The Sword of Christ E-Book

Giles Corey

• Herausgeber: Antelope Hill Publishing LLC
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

In The Sword of Christ, author Giles Corey examines the transformation of historical Christianity into the deracinated, egalitarian form we see preached today and argues that Christianity must be recaptured and returned to its roots as the foundation of the West. This course correction cannot happen while Christians remain unaware that the organized denominations have largely abandoned orthodox Biblical Christianity in favor of heresies like Christian Zionism and antinationalism, nor can it occur while pagan or secular Westerners remain unaware that the "Christianity" they see preaching the doctrine of dispossession today is a modern aberration that has nothing whatsoever in common with Biblical Christianity, having been usurped by anti-Christian forces. 

The topics discussed include, among others, an exposition of the history and heretical theology of Christian Zionism, a discussion of Christian ethnonationalism, and an investigation into theories of Christian violence, such as the Crusades. Corey boldly proclaims the ethnonationalist struggle of our day as not only righteous but necessary to fight for the cause of Christ, just as generations of Christians have fought for justice in their own times.

Banned by Amazon after its initial release in 2020, Giles Corey's The Sword of Christ is back in a newly-edited second edition, proudly published by Antelope Hill Publishing, with a foreword by evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald.

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The Sword of Christ

THE SWORD OF CHRIST

CHRISTIANITY FROM THE RIGHT, OR, THE CHRISTIAN QUESTION

GILES COREY

A N T E L O P E H I L L P U B L I S H I N G

Copyright © 2020, 2023, 2024 Giles Corey

Third edition, second printing 2024,

With new preface by the author.

First edition published by CreateSpace, 2020.

Second edition published by Antelope Hill Publishing, 2023.

All rights reserved.

Cover art by Swifty.

Edited by Harlan Wallace and Margaret Bauer.

Layout by Margaret Bauer.

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Hardcover ISBN-13: 979-8-89252-026-3

Paperback ISBN-13: 979-8-89252-025-6

EPUB ISBN-13: 979-8-89252-027-0

CONTENTS

A Note on Translation

My Mission

Foreword by Dr. Kevin MacDonald, 2020

Preface by Giles Corey, 2024

Part I: The Christian Question: Engulfed Among the Fallen

1. Christianity Today

2. Christianity Yesterday and Tomorrow

3. Christian Reformation

Part II: The Heresy of Christian Zionism

4. The History of Christian Zionism

5. The Theology of Christian Zionism

Chosen Peoples: Israel and the Church

Restorationism: The Jewish Return to Zion

Eretz Israel: The Promised Land

Jerusalem: Heaven and Earth

The Temple: Rebuilding for Desecration

The Future: Teleology and Eschatology

6. The Myth of Judeo-Christianity

7. Historical Christianity on Judaism

8. Jewish Hatred for Christianity, and for Gentiles Generally

9. Case Studies in Jewish Hostility

Degeneracy, Filth, and Pornography

Jewish Ritual Murder of Christian Children

Part III: Toward a Doctrine of Christian Racialism

10. Christian Ethnonationalism

11. Evangelism at What Cost? Non-White “Christianity”

12. Proslavery Theology: Slavery Is Not a Biblical Sin

Part IV: Theories of Christian Violence

13. Against Absolute Pacifism

14. Christian Holy War: Crusade Theology

15. Anti-Infanticide, or Pro-Natalist, Violence

Revival

Bibliography

ANOTE ON TRANSLATION

As Steven Anderson has conclusively demonstrated, the 1611 Authorized King James Version is the only Bible translation we can trust.1 Aside from its incomparable beauty, the King James Version is the only English translation that approaches parity with the Greek and Hebrew. When one begins to tinker with the Scripture, Satan easily inserts himself into the text and subverts the Word of God from within. As just one example of many, the execrable New International Version is owned and published by Zondervan, the largest Bible publisher on earth. Zondervan is a subsidiary of the Big Five publisher, HarperCollins, which is itself owned by News Corp, owned by the rampant philo-Semite and fanatical Zionist Rupert Murdoch, whose vast media empire propagates Zionism across the globe. As such, all Scripture in this work is cited from the King James Version. I have deliberately chosen not to specifically cite verses quoted from either Talmudic or other rabbinical sources or the Qur’an. First, these verses are cited in each of the sources that I have cited from, each of which is copiously and authoritatively sourced; as such, I encourage the reader to acquire and scrutinize these sources. The second reason is cosmetic; as the reader is in all likelihood unfamiliar with the Talmud, other Jewish texts, or the Qur’an, citations to them would largely be irrelevant, as well as likely to engender confusion. Additionally, these religious texts have several different translations, and the sources I have drawn verses from are not uniform in the translations employed.

MY MISSION

The hatred for Christianity on the right truly pains me; this is the reason why I wrote this book. I fully understand the hatred—as I argue in my introductory essay, there is very little to praise about organized Christianity today, if anything. Organized Christianity, including the Catholic Church and the various Protestant denominations, has indeed become yet another instrument of White genocide. Organized Christianity has capitulated and bent the knee to Satan’s coalition of the damned, thereby turning its back on our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I despise organized Christianity too, for this same reason. But, usurped though the mantle of the Church may be, that is no reason to simply abandon the faith.

So many of us who observe the collapse of the Church into anti-White leftism have been led to the facile conclusion that Christianity itself is irredeemable. It isn’t. Christianity does not even need redemption, for our faith remains what it has always been; the pharisaical teachers of false doctrine whom we witness on parade today simply are not Christians, no matter what they may say. Remember Paul’s warning:

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2 Cor. 11:13–15)

They have accomplished Satan’s work well, driving good men from the Church in droves to seek a fruitless solace in a pagan history that we are thousands of years removed from. Again, I understand the attraction; there is much to admire in the Indo-European tradition, and, as I discuss in my introductory essay, the inculturation of this tradition into early Christianity ushered the faith into its rightful marriage with Europe as Christendom. This is the very process which the German Völkisch movement hoped to recreate in its program of national renaissance. However, to extrapolate a Christophobic paganism from our admiration of that rich tradition is fundamentally wrongheaded, premised upon biblical and historical illiteracy.

This same illiteracy lies behind the more absurd contention that Christianity is some sort of life-denying suicidal Jewish psyop. First, if this is true, why, after nearly two thousand years, did organized Christianity only betray its race and civilization in the twentieth century, after the Jewish coup that was accomplished in no small part by the creation and promotion of the heresy of Christian Zionism? Indeed, the Bible is quite anti-Semitic, and, as I explore in my essay on Christian Zionism, historical Christianity was diametrically opposed to Judaism. Christians have always known, until just this past century, that Jews are our greatest enemy. Second, the Jews of the Old Testament are not the Jews of the New Testament, or of today. As I explain, what we now know as Judaism is rabbinical, Talmudic Judaism, a belief system that is wholly disconnected from the faith practiced by the pre-Christian Israelites of the Old Testament. The precursor to the Judaism of today is the Sanhedrin of the New Testament Pharisees, which Christ essentially explicitly tells us are the spawn, whether literal or figurative, of Satan. The key here is that Christianity predates Talmudic Judaism, which arose as a response to Christianity, with the sole organizing principle of annihilating Christianity.

It is my greatest desire that this work will equip real Christians with the tools that they need to understand that our faith is in total alignment with White racial identity, and with the arguments that they need to refute those egalitarian allegedly Christian leftists who wave the bloody shirt and pervert the Word of God to argue for ethnomasochism and racial suicide. For atheist or pagan Whites, I hope to at least take the sting out of their Christophobia by demonstrating that those who work for our dispossession under the ensign of the cross are not Christians.

FOREWORD BY DR. KEVIN MACDONALD

From the First Edition, 2020

Giles Corey has written a book that should be read by all Christians, as well as White advocates of all theoretical perspectives, including especially those who are seeking a spiritual foundation that is deeply embedded in the history and culture of Europeans. This is excellent scholarship combined with a very fluid writing style. He has thought deeply about all the issues confronting the peoples and cultures of the West.

Corey is well aware that contemporary Christianity has been massively corrupted. The Catholic Church and the mainline Protestant Churches have become little more than appendages for the various social justice movements of the left, avidly promoting the colonization of the West by other races and cultures, even as religious fervor and attendance dwindle and Christianity itself becomes ever more irrelevant to the national dialogue. On the other hand, Evangelicals, a group that remains vigorously Christian, have been massively duped by the theology of Christian Zionism, their main focus being to promote Israel.

Until the twentieth century, Christianity served the West well. One need only think of the long history of Christians battling to prevent Muslims from establishing a caliphate throughout the West—Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours, the Spanish Reconquista, the defeat of the Turks at the gates of Vienna. The era of Western expansion was accomplished by Christian explorers and colonists. Until quite recently, the flourishing of science, technology, and art occurred entirely within a Christian context.

Much of my scholarly interest has been to attempt to understand the people and culture of the West, resulting in my book Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition: Evolutionary Origins, History, and Prospects for the Future. As I argue there, individualism lends itself to moral and ethical universalism, which led to the religiously-based eradication of slavery long before the rise of an elite hostile to Christianity itself. And White intellectuals in the nineteenth century attempting to understand their own moral universalism often attributed it to their racial origins.

Such individualism was not disastrously self-destructive. As Corey notes:

Christian universalism historically posed little to no danger to White survival because it was preached by Whites living in a world ruled by Whites; it was only in the multicultural, egalitarian regime, inaugurated in the aftermath of the Second World War, that Christian sacrifice was transformed into a call for racial suicide. (Page 3)

The individualistic, Christian West was thus highly adaptive—until the rise of a hostile, Jewish-dominated elite bent on corrupting adaptive forms of Christian individualism in favor of a completely deracinated individualism, now accompanied by powerful religious, media, and academic voices preaching White guilt, often from a Christian perspective.

Instead, Corey advocates a revitalization of Medieval Germanic Christianity based on, in the words of Samuel Francis, “social hierarchy, loyalty to tribe and place (blood and soil), world-acceptance rather than world-rejection, and an ethic that values heroism and military sacrifice.” (Page 39) This medieval Christianity preserved the aristocratic, fundamentally Indo-European culture of the Germanic tribes. This was an adaptive Christianity, a Christianity that was compatible with Western expansion, to the point that, by the end of the nineteenth century, the West dominated the planet. Christianity per se is certainly not the problem.

The decline of adaptive Christianity coincides with the post-Enlightenment rise of the Jews throughout the West as an anti-Christian elite, and Corey has a great deal of very interesting material on traditional Christian views of Judaism. Traditional Christian theology viewed the Church as having superseded the Old Testament; by rejecting the Church, the Jews had not only rejected God, but were also responsible for murdering Christ. My view, developed in Chapter 3 of Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism,is that traditional Christian theology was fundamentally anti-Jewish and was developed as a weapon which was used to lessen Jewish economic and political power in the Roman Empire. Here Corey describes the writings of the fourth-century figure, St. John Chrysostom, who has a chapel dedicated to him inside St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome as well as a statue outside the building. His writings on Jews are nothing less than scathing, and reflect long-term tensions between Jews and Greeks in Antioch. Chrysostom was far from alone in his hatred. For example, St. Gregory of Nyssa, also writing in the fourth century:

[Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters, . . . advocates of the devil, race of vipers, slanderers, calumniators, dark-minded people, leaven of the Pharisees, sanhedrin of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners, and haters of righteousness.

The traditional Church was certainly far from friendly toward Jews.

Although Protestantism was generally far more amenable to Jewish interests even before its current malaise, there certainly are exceptions. Here Corey emphasizes Martin Luther’s writings on Jews. Luther emphasizes Jewish hatred toward Christianity and their sense of superiority vis-à-vis Christians, seeing the latter as “not human; in fact, we hardly deserve to be considered poor worms by them.” (Page 106) But he is also concerned about Jewish economic exploitation and domination of Germans via usury—certainly the biggest complaint about Jews in traditional Europe. And he is repulsed by Talmudic ethics which promote very different moral codes for Jews and non-Jews.

However, much has changed since the origins of Christianity. In the contemporary United States, Christian Zionism has had a very large influence on evangelical Protestantism, whose theology departs radically from traditional Christianity, particularly with respect to the Jews. Corey has an excellent section on how Jews helped shape this new theology; it should be required reading for Christian Zionists, because it will open their eyes to the sordid history of the movement. The result of such thinking is that Zionism has often become a vehicle of moral idealism in the minds of a great many gentiles, from Lloyd George to the present, who believe that the restoration of Israel is far more important than the fate of their own people.

Jews have not stood by idly on this but have actively supported the Christian Zionism movement. I noted in a 2010 article on the delusional Pastor John Hagee:

Beginning in 1978, the Likud Party in Israel has taken the lead in organizing this force for Israel, and they have been joined by the neocons. For example, in 2002 the Israeli embassy organized a prayer breakfast with the major Christian Zionists. The main organizations are theUnity Coalition for Israelwhich is run by Esther Levens andChristians United for Israel, run by David Brog. The Unity Coalition for Israel consists of ~200 Christian and Jewish organizations has strong connections to neocon think tanks such as the Center for Security Policy, headed by Frank Gaffney, pro-Israel activist organizations the Zionist Organization of America, the Likud Party and the Israeli government. This organization claims to provide material for 1,700 religious radio stations, 245 Christian TV stations, and 120 Christian newspapers.2

Corey notes that Hagee’s organization, A Night to Honor Israel, has donated over $100 million to right-wing causes in Israel over the years. He has been well rewarded financially for his efforts, and is the recipient of numerous awards from Zionist organizations.

Christian Zionism is a fitting reminder of how humans, unlike animals, can be motivated by ideas, including ideas that are completely unrelated to believers’ real interests. These ideas may be disseminated by people who are only doing so for selfish reasons, such as the dishonorable Cyrus Scofield, whose annotated Bible has become central to Christian Zionism. Maladaptive ideas may also be disseminated by people who are utterly opposed to the legitimate interests of believers or even hate Christianity and the West in general. Here Corey discusses the role of Felix Untermeyer, a wealthy Jew, in promoting Scofield and his Bible. It was a religious ideology “with a new worship icon—the modern State of Israel,” and Corey does an excellent job showing how Christian Zionism is a radical departure from traditional Christian theology. I found the following passage quite stunning:

The heresy of Christian Zionism, using an arbitrary and self-contradictory literalist and futurist hermeneutic, con-tends that the Jews remain God’s chosen people, separate from and superior to the Church; indeed, they believe that earthly Jewish Israel will replace the Church, and that as such, “Christians, and indeed whole nations, will be blessed through their association with, and support of, Israel.” (Page 92)

Although Christian Zionism is far less influential than the Israel lobby in furthering Jewish interests in the United States, it has certainly had some influence and creates a ready-made cheering section for wars in the Middle East on behalf of Israel. After all, other attitudes typical of Christian Zionists, such as opposition to abortion or pornography, have had much less traction with the current left-oriented establishment despite their powerful commitment to the State of Israel.

Religious thinking is by its nature unbounded—it is infinitely malleable. It is a dangerous sword that can be used to further the legitimate interests of believers, or it can become a lethal weapon whereby believers adopt attitudes that are obviously maladaptive. One need only think of religiously based suicide cults, such as Peoples Temple (Jonestown), Solar Temple, and Heaven’s Gate. Mainstream Christianity, from traditional Catholicism to mainline Protestantism, was fundamentally adaptive in terms of creating a healthy family life. It was compatible with a culture characterized by extraordinary scientific and technological creativity and standards of living that have been much envied by the rest of the world.

Corey has great material on Jewish perceptions of Christianity in the Talmud, and on negative Jewish influences on culture in the present West, including pornography and the sexual revolution generally. As is so often the case with Jewish activism, the pornography movement has been motivated not solely by money, but by hatred toward Christian morality and Christian family functioning. The results have been devastating, with huge increases since the 1960s—the breakthrough decade of Jewish power—in all the markers of family dysfunction and poor child outcomes: lower marriage rates, higher births out of wedlock, higher rates of teenage pregnancy, precocious sexuality, high divorce rates, and unstable pair bonds. In other words, the Western family pattern of monogamous nuclear families based on strong husband–wife pair bonds has been under attack from Jewish dominated movements, the most noteworthy of which was psychoanalysis, promising an idyllic future if only people would jettison traditional Christian constraints on sexuality. These negative trends in family functioning have been most pronounced among the lower social classes, and thus have much less effect on high-IQ middle- and upper-income groups, including Jews as a relatively high-IQ group. The disaster in family patterns has fallen far most severely on the White working class.

Corey has an extended treatment of the corrosive effects of pornography, now extended to child pornography and legalized pedophilia as the “final frontier” in the sexual revolution. As in other areas, this starts out by advocating language that makes the activity more or less acceptable depending on the interests of advocates. In the case of pedophilia, the first step is to label them “minor attracted persons,” whereas in the area of free speech, we find labels like “hate speech”—even for speech that is reasonable and fact-based. If issues related to free speech are any guide, there will soon be articles in law journals arguing that pedophilia is normal and should not be punished, and eventually courts will begin to adopt this logic in particular cases. Already Supreme Court justices like Elena Kagan have signaled a willingness to curtail speech on diversity issues, and this would be joined by the other liberals, which would mean that curtailing free speech on race is at most one Supreme Court appointment away.3 And when that happens, it won’t be long before it is embraced by conservatives. As Corey notes in the case of pedophilia, “We are presumably one Supreme Court ruling away from the Koch-fundedcocktail conservative crowd celebrating pederasty as the next great achievement of individual liberty.” (Page 167)

Given the exhaustive summary of the negative effects of pornography—including neurological impairments related to impulsivity and lessened interest in familial relationships of love and nurturance—it is horrifying indeed that Corey discusses a study in which “sixty percent of boys and thirty percent of girls were exposed to pornography in early adolescence, including ‘bondage, rape, and child pornography,’ and another which concludes that children under ten years old now account for over twenty percent of online pornographic consumption.” (Page 170) This definitely was not happening when I was growing up in the 1950s, prior to the deluge. I agree with Corey’s conclusion:

We have conclusively established that Jewish leadership and participation was instrumental in, and a necessary condition of, the pornographic war that has struck at the most sacred foundation of the West: the family. (Page 172)

As Freud famously said, “we are bringing them the plague.”

Corey has an excellent and exhaustive section on Jewish ritual murder—an absolutely convincing presentation on a topic that, like so much of Jewish history, is a minefield for serious scholars. As he notes:

There are hundredsof accusations and cases of Jewish ritual murder, each just as sadistically depraved as the last, involving barrels of nails, crucifixion, decapitation, spit-roasting, stoning, and a litany of other barbaric evils; we could fill entire volumes with the accounts of each of these innocent lives so cruelly taken from this world. (Page 206)

This is a topic that I have never written about, although I was somewhat familiar with Blood Passover, Ariel Toaff’s book on the topic. As to be expected, Toaff’s book was condemned by the activist Jewish community, and he was pressured into publishing an apology, promising to prevent distribution of his book, etc. However, we should not be surprised to find that such practices occurred. Ritual murder is an extreme manifestation of normative Jewish hostility toward the surrounding society, which is an important facet of the entire subject. The eighteenth-century English historian Edward Gibbon was struck by the fanatical hatred of Jews in the ancient world:

From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius, the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome, which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which they committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives; and we are tempted to applaud the severe retaliation which was exercised by the arms of the legions against a race of fanatics, whose dire and credulous superstition seemed to render them the implacable enemies not only of the Roman government, but of human kind.4

The nineteenth-century Spanish historian José Amador de los Rios wrote of the Spanish Jews who assisted the Muslim conquest of Spain that:

Without any love for the soil where they lived, without any of those affections that ennoble a people, and finally without sentiments of generosity, they aspired only to feed their avarice and to accomplish the ruin of the Goths; taking the opportunity to manifest their rancor, and boasting of the hatreds that they had hoarded up so many centuries.5

As I noted in an article titled “Stalin’s Willing Executioners: Jews as a Hostile Elite in the Soviet Union”:

Hatred toward the peoples and cultures of non-Jews and the image of enslaved ancestors as victims of anti-Semitism have been the Jewish norm throughout history—much commented on, from Tacitus (“they regard the rest of mankind with all the hatred of enemies”6) to the present.

Toaff brings out the revenge motive:

In their collective mentality, the Passover Seder had long since transformed itself into a celebration in which the wish for the forthcoming redemption of the people of Israel moved from aspiration to revenge, and then to cursing their Christian persecutors, the current heirs to the wicked Pharaoh of Egypt.7

Hatred and revenge were clearly on display in the early decades of the Soviet Union, a period in which around twenty million people were murdered. From “Stalin’s Willing Executioners,” a review of Yuri Slezkine’s The Jewish Century:

There can be little doubt that Lenin’s contempt for “the thick-skulled, boorish, inert, and bearishly savage Russian or Ukrainian peasant” was shared by the vast majority of shtetl Jews prior to the Revolution and after it. Those Jews who defiled the holy places of traditional Russian culture and published anti-Christian periodicals doubtless reveled in their tasks for entirely Jewish reasons, and, as Gorky worried, their activities not unreasonably stoked the anti-Semitism of the period. Given the anti-Christian attitudes of traditional shtetl Jews, it is very difficult to believe that the Jews engaged in campaigns against Christianity did not have a sense of revenge against the old culture that they held in such contempt. . . .

Slezkine seems comfortable with revenge as a Jewish motive, but he does not consider traditional Jewish culture itself to be a contributor to Jewish attitudes toward traditional Russia, even though he notes that a very traditional part of Jewish culture was to despise the Russians and their culture. (Even the Jewish literati despised all of traditional Russian culture, apart from Pushkin and a few literary icons.) Indeed, one wonders what would motivate the Jewish commissars to revenge apart from motives related to their Jewish identity. . . .

Slezkine’s argument that Jews were critically involved in destroying traditional Russian institutions, liquidating Russian nationalists, murdering the tsar and his family, dispossessing and murdering the kulaks, and destroying the Orthodox Church has been made by many other writers over the years. . . .

The situation prompts reflection on what might have happened in the United States had American Communists and their sympathizers assumed power. The “red diaper babies” came from Jewish families which “around the breakfast table, day after day, in Scarsdale, Newton, Great Neck, and Beverly Hills have discussed what an awful, corrupt, immoral, undemocratic, racist society the United States is. . . .”8 It is easy to imagine which sectors of American society would have been deemed overly backward and religious and therefore worthy of mass murder by the American counterparts of the Jewish elite in the Soviet Union—the ones who journeyed to Ellis Island instead of Moscow. The descendants of these overly backward and religious people now loom large among the “red state” voters who have been so important in recent national elections. Jewish animosity toward the Christian culture that is so deeply ingrained in much of America is legendary. As Joel Kotkin points out, “for generations, [American] Jews have viewed religious conservatives with a combination of fear and disdain.” And as Elliott Abrams notes, the American Jewish community “clings to what is at bottom a dark vision of America, as a land permeated with anti-Semitism and always on the verge of anti-Semitic outbursts.”

As the quote from neocon Elliott Abrams—and much else—indicates, this fear and loathing continues into the present. Consistent with what we know of the psychology of ethnocentrism, a fundamental motivation of Jewish intellectuals and activists involved in social criticism has simply been hatred of the non-Jewish power structure perceived as anti-Jewish and deeply immoral—Susan Sontag’s “the white race is the cancer of human history,” which was published in Partisan Review, a prominent literary journal associated with the New York Intellectuals (a Jewish intellectual movement), is emblematic.

As I write this in the summer of 2020, we are experiencing what feels like the end game in the Jewish conquest of White America. Because Jews have become a hostile elite with a powerful position in the media and educational system, Jewish attitudes in the 1950s that the U.S. is an “awful, corrupt, immoral, undemocratic, racist society” are now entirely mainstream, and the cancel culture that we see now is indeed directed most of all toward White red-state voters, particularly in the South. Cancel culture started with toppling Confederate monuments, but of course it didn’t stop there, so now statues of the Founding Fathers are being destroyed, and there are demands that statues dedicated to Christian religious figures be removed. Jews in particular have demanded the removal of a statue of King Louis IX of France because of his attempt to curb Jewish moneylending in the interests of his people.

This hatred won’t end if and when Whites become a minority. Jews were responsible for the 1965 immigration law that opened up the United States to immigration from all over the world, and they have energetically worked to make alliances with these immigrant groups, who are encouraged to hate White America and often adopt anti-White rhetoric almost as soon as they arrive, because they can see the political advantages of doing so.

This won’t end well. As I concluded in my recent book, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition:

I agree with Enoch Powell: “as I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’” All the utopias dreamed up by the Left inevitably lead to bloodshed—because they conflict with human nature. The classical Marxist Utopian vision of a classless society in the USSR self-destructed, but only after murdering millions of its own people. Now the multicultural utopian version that has become dominant throughout the West is showing signs of producing intense opposition and irreconcilable polarization.

Given the very large Jewish involvement in these projects consequent to the Jewish rise to elite status throughout the West, the big picture is that the thrust of Jewish power has been to create societies envisioned as being good for Jews, inevitably advertised in idealistic, morally uplifting, humanitarian terms [to appeal to the evolutionary psychology of individualism where social ties are based on belong to moral communities rather than communities based on kinship ties]. Historically, such projects have typically not ended well and have resulted in massive social upheavals. It would thus not be surprising if current social divisions result in a movement characterized by anti-Jewish overtones. . . .

All of the measures of White representation in the forces of social control will continue to decline in the coming years given the continued deterioration of the demographic situation. At this point, even stopping immigration completely and deporting illegals would not be enough to preserve a White America long term.

The left and its big business allies have created a monster. Whites have to realize that if they do nothing, they will be increasingly victimized and vilified in the coming decades as the monster continues to gain power. Better that any blood be shed sooner rather than later.

What happened in the early decades of the Soviet Union is a chilling reminder of what can happen when an alien hostile elite seizes control of a country.

I agree entirely with Corey’s conclusions and recommendations for a revival centered around the adaptive aspects of Christianity—the aspects that produced Western expansion, innovation, discovery, individual freedom, economic prosperity, and strong family bonds; a Christianity that is adaptive, in the evolutionary sense of survival and reproduction, and fundamentally cognizant of the mistakes of the past.

We must not tolerate subversion. Liberalism must go; we cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the Enlightenment. We cannot afford to countenance any further anti-American, anti-family, anti-White speech, and this should be reflected in a new Constitution. Just as conservatism was not enough, the United States Constitution was not enough, with gaps that left it gaping wide for judicial “interpretation.” For another thing, we must circle the wagons and inculcate the männerbund, restraining our individualism at least for the time being. For another, we must return to our Lord and Savior. A nation without faith can have no guiding light, no purpose, no drive, no Mission. Izaak Walton, writing of his friend John Donne’s last days, described the body “which was once a temple of the Holy Ghost and is now become a small quantity of Christian dust.” His last line: “But I shall see it reanimated.” (Page 292)

Resources

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PREFACE BY GILES COREY

Written for the Third Edition

June 2024

It has been four years since I wrote The Sword of Christ. In that time, Western Christianity’s decline has only accelerated. Organized Christianity in America and in Western Europe is today but a dim and fading shadow of its former self. Indeed, the faith now masquerading as Christianity bears no resemblance to the Christianity that animated the men who built our civilization. It would be unrecognizable to any Christian living prior to the late nineteenth century, indeed it would be unrecognizable to the vast majority of Christians alive even just a few decades ago.

Before we embark on our grim journey, I would like to say that I was unduly harsh in my treatment of the Christian churches of the Global South, specifically the African churches. The Christians of Africa are doing commendable, indispensable, and truly brave work in their steadfast refusal to accept or normalize sodomy. I have far more faith in African Christianity at this point than I do in the Western churches.

The Catholic Church as an organization continues to bow to homosexuality more and more every day. Pope Francis has promoted nearly every leftist cause célèbre, but his approval of Fiducia supplicans in 2023 will surely be his most lasting legacy. This declaration, subtitled “On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings,” allows Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples, presumably including transgender couples as well.

Fiducia supplicans is quite sinister in its effect. While Francis’s apologists argue that the document itself does not actually alter Christian doctrine, given the fact that any individual (including sodomites, transgenders, and other deviants) can receive a blessing from a priest, and that the love of God is available to all who repent of their sins and seek Him, this is a specious argument that fails to address the true significance of the document. While it is true that any individual can be blessed by a priest, and it is true that God will not turn away from any individual who truly repents and seeks His grace, neither of these points is relevant here. In this particular case, we are dealing exclusively with unrepentant, profligate, proud deviants, fallen, corroded souls who embrace sodomy and perversion, who fly their rainbow flags as a satanic mockery of God’s rainbow covenant with Noah.

While Fiducia supplicans does not technically alter Christian doctrine, it is obviously intended to signify to the world that the Church is surrendering its stalwart position. While a devout Christian who has studied the topic might understand that the document does not officially recognize same-sex relationships as sacramental marriages, the casual Christian and the average non-Christian who encounters the document would be led to believe that it does officially accept and even celebrate sodomy as compatible with the Christian life. The document clearly paves the way for exactly that. Why else would this document have been approved and published, if not to create the impression that sodomite couples could now enter into a proxy form of sacramental marriage under the auspices of the Catholic Church?

Most of the mainline Protestant churches across Europe and the United States can no longer even be referred to as Christian, having long ago chosen to embrace sodomy, transgenderism, feminism, and various other satanic heresies and ideologies. There are still the evangelicals, those socially conservative Protestants who largely vote for the Republican Party. Although the Republican Party is increasingly indistinguishable from the Democratic Party in any meaningful way, it remains true that a significant (albeit rapidly shrinking) number of Republican voters still remain opposed to homosexuality, and that an overwhelming number of Republican voters remain opposed to transgenderism. This opposition, however, exists only in the abstract, and does not translate to any physical action against the widespread transformation of American schools into LGBT conversion factories and the weaponization of Child Protective Services and family courts for the enforcement of the new orthodoxy.

In any case, it is American evangelicals, united by the heresy of Christian Zionism, who are doing more than any other Western Christians to lead themselves and their congregations into the jaws of Hell. Nowhere is this more evident than in their reaction to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people committed by Jewish Israelis. The reaction of American evangelicals can largely be characterized as one of bloodlust.

The topic of American evangelical devotion to the State of Israel, manifested in gleeful, bloodthirsty revelry at the annihilation of the Palestinian people (both Muslim and Christian), can best be illuminated by examining a typical Christian Zionist sermon. The sermon I’ve chosen is truly remarkable in its ignorance, cruelty, and inhumanity—the pillars of Christian Zionist thought. It was delivered by Bill Monroe, the head pastor at Florence Baptist Temple in Florence, South Carolina, on Palm Sunday, March 24th, 2024.9 This particular Palm Sunday also happened to fall on the same day as the Jewish revenge holiday of Purim.

Mr. Monroe opens his sermon by asking his congregants to turn to the Book of Esther, noting the date as that of the Feast of Purim, the story of which is related in Esther. He acknowledges that “we don’t have very many Jews” in South Carolina, describing Purim as “July Fourth if you’re Jewish,” and further attempts to make this alien Jewish festival of hatred relatable to his congregation by stating that some Jews celebrate Purim by dressing up in costumes, “like Halloween for us.”

Mr. Monroe next gives his flock an abbreviated version of the events narrated in the Book of Esther that gave rise to Purim. In his telling, a royal official called Haman, “enemy of the Jews,” hated the Jews because the Jews refused to bow for him. As Mr. Monroe puts it, “Jews didn’t bow to anybody,” because they only bowed before God. Angered, Haman, “one of the leading anti-Semites in all of recorded history,” devised a plot to kill all of the Jews. His plot was foiled: “The plot to eliminate the Jews was eliminated.”

Purim, in Mr. Monroe’s telling, is a celebration of “the freedom of the Jews,” as American as apple pie. He says that Jews “go to their synagogues and read the entire Book of Esther, and every time they say the name Haman, they hiss and boo, or they don’t say it at all,” casting the festival of hatred as a jolly, good-natured community picnic. Christians should also celebrate Purim, Mr. Monroe exhorts, because it is the story of how “the good guys win and the bad guys hang on the gallows.” Esther, he continues, “is one of the most amazing books of the Bible.” Even though the word God appears nowhere in the text, “God is working,” and the triumph of the Jews over Haman is prima facie evidence of “the providence of God . . . orchestrating things to carry out His will.”

Mr. Monroe then takes it upon himself to deliver a lecture on the history of Israel. Why? Because “Israel is central to everything that we believe.” With a map of the present State of Israel on the projector screen, he begins his story in 1987, with the First Intifada, which he characterizes as unprovoked terrorism against the innocent Jews of Israel. He decries the 1993 Oslo Accords, which, he says, “gave the governing authority of part of Israel to the Palestinians.” “Now, keep in mind,” Mr. Monroe continues, “Israel had fought to take that land in 1948. They miraculously got a little sliver of land,” which was “greatly expanded” in the Six-Day War of 1967. Reiterating, Mr. Monroe declares that “Israel has been under pressure to give up its land since 1987. It fought three wars to gain that land.”

In his grotesquely childish and one-sided view of history, Mr. Monroe sees the Palestinians as greedy invaders “demanding that they have a part of Israel.” He mocks the Palestinians by chanting, “We want more land, we want more land, we want more land.” Hamas, he tells us, wants “to turn Israel into an Islamic republic, to drive the Jews into the sea, to eliminate the Jews.”

Concluding his jaundiced history lesson, Mr. Monroe declares:

I’m going to say something contrary to everything you hear if you watch the news. The Palestinians . . . [t]hat has never been their land. Not one time, not one inch, not in all of history. There is no Palestinian. Never has been. The Palestinians are Arabic people who migrated into Israel since Israel has been a state in 1948. When Israel went there in 1948, that was a wasteland. . . . That land, and more was given to Abraham by Almighty God Himself. The title deed goes back to Genesis chapter 12. That’s Israel. That’s God’s land.

His congregation is delighted, chanting “Amen,” and “That’s right.”

We now pause Bill Monroe’s satanic sermon in order to examine the Nakba, the true story of the establishment of the State of Israel, as well as to discuss the true origins of the Jews and the Palestinians.

Britain’s 1917 Balfour Declaration promised Palestine as the future Jewish homeland; interestingly, there is considerable evidence to suggest that the British issued that document in exchange for influential Zionists orchestrating America’s entry into the First World War.10 In any case, after the Allied victory, Palestine passed from Ottoman to British control. Violence perpetrated by Zionist settlers against the Palestinians continued to escalate, as the Zionists tried to maximize Jewish immigration. British forces, alongside Zionist militias, brutally repressed Palestinian resistance, and by 1939 an estimated 14 to 17 percent of the adult male population of Palestine was killed or imprisoned.11

After the Second World War, the Zionists engaged in a campaign of terrorism against the British authorities in order to establish exclusive Jewish control over Palestine. In 1947, the British asked the newborn United Nations to propose a solution, which resulted in a partition plan that would have given 55 percent of Palestine to the Jews. At that time, Jews controlled only 6 percent of Palestine and comprised about a third of the population, the vast majority of whom had arrived only in the previous few years.12 The Jews, dissatisfied with this massive expansion of territory, resolved to proceed with what they had been planning and preparing for since well before even the Balfour Declaration—the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, a genocide which the Arabs call the Nakba.

Supported unconditionally by both the United States and the Soviet Union—and armed with heavy Soviet weaponry—the Zionists declared the State of Israel on May 14th, 1948. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine had begun decades prior, but the Nakba proper occurred from late 1947 through the summer of 1949, by which time the Jews had seized 80 percent of Palestine, killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and exiling nearly a million of them from what had been their homeland for almost two millennia. This systematic removal of the Palestinian people was accomplished through the pillaging and destruction of hundreds of villages, marked by ruthless massacres and atrocities.13

Jewish forces, then as now, regarded Palestinian villages as enemy military bases, and all Palestinians—including women, children, and infants—were seen as enemy combatants. At Deir Yassin, thirty babies were among the slaughtered; at Safsaf, women and girls were gang-raped in front of the captive villagers, and a pregnant woman was bayoneted; at Dawaymeh, babies were crushed and women were gang-raped and burned alive.14 Zionist militants threw a young Palestinian boy into an oven and roasted him alive, with his father following close behind.15 The Jews also engaged in biological warfare, poisoning aqueducts and wells with typhoid and dysentery viruses.16 Examples like these abound.

One incident is particularly revealing of Jewish bestiality: the elderly father of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid recently related the story of how his parents had willingly taken in a family of pitiful Jewish refugees who arrived in their country from Europe. His pregnant mother traveled to a neighboring town for a few days to be with her relatives for the birth of her child. When she returned, she found that the Jewish family they had kindly taken into their home had dispossessed them of it, refusing to allow them entrance to take any of their family photographs or even a blanket for their newborn baby.17

Remarkably, large numbers of British troops were still present in Palestine while the Nakba occurred. The Palestinians had expected the British to maintain some semblance of order, as they had for the last thirty years, and were thus dismayed as British forces stood by and allowed the Zionists to dispossess them of their land, loot them, and exterminate them with impunity.18

In 1967, Israel launched a surprise attack against Egypt and its other Arab neighbors, resulting in another massive expansion of its territory. During the Six-Day War that followed, Israeli forces intentionally attacked an American surveillance ship, the USS Liberty, killing or maiming more than two hundred American sailors in what was likely a false flag attempt to draw direct American intervention into the conflict.19 Today, the Palestinians control less than 2 percent of their homeland.

Since 1967, they have lived under total Israeli occupation, as Zionist settlers armed and supported by the Israeli and American governments have continued to encroach upon what little land they have managed to eke out an existence on. For over fifteen years, more than two million Palestinians have been confined to Gaza, a roughly 140 square mile open-air prison (a space roughly as large as Detroit), at the mercy of the increasingly fanatical Israeli government.20 In 2018, Israel responded to peaceful protests by butchering and disfiguring many thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.

Christian Zionists like Bill Monroe predicate their entire heretical theology upon the belief that the Jews remain God’s Chosen. They believe that the New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ is essentially inoperative, and that the Old Testament remains in effect. This belief is itself premised upon the notion that the Jews of the Old Testament, and even the Jews in Christ’s time, are the same as those who call themselves Jews today. Most emphatically, however, they are not.

In the first place, rabbinical or Talmudic Judaism is not the religion of the Jews of the Old Testament, and indeed did not arise until long after the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ. This Judaism emerged as a reaction against Christianity, motivated and fueled entirely by rejection and hatred of Jesus Christ. While it is true that the Jews of Christ’s time are responsible for His murder, and thus it is accurate to refer to the Jews as “Christ-killers,” it must also be understood that Judaism is not itself the same faith as the one that those Jews practiced.

The vast majority of the Jews whom we see in positions of oligarchic wealth and cultural and political power throughout the West today are Ashkenazim. Their origins remain frustratingly opaque, but it is clear that they are not related to the Jews of the Bible.21 They are, indeed, “the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie” (Rev. 3:9). Even at the time of the late Roman empire, little if any of the empire’s Jewish population had any Judean ancestry; in other words, few if any Jews even at this relatively early period could trace their roots to the Israelites of the Bible.22

The Judeans, the Jews of the Bible, in fact remained exactly where they were.

Over the centuries, many of those Jews eventually converted to Christianity then later to Islam following the Muslim conquest, and they are the ancestors of today’s Palestinians, leavened by an admixture from all the various conquering groups of the last two thousand years, including Arabs, Crusaders, and Turks. Thus, the direct descendants of the Judeans lived continuously in their homeland prior to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. . . . [D]espite a long series of military conquests and foreign overlords, the Israelites of the Old Testament had remained in place for well over two thousand years, annually plowing their fields until they were brutally uprooted and expelled from their ancient homeland by Zionist militants in 1948.23

The tremendous historical irony that the current Palestinians—now suffering horrifying massacres in Gaza—are almost certainly the closest lineal descendants of the biblical Israelites was fully understood by the Zionists, including David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel’s second president. In 1918, Ben-Gurion and Ben-Zvi had written Eretz Israel in the Past and the Present, the most important Zionist book of its time, in which “they summarized the strong historical evidence that the local Palestinians were obviously just long-converted Jews, expressing the hope that they would therefore be absorbed into the growing Zionist movement and become an integral part of their planned State of Israel.” In 1929, Ben-Zvi published a pamphlet reiterating this argument. It was only after Palestinian resistance emerged to the Zionist project that the Judean ancestry of the Palestinian Arabs became an inconvenient truth to be discarded and obscured.

Where, then, did the Ashkenazim come from? Compelling evidence suggests that they are actually the descendants of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians—Punic peoples widely known as the Canaanites.

The namesake of the Canaanites, Canaan, was a son of Ham, himself a son of Noah. In Genesis 9:20–27, Ham walked in upon his naked father and, rather than cover him up, told his brothers about it. His brothers walked backwards into Noah’s tent and covered him. When Noah awoke, he said, “Cursed be Canaan,” cursing Ham through his son. Canaan’s descendants, as a result of this curse, practiced incest, sodomy, bestiality, and child sacrifice to the demon Moloch. These practices, set forth in Leviticus 18, marked the Canaanites for expulsion from the land of what is now the State of Israel.24

Thus the irony is twofold. First, as we have seen, the modern Palestinians are the real descendants of the biblical Israelites; thus, “the entire Zionist project justifies itself off the claim that they are the descendants of the Israelites, but in reality, they are expelling the actual descendants of the Israelites from the Holy Land.”25 If indeed the modern Jews are the descendants of the Canaanites, then “the Zionist settlers are not just a foreign entity attacking the true Israelites, but are actually the descendants of the people that were cursed and explicitly ordered for removal from the land by God.”26

The Canaanite origins of the Ashkenazim would also at least partially explain the origins of the practice of the Jewish ritual murder of Christian children. Archaeological evidence has incontrovertibly proven that the Carthaginians and other Phoenicians did ritually sacrifice children to the demons Baal-Hammon and Tanit, or Astarte, namesake of the demon Astaroth, supporting the biblical accounts of Canaanite child sacrifice. Child sacrifice did not end with the destruction of Carthage, but rather persisted within the religious practice of the Ashkenazim, Carthaginian peoples who converted to rabbinical or Talmudic Judaism.27

Another interesting link between Canaanite religion and Ashkenazi practice involves the so-called Star of David, which is both the Israeli flag and the standard of international Jewry. Its origins, like so much about the Ashkenazim, are shrouded in mystery. There is nothing in the Bible that would associate David with the symbol. The Star of David, the hexagram, is almost certainly the “star of your god Remphan” mentioned by St. Stephen in his speech to the Sanhedrin (Acts 7:43), itself a reference to “the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god” (Amos 5:26).

Remphan is the Egyptian name for Saturn, and Chiun the Hebrew name for Saturn. Furthermore, the Romans associated the Phoenician Baal-Hammon with Saturn, likely reinforced by the fact that Saturn ate his children in Roman mythology. Many Roman and Jewish sources attest to the significance of Saturn in Jewish practice. Tacitus and St. Augustine stated that the Jews had made the Sabbath their day of rest not to honor God, as is commanded in the Old Testament (Exod. 20:8–11), but in order to worship Saturn, an assertion seemingly confirmed by the fact that the Babylonian Talmud refers to Saturn as “Shabbetai,” the star of Shabbat, Saturday.28

While Jews are today unable or unwilling to discuss the origin of the Star of David, the Jewish Virtual Library states that “the oldest undisputed example is on a seal from the seventh century B.C.E. found in Sidon,” which was a prominent Phoenician city, and that Arab and Jewish sources referred to the hexagram as “the seal of Solomon.” This connects the symbol with the Testament of Solomon, a noncanonical pseudepigraphic text in which “God gives Solomon a ring engraved with a pentagram that allows him to control demons, and the story ends with Solomon worshipping Moloch and Remphan in exchange for sex.” Given, then, that “the oldest example of the Star of David is from around the time of Amos, in a major city of Saturn worshippers, and its first documented appearances also associate it with Saturn in the time of Stephen,” it is highly probable that Amos and Stephen were speaking of the hexagram, or Star of David, when they condemned the Star of Remphan or Saturn.29

Quite disturbingly, in 1981 the Voyager interstellar probe mission revealed a massive hexagonal storm at the north pole of Saturn, something that the Canaanites could not possibly have known. The “black cube” of Saturn, which also happens to be the sixth planet from the Sun, has long been a central concept in occult practices due partially to the association of the numbers 666 with Satan (Rev. 13:18). While this is an esoteric topic, the extreme emphasis on ritualism within rabbinical Judaism makes it a topic that is only to be ignored at our peril, and provides another link between Canaanite Saturn-worship and international Jewry.

We return now to the execrable Purim sermon of the Christian Zionist Bill Monroe. Mr. Monroe tells his hopelessly befuddled, semi-lobotomized, and quasi-retarded congregation:

[On October 7th, 2023] radical terrorists broke out of Gaza. They attacked, they went to kibbutzim, businesses, homes, jerked the doors open, began killing people. At the end of the day, 1,400 Jews had been murdered. Babies, for the first time, became part of the terrorist plan. Little children, babies, were beheaded. Little toddlers were raped. It was the cruelest, wickedest, most evil thing that anybody has seen.

As proof of this narrative, as though his rapt audience would ever ask him for proof, Mr. Monroe cites Tony Perkins, the Southern Baptist pastor and president of the Family Research Council, who, he says, “saw the films.”

There are so many lies packed into that paragraph that it is hard to know exactly where to start. In the first place, the Hamas “attack” on the State of Israel was not a surprise attack. In December 2023, law professors Robert Jackson, Jr., and Joshua Mitts, respectively of Columbia University and New York University, published a paper with profound implications that has predictably gone almost entirely unremarked upon, even in alternative media.

They documented a significant spike in short selling in the principal Israeli-company exchange-traded fund in the days immediately prior to the October 7th Hamas raid. The short selling that day far exceeded the short selling that occurred during numerous other periods of crisis, including the recession following the 2008 financial crisis, the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, and the so-called COVID-19 pandemic. They also identified increases in short selling before the raid in dozens of Israeli companies traded in Tel Aviv, as well as a sharp increase, just before the raid, in trading in risky short-dated options (expiring just after October 7th) on Israeli companies on U.S. exchanges. Clearly, then, Israeli traders had foreknowledge of the Hamas raid, and in fact profited from it.30

Since Israeli traders had foreknowledge of the October 7th Hamas raid, it thus follows that they were informed of it by the Israeli government. Why, then, did Israel allow the raid to happen? There are two reasons, both of which are obvious to anyone who has observed the actions of the State of Israel since: 1) to provide a pretext for the total extermination or removal of every last Palestinian from Palestine; and 2) to escalate the genocide of Palestine into a regional war, with the ultimate goal of drawing the United States, a rapidly declining power, into a direct war against Iran, something that Israel has been trying to accomplish for decades.

For more than thirty years, Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Iran is on the cusp of producing a nuclear weapon, a claim that continues to animate his Republican errand boys in the United States. While the State of Israel has engaged in an assassination and sabotage campaign within Iran for decades, its most direct attempt to incite a war occurred on April 1st, 2024, with an airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria. While Israel had successfully directed the Donald Trump administration to assassinate Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020, this Israeli bombing of traditionally inviolate diplomatic quarters was a blatant act of war obviously designed to provoke the sort of Iranian retaliation that would draw in American intervention.31

Israel and its puppets in the American government also claim, again without any evidence, that Iran, acting through Hamas, is the primary culprit of the October 7th raid. Hence Republicans like Nimrata Randhawa (better known as Nikki Haley) wag their fingers on television, declaring that we must finish Iran. Senator Lindsey Graham urges us to “hit Iran. They have oil fields out in the open, they have the Revolutionary Guard headquarters you can see from space. Blow it off the map,” while the Biden administration has pledged to do “whatever it takes” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. There is no evidence to suggest that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, but we can be assured that Israel will be working hard to produce fabricated evidence, just as it did with Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in 2003.32

Just days after the October 7th Hamas raid, the Biden administration dispatched two aircraft carrier strike groups to the eastern Mediterranean, along with orders to prepare the deployment of two thousand Marines.33 Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, the Black superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, declared that American soldiers are “prepared to die for the Jewish state.”34

In the same month, John Hagee of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) delivered a sermon telecast from his Cornerstone Church, a Christian Zionist megachurch in San Antonio, Texas. Flanked by Israeli officials and Republican members of Congress, he cited Christian Zionist “End Times prophecy” to call for war against Iran:

The righteous rage of America must be focused on Iran. . . . Let me say it to you in plain Texas speech. America should roll up its sleeves and knock the living daylights out of Tehran for what they have done to Israel. Hit them so hard that our enemies will once again fear us.35

His congregation cheered and waved Israeli flags—the Star of Remphan.