THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

ways some 83 percent of North American Jews live their Jewish lives," implying that the
question of whether Jewish religion can survive without a divinely ordained Torah, or any
other objective "Truth", is unworthy of a response. Then, as if to deny the possibility of
"Jewish lives" without Jewish religion (a reality which Klinghoffer apparently recognizes),
Silow-Carroll claims that secular Jews practice a religion of their own. He offers a list of
"seemingly secular behaviors" which he knows a Torah-based Jew will call "substitutes for
Judaism" but which he prefers to call a "re-invention" of Judaism. Included in this list of
"religious" activities: discussing common (Jewish) acquaintances, eating lox and pastrami,
scanning news reports for "Jewish" names, and idolizing the Jewish comedians, lawyers and
professional wrestlers. Jewish doctors are to be "our modern priesthood". [One teeny problem.
After discarding traditional Judaism, he fails to "re-invent" a way to identify "Jewish" habits
and heroes, leaving us to fall back on circular reasoning: they are "Jewish" if we decide that
they are.] Silow-Carroll sees these behaviors as a more than adequate replacement for the
Sinai Covenant. Well, almost... his list of "secular behaviors" also includes suspiciously
traditional-sounding activities: Bible classes, eating matza on Passover, Shabbat celebrations,
wearing kippot, and even engaging in "Midrash, creative retelling of classic Jewish texts" - in
short, many of the same behaviors practiced by Klinghoffer's narrow-minded community and
so resented by Silow-Carroll.
How influential is CLAL? Most of CLAL's faculty members are simultaneously teaching at
other institutions (both overtly NA and conventionally Jewish), and/or leading one or more
congregations/study centers, and/or publishing and lecturing, which greatly amplifies the
scope of this one organization's influence.
6. New Age Missionaries in Israel
As a stronghold of Jewish identity, Zionist nationalism and monotheism, Israelis must be
viewed by NA change-agents as totally hopeless, and we would assume that our tiny
homeland would be avoided by NA teachers looking for disciples. On the contrary. Israel
has become something of a plum pie, where NA cults are jostling one another for bigger
shares. And it has proven to be easy pickings, as long as no one mistakes them for Christian
missionaries. While Christians would be deported for the tricks these NA zealots use, the
latter enjoy apparent immunity here and lavish support from abroad. They have unobstructed
access to Israeli Jews (even among the orthodox and children) to openly teach various brands
of paganism -- often charging top price for it. Some of these neo-pagans will even castigate
the Jews for rejecting Jesus Christ. Meanwhile, the guardians of Jewish identity in Israel do
nothing.
6a. Our Dangerous Double Standard: Following are two examples.
A magazine for religious Israeli youth (Otiot, Aug. 8, 1997) accepted a full-color, full-page ad
for an animated movie based on famous tales of a man who did exploits as the "son of God".
Produced in the U.S., was voice-dubbed in Hebrew [just for Israeli kids] and was shown all
over Israel. The movie was advertised and screened for almost the entire year. If it had
featured Jesus Christ, the country would have erupted with protests; but the star was "only"
Hercules. [Now stop and ponder why the god-man revered by Constantine and the Christians
is a dangerous threat, while the god-man revered by Antiochus and the Hellenists is only an
amusing fairy tale. The Maccabeans, who gave their lives to resist Hellenism, must have
turned in their graves. Score one easy success for New Age indoctrination, thanks to our
double standard.] We should note that Hercules is not a fairy tale in NA thought, but a sundeity
from the Grail legends (_The Occult and the Third Reich_, Jean & Michel Angebert,,
p.263 note 7) and respected "ascended master" to whom one can pray for enlightenment.
Blavatsky not only identified Hercules as a sun-god, but also as an image of Satan.