To:-- International Herald Tribune
Re:-- The Hounding of Bishop Williamson for having dared to question received facts.
James Russell is correct. Williamson's opinons raised issues of history and politics not faith and morals, which is the Church's province. An in depth article discussing the distinction was published on January 25th at the http://woodchipgazette.blogspot.com
What is really being perpetrated is a "Holocult" to be backed by the compulsion of law and mandated as an article of faith. If the Church caves in the image of a "burnt offering" will replace that of the Crucifixion on Catholic alters -- in total contradiction of Mark 12:33 (love of man is worth more than all holocausts).
This Holocult has nothing to do with entirely legitimate theological explorations into the implications of the catastrophic experience of European Jewry in the World War. As Hebrew University professor Y. Leibowitz, Norman Finkelstein, Gilad Atmon and others Jews have pointed out, the perpetuation of this cult is simply a political and cultural power grab -- a way of intimidating and persecuting people who criticise Israel or don't support a Zionist agenda.
What could be more convenient and ludicrous than persecuting an obscure schismatic bishop for neo-heresy in the very month that Israel is under investigation for actual war crimes and violations of humanitarian law?
Like all cults, this one ultimately rests on sand. On the day the story broke the New York Times reported that Williamson "said he did not believe that six million Jews died in the Nazi gas chambers." [ here ] The world press followed suit. But no historian or court has ever declared that six million Jews were gassed.
Williamson is no historian, but the history is never as clear cut as the cultists would have us believe. The Jewish historian Raul Hilberg, acknowledging the extreme complexity and difficulty at arriving at accurate estimates, put the total death rate at 5.1 million from all causes. Justice Gray's judgement in Irving v Lipstadt (2001) concluded that there was no "clear" documentary evidence of killing gas chambers at Auschwitz, although he felt there was a cumulative circumstantial evidence that some substantial number had been gassed. The extinction of European Jews is in fact a very complex topic, and even the "official" accounts have been revised periodically. But the advantage of any cult is that it simplifies complexity into a taboo, suspends critical thinking and allows people to be hounded for harboring "outrageous" and "unacceptable" doubts.
In addition to the Holocult, there is a clear and unmistakable media bias against Pope Benedict and through him the Church itself. It is routinely insinuated that he was a Nazi, that he alienated Muslims, and that he equated gays with ecological disasters. None of this is true. It is clear that the people who scribble these falsehoods know nothing but documdrama mis-truths about conditions in Nazi Germany, never read the Regensburg Address, ignored the ultimate and very positive Muslim response and in the case of the Popes curial address this December, reported as positive fact a confabulated interpretation of something that was never said.
But all is not lost. The Spirit of St. James will not sleep forever.
Links
http://svtplay.se/v/1413831/webbextra_langre_intervju_med_williamson
http://ncrcafe.org/node/1384)
http://www.fisheaters.com/jewsvaticanii.html
hosted by: James C. Russell, New York / USA — 09 February 2009
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