-camel.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/emerson-on-camel.jpg 578w, https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/emerson-on-camel-194x300.jpg 194w\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"892\" \/><\/picture>\n<h2 class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\">Of Camels and Unitarians<\/h2>\n<p>By E. Michael Jones<\/p>\n<p>I remember riding through Tehran next to Kevin Barrett listening to him tell me the story of his conversion to Islam. This was probably in 2013 at the first of many conferences I would attend over the next ten years organized by the late Nader Talebzadeh, a man who brought east and west together in a way that has been sorely missed since his untimely demise. The bus was full of Iranians who were evidently listening to our conversation. I know this because when Kevin said that he had been raised as a Unitarian, I replied \u201cAll you did was add camels to your Unitarianism,\u201d at which point the Iranians on the bus all burst out laughing.<\/p>\n<p>I have nothing against camels, but as \u201cAmerica\u2019s leading Catholic intellectual,\u201d as Kevin put it, I have a congenital allergic reaction to Unitarianism and more importantly to the Puritanism which spawned the Unitarian reaction by promulgating the distorted notion of Original Sin that goes by the term innate or total depravity. Ever since Ralph Waldo Emerson gave his Harvard Divinity school address, American culture has been plagued by two equally false understandings of Original Sin. Kevin continues that great American tradition by perpetuating that misunderstanding in one of his recent articles.(1)<\/p>\n<p>Kevin dives into the deep end of the theological pool by citing as his authority on matters Catholic a young man by the name of Paul Kingsnorth. Kingsnorth is an Englishman, who converted from England\u2019s version of Greta Thunbergism to Eastern orthodoxy, without picking up a rudimentary understanding of Christian theology along the way. Kingsnorth\u2019s conversion, however, did allow him to dress up England\u2019s ancestral hatred of Catholicism in theological terminology, and that led him to excoriate the Catholic Church for consigning \u201ccountless Irish babies . . . to unmarked graves and presumptive hellfire or purgatory because they were unbaptized.\u201d I\u2019m not sure whether presumptive hellfire is hotter than normal hellfire, but the idea that the Catholic Church sends \u201ccountless Irish babies\u201d to hell \u201cor purgatory\u201d is a preposterous claim unknown in Catholic theology. To begin with, only the baptized can go to purgatory, where their souls are purged of the effects of the sins they have committed in this life. The souls in purgatory are known as the church suffering because they have been saved and will eventually enter heaven.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church affirms that baptism is necessary for salvation, but it also affirms that those who through no fault of their own could not know of Christ or his gospel or the requirement of baptism will be saved by how they follow the moral law which has been engraved on their conscience. The doctrine is known as invincible ignorance, and, unfortunately, it does not apply to people like Kingsnorth, who is presumably a member in good standing of the Orthodox church even though he does not understand its theology, which is identical to Catholic theology on baptism and Original Sin.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Ben Shapiro, Bishop Robert Barron misused the idea invincible ignorance by applying it to Jews alive today. After Shapiro asked him \u201cAm I going to hell?\u201d Bishop Barron hemmed and then he hawed and then he invoked a misunderstanding of documents of Vatican II, when he should have asked simply, \u201cBen, are you baptized?\u201d Shapiro presumably would have said \u201cno,\u201d and at that point Bishop Barron should have said, \u201cBen, if you refuse to be baptized, you cannot be saved.\u201d In doing that Bishop Barron would have established at least one Catholic principle\u2014the necessity of baptism for salvation\u2014in a clear cut case, namely, the fact that the Jewish refusal to accept baptism denies them salvation.<\/p>\n<p>The case of unbaptized infants is different even though the same principle applies. Kingsnorth then brings up limbo, another theological concept which he does not understand. Limbo is a theologoumenon, which is to say, a category of the mind which has been deduced according to human reason from theological principles which are certain, like \u201cBaptism is necessary for salvation.\u201d Limbo occupies a middle space between the theological certainty that Baptism is necessary for salvation and the moral certainty that God does not punish the innocent for sins that they did not commit. Original sin is not the same as actual sin. Original sin is a \u201cwound,\u201d the key concept that separates the Catholic understanding from the Calvinist belief in total depravity and the Unitarian Emersonian overly optimistic American version which Kevin seems to have inherited when he claims that nature and man are \u201cperfect.\u201d How anyone can watch the behavior of the unbaptized Israelis and their genocidal attack on innocent women and children in Palestine without feeling the need to appeal to a metaphysical understanding of evil is beyond me, probably because I\u2019m a Catholic who follows the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church, as expounded in the\u00a0<em>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Following St. Paul, the Church has always taught that the overwhelming misery which oppresses men and their inclination toward evil and death cannot be understood apart from the connection with Adam\u2019s sin and the fact that he has transmitted to us a sin with which we are all born afflicted, a sin which is the \u201cdeath of the soul.\u201d Because of this certainty of faith, the Church baptizes for the remission sin even tiny infants who have not committed personal sin.(2)<\/p>\n<p>So, to answer the question posed by Kevin\u2019s Muslim wife, who wondered \u201cHow could anyone possibly believe that innocent babies who haven\u2019t done anything wrong are sinful?\u201d the Catholic Church responds:<\/p>\n<p>Although it is proper to each individual, original sin does not have the character of personal fault in any of Adam\u2019s descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted. It is wounded in the natural powers proper to it: subject to ignorance, suffering, and the domination of death; and inclined to sin\u2014an inclination to evil that is called \u201cconcupiscence.\u201d Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ\u2019s grace, erases original sin and turns a man back toward God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.(3)<\/p>\n<p>Kingsnorth to his credit brings up the concept of sin embodied in the Greek term \u201c<em>hamartia<\/em>,\u201d which he does not name, but which does derive from archery. Virtuous behavior is like the arrow which hits the target. Sin is the arrow which misses the target by going to one side\u2014in this instance the Calvinist exaggeration\u2014or the other\u2014in this instance the Emersonian minimalization of Original Sin which still plagues the mind of Unitarianism insofar as it still has a mind left to plague. The Catholic understanding of Original Sin is related to the Catholic understanding of penance, or the effort required to remove the effect of sin even after the sin has been confessed. According to St. John Chrysostom, sin is like an arrow. Even after the arrow has been removed, the wound remains requiring healing. The same thing is true of Original Sin, which is the \u201cwound\u201d which Adam\u2019s sin bequeathed to the entire human race. No one enters heaven until that wound has been healed by the grace of baptism.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kevin Barrett, Zionism is Antichrist, December 3, 2023. https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/?tab=rm&amp;ogbl#inbox\/FMfcgzGwHxsbrjdzWcfWjLxdxrvKCpsx<\/p>\n<p>Catechism of the Catholic Church , para 403.<\/p>\n<p>Catechism of the Catholic Church, para. 404.<\/p>\n<div class=\"saboxplugin-wrap\">\n<div class=\"saboxplugin-tab\">\n<div class=\"saboxplugin-gravatar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/03\/barrett-kevin.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Barrett, Senior Editor\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/2023\/12\/zionism-is-antichrist\/\">https:\/\/www.vtforeignpolicy.com\/2023\/12\/zionism-is-antichrist\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zionism Is Antichrist: Western Judeo-Christianity and the Gaza Genocide E. 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