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White Supremacist: Zionists May Try to Stop "America Unearthed" from Reporting Truth about White History

5/17/2014

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Note for the easily offended: Please note that I regularly report on what audience members have to say about popular fringe history claims. I recently, for example, discussed a woman who said Ancient Aliens convinced her she was abducted by aliens. Discussion of how audience members choose to use fringe claims and integrate them into their worldviews does not imply that the originators of the claims endorse said worldviews, only that they should be aware of how their readers and viewers approach and understand their claims.

Extremists tend to see what they want to see, but there are times when what extremists see shocks and surprises even me. That was the case today when I discovered some recent and shocking reactions to America Unearthed that point toward the contradictory ways fringe history claims can be woven into political ideology.
To an extent, the material I discovered today is anticipated in Michael Barkun’s A Culture of Conspiracy (2006/2013), in which Barkun documents the extent to which fringe history has been preoccupied with questions of Judaism through an unholy alliance forged in the 1990s between elements of ufology and those of right-wing antigovernment conspiracy theorists, all of whom, for various reasons, incorporated elements of traditional anti-Semitism into their conspiracies, often under different names, for example revising the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to refer not to Jews but to Illuminati or Reptilians. This made it rather a simple process for fringe history to feed back into explicit anti-Semitism and racism.

The Stormfront white supremacist discussion board has an ongoing discussion on archaeological excavations at Treblinka, which predictably the posters assumed was part of a Zionist conspiracy to frame the Nazis. Many Stormfront members are Holocaust deniers, and I trust you will understand why I have chosen not to link directly to the discussion, which you can find easily enough at their website if you are so inclined.

Early this morning Stormfront member “Catherine Grace” wrote that she believes that the Smithsonian is helping to fabricate the Holocaust as part of a liberal-leftist effort to rewrite history to deny the accomplishments of the white race while celebrating those of ethnic and racial minorities. Here is what she had to say about how America Unearthed helped her to see the “truth” about the Smithsonian, and she provided her fellow racists with a link to Scott Wolter’s blog:
Not to change the subject totally but since the Smithsonian, a prestigious and trusted institution is involved in this holyhoax [i.e., Holocaust] quackery, I want to say something that I never realized about the Smithsonian before.

A viking archeologist in the usa, Scott Wolter, who is an expert on runic artifacts has found evidence for vikings being far into North America before Leif Erikson and the Smithsonian is trying to discredit him.

He says if you ever find anything that looks to be an ancient artifact, never send it to the Smithsonian or it will never be seen again.

He has a show "America Unearthed" on the History Channel, which they will probably cancel unless he does a holyhoax episode to kiss their arse. Just something to be aware of.

Other actions of the Smithsonian that show it just to be a political tool of the leftist agenda driven regime is that they put Trayvon Martin's hoodie on display. Now that's an American legacy. Scary they are.
Additional responses from other members complained that the Smithsonian operated museums devoted to non-white peoples. The Smithsonian denied media reports that it was interested in acquiring the Martin hoodie last year. It is currently in evidence with the U.S. Department of Justice and is not on display anywhere.

This is exactly the outcome I feared when I told a television producer for the Science Channel a few months ago that doing a documentary about the non-existent Smithsonian “conspiracy” invented by David Childress in 1993 would only serve to give aid and comfort to those who are predisposed to extremist conspiracies. Here we see evidence that such claims easily become fodder for extremist beliefs, and it is especially shocking that “Catherine Grace” sees the Smithsonian as virtually all-powerful but does not wonder how, then, America Unearthed ended up on H2 in the first place—with the cooperation of the Smithsonian, which gave Scott Wolter permission to test the Bat Creek Stone (twice!) and access to Smithsonian collections with Dr. Dennis Stanford. It is also worth noting that “Catherine Grace” failed to understand who Scott Wolter is, mistaking him for an archaeologist and an expert in runes, and also overlooked his claims about Jews in prehistoric America (unless, as seems likely, she follows British Israelism or Christian Identity and denies that modern Jews are related).

It bears repeating: When irresponsible programs imply nefarious conspiracies, audiences read this as a coded effort to convince them that the implications are true and respond in kind.

This kind of reaction to America Unearthed is hardly confined to the racist extreme of the political right, but it does seem to have a strange connection to concerns over Judaism, even among the most steadfast supporters of Israel. Zahal.com is a website devoted to covering Israeli military affairs, so it was somewhat strange to see a long article posted to their blog about America Unearthed earlier today. It turns out that the piece is actually an uncredited reprint of an article Richard Thornton published last year on Examiner.com in which Thornton, who appeared on America Unearthed in 2012 but fails to disclose this fact, accused right wing conservatives of trying to suppress the program before its 2012 premiere:
A multi-pronged attack was executed. While the History Channel team was filming in Mexico, neighbors, landlords, Georgia universities, local law enforcement, even people on the street, were contacted by right wing federal law enforcement officers and told that individuals associated with the new Track Rock site study were Obama-lovers, home burglars, gay, atheists, devil-worshipers, insane, sexual predators, Marxists, owned dangerous, killer attack dogs . . . or whatever lie seemed appropriate at the time. These law enforcement officers were all former military personnel, who had learned their psych-ops skills in the Middle East.
The filming he refers to occurred in 2012, during the Democratic Obama administration, and it is unclear how he sees the Obama administration as suppressing America Unearthed in accordance with a right wing agenda.

The “Middle East” connection is also very vague, and I’m not sure what Thornton was trying to imply. A few paragraphs later he states his belief that the Cherokee are the descendants of Anatolian Jews, as well as Muslims who converted to Judaism (!) in America, and he seems to imply that Muslims are secretly trying to suppress the truth to avoid revealing Muslim apostasy in favor of Judaism in early America: “The horse of a prominent Georgia Cherokee warrior was named ‘Al Baraq’ which means ‘Lightning’ in Arabic. It was the name of the horse that the Quran says took Mohammed to heaven, and also President Obama’s first name.” Of course! Obama is a secret Muslim who is working with Middle Eastern dictatorships to hide the fact that America had been colonized by Jews! It’s so obvious!

Apparently no matter your view on Jews, if you are a conspiracy theorist you’re sure that America Unearthed is somehow the victim of a conspiracy to either promote Judaism or suppress it, by left wing or right wing government agencies, who somehow control all of the levers of power in America except for the programming department at H2.

It’s strange to me that programs like Ancient Aliens, America’s Book of Secrets, Unsealed: Alien Files, Unsealed: Conspiracy Files, Brad Meltzer’s Decoded, Codes and Conspiracies, and many others fail to elicit the same types of reactions. To take a clear example: Ancient Aliens and America Unearthed both did nearly identical episodes on Smithsonian conspiracies in the Grand Canyon just weeks apart, but one is routinely cited as “evidence” that such conspiracies are real much more than the other. Partly it might be because many of these programs present themselves as tongue-in-cheek or only semi-serious; another part must be that the other shows fail to present a consistent narrative whose material easily dovetails with “conspiracy culture” and its particular preoccupation with reflecting concerns about racial, religious, cultural, and ethnic identity issues. By choosing to explore North American history in terms of ethnic groups and their various voyages, rather than a generalized conspiracy or alien Other, America Unearthed makes its claims that much more attractive to those who would use them in support of ideological ends.

39 Comments
Only Me
5/17/2014 07:09:49 am

Danger, Jason Colavito! Danger! Phil Gotsch meltdown imminent!

(Don't hide in the cellar...it didn't work at Pompeii, either.)

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[jad]
5/17/2014 07:25:28 am

There is a most excellent previous and prior thread
that easily has up to 35 comments, where the many
waves of immigration to the Americas by sapient
beings is more apt to draw upon the "better angels"
of our highly moral and highly opinionated Reverend.
lets avoid this one as we go back to the much more
fascinating topic of the implications of the tale told
by humble mitochondrial DNA sequences from a time
that is 12,000 years ago, and a humble village thusly.

I still think a few Great Apes beat out the Terror Birds
to North America, but that is another topic for another
rainy day. To think that Europe was civilized by early
Neandertals and we moderns are not too much of an
improvement on these early explorers who entered the
areas that had been under the vast Ice Sheets! Hitler's
abysmal ignorance and genocidal malice is late in the
day. I'd rather think of Doggerland as it was about a half
million years ago, or even how fleeting those footprints
were in the mud near the English Channel. I can't even
opine if they were made by my ancestors, but it does
seem Doggerland like Beringia was a tourist destination!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/ancient-footprints-england-800000-years-africa_n_4744958.html

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.
5/17/2014 07:29:18 am

Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old — the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe.

A team from the British Museum, London's Natural History Museum and Queen Mary college at the University of London uncovered imprints from up to five individuals in ancient estuary mud at Happisburgh on the country's eastern coast.

British Museum archaeologist Nick Ashton said the discovery — recounted in detail in the journal PLOS ONE — was "a tangible link to our earliest human relatives."

Preserved in layers of silt and sand for hundreds of millennia before being exposed by the tide last year, the prints give a vivid glimpse of some of our most ancient ancestors. They were left by a group, including at least two children and one adult male. They could have been be a family foraging on the banks of a river scientists think may be the ancient Thames, beside grasslands where bison, mammoth, hippos and rhinoceros roamed.

University of Southampton archaeology professor Clive Gamble, who was not involved in the project, said the discovery was "tremendously significant."

An Over-Educated Grunt
5/17/2014 12:29:35 pm

Reading the Ashton paper now. I'd be leery of putting too much faith in a "find" where a cluster of twelve prints were found in a fine-graded soil in an alluvial or estuarine deposit. That's an area with high water flow and easily moved soils, so the survival of a single print, let about fifty, is extremely unlikely. There's a difference between this and a volcanic site, where the depositional environment is rapid; deposition in alluvial and estuarine deposits is generally gradual, the precise kind of environment that erodes footprints before they can be preserved.

Short version: I find it extremely unlikely that the find is truly a find, based on the materials in which it was found. It would be a hell of a find if it were true, but I've just got reservations about finding footprints in a river bank after half a million years.

Gunn
5/18/2014 03:11:36 am

[jad], you are hereby banished to Pangaea, which is still breaking-up. Follow the Terror Birds back to earliest qualified "humans", for the answer to your mental struggle. Hint: don't be afraid to travel with the first camels and horses! (This should keep you busy for a while.)

[jad]
5/18/2014 05:37:22 am

Gunn --- you've just got to admit that early bipedal humans
encountering a nasty molting mother hen of a Terror Bird
would make a truly nifty sci-fi "B' flic script for a low budget
time travel epic on par with Doctor Who's better treks!!!!
my theory is that we humans were always a meddlesome
and irritating a species even when we weren't the brainiest
contender for the sapience throne. think of a dolphin's thoughts
upon seeing Mama Terror Bird dealing with some egg sucking
thieves on the beaches of times that once were and are not.

Jason Colavito link
5/17/2014 08:11:34 am

No doubt. Check this out--Wolter and Frank Joseph are going to be together again at a conference this fall! http://www.aaapf.org/scripts/prodview.asp?idProduct=70

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Only Me
5/17/2014 09:38:00 am

Damn! Scott Wolter, Wayne May, Frank Joseph *and* Jim Scherz in one venue.

.
5/18/2014 05:40:19 am

Jason is in total glee like as if he just won the
Kentucky Derby with a trifecta ticket. expect
a total toasting of SW's ambitions via blog post.

.
5/18/2014 06:25:11 am

the really depressing thing about SW is that his actions
are vindicating many of Jason's older blogs. a few months
back, i had though Jason was rather caustic. today, at this
point in tyme, i'm simply sitting back, as i am sorta seeing
what looks like to be a repeat of what Jeff Rense had gone
thru over the past two decades, in part becuz fame is a most
curious beastie. Jeff Rense's site went from being hippie/dippie
and UFO~buff friendly into an intense crypto-fascist phase be4
going well past the Raising of the Jolly Roger as his aggragate
current events and/or newsie topics went totally neo-nazi & most
unreadable in a painful way. Jeff Rense once had almost rivaled
Art Bell and then he actually went to the right of David Duke.
if SW is about to trek + track in the exact same "fellow traveler"
manner, this is going to be most equally painful to watch. I did
like Art Bell's radio show. initially Mr. Jeff Rense came across
as cool and laid back, but he over time dropped a public facade.

.
5/17/2014 07:14:21 am

true, that.
the same
fringe idiots
would have
been upset
had Mitt won.
either way,
can we say
F-R-I-N-G-E?

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Walt
5/17/2014 07:32:44 am

Did you see the results of the Anti-Defamation League's latest poll? They polled over 50k adults in over 100 countries and two-thirds of adults either never heard of the Holocaust, or don't believe it happened the way we're told.

http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/anti-semitism-international/adl-global-100-poll.html

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.
5/17/2014 07:53:35 am

No... i didn't see it. i agree.
The results are alarming, yes.
Stalin's Russia + Nazi Germany
are not total flukes, we all may
have been very lucky, here...

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Jason Colavito link
5/17/2014 08:12:36 am

I did see that. These are obviously not moot issues supported only by the craziest extremists.

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.
5/17/2014 08:20:52 am

William Shirer's most excellent book + thesis
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH
looks at the apathetic political center and what
they thought and felt as the Weimar Republic
went thru difficulties. This has us handing both
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney more respect
if we realize people very similar to the voters who
voted for these two men had to choose between
the street violence of the Communists or the Nazis.

Varika
5/17/2014 01:41:51 pm

The more-specific breakdown of statistics--ie, what countries were most/least anti-Semitic--are actually much more interesting than this skewed overall picture. (And I say skewed because when you say "two thirds of people" it implies an even distribution worldwide, which the rest of the statistics actually deny.)

Hm, highest levels of anti-Semitism: Israel's neighbors. I WONDER if that might be because Israel does not play nice with the other children. On the other hand, there is some hope for this nation, after all, since only 9% of the population qualifies as anti-Semitic under this poll. It would be nice if those totals were even lower--like zero--but it's still less than I would have predicted, and it's about a third of that highly misleading worldwide total.

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Mandalore
5/17/2014 02:04:25 pm

The poll also asked about views of Israel. A lot of Mid East anti-Semetism was linked to political dislike of Israel more than dislike of Judaism.

Walt
5/17/2014 02:25:30 pm

The ADL said 2/3 of people resonded in that manner on the page I referenced. It's their 2nd bullet point of the major findings.

I saw it reported on NHK World and the U.S. was actually lauded as among the best. That doesn't happen very often with international issues. I'm just happy I don't have to explain to my friends around the world why we Americans are so dumb, for a change.

Varika
5/18/2014 03:15:03 pm

Mandalore, Walt, I guess the real point of my post was a certain cynicism about polls like this. It may be true that 2/3 of the people in the world expressed said views, but saying it that way implies an even distribution across the population--which is precisely what the ADL wants, because then they can cry that the world is against Jews. Personally, I'm not sure that not believing the Holocaust happened as historical documents express really has anything to do with hatred of Jews. Or even an opinion about Jews at all. Reasons could range from "I think numbers were inflated to make the horror stories sound worse to get money for so-called charity groups" to "I don't think the documents record ENOUGH of the horror" to "I think those idiot Europeans lie about everything" to "The Jews made it up so they could take over Israel." I have in fact heard all four explanations, and while three of them show a clear bigotry, only one of them qualifies as anti-Semitic. But this pole didn't bother to find that out, they assumed that disbelief in the Holocaust--either wholly or partially--MUST come from a hatred of Jews.

Never trust polls completely. Ever. They always find what the person paying for the study wants them to find. The value is in the parts they don't particularly care one way or another about.

Terry link
5/17/2014 06:34:00 pm

A much more useful study would be a poll of the majority of Jews in the world to reveal, in turn, what percentage are "infected" with racist views toward Muslims, Arabs, Catholics, Chinese, or black people for that matter. Pot meet kettle, etc. The very notion of such a survey would illicit cries of antisemitism from the ADL and company. Hell, I fully expect to be called an antisemite just for entertaining such a notion.

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Titus pullo
5/18/2014 02:03:52 am

Intolerance is driven by politics and is inherent in all groups. In discussing politics and economics, I often find myself arguing against liberal Jews who are very intolerant of other views. I also find myself debating very social conservatives who claim to be Christians and are very intolerant. No one is absolved of being a bigot in some ways. Over the years I've become more libertarian as this allows maximum freedom while acknolowdging people are biased.

Shawn Flynn
5/17/2014 10:28:00 am

I don't understand Holocaust deniers. Most of them like the Stormfront douches or Neo-Nazis in general would be mad that someone said they were killing Jews but you'd figure they'd want to inflate the numbers and say they did a great job. The most you can do the mainstream Western world to admire them is early military tactics and their snappy clothes. Its not like Nazis can get a soften mainstream image here.

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Chris L
5/18/2014 10:53:44 am

Ah but there are those who would indeed want to soften the Nazi image, at least enough make their world view a bit more easier to sell. Besides denying the Holocaust, some of these people will try to sell you the idea that WW2 was Stalin and FDR's (and his Jewish banker friends) fault. Up is down and black is white with such people.

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Varika
5/18/2014 03:30:20 pm

I was actually talking with my mother about this--because of this discussion, actually--this very morning. She made an observation that might explain some of it.

She said that even while it was going on, people did not believe that something like the Holocaust was even possible. Until the first of the camps was liberated--Auschwitz, I think? I'm not sure--most people did not think the Holocaust was actually going on. And in today's world of constant photoshopping, there are a lot of people who we think still can't comprehend something like this happening. Photos must be shopped, because it's impossible to do something like that, in their minds.

For some people it stops there, but for many others, it dovetails right on into the desire for the Nazis to be less evil. If the Holocaust is impossible, then logically the Nazis never caused it to happen, and those evil Jews are just lying about it and slandering Our Heroes.

I will also say that "BUT HOLOCAUST!" kneejerk reactions sometimes make it hard to discuss the actual history that went on. You can't even discuss how events led up to the Holocaust with some people, OR discuss how Israel has not precisely been a shining jewel or peace and love since its re-foundation. So there's probably some people who are Holocaust deniers just in reaction to that particular attitude, too. It's not exactly intelligent, but...

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
5/17/2014 11:55:52 am

"Fringe history" buffs NEATLY mirror-imaged by the "fringe debunkers" …

"Fascinating …"
-- Spock

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Rev Gotsch antidote
5/17/2014 03:07:56 pm

Ignore the ignorant

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
5/17/2014 03:57:39 pm

No …

I (generally) prefer active "engagement" … It doesn't always pay off, of course, but it is -- sometimes -- worth the effort ...

.
5/18/2014 05:57:48 am

luv --- your defense of your good buddy and friend of many
decades has earned my respect even though thy friend's
career seems to be going in a direction that can only translate
into a sadly downward spiral as he goes to the abstract right
of Alex Jones. I understand that he is not a snob or stuffy, but
if i were his trusty PR person, about at this point in time i'd be
expecting a crate of TUMs to be arriving on my porch. there is
going to be the point in tyme when we all have seen the new AU
season three episodes, which all are building on the framework established by seasons one + two, we will be wiser and much
more opinionated, upon seeing what they shall reveal, indeedy!
i
do not expect Jason to be quiet or quit blogging, i feel that if
we all can agree to be very polite as we respect each other's
opines, we all can talk about the new AU episodes like mature
adults. is our Jason trying to be only slightly politically correct
as he tries for a near total accuracy or is he almost totally PC
and highly accurate? we do get to separate the proverbial wheat
from the biblical chaff as in very soon, now --- season 3 looms!!!

Fr. Jack Ashcraft link
5/18/2014 04:24:46 am

At the very least Wolter needs someone to handle his public appearances, as he seems to have a proclivity for making poor venue choices.

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.
5/18/2014 05:43:42 am

true, that.

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Ronald W. Satz link
5/18/2014 09:41:36 am

Jews are Caucasians, in general, although other races may convert to Judaism. Modern Judaism, such as the Reconstructionist Movement, has disavowed the "Chosen People" idea--this should, hopefully, end anti-semitism. Likewise, Christians just disavow the notion that "Jesus is the only way for salvation", and the Muslims should disavow the notion that "Mohamed is the last prophet." All religions should teach the Golden Rule by means of stories which apply to their particular culture.

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Varika
5/18/2014 03:35:37 pm

I'm not sure why you think that the victims of bigotry forswearing an idea will end the bigotry, first off; when I was a kid and being bullied, ignoring it didn't make it go away and neither did promising not to do whatever had set the bully off this time.

I also think that announcing at a church or mosque those ideas would probably get you screamed at if not worse. I mean, those are sort of foundational ideas for both religions.

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
5/18/2014 10:10:42 am

Jews and Christians have LONG struggled with "the scandal of particularity," in which the faith tradition community understands and proclaims that God (and so, salvation) is encountered *THERE* (i,e., "HERE") …

Most famously confoundingly, this is taught in the phrase, "There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church …"

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Gunn
5/19/2014 07:13:14 am

Yet, I think it's good to remind the blogospherians here at this location that God through the Bible does without apology announce that only through Jesus can humanity be SAVED...a remedy for our sorry existence has been provided.

(From the Amen Corner.)

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Fr. Jack Ashcraft link
5/19/2014 12:24:56 pm

Rev, Gotsch,
The quote you gave regarding no salvation is actually a bit of a misquote. The "extra ecclesiam nulla salus" dogma has been around for quite some time, and does not refer specifically to the Roman Catholic Church. It includes Orthodoxy. The quote is more accurately translated 'No salvation outside the Church". Also, it is important to note that in both Roman and Orthodox theology it is taught that there is a possibility of salvation for those who never had an opportunity to hear the Gospel, or were invincibly ignorant and unable to make an informed decision. Everyone is responsible for the light they possess. Anyway, I just wanted to correct any misunderstandings. Back to the regularly scheduled discussion.

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
5/19/2014 04:10:38 pm

No …

The "Catholic" Faith includes The Orthodox Communion -- as distinct from The Arian Christians who were anathematized post Nicea …

But, yes … As I indicated (above), "the scandal of particularity" is often misrepresented and misunderstood … I agree ...

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Fr. Jack Ashcraft link
5/20/2014 03:48:13 am

Incorrect, Rev. Gotsch. While it is true that Arians were excommunicated (you Protestants also hold Arianism as heresy), Orthodoxy is NOT considered part of the Catholic Church. Keep in mind I am not speaking from the Vatican II ecumenist mindset, which is pure heresy itself, but from a traditionalist point of view. Orthodoxy however possesses valid holy orders and sacraments, and thus, one may save their soul through reception thereof and adherence to Orthodox theology. Your tossing in of the Arians in this conversation is simply confusing the issue, as even most Orthodox don't view them as orthodox. Thus, my original response still stands.

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Rev. Phil Gotsch
5/20/2014 09:37:51 am

THIS post-Vatican II Catholic has ALWAYS been dis-inclined toward separation and recrimination and anathema and excommunication …

Again … The precept that "there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church" is widely misunderstood ...

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Gunn
5/21/2014 03:38:04 am

Clear and simple, what the expression really means is that there is no salvation outside of Jesus, Jesus being the focus of the Catholic Church.

I look at the Catholic Church almost as a person who has fallen down and gotten back up several dozen times, yet usually striving for a goodly goal. Typical serial back-slider. The CC introducing other choices for mediators wasn't such a good idea, for instance (Mary, saints), as the Bible clearly states that there is only one Mediator between God and mankind. Only one way for salvation, too? Right. One Mediator? Only one.

And then there's the perturbing issue of obligatory evangelism for the skeptics to become riled about (think Mormons), so that the insults against religion may abound. Some people do obviously enjoy insulting religion at every opportunity, people like Bill Maher and some visitors here...it's the skeptics' secondary delight to attack, seemingly just after fringe history. But, that's the nature of the beast here, and expected, since this is, in fact, a skeptic's blog.

Everything's normal, don't worry.


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