The Jewish Hoax of Christianity

The following is an excerpt from "The White Man’s Bible" by Ben Klassen:

CONFESSIONS OF A JEW THE DEVASTATING RAMIFICATIONS OF PAUL
OF TARSUS AND CHRISTIANITY IN DESTROYING ROMAN CIVILIZATION

The following was written by Marcus Eli Ravage, a Jewish writer (1884-1965). It
appeared in the now defunct Century Magazine in the February 1928 issue. It is so
clear, so direct, and its implications so far-reaching, that the full disaster, so
explicitly spelled out herein, completely escapes the average befuddled White
Christian. Here is the heading and text of Ravages article: A REAL CASE
AGAINST THE JEWS

Of course, you do resent us. It is no good telling me you don’t. So let us not waste
any time on denials and alibis. You know you do, and I know it, and we understand
each other. To be sure, some of your best friends are Jews, and all that. I have
heard that before once or twice, I think. And I know, too, that you do not include me
personally "me" being any particular individual Jew when you fling out at us in
your wholesale fashion, because I am, well, so different, don’t you know, almost as
good as one of yourselves. That little exemption does not, somehow, move me to
gratitude; but never mind that now. It is the aggressive, climbing, pushing,
materialistic sort you dislike those, in a word, who remind you so much of your
own up-and-coming brethren. We understand each other perfectly. I don’t hold it
against you.

Bless my soul, I do not blame anybody for disliking anybody. The thing that
intrigues me about this anti-Jewish business, as you play at it, is your total lack of
grit. You are so indirect and roundabout with it, you make such transparent
excuses, you seem to be suffering from self-consciousness so horribly, that if the
performance were not grotesque, it would be irritating.

It is not as if you were amateurs: you have been at it for over fifteen centuries. Yet
watching you and hearing your childish pretexts, one might get the impression that
you did not know yourselves what it is all about. You resent us, but you can not
clearly say why. You think up a new excuse a reason is what you call it every
other day. You have been piling up justifications for yourselves these many
hundreds of years and each new invention is more laughable than the last and
each new excuse contradicts and annihilates the last. Not so many years ago I
used to hear that we were money-grubbers and commercial materialists; now the
complaint is being whispered around that no art and no profession is safe against
Jewish invasion. We are, if you are to be believed, at once clannish and exclusive
and unassimilable because we won’t intermarry with you, and we are also climbers
and pushers and a menace to your racial integrity.

Our standard of living is so low that we create your slums and sweat industries,
and so high that we crowd you out of your best residential sections. We shirk our
patriotic duty in wartime because we are pacifists by nature and tradition, and we
are the arch-plotters of universal wars and the chief beneficiaries of those wars
(see "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.")

We are at once the founders and leading adherents of capitalism and the chief
perpetrators of the rebellion against capitalism. Surely, history has nothing like us
for versatility! And, oh! I almost forgot the reason of reasons. We are the stiffnecked
people who never accepted Christianity, and we are the criminal people
who crucified its founder.

But I tell you, you are self-deceivers. You lack either the self- knowledge or the
mettle to face the facts squarely and own up to the truth. You resent the Jew not
because, as some of you seem to think, we crucified Jesus but because we gave
him birth. Your real quarrel with us is not that we have rejected Christianity but that
we have imposed it upon you! Your loose, contradictory charges against us are not
a patch on the blackness of our proved historic offense. You accuse us of stirring
up revolution in Moscow. Suppose we admit the charge. What of it? Compared
with what Paul the Jew of Tarsus accomplished in Rome, the Russian upheaval is
a mere street brawl. You make much noise and fury about the undue Jewish
influence in your theaters and movie palaces. Very good; granted your complaint is
well founded. But what is that compared to our staggering influence in your
churches, your schools, your laws and your governments, and the very thoughts
you think every day? A clumsy Russian forges a set of papers and publishes them
in a book called "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", which shows that we plotted
to bring on the late World War. You believe that book. All right. For the sake of
argument we will underwrite every word of it. It is genuine and authentic. But what
is that beside the unquestionable historical conspiracy which we have carried out,
which we have never denied because you never had the courage to charge us with
it, and of which the full record is extant for anybody to read?

If you really are serious when you talk of Jewish plots, may I not direct your
attention to one worth talking about? What use is it wasting words on the alleged

control of your public opinion by Jewish financiers, newspaper owners and movie
magnates, when you might as well justly accuse us of the proved control of your
whole civilization by the Jewish Gospels?

You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We
are disturbers. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals,
your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom not merely
of the latest Great War but of nearly all your wars, not only of the Russian but of
every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and
confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No
one can tell how long we shall go on doing it. Look back a little and see what has
happened. Nineteen hundred years ago you were an innocent, care-free, pagan
race. You worshipped countless Gods and Goddesses, the spirits of the air, of the
running streams and of the woodland. You took unblushing pride in the glory of
your naked bodies. You carved images of your gods and of the tantalizing human
figure. You delighted in the combats of the field, the arena and battle-ground. War
and slavery were fixed institutions in your systems. Disporting yourselves on the
hillsides and in the valleys of the great outdoors, you took to speculating on the
wonder and mystery of life and laid the foundations of natural science and
philosophy. Yours was a noble, sensual culture, unirked by the prickings of a social
conscience or by any sentimental questionings about human equality.

Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left
you alone. But we did not leave you alone. We took you in hand and pulled down
the beautiful and generous structure you had reared, and changed the whole
course of your history. We conquered you as no empire of yours ever subjugated
Africa or Asia. And we did it all without armies, without bullets, without blood or
turmoil, without force of any kind. We did it solely by the irresistible might of our
spirit, with ideas, with propaganda. We made you the willing and unconscious
bearers of our mission to the whole world, to the barbarous races of the earth, to
the countless unborn generations. Without fully understanding what we were doing
to you, you became the agents at large of our racial tradition, carrying our gospel
to the unexplored ends of the earth. Our tribal customs have become the core of
your moral code. Our tribal laws have furnished the basic groundwork of all your
august constitutions and legal systems. Our legends and our folk tales are the
sacred lore which you croon to your infants. Our poets have filled your hymnals
and your prayer-books. Our national history has become an indispensable part of
your pastors and priests and scholars. Our kings, our statesmen, our prophets, our
warriors are your heroes. Our ancient little country is your Holy Land. Our national
literature is your Holy Bible. What our people thought and taught has become
inextricably woven into your very speech and tradition, until no one among you can
be called educated who is not familiar with our racial heritage. Jewish artisans and
Jewish fishermen are your teachers and your saints, with countless statues carved
in their image and innumerable cathedrals raised to their memories. A Jewish
maiden is your ideal of motherhood and womanhood. A Jewish rebel- prophet is
the central figure in your religious worship. We have pulled down your idols, cast
aside your racial inheritance, and substituted for them our God and our traditions.

No conquest in history can even remotely compare with this clean sweep of our
conquest over you.

How did we do it? Almost by accident. Two thousand years ago nearly, in far-off
Palestine, our religion had fallen into decay and materialism. Money-changers
were in possession of the temple. Degenerate, selfish priests mulcted our people
and grew fat. Then a young patriot idealist arose and went about the land calling
for a revival of faith. He had no thought of setting up a new church. Like all the
prophets before him, his only aim was to purify and revitalize the old creed. He
attacked the priests and drove the money-changers from the temple. This brought
him into conflict with the established order and its supporting pillars. The Roman
authorities, who were in occupation of the country, fearing his revolutionary
agitation as a political effort to oust them, arrested him, tried him and condemned
him to death by crucifixion, a common form of execution at that time.

The followers of Jesus of Nazareth, mainly slaves and poor workmen, in their
bereavement and disappointment, turned away from the world and formed
themselves into a brotherhood of pacifist non-resisters, sharing the memory of their
crucified leader and living together communistically. They were merely a new sect
in Judea, without power or consequence, neither the first nor the last. Only after
the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans did the new creed come into
prominence. Then a patriotic Jew named Paul or Saul conceived the idea of
humbling the Roman power by destroying the morale or its soldiery with the
doctrines of love and nonresistance preached by the little sect of Jewish
Christians. He became the Apostle to the Gentiles, he who hitherto had been one
of the most active persecutors of the band. And so well did Paul do his work that
within four centuries the great empire which had subjugated Palestine along with
half of the world, was a heap of ruins. And the law which went forth from Zion
became the official religion of Rome.

This was the beginning of our dominance in your world. But it was only a
beginning. From this time forth your history is little more than a struggle for mastery
between your own old pagan spirit and our Jewish spirit. Half your wars, great and
little, are religious wars, fought over the interpretation of one thing or another in our
teachings. You no sooner broke free from your primitive religious simplicity and
attempted the practice of the pagan Roman learning than Luther, armed with our
gospels, arose to down you and re-enthrone our heritage. Take the three principal
revolutions in modern times the French, the American and the Russian. What
are they but the triumph of the Jewish idea of social, political, and economic
justice? And the end is still a long way off. We still dominate you. At this very
moment your churches are torn asunder by a civil war between Fundamentalists
and Modernists, that is to say between those who cling to our teachings and
traditions literally and those who are striving by slow steps to dispossess us. In
Dayton, Tennessee, a Bible-bred community forbids the teaching of your science
because it conflicts with our ancient Jewish account of the origin of life; and Mr.
Bryan, the leader of the anti-Jewish Ku Klux Klan in the Democratic National
Convention, makes the supreme fight of his life in our behalf, without noticing the
contradiction. Again and again the Puritan heritage of Judea breaks out in waves

of stage censorship, Sunday blue laws and national prohibition acts. And while
these things are happening you twaddle about Jewish influence in the movies!

Is it any wonder you resent us? We have put a clog upon your progress. We have
imposed upon you an alien book and an alien faith which you cannot swallow or
digest, which is at cross-purposes with your native spirit, which keeps you
everlastingly ill-at-ease, and which you lack the spirit either to reject or to accept in
full. In full, of course, you never have accepted our Christian teachings. In your
hearts you are still pagans. You still love war and graven images and strife. You
still take pride in the glory of the nude human figure. Your social conscience, in
spite of all democracy and all your social revolutions, is still a pitifully imperfect
thing. We have merely divided your soul, confused your impulses, paralyzed your
desires. In the midst of battle you are obliged to kneel down to him who
commanded you to turn the other cheek, who said "Resist not evil" and "Blessed
are the peacemakers." In your lust for gain you are suddenly disturbed by a
memory from your Sunday school days about taking no thought for the morrow. In
your industrial struggles, when you would smash a strike without compunction, you
are suddenly reminded that the poor are blessed and that men are brothers in the
Fatherhood of the Lord. And as you are about to yield to temptation, your Jewish
training puts a deterrent hand on your shoulder and dashes the brimming cup from
your lips.

You Christians have never become Christianized. To that extent we have failed
with you. But we have forever spoiled the fun of paganism for you. So why should
you not resent us? If we were in your place we should probably dislike you more
cordially than you do us. But we should make no bones about telling you why. We
should not resort to subterfuges and transparent pretexts. With millions of painfully
respectable Jewish shopkeepers all about us we should not insult your intelligence
and our own honesty by talking about communism as a Jewish philosophy. And
with millions of hard- working impecunious Jewish peddlers and laborers we
should not make ourselves ridiculous by talking about international capitalism as a
Jewish monopoly. No, we should go straight to the point. We should contemplate
this confused, ineffectual muddle which we call civilization, this half- Christian half-pagan
medley, and were our places reversed we should say to you pointblank:
"For this mess thanks to you, to your prophets and to your Bible."