Catholic bishop Richard Williamson says Protocols of Zion i

[MikeWB]

SSPX (Lefebvrist Catholic) bishop Richard Williamson says Protocols of Zion is genuine

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/articles/a0000226.html

20 June 2008

Lefebvrists face crisis as bishop is exposed as 'dangerous' anti-Semite

SSPX refuses to distance itself from prelate who accuses Jews of doing work of the Anti-Christ

By Anna Arco

5 March 2008

Williamson expounds his conspiracy theories on a YouTube video put up by his seminarian fans

A senior bishop of the Lefebvrist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has endorsed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic forgery that enjoys widespread currency in neo-Nazi circles.

Richard Williamson, one of four bishops ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, told The Catholic Herald that the document - which supposedly reveals a Jewish plot to dominate the world - was authentic.

He is also on record as saying that the Jews are fighting for world domination "to prepare the Anti-Christ's throne in Jerusalem". The SSPX has refused to condemn English-born Bishop Williamson and says it has "no policy" on the authenticity of the Protocols, a Russian Czarist forgery that has been described as "a manual in Hitler's war to exterminate the Jews".

The Society's support for Williamson - who also believes that the Americans planned 9/11 - is likely to end any chance of full reconciliation between the SSPX and Rome.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish human rights organisation, said this week that it is planning to take action against Williamson.

Dr Shimon Samuels, the centre's director of international relations, described Williamson as "the Borat of the schismatic Catholic far-Right" and said that he was "a clown, but a dangerous clown".

Williamson, 67, who was excommunicated along with Archbishop Lefebvre and now runs an SSPX seminary in Argentina, is a cult figure among ultra-Right seminarians. Some of his former students have posted video tributes to him on YouTube, in which he expounds his conspiracy theories.

In 2000 Williamson endorsed the Protocols on an official SSPX website. He wrote: "God put into men's hands the Protocols of the Sages of Sion... if men want to know the truth, but few do."

The SSPX's support for Williamson comes at a time when Pope Benedict has extended an olive branch to the breakaway traditionalists in the form of a liberalisation of the pre-Vatican II traditional form of the Mass.

Bizarrely, Williamson last week implied that the Pope was an anti-Semite because of the Pontiff's changes to the 1962 version of the Good Friday Prayer.

In an interview with the Herald, Williamson said that he himself was not an anti-Semite, but didn't like "adversaries of Our Lord Jesus Christ".

He said: "If Jews are adversaries of Our Lord Jesus Christ - obviously not all of them, but those that are - then I don't like them.

"My definition of anti-Semitism is to be against every single Jew purely because he's a Jew. That's not at all my case. I once had a Jewish rabbi come and speak to seminarians. Does that sound to you like anti-Semitism?"

Although Williamson's anti-Semitism has been an open secret in the traditionalist Catholic world for years, there will be widespread dismay at the willingness of the SSPX headquarters to defend his views.

The Rev Arnaud Sélégny, the general secretary of the SSPX General House in Menzingen, Switzerland, said Bishop Williamson would not prove an "obstacle in any reconciliation with the post-Conciliar Church" and that the Society was "sure to include Mgr Williamson if there was a reconciliation" because "everyone is allowed to have his opinion in the Society".

He also said that the Society did not have a policy on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and that "the Society has no duty or ability to make a pronouncement" on the document's authenticity.

According to Fr Sélégny, reconciliation with Rome "as it is" is unlikely but he hoped that "one day Rome would rediscover its Catholic tradition". Williamson himself suggested that reconciliation between the Church and the Society was impossible, as there were two churches - "the religion of man and the religion of God".

He told the Herald: "The Second Vatican Council is the religion of man, of man put in the place of God. Deep down what it means is that it's a new religion, dressed up to look like the Catholic religion, but it's not the Catholic religion."

The Society of St Pius X, which was founded by Archbishop Lefebvre, broke with the Church when the archbishop illicitly ordained four bishops in 1988 against Pope John Paul II's express wishes. The bishops were excommunicated.

Williamson, who was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, is a former Anglican who became a Catholic in 1971. He was ordained priest at the Lefebvrist seminary at Ecône, Switzerland, in 1976.

He later became rector of the SSPX seminary in Winona, Minnesota. Since 2003 he has been rector of the Seminary of Our Lady Co-Redemptrix in La Reja, Argentina. In a YouTube video, Williamson is filmed arguing that the Twin Towers were not brought down by aeroplanes but by "demolition charges".

He has also condemned The Sound of Music as an immoral film because it "puts friendliness and fun in the place of authority".

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion presents a Jewish plot for world domination. The text claimed to be the secret minutes from a meeting of Jewish elders conspiring to take over the world through economic manipulation, controlling the media and stoking religious conflict. Used by Czarists and the Nazi Party, among others, the Protocols have carved out a huge new readership in the Arab Middle East, according to the US State Department's Global Anti-Semitism Report.

© 2008 Catholic Herald Limited

[Anonymous]

A senior bishop of the Lefebvrist Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has endorsed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic forgery that enjoys widespread currency in neo-Nazi circles.

Quite the opening statement.  Case closed I guess.. no need to see if anything in it is actually coming true since they are "fake".. er.. sorry I mean copies... so obviously they can't be true given the prejudicial conclusions.  They engage in the following logical fallacies:

Argument from authority - Stating that a claim is true because a person or group of perceived authority says it is true. (in this case false, or a "forgery")

Argument from final Consequences - Such arguments (also called teleological) are based on a reversal of cause and effect, because they argue that something is caused by the ultimate effect that it has, or purpose that is serves. (the conspiracy isn't real, because it is a "forgery")

Argument from Personal Incredulity - I cannot explain or understand this, therefore it cannot be true.

The Moving Goalpost - A method of denial arbitrarily moving the criteria for "proof" or acceptance out of range of whatever evidence currently exists.

Slippery Slope - This logical fallacy is the argument that a position is not consistent or tenable because accepting the position means that the extreme of the position must also be accepted. But moderate positions do not necessarily lead down the slippery slope to the extreme. (they expect it to be obvious in their face for it to be true - "Look we are so-called 'Jews', we control everything" is what they need.  For to accept the conspiracy to be a reality, they need it to be overt and obvious)

Maybe I'm wrong in applying them... meh... at least I'm trying!  LOL

[TeslaandLyne]

Yeah. Its one of those fake but so true situations.

[clark-kent]

I googled the anti-semitism act and was reading it when this came up Kinda weird huh?

[Canard]

I googled the anti-semitism act and was reading it when this came up Kinda weird huh?

nope

[clark-kent]

sure felt weird, like they were watching me, I had pop-up blocker on and it still came up

[clark-kent]

and it wasn't like it happened right when I got to the page it was like 5 minutes later

[Canard]

no i mean its not weird because they most likely are watching all of us clark.

[clark-kent]

thats what I thought you meant, just wanted to explain what it was like, for me it's a pain to do a screen shot, then resize it then post it on a site then post it here so I didn't really explain it cause I just wanted to get it out there, it's freaky when your reading shit like that and then poof there watching you, I don't even have a webcam hooked up to my computer cause I'm afraid they can just turn it on and watch me do bong hits and jack off to porn..... kidding kinda... but you know what I mean

[clark-kent]

no i mean its not weird because they most likely are watching all of us clark.

pic is so true, like my eyelids have been torn off

[Canard]

Yep. You can point the webcam at the wall when you aren't using it or just unplug it that's what I do.  I like to occasionally post Hello NSA! Let the guys know I appreciate their hard work.