In my book Naked at the Mic / The Survival of a Liberal in a Time of Peril, published in 2010, I devoted a chapter regarding the hijacking of Christianity by White Christian Nationalists who believe they are the sole protectors of the Christian faith, when they have no Christian Compassion or even a realistic understanding of the words of Jesus.
I am reprinting chapter seven of my book here, because what I said seven years ago holds true today even more so, with the blatant racism and arrogance of White Christian Nationalists representing themselves as Nazis, Alt Right, and torch carrying KKK members. Even Trump is one of them, his father was a known KKK member and was arrested in a KKK demonstration in New York during the 1930s.
“Naked at the Mic / The Survival of a Liberal in a Time of Peril” Chapter Seven:
“Jesus was a Liberal”
The radical, or liberal, individual is a man or woman who pursues an inner force or follows a “different drummer.” However, this state of mind always invites conflict, controversy or confrontation. It’s part of the package. A radical is like a fish swimming upstream against the current toward his destiny. He doesn’t really know why he has to do it; he just has to do it. His instincts and convictions make him fight the current. When he perceives something to be terribly wrong, he is not able to keep quiet, or let it happen and continue on without a fight.
Jesus was a man of peace, compassion, love, and wisdom. Jesus loved mankind; he healed the sick, comforted the poor, believed in and spoke of divine justice and divine love. He spoke of the perfection of the spirit, communion with their creator and the potential to understand and obtain the promise of the creator “father” that all who believed in the Father would be given joy and happiness on earth, and after life as well. From biblical times to the present, the profound and radical teachings of Jesus have created a revolutionary fire within the hearts and souls of men and women. Every day people pray and give of themselves to others in an attempt to follow in the noble steps of the great prophet. Though Jesus stated he was not divine, he stated that no man or god should come before the one and only God, his father and our father, the father of Mankind. “Give to Caesar what is Caesars’ and to God what is God’s.
The biggest misdirection that the conservative Christian Right has used to great advantage is their self righteous claim to high moral values as validated by their literal (misinterpretation) of the Bible. How dare we attack the word of God, they say! Today’s moralistic conservatives forget that the words they consider sacred are not necessarily the words of God, but the multiple translations, and often mistranslated words, of men that have deliberately edited, eliminated, misinterpreted and manufactured the words of God’s prophets. God, according to Bible scholars, never personally wrote anything down. He never, according to the Bible, instructed anyone except Moses to write down the Ten Commandments, which Moses later shattered in anger at the Israelites once he descended the Mountain after many days of communicating with God through a burning bush.
The King James Version of the Bible was interpreted by Sir Francis Bacon and other known Masons. Bacon was the founder of the Rosicrucians. King James was considered during his time by many Christians to be a pervert and a known believer in paganism. The King James Bible was considered by many people of that time to be a deliberate misinterpretation of the ancient texts promoted by the English King to confuse the English-speaking world about its true content. The first Puritans carried with them the Geneva Bible.
David Bay, the founder of Cutting Edge Ministries and Cutting Edge.org, created a fascinating documentary entitled, “The Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings”. He is also one of the few individuals in the world that has a printed copy of the original King James Bible. In an illuminating discussion with David Bay, he stated on my show that the original edition of the King James Bible was decorated with pagan symbols. Illustrations of pagan gods and goddesses, dragons and mythological demons and symbols were prominently displayed on the cover and throughout the book. The original texts were transcribed and translated by the early Roman Catholic Church, and the collection of works was edited, sorted and translated from ancient Arabic into Latin, supposedly by French monk St. Jerome in a monastery in France. The Catholic text was first printed in Germany in 1455. This first printing made the Bible available to scholars and to the public for the first time. This revolutionary publication, as well as Martin Luther’s protest, unleashed the Protestant Reformation.
Religious scholars are well aware that the New Testament was not written or recorded by Jesus’ immediate disciples, but in all instances were transcribed some fifty to seventy-five years after the death of Jesus, and many years after the death of his disciples. The stories of Jesus were passed down orally by his followers and memorized for fear that written mentions of Jesus and the original disciples, if found in the possession of early Christians, would be too dangerous, because both the Romans and Jews continued to persecute the early Christians for three centuries after the death of Christ. The greatest story ever told is not the story of the life and death of Jesus, but the story told by the conservative Christian Right regarding the moral mandates they try to impose on the American people and the rest of the world using the authority of the Judeo-Christian Bible. This is not to say that any or all of the Christian or Judaic Bibles are false or fabricated, but it does give a learned and open minded person pause to think for a moment about the many other authenticated texts of all other world religions. The words of Abraham were not written by Abraham, the Quran was not written by Mohammed, the teachings of Jesus were not written by Jesus, nor were the lessons of Socrates written by Socrates. All that is known of these men was described and transcribed by their followers, students and disciples. If a disciple decides to deify his or her teacher, or wishes to create his own following or cult, he will create a godly or divine connection to his master in glorious tales. The wisdom and truth bestowed on these inspired writings of parables or direct dialogue and teachings of the masters are considered the mark of authenticity bestowed upon these works. That authenticity of human and divine wisdom and prophecy are woven through all sacred texts, and they are honored and revered by each follower of that religion as the word of God.
A remarkable book entitled, “The Secret Scriptures” written by Dr. Kasseem Khaleel, published by Knowledge House Publishers, has brought to the public’s attention the censored scriptures of one of Jesus’s most devoted disciples, Barnabus. The Scriptures of Barnabus were hidden since the fifth century by the Catholic Church in the Pope’s private library. Barnabus was the only disciple who is verified to have lived during the time of Jesus, and was instructed by Jesus to be his scribe and record his teachings.
The Scriptures of Barnabus describe a completely different Jesus than does the New Testament, which was revised and edited numerous times by the Catholic Church and others. Barnabus describes Jesus as a man, not as a god, and states that Jesus often reprimanded all his disciples for claiming him as divine. The teachings and life of Jesus according to the Scriptures of Barnabus were extremely radical for their time. Nothing about Jesus describes him as ‘conservative’ or reactionary. Jesus was in fact an extreme social and religious radical, and his life and works created a two thousand-year worldwide revolution that caused the eventual destruction of the Roman Empire and spread the Christian religion to every country and continent. The spiritual and social ideals of conservative and reactionary ideologues are diametrically opposed to the true teachings of Jesus. JESUS WAS A LIBERAL.
All men and women of conscience are radicals. Jesus was a radical. Moses was a radical, Buddha was a radical, Mohammed was a radical, Martin Luther was a radical, Martin Luther King Jr. was a radical, and Mahatma Gandhi was a radical. Every progressive moral leader has been, in his time, a radical. Every fundamentalist of any religion is a reactionary. Anyone who believes that any “sacred text” is the absolute truth as it is written is misguided and deliberately denying the truth of biblical, political and revisionist history. Anyone or institution that uses methods of violence, guilt, sanctions, mandated ignorance or malice, or inflicts mental and physical wounds, or oppresses another to accept his will or faith over their own commits a crime against all humanity.
Here I submit a copy of the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction as an example of the horrifying past and ongoing practices of the Roman Catholic Church to pervert the truth of Jesus’s teachings and prevent them from ever being disclosed. The following text was obtained from The European Institute of Protestant Studies website.
” The following is the text of the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction as recorded in the Journals of the 62nd Congress, 3rd Session, of the United States Congressional Record (House Calendar No. 397, Report No. 1523, 15 February, 1913, pp. 3215-3216), from which it was subsequently torn out. The Oath is also quoted by Charles Didier in his book Subterranean Rome (New York, 1843), translated from the French original. Dr. Alberto Rivera, who escaped from the Jesuit Order in 1967, confirms that the induction ceremony and the text of the Jesuit Oath which he took were identical to what we have cited below. – A. N.”
“When a Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the Chapel of the Convent of the Order, where there are only three others present, the principal or Superior standing in front of the altar. On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of yellow and white, which are the Papal colours, and the other a black banner with a dagger and red cross above a skull and crossbones, with the word INRI, and below them the words IUSTUM NECAR REGES IMPIUS. The meaning of which is: It is just to exterminate or annihilate impious or heretical Kings, Governments, or Rulers.
Upon the floor is a red cross at which the postulant or candidate kneels. The Superior hands him a small black crucifix, which he takes in his left hand and presses to his heart, and the Superior at the same time presents to him a dagger, which he grasps by the blade and holds the point against his heart, the Superior still holding it by the hilt, and thus addresses the postulant:
(The Superior speaks:)
My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a Reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope. You have been taught to plant insidiously the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and to incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace; to take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means. You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the judiciaries and councils of state, and to be all things to all men, for the Pope’s sake, whose servants we are unto death. You have received all your instructions heretofore as a novice, a neophyte, and have served as co-adjurer, confessor and priest, but you have not yet been invested with all that is necessary to command in the Army of Loyola in the service of the Pope. You must serve the proper time as the instrument and executioner as directed by your superiors; for none can command here who has not consecrated his labours with the blood of the heretic; for “without the shedding of blood no man can be saved”. Therefore, to fit yourself for your work and make your own salvation sure, you will, in addition to your former oath of obedience to your order and allegiance to the Pope, repeat after me:
(Text of the Oath:)
I, (name) , now in the presence of Almighty God, the blessed Virgin Mary, the blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, and all the saints, sacred host of Heaven, and to you, my Ghostly Father, the superior general of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the pontification of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, do by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that His Holiness, the Pope, is Christ’s Vice-Regent and is the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth; and that by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given to His Holiness by my Saviour, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical Kings, Princes, States, Commonwealths, and Governments, and they may be safely destroyed. Therefore to the utmost of my power I will defend this doctrine and His Holiness’s right and custom against all usurpers of the heretical or Protestant authority whatever, especially the Lutheran Church of Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, and the now pretended authority and Churches of England and Scotland, and the branches of same now established in Ireland and on the continent of America and elsewhere and all adherents in regard that they may be usurped and heretical, opposing the sacred Mother Church of Rome. I do now denounce and disown any allegiance as due to any heretical king, prince or State, named Protestant or Liberal, or obedience to any of their laws, magistrates or officers. I do further declare the doctrine of the Churches of England and Scotland of the Calvinists, Huguenots, and others of the name of Protestants or Masons to be damnable, and they themselves to be damned who will not forsake the same. I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of His Holiness’s agents, in any place where I should be, in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Ireland or America, or in any other kingdom or territory I shall come to, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestant or Masonic doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, legal or otherwise. I do further promise and declare that, notwithstanding, I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the Mother Church’s interest; to keep secret and private all her agents’ counsels from time to time, as they entrust me, and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstances whatever; but to execute all that should be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me by you, my Ghostly Father, or any of this sacred order. I do further promise and declare that I will have no opinion or will of my own or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ. That I will go to any part of the world whithersoever I may be sent, to the frozen regions north, jungles of India, to the centres of civilisation of Europe, or to the wild haunts of the barbarous savages of America without murmuring or repining, and will be submissive in all things, whatsoever is communicated to me. I do further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants’ heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honour, rank, dignity or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agents of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus. In confirmation of which I hereby dedicate my life, soul, and all corporal powers, and with the dagger which I now receive I will subscribe my name written in my blood in testimony thereof; and should I prove false, or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the militia of the Pope cut off my hands and feet and my throat from ear to ear, my belly be opened and sulfur burned therein with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth, and my soul shall be tortured by demons in eternal hell forever. That I will in voting always vote for a Knight of Columbus in preference to a Protestant, especially a Mason, and that I will leave my party so to do; that if two Catholics are on the ticket I will satisfy myself which is the better supporter of Mother Church and vote accordingly. That I will not deal with or employ a Protestant if in my power to deal with or employ a Catholic. That I will place Catholic girls in Protestant families that a weekly report may be made of the inner movements of the heretics. That I will provide myself with arms and ammunition that I may be in readiness when the word is passed, or I am commanded to defend the Church either as an individual or with the militia of the Pope. All of which I, (name), do swear by the blessed Trinity and blessed sacrament which I am now to receive to perform and on part to keep this my oath. In testimony hereof, I take this most holy and blessed sacrament of the Eucharist and witness the same further with my name written with the point of this dagger dipped in my own blood and seal in the face of this holy sacrament.
(He receives the wafer from the Superior and writes his name with the point of his dagger dipped in his own blood taken from over his heart.)
(Superior speaks 
You will now rise to your feet and I will instruct you in the Catechism necessary to make yourself known to any member of the Society of Jesus belonging to this rank. In the first place, you, as a Brother Jesuit, will with another mutually make the ordinary sign of the cross as any ordinary Roman Catholic would; then one crosses his wrists, the palms of his hands open, and the other in answer crosses his feet, one above the other; the first points with forefinger of the right hand to the centre of the palm of the left, the other with the forefinger of the left hand points to the centre of the palm of the right; the first then with his right hand makes a circle around his head, touching it; the other then with the forefinger of his left hand touches the left side of his body just below his heart; the first then with his right hand draws it across the throat of the other, and the latter then with a dagger down the stomach and abdomen of the first. The first then says Iustum; and the other answers Necar; the first Reges; the other answers Impious. The first will then present a small piece of paper folded in a peculiar manner, four times, which the other will cut longitudinally and on opening the name Jesu will be found written upon the head and arms of a cross three times. You will then give and receive with him the following questions and answers:
From whither do you come? Answer: The Holy faith.
Whom do you serve? Answer: The Holy Father at Rome, the Pope, and the Roman Catholic Church Universal throughout the world.
Who commands you? Answer: The Successor of St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus or the Soldiers of Jesus Christ.
Who received you? Answer: A venerable man in white hair.
How? Answer: With a naked dagger, I kneeling upon the cross beneath the banners of the Pope and of our sacred order.
Did you take an oath? Answer: I did, to destroy heretics and their governments and rulers, and to spare neither age, nor sex, nor condition; to be as a corpse without any opinion or will of my own, but to implicitly obey my Superiors in all things without hesitation or murmuring.
Will you do that? Answer: I will.
How do you travel? Answer: In the bark of Peter the fisherman.
Whither do you travel? Answer: To the four quarters of the globe.
For what purpose? Answer: To obey the orders of my General and Superiors and execute the will of the Pope and faithfully fulfil the conditions of my oaths.
Go ye, then, into all the world and take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will not accept him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-Regent on earth, let him be accursed and exterminated.”
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Regarding the “faith” of White Christian Nationalists, many are Protestant, however many are Catholics, who have the same racist beliefs , disguised in the dictates of the Pope and his Jesuit Army. Pope Francis is the first Jesuit Pope. His foot kissing, Catholic, compassion is criminal hypocrisy. The Criminal Hypocrisy of the church scandals of Pedophilia, were proven by the most recent arrest and conviction of the most influential Cardinal in the Vatican, the Pope’s right hand man. He was convicted by an Australian court on 100 counts of child molestation and will soon be sentenced. This is considered to be a “godly man”. What does that say about the judgment of the Pope and the entire culture of the Vatican ?
The great white protestant pastors and evangelists are for the majority preachers of prosperity and televised lies. Their foolish White National Christian Congregations are as holy as their Rolex watches and luxury homes and cars. Several of the major television evangelists are known adulterers and convicted embezzlers. Most of these white men and women television evangelists have few if any minorities in their audiences, or in their congregations. White Christian Supremacy began with European military dominance and global colonization. The Catholic and White Protestant Religions all condoned slavery and racism as part of their control of the people and countries they conquered. The White Nationalist Christians in the U.S are all admitted racists, filled with hatred and contempt of any minority, refugee or illegal immigrant.
The recent idiotic and racist comments of Donald Trump in defense of the White Nationalist riot in Charlottesville Virginia proved to the world that Donald Trump is as racist as his KKK father was, and that Steve Bannon the founder of the Alt Right movement and chairman of Breitbart.com, and recently fired, former Trump White House Adviser is perhaps America’s most notorious White Christian Nationalist, racist. He recently spoke at a campaign rally for Former Judge Moore from Alabama, an openly bigoted White Christian Nationalist, publicly calling native American Indians “Reds” and Asian Americans “Yellows’ . He just won the GOP primary , to replace Jeff Sessions Senate seat. The state of Alabama has always been known for its KKK and anti Civil Rights groups, and their “Christian” mistreatment and hatred for Blacks, Jews and other minorities. Most White Nationalist Christians do not like Jews, and are not happy that Donald Trump’s daughter is married to a Jew, and she converted to become one to raise her family in the Jewish faith, giving up her Christian religion. However, White Nationalist Christians hate anyone who isn’t White or Christian and are critical of Trump’s Administration having so many Jewish members.
White Christian Nationalism is a lost cause, just as Nazism was and Militant Islam is. Most of Islamic militants are angry because of their racist treatment by Trump and other presidents and White Nationalists who have destroyed their countries and defiled their prophet and continue to desecrate their holy sites. They understand that White Nationalism and Trump’s presidency have no understanding or compassion for any Muslim , in part because of their race but mostly White Christian Nationalists hate any other race or religion. An all out war may come to the U.S if Trump and his White Nationalist Racist Minions seize any more power. I believe Trump and his cronies rigged the election with the help of the Russians, and Hillary Clinton’s pathetic campaign. Everyone knows the Russians and especially Putin have no respect or compassion for followers of Islam. Trump and his nightmare administration must be impeached and dismantled by Congress and the Courts, or it will be violently dismantled, by the army of every white and non white American, who believes in human rights, equality, freedom of speech and religion, and all rights granted to them by the Bill of Rights.
L.A. Steel
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