CIRCULAR LETTER December 2002

The church and the hatred of the Jews

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Since 1948, when Israel was declared a State, almost daily Israel is in the news. Behind them was the most terrible holocaust, wherein six million lives were extinguished, including those of 1.5 million children. This kind of genocide cannot just be forgotten in history as though it was nothing. Over fifty thousand publications all over the world have dealt with this subject. Some of them dared to show forth the role and responsibility the Church of Rome and especially the “war pope” Pius XII had in it. Rolf Hochhut, Dr. Deschner, Daniel Goldhagen, and John Cornwell, to only mention a few, have looked behind the purple curtain, trying to shed light onto the matter, but that is the most dangerous thing someone can do on earth. For, as the Church of Rome views herself, she is the only legitimate institution of God on earth, established by Christ Himself. There is no salvation outside the church and only if the church is someone’s mother, God would be the Father. The church claims to be founded upon Peter, the highest of the apostles, and all the world must belong to her. In addition, she believes her own teachings of the apostolic succession and furthermore, since the dogma of infallibility, 1870, the popes have looked upon themselves as representatives of God on earth, a direct Vicarius Filii Dei, instead of Christ, the Son of God, ruling upon the earth.

The Church of Rome has obviously made mistakes which can never be set right. Jesus Christ says, “My Kingdom is not of this world!” And He says again, “Upon this rock I will build my church.” HE never said, “Upon thee, Peter, I will build my church!” The true Church was built upon the revelation of Jesus Christ, Who for ever is the Rock of salvation.

The fatal development of the church began with the lie of the so-called “Constantine gift”, whereby she is supposed to have received possessions of property. In fact, the church of Rome is not built upon Christ, just as all the other churches who make this claim are not. The Roman church has only been in existence since the 4th century. During the time of Paul, believers simply held house meetings in Rome, as in other cities. The Apostle spent two years there, teaching the Word of God in his rented apartment (Acts 28:30-31). 

The Bible and church history do not report of any journey the Apostle Peter might have made to Rome. That would have been a sensation and we certainly would have come to know about it. As the record goes, only a magician by the name of Simon Magus was there, who even performed before the Roman senate. The whole catholic history is actually an accumulation of legends.

The fact is that one can only speak about the Church of Rome coming into existence since the council of Nicea. Up till then about 130 directions had developed in Christianity. From 54 until 312/313 A.D. the Christians were generally persecuted by the Roman Caesars. The persecution began with Nero and ended with Diocletian, who was the cruellest of them all. Up till then the Jews in the Roman Empire were under a special status. The were excused from participating in the festivals of the various idols. In the year 324 A.D. Constantine declared himself to be the “Vicar of Christ”, the “lord of the state” and “the lord of the church”, the “Pontifex Maximus”. In the same year he gave the order that Constantinople, not Rome, was to be established as the capital of his empire. Constantine, the multiple murderer, in the year 325 A.D. set up the council in Nicea. Only in the year 440 A.D. pope Leo I proclaimed Rome to also be the spiritual capital and only since the year 756 A.D. it has become the centre of the Church State.

In regards to the persecution of the Jews, it dates back in the Christian era to the 4th century. The so-called church fathers all came from heathenism and every one of them hated the Jews, as the written history records. They accused the Jews to be murderers of Christ and then even called them murderers of God. Their hatred against the Jews went as far as making the declaration, “Whosoever kills a Jew reconciles the death of Christ” and also “Because the Jews killed the Messiah they deprived the nations of the Saviour and salvation.” They actually carried things over the top in stating that the Old Testament belonged to the rejected Jews and of course the New Testament they misunderstood and reinterpreted. In protest to the one true God the Old Testament mentions over 6,000 times as Elohim-Jahweh, they invented a three-person-Godhead. Neither the Old nor the New Testament knows about a “tri-unity”. The inventors of the Trinity were also the inventors of the hatred towards the Jews with all the terrible consequences, which then became self-evident.

The Jew Daniel Goldhagen, of whom we have heard in recent times because of his new book “The Catholic Church and the Holocaust”, suggests that Jesus and the apostles practised hatred towards the Jews. He is of the opinion that within the Gospels and the New Testament are supposedly found 450 citations of hatred towards the Jews. That is a terrible and absolutely false assertion. When Jesus spoke to the obstinate Pharisees, He directly told them to their faces what they were and of what kind of spirit. But He never addressed the whole Jewish race or their posterity. If John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus would have had their ministries in the USA, for instance, or any other country, they would have told the local “Pharisees” there precisely what they said then to the spiritual leaders who mislead the people. It is very sad, for a Jew to make such a judgement, whereby Jesus and the apostles are exchanged with the church fathers and the New Testament is looked upon and exchanged for what the church has actually misinterpreted into it. The church adopted their thinking and is guilty of having shed a lot of blood.

The Vatican is a state within a state, which has diplomatic relationships with the countries around the globe through ambassadors and diplomats in all internationally acclaimed political institutions. Goldhagen accuses Pope Pius XII to have been silent during the Holocaust. He did not evaluate the fact that Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII, between the first and the second World War had been a nuncio of the Vatican in Germany for almost 13 years and played an important role in the politics of Germany during that period. He was nuncio in Munich in 1923 when the Hitler putsch took place and he was nuncio in Berlin in 1933 when Hitler came to power. It seems that Mr. Goldhagen and most of those who deal with the Holocaust are not sufficiently informed about its background.

The salutation “Heil Hitler” does not derive from atheists, communists or socialists — they were already all put in jail. The insiders point to the Roman clergy, which expected that Hitler would save the church from the threat of Stalinism and Bolshevism. The so-called “Fatima Prophecies” were brought to the attention of Pope Pius XI in 1929 and deepened the worry of the church about the threat posed by communism. Russia is being mentioned therein a number of times. Yes, there are people who have more inside information then those who became popular through their publications. In the Protestant Scandinavian countries there were no ghettos for the Jews. That was not just by accident. For hundreds of years tolerance and religious freedom had already prevailed in those countries. It was a continuation of what the Prussian Protestant statesmen had already practised for hundreds of years. They allowed all those to enter their land who were persecuted by the Roman church, the Jews, the Waldensers, the Huguenots, they were all welcomed. The concentration camps were in countries with mixed populations, but the “death camps” for the “end solution” were all in the arch-catholic country Poland. Especially known was the infamous camp Auschwitz/Oswiecim.

Since 1948, when Israel was declared a State, almost daily Israel is in the news. Behind them was the most terrible holocaust, wherein six million lives were extinguished, including those of 1.5 million children. This kind of genocide cannot just be forgotten in history as though it was nothing. Over fifty thousand publications all over the world have dealt with this subject. Some of them dared to show forth the role and responsibility the Church of Rome and especially the “war pope” Pius XII had in it. Rolf Hochhut, Dr. Deschner, Daniel Goldhagen, and John Cornwell, to only mention a few, have looked behind the purple curtain, trying to shed light onto the matter, but that is the most dangerous thing someone can do on earth. For, as the Church of Rome views herself, she is the only legitimate institution of God on earth, established by Christ Himself. There is no salvation outside the church and only if the church is someone’s mother, God would be the Father. The church claims to be founded upon Peter, the highest of the apostles, and all the world must belong to her. In addition, she believes her own teachings of the apostolic succession and furthermore, since the dogma of infallibility, 1870, the popes have looked upon themselves as representatives of God on earth, a direct Vicarius Filii Dei, instead of Christ, the Son of God, ruling upon the earth.

The Church of Rome has obviously made mistakes which can never be set right. Jesus Christ says, “My Kingdom is not of this world!” And He says again, “Upon this rock I will build my church.” HE never said, “Upon thee, Peter, I will build my church!” The true Church was built upon the revelation of Jesus Christ, Who for ever is the Rock of salvation.

The fatal development of the church began with the lie of the so-called “Constantine gift”, whereby she is supposed to have received possessions of property. In fact, the church of Rome is not built upon Christ, just as all the other churches who make this claim are not. The Roman church has only been in existence since the 4th century. During the time of Paul, believers simply held house meetings in Rome, as in other cities. The Apostle spent two years there, teaching the Word of God in his rented apartment (Acts 28:30-31). 

The Bible and church history do not report of any journey the Apostle Peter might have made to Rome. That would have been a sensation and we certainly would have come to know about it. As the record goes, only a magician by the name of Simon Magus was there, who even performed before the Roman senate. The whole catholic history is actually an accumulation of legends.

The fact is that one can only speak about the Church of Rome coming into existence since the council of Nicea. Up till then about 130 directions had developed in Christianity. From 54 until 312/313 A.D. the Christians were generally persecuted by the Roman Caesars. The persecution began with Nero and ended with Diocletian, who was the cruellest of them all. Up till then the Jews in the Roman Empire were under a special status. The were excused from participating in the festivals of the various idols. In the year 324 A.D. Constantine declared himself to be the “Vicar of Christ”, the “lord of the state” and “the lord of the church”, the “Pontifex Maximus”. In the same year he gave the order that Constantinople, not Rome, was to be established as the capital of his empire. Constantine, the multiple murderer, in the year 325 A.D. set up the council in Nicea. Only in the year 440 A.D. pope Leo I proclaimed Rome to also be the spiritual capital and only since the year 756 A.D. it has become the centre of the Church State.

In regards to the persecution of the Jews, it dates back in the Christian era to the 4th century. The so-called church fathers all came from heathenism and every one of them hated the Jews, as the written history records. They accused the Jews to be murderers of Christ and then even called them murderers of God. Their hatred against the Jews went as far as making the declaration, “Whosoever kills a Jew reconciles the death of Christ” and also “Because the Jews killed the Messiah they deprived the nations of the Saviour and salvation.” They actually carried things over the top in stating that the Old Testament belonged to the rejected Jews and of course the New Testament they misunderstood and reinterpreted. In protest to the one true God the Old Testament mentions over 6,000 times as Elohim-Jahweh, they invented a three-person-Godhead. Neither the Old nor the New Testament knows about a “tri-unity”. The inventors of the Trinity were also the inventors of the hatred towards the Jews with all the terrible consequences, which then became self-evident.

The Jew Daniel Goldhagen, of whom we have heard in recent times because of his new book “The Catholic Church and the Holocaust”, suggests that Jesus and the apostles practised hatred towards the Jews. He is of the opinion that within the Gospels and the New Testament are supposedly found 450 citations of hatred towards the Jews. That is a terrible and absolutely false assertion. When Jesus spoke to the obstinate Pharisees, He directly told them to their faces what they were and of what kind of spirit. But He never addressed the whole Jewish race or their posterity. If John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus would have had their ministries in the USA, for instance, or any other country, they would have told the local “Pharisees” there precisely what they said then to the spiritual leaders who mislead the people. It is very sad, for a Jew to make such a judgement, whereby Jesus and the apostles are exchanged with the church fathers and the New Testament is looked upon and exchanged for what the church has actually misinterpreted into it. The church adopted their thinking and is guilty of having shed a lot of blood.

The Vatican is a state within a state, which has diplomatic relationships with the countries around the globe through ambassadors and diplomats in all internationally acclaimed political institutions. Goldhagen accuses Pope Pius XII to have been silent during the Holocaust. He did not evaluate the fact that Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII, between the first and the second World War had been a nuncio of the Vatican in Germany for almost 13 years and played an important role in the politics of Germany during that period. He was nuncio in Munich in 1923 when the Hitler putsch took place and he was nuncio in Berlin in 1933 when Hitler came to power. It seems that Mr. Goldhagen and most of those who deal with the Holocaust are not sufficiently informed about its background.

The salutation “Heil Hitler” does not derive from atheists, communists or socialists — they were already all put in jail. The insiders point to the Roman clergy, which expected that Hitler would save the church from the threat of Stalinism and Bolshevism. The so-called “Fatima Prophecies” were brought to the attention of Pope Pius XI in 1929 and deepened the worry of the church about the threat posed by communism. Russia is being mentioned therein a number of times. Yes, there are people who have more inside information then those who became popular through their publications. In the Protestant Scandinavian countries there were no ghettos for the Jews. That was not just by accident. For hundreds of years tolerance and religious freedom had already prevailed in those countries. It was a continuation of what the Prussian Protestant statesmen had already practised for hundreds of years. They allowed all those to enter their land who were persecuted by the Roman church, the Jews, the Waldensers, the Huguenots, they were all welcomed. The concentration camps were in countries with mixed populations, but the “death camps” for the “end solution” were all in the arch-catholic country Poland. Especially known was the infamous camp Auschwitz/Oswiecim.