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| Sajo Markecz |
 Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:22 pm |
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The Romans at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ were pagans or
polytheists, and the supreme sky god of the pagan Roman pantheon was
Jupiter, also known as Deus [ Zeus for the pagan or polytheist Greeks ].
When the Romans later began to convert to Christianity, they began to call
the originally supreme God of the Jewish religion, called Yahweh, by the
Latin name of Deus. The Arabs when they converted to Islam, a religion that
grew out of the Prophet Muhammad's interpretation of the Jewish and
Christian religions, called the Hebrew God Yahweh by the Arabic name -
Allah.
The early converts to Christianity included the Jews as well as the pagan or
polytheist inhabitants of the Roman Empire. The Jews who converted to
Christianity in the early centuries of the A.D. era believed that Jesus
Christ when He was on earth was the God Yahweh Himself in the body of a man,
The Word of God made flesh [ see the Gospel of St. John, chapter 1, verses
1 - 5 ], whose coming had been prophesied in the Old Testament. Jesus Christ
Himself told His disciples that someday after His Ascension back into
heaven, that He would one day return again to earth as the Son of Man, or to
use the Greek term, as the Parousia. Although Jesus might have shared the
same genetic material as his earthly father, Joseph, this was not brought
about as the result of sexual reproduction, but as the result of a miracle,
because nothing is impossible with God [ see Mark 10 : 27 ].
Although the pagan Romans forbade the Jews from living within the city walls
of Jerusalem after they crushed a patriotic or nationalistic war of
independence launched by the Jews against their pagan Roman imperial masters
in 135 A.D., the pagan Romans did not forbid the Jews from living within the
other parts of the Roman province of Judea. In the early 300's A.D., the
Romans, now officially converted to Christianity, allowed the Jews to again
live within the city walls of Jerusalem. Many of the Jewish inhabitants of
the province of Judea converted to either Christianity or the Greco - Roman
pagan religion. When the Arab Muslims began to invade the then Christian
Byzantine or East Roman province of Judea from the 630's A.D. onwards, many
of the Christian inhabitants of Judea began to convert to Islam, in order to
avoid the higher poll tax levied on non - Muslims by the Arab Muslims. The
Roman Empire split into an eastern and a western half in 395 A.D., with the
western half collapsing by 476 A.D., and the eastern half collapsing by 1453
A.D. Since the first century A.D., until the reestablishment of the Jewish
state of Israel in 1948, a Jewish minority continued to live in the region
of Galilee.
Jesus Christ did tell His Apostles to preach the Christian Gospel to all the
nations of the world according to Matthew 28 : 18 - 20. But Jesus Christ
also taught in Matthew 7 : 12 and Luke 6 : 31 that we should do to others
what we would want them to do to us. Therefore, Jesus Christ would not have
sanctioned the use of force and violence in converting people to
Christianity.
Martin Luther the German [ born 1483 and died in 1546 ], published in 1543
an essay called " On the Jews and Their Lies ," in which Luther urged that
Jewish synagogues be burnt , because most of the Jews refused to convert to
Christianity on a large scale , which Martin Luther hoped would be a sign of
the return of Jesus Christ in the near future . This essay, as also the
other printed and published essays of Martin Luther, were often reprinted,
studied, taught, and preached in Germany, at least before Germany's final
defeat in the Second World War in 1945 .In 1938 , in Nazi Germany , on
Kristallnacht [ Crystalnight , or The Night of Broken Glass ] , many Jewish
synagogues were burnt , as Martin Luther had urged in his often reprinted
and preached 1543 essay called " On the Jews and Their Lies ." This essay
was often preached by most German Lutheran pastors , with a few exceptions ,
until May 8, 1945 . After the German federal election of the 5th of March ,
1933 , Alfred von Hugenberg , the leader of the mainly Lutheran laypersons'
[ non - pastors ] " German National Peoples' Party ," formed a coalition
with the Nazis , in order to outvote the Communists and Social Democrats .
By Lutheran laypersons' or non - pastors , we should remember that Martin
Luther called Christians " the priesthood of believers ." The Nazis gained
about 44% of the seats in the lower house of the German federal parliament ,
the Reichstag , in the German federal election of the 5th of March , 1933 .
On the 14th of July , 1933 , all political parties except the Nazi party
were prohibited in Nazi Germany . However , Alfred von Hugenberg , who died
in 1951 , and who was the leader of the mainly Lutheran laypersons' "German
National Peoples' Party ," continued to be a member of the German Reichstag
until 1945 , even when all political parties except the Nazi Party were
banned in Germany after the 14th of July , 1933.
From 1929 - 1933 , the Nazis gained the largest votes in German state
elections where the Lutherans formed the majority of the states' population
.. Between 1929 - 1933 , these following German states , all of them with a
mainly Lutheran population , had state governments where the Nazis were
either coalition leaders or partners : Braunschweig [ Brunswick in English ]
, Mecklenburg , Mecklenburg - Strelitz , Lubeck , Thuringia , Saxony -
Anhalt , Harzburg , Oldenburg , and Lippe . Only the German state of
Schleswig - Holstein , another mainly Lutheran state , had a state
legislature between 1929 - 1933 where the Nazis had a majority of the seats
in that state legislature . Schleswig - Holstein had been taken from Denmark
by Germany in a war that had broken out in 1864 and again in 1866, although
in 1920 the northern third of Schleswig was returned to Denmark after a
League of Nations sponsored referendum had been held on the issue as one of
the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty with Germany . The Nazis gained
their lowest votes in the rural and mainly Catholic areas of southern
Bavaria , while they gained more votes in the northern parts of Bavaria ,
also known as Franconia , an area of Germany that has a mixed Catholic and
Lutheran population .
Here are some of the writings of Martin Luther on how to deal with the Jews
of Germany :
When Martin Luther was asked whether it is morally justifiable to box the
ears of a Jew , he said " Certainly . I for one would smack him on the jaw .
Were I able , I would knock him down and stab him in my anger . It is lawful
, according to both the human and the divine law , to kill a robber ; then
it is even more permissible to slay a blasphemer ".
" If I had to baptise a Jew , I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe ,
hang a stone round his neck and push him over with the words ' I baptise
thee in the name of Abraham ' ".
" We ought to take revenge on the Jews and kill them ".
" The Jews deserve to be hanged on gallows seven times higher than ordinary
thieves ".
" Set fire to their synagogues and schools ; and what will not burn , heap
earth over it so that no man may see a stone or relic of them forever ".
Pages 50 - 51 in
"http://www.tentmaker.org/books/MartinLuther-HitlersSpiritualAncestor.html"
, Martin Luther ~ Hitler's Spiritual Ancestor , by Peter F. Wiener , Author
of German For the Scientist , and German With Tears , Hutchinson & Co. (
Publishers ) Ltd . London : New York : Melbourne : Sydney . The work was put
into electronic format by Patsy Jackson for Tentmaker Publications - 118
Walnut - Hermann , Missouri , 65041 , U.S.A.
See also Who voted for the Nazis?(electoral history of the National
Socialist German Workers Party) , by Dick Geary , Professor of Modern
History at the University of Nottingham and the author of Hitler and Nazism
( Routledge 1993 ) , in History Today , October 1998 , in association with
The Gale Group and LookSmart , 2000 ,
"http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1373/n10_v48/21207858/print.jhtml"
One of the reasons why Germany , out of all other nations , had the Nazis
come to power during the economic Great Depression of 1929 - 1939 , was
because Germany lacked a strong democratic tradition . Between 1850 - 1919 ,
the German state of Brandenburg - Prussia had a three class electoral law ,
although the state of Bavaria had introduced universal adult male suffrage
in 1904 , followed by Baden - Wurttemberg [ formerly Swabia ] , in 1906 .
The German state governments nominated the members of the German federal
upper house , the Bundesrat , which , along with the German Chancellor and
Kaiser , had final veto powers over the German federal lower house , the
Bundestag . The German Catholics are found mostly in the southern ,
south-eastern , and western parts of Germany , and in March 1938 German -
speaking Austria was " forcibly " annexed by Nazi Germany .
Most of the Japanese are Mahayana Buddhists and Shintoists at the same time
.. The Mahayana Buddhists are the Protestants of Buddhism , as opposed to the
Theravada Buddhists , who are the Catholics of Buddhism . The Mahayana
Buddhists believe that members of the Buddhist laity , as well as members of
the Buddhist monkhood , can achieve nirvana more quickly . The Mahayana
Buddhists also tend to place greater emphasis on the sincerity of a
believer's faith , the relationship between motives and methods , and the
role of divine grace , then Theravada Buddhists do .
In 1925 universal adult male suffrage or voting rights was introduced for
national elections for the first time in the history of Japan , although by
1941 Japan had become a one - party state military dictatorship .
Since 1911 , the martial art of judo , which traces its ancestry to the
samurai martial art of jujitsu , has been a compulsory subject in Japanese
schools for students above the age of 8 years , although it was banned as a
compulsory subject in Japanese schools from 1945 - 1951 , after which it was
again reintroduced as a compulsory school subject from the age of 8 years
and upwards . After 1945 , the requirement of all able - bodied Japanese
males over the age of 21 to do three years of compulsory military service ,
was abolished , although the martial arts still figure prominently in the
training of the members of Japan's voluntary Self - Defense Forces and
police force to this day . The three techniques of judo are nagewaza [
throwing ] , katamewaza [ wrestling ] , and atemiwaza [ punching and
kicking ] . Atemiwaza may only be taught to judokas above the rank of white
belt , and may only be used by them in training and self - defense , but
never in judo sporting contests . Katamewaza may only be used in judo
sporting contests by judokas who are at least above the age of 13 . During
the Second World War , when low on bullets and food , the Japanese soldiers
would often launch a banzai bayonet charge and judo - atemiwaza attack ,
preferring a heroic death to humiliating surrender .
Heinrich Himmler , the leader of the German Nazi Gestapo , who looked a bit
like Emperor Hirohito, the somewhat puppet of Premier Hideki Tojo of Japan,
a 20th Century Japanese Shogun and Temujin or Genghis Khan of Asia, once
ridiculously tried to prove that the Japanese are undercover Aryans , since
the Japanese racially mixed with the indigenous peoples of the Japanese Home
Islands , the Ainu , who once had some Caucasian - like physical features ,
and that the Japanese were really Germans who physically and linguistically
separated from the Germans of the European part of the Eurasian Continent
many thousands of years ago , genetically mutating in the process in order
to adapt to their new Asian environment . Today , there are few or no Ainu
without some Japanese ancestry . Maybe the Ainu are the distant cousins of
the Eastern Finns, or of the Guanches of the Canary Islands , who before the
Spanish conquest had blonde hair and were tall in average height , but who
like the Berbers and the Basques had dark olive brown skin , and who spoke a
non - Indo - European language , to be sarcastic . The Japanese themselves
are a mixture of Altaic people [ speakers of the closely related Korean ,
Manchurian , Tungus , Inner Mongolian [ Chinese province ] , and Outer
Mongolian [ Occupied by the Russian military from 1916 - 1991 ] languages ,
and the Malay people , including the Indonesians and Filipinos . The
southern Chinese , Taiwanese Chinese , and Vietnamese , Laotian , Cambodian
and Thai languages show a heavy Malay substratum , a result of racial mixing
between indigenous or earlier arrived people and foreign invaders . |
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