Jews Control Media & Banking Part II

Ok, so now I come to the part of this discussion that will really separate the "men from the boys." If I actually had readership, it would likely separate them from this blog permanently.

Recall, dear non-readers, that if we agreed that Jews are vastly overrepresented on the world stage, we would set out to suggest why.

The scientist among my non readers will want some quantitative discussion of genetic superiority but that wouldn't explain the phenomenon. It would merely reveal a mechanism allowing their overrepresentation. We would still be left asking why are the Jews genetically better adapted to always come up on "the top of the heap."

Allow me then (as if you have a choice, beloved non reader) to suggest some possibilities.

When God makes a promise, is it possible that he does everything in his power to make good on that promise? Assuming you believe in God and assuming you believe he has the power and will to follow through on his plans, we must then find out what promises this God made to the ancestors of those we now call Jews. I offer you the following:

GOD’S FIRST PROMISE TO ABRAHAM – GEN 22
I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.

ONE OF GOD’S PROMISES TO MOSES – EX 19
Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.

'If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit. Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.

'I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.

A PROMISE TO BE REPEATED TO ISRAELITE CHLDREN – DEUT 6
The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today.

I could go on for a long time with a litany of promises that God has made to no other people. The point is that the Jews are clearly overrepresented in all arenas of human activity and there is no good explanation for it unless you are willing to believe that the Creator of the universe made many promises and his word is good.

If I were the only person to whom this had occurred I wold still be assured of its correctness but you would not. So consider some people that the world has judged smart guys who felt there was something uncanny about the Jewish presence in the world.

Blaise Pascal
John Adams
Leo Tolsty
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Friedrich Nietzsche
Will Durant
Woodrow Wilson
Prof Huston Smith
Adolf Hitler

The bottom line is that the reason the Jews are so disproportionately represented in the world is because they have "a friend in high places." So what is the right response to this "favorite son" status by us non-Jews?

I guess I will takle this next. If you don't think I am crazy yet then hold on to your hats!

What The Bible Says About Healthy Living

Ten years ago I had a weekend to kill before going to a Natural Food Expo in L.A. and decided to tour the Crystal Cathedral. While not a fan of Robert Schuller, I was the son of an architect and wanted to see the work of Philip Johnson. I was intrigued that a gay architect was chosen to design a cathedral for such a prominent protestant pastor. Perhaps Schuller was more compassionate than most Christians as regards gay people.


Anyway, I wandered down to the bookstore and found a book on the shelf whose title instantly captured me: What The Bible Says About Healthy Living. I was so inspired by the book that I wrote the second review to appear on the Amazon site back in 1998.


The book chronicles a Doctors railing at God after reading Psalm 139:14. The good Doctor was having one health crisis after another and had a real beef with a God that said that we were "beautifully and wonderfully made." The answer he got was essentially "Are you sure you read the instructions?"


The doctor spent several years pouring over the bible finding ways that God was trying to tell us how to live in a way that would assure good health and relative freedom from pain. In addition, the doctor looked for ways that science was beginning to validate the biblical dictums.


While he received some high profile accolades from top evangelicals, he definitely had to walk a tightrope with regard to giving so much credence to OT "laws" regarding diet and lifestyle choices. After all, mainstream Christianity long ago determined that "them laws done been nailed to the cross." Forgive me but I am unable to write those words without lapsing into a Texan dialect.


Despite a good effort to argue his case, I think he missed the main issue which is that Christianity "threw the baby out with the bathwater." Jesus was tweaked with the Pharisees not for trying to follow God's instructions, but for sitting in judgement of those they felt weren't.

After all, Jesus would never have said his Father's words were stupid. Regardless whether you believe that Jesus was the son of God or not, you have to agree that if He believed it he would never have said his Dad was dumb!

In any case, revisiting this book has caused me to decide that one of the missions of this blog will be to encourage other scientists to promote research that will help validate Torah. I say this not because I need proof, but because the world clearly does. In an age when trusting God is only a trite slogan on the back of our money, it is clearly time for people to be convinced, even by as imperfect a vehicle as science, that they need to trust God for everything.

Messianic Judaism by Carol Harris-Shapiro

So I have been meaning to buy this book for a couple years and finally got around to it. I have just started reading it and it seems like a remarkably even handed book on a subject Jewish people tend to get a little crazy about.

The first glaring generalization I see is on page 15 when the author says that "Messianic believers consider it their special calling to convert Jews." I will concede that many do but, back when I was a Messianic Jew (or as Rabbi Harris-Shapiro would have called me a Messianic Gentile), I early on decided that conversion was the Almighty's business. I wanted to encourage Jews to embrace what God called them to be - a light to the Nations (Goyim).

At that time, back in the beginning of the decade, I found First Fruits of Zion to take a similar view. Their main focus was converting Christians. Rabbi Harris Shapiro apparently was not aware of FFOZ because I do not see them sited in the index. I must add that FFOZ appears to have changed their perspective considerably during the past few years and they may have recently adopted a more "missionary position", if you know what I mean.

While this general tendency on the part of Messianics to try and convert Jews is what seems to enrage Jews most, Rabbi Harris Shapiro notes an interesting sentiment as she spent several years among congregants in a Messianic congregation:

When their altar calls went by with nary a response, I was pleased. When a new person of Jewish birth "came to the Lord", I grieved. Clearly there were times when I would have liked to change their minds and "bring them back to the fold," much as they were trying to do with me. (12)

I respect her honesty and hope that Jewish people can see this and realize that this desire to convert is universal even if misguided. I also hope they can relax their bunker mentality and know that the Almighty will bring them to the place he wants them with or without missionary efforts by Christians.

I note the recent conversion of a Hollywood star from Catholicism to Judaism with joy. Not because of my dim view of Catholicism or because of my unnatural affinity for Judaism, but because this person is seeking intimacy with the King of The Universe and apparently isn't concerned about the politics of her religious choices as much as the desire for relationship with the divine.

I think what flavor you are is less important than that you have flavor. People joining religions in order to have a safe pigeon hole to hide in don't seem to be doing God or anyone else any favors.

As I savor this book (she appears to have ferreted out some great sources regarding the first couple of centuries of strong Jewish flavor to "The Church" - one of my favorite subjects) I will probably use this forum to review and reflect on this work.

Rabbi, if your are out there, you have a free pass to come out to the Rockies and have a vacation as long as you are willing to eat drink and discuss the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The Year of Living Biblically

My cynical side was convinced that Fresh Air's interview of an Esquire editor who set out to live out every "law" in the bible would be a mocking yuck fest.

Was I ever wrong.

Terry Gross did a credible job of asking fairly objective, if ill informed, questions about the bible. I don't fault her in this. For someone so secular she at least has some familiarity if little understanding of the bible. She is otherwise a really good interviewer.

The really impressive thing to me was the interviewee, A.J. Jacobs. This guy convinced me that he had a genuine interest in better understanding "religion" and, while not getting the full story during one interview, it seems like he was transformed to a degree by "going through the motions" of trying to live out the Torah.

I am going to get the book to find out what blessings Mr. Jacobs experienced as he walked in derek Ha Torah or the way of the Torah. In just the few ways I have walked in its paths, I and my family have experienced blessings that I know are fulfillment of God's promises to those who try to listen to him.

If more people tried to do what Mr. Jacobs did I suspect they too would begin to understand that The Almighty didn't just speak the Torah to hear himself talk. Not did he do it so we could all walk around with a Torah yardstick measuring each others browny point quotient. Rather he spoke clearly many times in the bible saying that if we would listen and obey He would shower blessings on us and our progeny.

Stay tuned tomorrow for the throwing down of a gauntlet. I am willing to bet that this formerly secular Jew would "get" Acts 15:20 & 21 out of the new testament. This is significant to me because I have never met a Christian that does. When asked about verse 21 every Christian I have ever asked has been struck dumb.

I think Mr. Jacobs will get it because he just spent a year trying to live it. And I am going to bother the snot out of him until he renders and opinion.

Healthcare On A Blog About Constantine?

Great question if I do say so myself.

The connection lies in the fact that the cultural shift concretized by Constantine (most obviously seen in the anti semitic results of his various councils) led people away from a true "In God We Trust" mindset to one where this credo only appears on the back of our money. Previously, health issues were viewed relative to The Creator and his instructions as vividly depicted in the story related in John 9:2. This example is by no means intended to demonstrate the Christian view but rather the first century view in Israel regardless of what flavor of Judaism you were practicing.

Once Constantine made official the split between Jews and followers of the Nazarene that Christians refer to as Jesus, the connection between health and adherence to The Creators instructions (Torah) was destroyed. While the heretic Marcion's popularization of the term "Old Testament" didn't help matters, Constantine is the easiest and most prominent scapegoat.

In fact, Constantine should probably become the patron saint of both the Medical and Insurance industries. Once we stopped viewing malady's as often the consequence of deviating from the path of Torah (the real meaning of the word sin before all kinds of nasty baggage got attached to this word) we had to look to human healers to fix us.