Farah Calls Ted Pike a Lying Anti-Semite

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

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[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

FARAH UNREPENTANT

By Rev. Ted Pike
1 Nov 11

Last week I asked Joseph Farah to substantiate his libel of me as a "liar and anti-Semite." (See video, Farah Calls Ted Pike a Lying Anti-Semite) I also rebuked him for repeatedly exalting ADL in WorldNetDaily as a trustworthy source for the proper definition of anti-Semitism. He has retreated behind his untrue and defamatory statements, apparently feeling no responsibility to defend them.

Several people have emailed me Farah's response to their request for proof of his allegations.

Dear Mr. Farah:

Ted Pike's new video says you support ADL and call him an anti-Semite and a liar.

ADL is paving the way for the anti-Christ prophesied in Revelation with its hate crimes laws on Christian witnessing. How can you promote such an organization?

I have found much insightful information through reading Reverend Pike's material, and I have not found him to be untruthful. Please tell me why you charge him with lying and anti-Semitism.

If his facts are false, you should be easily able to refute them publicly.

Thank you.

Farah replies:

That's why I call him a liar. Have you seen what I have written about the ADL?

Farah then links to "The ADL targets WND," an article he posted November 21, 2009.  Farah apparently says I am a liar because I point out that he exalts ADL as a respected definer of anti-Semitism (In this WND article: Unmasked! 'Occupy' protests sending sharp anti-Jew message), without reminding my audience that two years ago he warned ADL not to call him an anti-Semite. This is evidently the best Farah can do.

Farah's response to another was even colder.

I just watched Ted Pike's recent video where he says you called him a 'lying anti-Semite'... I was shocked! Is this true? I am very disappointed and don't understand on what basis you would call him that. I want you to follow up this accusation with a response; your readers deserve clarification.

Farah responds:

Let me simplify. He lies. And he's an anti-Semite.

Farah is unable to prove his accusations. His response also reflects blind, unconditional defense of Israel—and utter loathing of critics of Israel—common to Israel-first evangelicals. Such evangelicals are increasingly untroubled by any atrocity and injustice Israel commits. They believe, as does Pastor John Hagee, that Israel's special "chosenness" by God give the Jewish people unconditional rights without obedience. Anyone who criticizes the Jewish state is not only "anti-Semitic" but the enemy of God.

But this leads to the next stage, demonstrated best by the Catholic church during the Inquisition: suspension of Christian values and a resort to lying and persecution. To the Torquemadas of the Inquisition, Jews, Muslims, and proto-Protestants were beneath charity or fair play. Farah apparently believes he can libel another for a "good cause:" defense of Israel. Yet his accusations, without documentation, repudiate everything he should hold sacred as a professing Christian and even the former executive news editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Farah's license to defame bears no resemblance to Christianity. It is much closer to such monstrous systems of censorship and oppression as the pre-glasnost Soviet Union which relegated critics of "Soviet reality" as "non-persons" without rights.

Farah and Israel-first evangelicals today demonstrate a progressive lowering of moral and intellectual values as they remain loyal to Israel above truth, compassion and even the Bible. Thus they violate the first commandment: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

Farah considers himself a follower of the One who says, "I am the way, the truth and the life." Would Jesus defame another person and refuse to tell honest inquirers the reason? Farah's behavior is much more typical of the Pharisees who accused Jesus of blasphemy, demon possession and performing miracles through the power of Satan—without substantiation.

Farah is revealing himself as a canary in the Christian Zionist mineshaft, an index of the increasing moral toxicity within the atmosphere of Israel-first "Christians."

 

Rev. Ted Pike is director of the National Prayer Network, a Christian/conservative watchdog organization.

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[Christopher Marlowe]

But this leads to the next stage, demonstrated best by the Catholic church during the Inquisition: suspension of Christian values and a resort to lying and persecution. To the Torquemadas of the Inquisition, Jews, Muslims, and proto-Protestants were beneath charity or fair play.

Old Ted couldn't resist getting in a swipe at the Church. Why do people feel it is necessary to use the language of their oppressors? The Inquisition only had jurisdiction over jurisdiction over those who professed to be CATHOLIC!

http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress ... quisition/
 

"...historians are now discovering that the common notion of the Spanish Inquisition as some horrible, fanatical, all-encompassing bloodthirsty monster could not be further from the truth. Their conclusions come from the first-time ever study of the actual cases taken from the archives of the Inquisition itself.... Studying the archives of the Inquisition demolished the previous image that all of us had." (BBC documentary "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition")

   

"The reason why accurate information about the Inquisition fails to penetrate the popular mind is not such a mystery at all. Numerous people have a vested interest in keeping the traditional image alive.... Those who resent the Church's claim to moral authority use as their most effective weapon the allegation of hypocrisy...." -James Hitchcock, Professor of History at St. Louis University

There are so many myths, lies, and half-truths surrounding the history of the Inquisition.... Let's focus on the historical facts first, shall we? Some historical accuracy and perspective should be enough to defuse much of the hatred and animosity aimed at the Catholic Church.

First, some general historical facts:

The Inquisition technically had jurisdiction only over those professing to be Christians (i.e. Catholics). It did not have jurisdiction over those who did not claim to be Christian like Jews and Muslims.

States and kingdoms of the time explicitly and officially endorsed and embraced the Christian faith as the foundation of their own authority and the peace of civil society. Thus they saw an attack on the unity and purity of the Christian faith as an attack on them, their authority, and the public peace. This was not a new or unique idea in the previous history of the relationship between religion and politics. Furthermore, even by some imperfect modern standards, in point of fact, these heretical sects were indeed in many cases violent and destructive of civil society.

The Inquisition was a response to statist encroachment into doctrinal territory and overzealousness of the State and mobs of people in executing heretics. In the early 13th century, the Inquisition was born most likely in response to popular mobs' and the State's aggressive prosecution and punishment of heretics, especially the Cathari, a sect that taught that sexual intercourse and marriage was evil and that suicide was good under certain circumstances. The Church likely saw these secular tribunals as an encroachment on its authority with regard to what is true doctrine and what is heresy. So it decided to create its own body of judges that would exercise doctrinal authority and judgment in the name of the pope.

The Inquisition was not an all-powerful institution with unlimited power and supreme authority. Rather, it was under the authority of the pope and diocesan bishops and competed with the State and the local aristocracy in many instances. It was often overshadowed in the city and powerless in the country.

If a Jew claimed to be a Jew, the inquisition had no power over him.  It was only a Jew who feigned conversion, (in order to be a sneaky bugger and practice usury or to capture control of the courts or some public institution) that would be investigated by the inquisition.  Many centuries later we have this Jewish-Hollywood image of Catholic courts prosecuting and torturing poor Jews who were just minding their own business.  

It is kind of foolish for people to perpetuate this Jewish myth about the Catholic Church.  I think that their primary motivation is an anti-catholic bias, and that they are woefully ignorant of the facts.  It is similar to people who spout off about the "nazis" holocausting the Jews.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

I agree, CM. I notice that Pike is also a futurist. However, he is sincere in his convictions and is fighting the Jew on other levels.