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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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