THE ATTACK DOGS ON THE LEFT, LED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, GO AFTER CATHOLICS AND CHRISTIANS

Late Add, 8/4: Since I wrote this piece on 8/2 information published on LFG and Daily Pundit indicate a startling similarity between the Seattle Times cartoon and an old Nazi cartoon. Nobody I know is familiar with the old cartoon but the cartoonist may have. The charges of anti-Semitism regarding the cartoon were launched without mentioning the link. Bill O'Reilley has also repeated my charges here and many in the religious community. This is a professional hit job by the secular Left. Jews on the extreme are joining in.

The attack on the Mel Gibson movie called "The Passion" is in full swing, led by the still totally Left New York Times. It is an organized attack as proven by the similar charges in every column repeated word for word. The real purpose of the attack is that Jews and atheists fear an active Christianity. The attack is focusing on the Catholic Church and particularly on Opus Dei, not mentioned because they fear this group. Opus Dei, actively proselytizes. They are the only part of the Catholic Church evangelizing. And the Atheist Left fears an active vital Catholic Church more than they fear Saddam. Opus Dei has a large and influential following.

This unreleased movie is going to show how far Left and dogmatic the "Secular" (actually anti Christian) media has become. They will viciously attack this movie on any ground they can find. The two hit pieces so far are from the New York Times and the other pub is disguising who they are by running the hit by Frank Rich in the New York Times owned Paris Herald Tribune. These links courtesy of Drudge.

Sample: Rich from Paris---"Traditionalist Catholicism is the name given to a small splinter movement that rejects the Second Vatican Council ?— which, among other reforms, cleared the Jews of deicide."
Laurie Goodstein from the NYT: "Mr. Gibson's affiliation with a splinter Catholic group that rejects the modern papacy and the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which in 1965 repudiated the charge of deicide against the Jews."

Fact: Opus Dei is very active within the Vatican and their presence there has also been attacked. It is the most influential group in the Catholic Church, supplanting the Jesuits; so much for the term "splinter" group. Their founder has been cannonized. The charge that Opus Dei is anti Semitic which is repeated in both Times articles is a lie. The Opus Dei group rejected a Vatican II statement that would forbid Catholics from trying to convert Jews to Catholicsm. This is anti-Semitism to the two Jewish writers in the Times as well as to the Liberal Left. . Specifically Opus Dei rejected this sentence: " The thesis of Reflections is that "Campaigns that target Jews for conversion to Christianity are no longer theologically acceptable in the Catholic Church." By this Left logic every person stopping by your house or stopping you on the street distributing "Watchtower" is an anti-Semite. So are all the evangelical Mormons on missions all over the world. Ditto the Hare Krishnas. This is a despicable charge from low rent intellects on the left. These shanty town liberals are hurling charges of anti-Semitism at every writer and cartoonist on the planet that dares to criticize anything Jews don't like. Go to this cartoon and see if this isn't simply a depiction of the state of Israel fencing in Palestinians and Arabs; yet it is being attacked as a viciously anti-Semitic cartoon. Any criticism of Israel's relationships with their neighbors and enemies is now anti-Semitic. In other words, "shut up about Isreal unless you want to praise it or we'll smear you with a racist charge." So now it is a movie they don't like? I doubt it. It is active Catholic evangalism they don't like.

The "problems" with Opus Dei is that they are secretive. So is every Buddhist monistary on the planet. Are they Anti-Semitic too? Opus Dei is Catholic, albeit an off the beaten track version.

Both Times pieces trash Gibson (who may or may not be a member of Opus Dei) as an anti-Semite, they attack the people who like it as Jew haters, and by extension anyone who sees or likes the movie is anti-Semitic according to the Gospel of the Left. They include Drudge in this sewer of invective clearly implying that Drudge is a "dumb Jew" as opposed to the "smart Jews" like Frank Rich and Laurie Goodstein of the oh so smart New York Times..

Even though I am a registered Agnostic I have already made up my mind to see this movie because I cannot stand being told what a work of art is supposed to be by a bunch of dilettantes in the media with any "Agenda". I hope you will all join me in a gigantic "fuck you" to the Anti Defamation League the New York Times and the Left Wing atheist crowd that is sure to pile on.

BTW I'm sure most of you would not join or necessarily endorse Opus Dei because they are similar to the Orthodox Jews in the purity of their beliefs and practices, but under our Constitution they have the right to express their views, exist, and prosper. The Secular Left will do their best to see that success doesn't happen for Mr. Gibson. Opus Dei, because it really is deeply held, is beyond all the sexual abuse scandals, and is becoming more and more influential in Catholic thinking. This Catholic movement is feared by all on the secular Left. They do not want this movie to succeed because they do not want Opus Dei to succeed.

As a personal aside. I was raised in a Jewish Father, Catholic Mother household. My experience with my father's Jewish friends is that the racial and religious slurs from Jews was the order of the day. Goy means heathen or pagan and the term was thrown at every Christian; the terms chicksa, schwartza, and other demeaning slang terms are just the way things are. I get really pissed when I hear Jews get on some ethical high horse about liberalism. I never heard my mother's Catholic friends or family ever engage in the slurs like my dad's Jewish associates. Not that the Catholics were pure, it just wasn't as constant.

The attack on Gibson's movie is a blatant Jewish and liberal attack on religious Catholics and other Christians. The movie must be terrific to cause such a stir. BTW I'm pretty well read on the Life of Jesus and it is beyond question that the Jews set Jesus up and the Romans killed him. Jesus was a revolutionary, a major threat to the Jewish money interests and a potential threat to Rome. But that was 2,000 years ago for Christ sakes. Get over it. Oh, and my name is Veit, and like Drudge I'm another stupid Jew.