They Don’t Even Give It A Rest On Easter

Happy Easter to those of my readers that celebrate.

Here is how “conservative” Fox News is observing the most important holy day of the year for the vast majority of their readership that are Christians….

Why is “Christ Is King” now so problematic? Oh you know the reason and it is all because it offends the supposed descendants of the people who demanded Barabbas be released instead of Jesus and shouted to Pilate “Crucify Him”. There is a lot to unpack and I am here for it.

First of all, what authoritative source is “conservative” Fox News relying on? An outfit hilariously called “The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) at Rutgers”….

‘Christ is King’ under siege: Evangelicals warn phrase is being weaponized by hate groups

Leaders of a prominent research institute focused on identifying and predicting trends in misinformation said evangelical leaders are united in reclaiming the phrase “Christ is King” from far-right and far-left entities seeking to twist its meaning.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) at Rutgers, which recently published studies showing how DEI training can fuel hostility and how political assassinations are gaining support online, was early in scientifically measuring the trend of online extremists hijacking the phrase, “Christ is King.”

What is the NCRI? The first thing you learn about the group is that it was founded by, and I am not making this up, a guy named Joel Finkelstein who styles himself “Dr. Joel Finkelstein” and holds the current title of Chief Science Officer. Here he is….

Oy vey indeed. The leadership team and writers at the NCRI have a very kosher flavor all around as the report cited includes authors with names like Zucker, another Finkelstein that I assume is related to Joel, a Yanovsky, Goldenberg, etc. Again, I couldn’t even make this up.

What qualifies ol’ Joel here as a “Chief Science Officer”? Does he have a PhD in physics or something? Nope, his PhD is in Psychology which even at Princeton at the undergrad level is awarded a Bachelor of Arts, not Science. If psychology can be said to be a “science” it is the most Jewish of all sciences.

Back to the article…

Actors like Nick Fuentes, a far-right Holocaust denier and podcaster, were co-opting “Christ the King” to unify behind what they considered their righteous political mission, authors of the report said….

….Instead of being the “spiritual guide,” the phrase has been co-opted by both human and “bot” actors to rally behind ideals counter to Judeo-Christianity.

“What was really fascinating is that the NCRI folks were in real-time tracking the bot activity,” said Rev. Johnnie Moore, a former commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Obligatory mention of online clown, definitely not a faggot and certainly not controlled opposition Nick Fuentes? Check. This “Reverend” Johnnie Moore guy was included to give the article some Christian camouflage lest readers notice that the report is mostly Jews kvetching about Christians acknowledging that their King is a King. You probably have never heard of this guy but here is the picture of him included in the article…

At the Simon Wiesenthal Center? Very subtle by Fox News. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a leftist, anti-White, Jewish supremacist outfit that is a major player in the Holocaust-Industrial Complex and spends a lot of time trying to censor anyone who dares to criticize Israel or any Jew. They also worked with West Germany to eliminate the statute of limitations on Nazi “war crimes” so they could hunt down elderly people for show trials. That this group is leftist and pro-censorship doesn’t matter at Fox News where anything kosher is acceptable. “Reverend” Moore has received a “prestigious” medal of valor from the Center and I would bet also gets 30 pieces of silver on a regular basis.

The article also quotes lunatic Jordan Peterson, another “Dr.” of psychology as saying that people using the term “Christ is King” in the “wrong” way online are “narcissists, hedonists and psychopaths”. That is pretty rich coming from Peterson who is as mentally stable as your average New York city homeless man. Peterson is ostensibly a Christian but his understanding of the Christian faith is so tenuous that is bears no resemblance to any authentic expression of Christianity.

Moore continues…

He added that those on the far-right who believe their antisemitic tenets with a Christian-like righteousness often forget “there’s no Christianity without Judaism.”

“They’re losing their battle to Christianize antisemitism, because there’s just a sheer amount of Evangelicals in every country… we’re all pro-Israel.

That is unfortunately pretty close to true, most evangelicals are deeply brainwashed from the pulpit and various online religious teachers to see the secular ethnostate called “Israel” as indistinguishable from the Old Covenant theocracy of Israel that disappeared thousands of years ago. What virtually all American evangelicals don’t seem to realize is that the Christian church since the earliest days has been at enmity with Judaism and the villains of the New Testament are not the Romans but the Jews. Yes, Jesus was born to a Jewish mother and all of the early disciples and the apostles were Jews but by and large the persecution of the church was carried out by Jews in the New Testament. Holy Week is bookended by Jewish crowds cheering for Jesus as he entered Jerusalem and then those same crowds screaming “Let him be crucified!” and “His blood be on us and on our children!” (Matthew 27:25) when he wasn’t what they expected.

The article closes with this nonsense:

Meanwhile, Princeton jurisprudence professor Robby George told Fox News Digital that when you hear the phrase as a Christian, the proper response is, “Amen.”

“But if you hear someone say the same words as an antisemitic taunt, the correct reply is, ‘I stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters.’ Don’t be played,” the Catholic influencer said.

“What will happen at Easter is there will be countless millions of Christians all around the world that will be saying these words, and they only mean one thing, and it will drown out all of these people trying to steal our words to spread their hate,” Moore added.

Are Jews who deny Jesus Christ the brothers and sisters of Christians? Not according to the New Testament…

And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.” - (Mark 3:31–35 ESV)

Whoever does the will of God is the brother and sister of the Christian and what according to the New Testament is the will of God? To repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ so by definition those that refuse to do so are in no way the brothers and sisters of Christians, and that applies to Jews just as it applies to Muslims or Hindus or pagans or atheists.

While I don’t have a direct dog in this fight, I do dislike the duplicity of people who deny Christ trying to dictate to sincere believers and if anyone finds the implications of the statement “Christ is King” offensive, even when applied to Jews who deny every tenet of the Christian faith, then you aren’t the brother or sister of Christians. The phrase Christ is King is supposed to offend, to challenge and to call for the unbeliever to bow their knee to Christ. That is the whole point of the Gospel message and the call to repent applies to Jews at least as much as it does to every other group of unbelievers.

The greatest threat to the authentic Christian faith in America is not “militant Islam” (as if there is a different kind) or trannies or even atheism. It is those within the church that have take the silver to deny the most basic truths of Christianity.