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Foundation was assassination and other dirty work. <strong>The</strong> inner<br />
circle of figures involved in the Lincoln assassination,<br />
including John Wilkes Booth, were in the main trained by<br />
these Jesuits.<br />
Samuel Morse, who was part of the overall U.S. political<br />
intelligence service numbering Edgar Allen Poe, Winfield<br />
Scott, and Washington Irving among its active agents, exposed<br />
the Scottish-Hapsburg Rite deployment of Jesuits to<br />
America with his pamphlet,"Foreign Conspiracy Against<br />
Liberties of the United States." At approximately the same<br />
time, "Oxford Movement" leader John Newman proposed<br />
to the Anglican Church that it create a Jesuitical order of its<br />
own, so impressed was he with the work of the order in<br />
America.<br />
During the same period of Jesuit activity, the Scottish<br />
Rite circles in England sent agents to organize an "anti-<br />
Catholic" ferment in the United States, producing mass<br />
anti-Catholic riots under the banner of the "Order of<br />
Native Americans," and the "Order of the Star-Spangled<br />
Banner.'' <strong>The</strong>se operations later fused under one umbrella,<br />
the ritualized political organization known as the "Know<br />
Nothings." Under the American Party banner, this Britishcontrolled<br />
agency ran presidential candidates which<br />
played a determining role in the outcome of the Pierce<br />
(1852) and Buchanan (1856) presidential elections. Both<br />
Pierce and Buchanan were pro-British.<br />
<strong>The</strong> same period of pre-Civil War subversion saw British<br />
promotion and manipulation of both Abolitionists and<br />
Secessionists, in a manner exposed by Morse in his 1860<br />
pamphlet, "<strong>The</strong> Present Attempt to Dissolve the American<br />
<strong>The</strong> Platform of Zionism's<br />
Humanist Enemy<br />
In 1861 Rabbi David Einhorn was driven out of<br />
Baltimore for his attacks on the proslavery Zionists<br />
who (as today) ran the city. Reprinted here is the<br />
text of his "Pittsburgh Platform," as adopted by<br />
the Central Conference of Reformed Rabbis in<br />
1889. Ninety years later, it still embodies the<br />
ecumenical qualities of humanist Judaism.<br />
IN ACCORD WITH REASON<br />
First — We recognize in every religion an attempt<br />
to grasp the infinite, and in every mode, source, or<br />
book or revelation held sacred in any religious<br />
system, the consciousness of the indwelling of God<br />
in man. We hold that Judaism presents the highest<br />
conception of the God idea as taught in our Holy<br />
Scriptures and developed and spiritualized by the<br />
Jewish teachers, in accordance with the moral and<br />
philosophical progress of their respective ages. We<br />
maintain that Judaism preserved and defended,<br />
midst continual struggles and trials and under enforced<br />
isolation, this God idea as the central<br />
religious truth for the human race.<br />
Second — We recognize in the Bible the record of<br />
the consecration of the Jewish people to its mission<br />
as priest of the one God, and value it as the most<br />
potent instrument of religious and moral instruction.<br />
We hold that modern discoveries of scientific<br />
researches in the domains of nature and history are<br />
not antagonistic to the doctrines of Judaism, the Bible<br />
reflecting the primitive ideas of its own age,<br />
and at times clothing its conception of divine providence<br />
and justice, dealing with man in miraculous<br />
narratives.<br />
Third — We recognize in the Mosaic legislation a<br />
system of training the Jewish people for its mission<br />
during its national life in Palestine, and today we<br />
accept as binding only the moral laws, and maintain<br />
only such ceremonies as elevate and sanctify<br />
our lives, but reject all such as are not adapted to<br />
the views and habits of modern civilization.<br />
Fourth — We hold that all such Mosaic and rabbinical<br />
laws as regulate diet, priestly purity, and<br />
dress, originated in ages and under the influence of<br />
ideas altogether foreign to our present mental and<br />
spiritual state. <strong>The</strong>y fail to impress the modern Jew<br />
with a spirit of priestly holiness; their observance in<br />
our days is apt to rather obstruct than to further<br />
modern spiritual elevation.<br />
Fifth — We recognize, in the modern era of universal<br />
culture of heart and intellect, the approaching<br />
of the realization of Israel's great messianic<br />
hope for the establishment of the kingdom of<br />
truth, justice, and peace among all men. We consider<br />
ourselves no longer a nation, but a religious<br />
community, and therefore expect neither a return<br />
to Palestine, nor a sacrificial worship under the sons<br />
of Aaron, nor the restoration of any laws concerning<br />
the Jewish state.<br />
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