(Republished from Christians For Truth by permission of author or representative)
Jews Claim Christian Renaissance Art Contributed To The Holocaust™
(Algemeiner) Bernard Starr — a Jewish professor who writes pop psychology books along with articles about “spirituality” in radical left-wing outlets like Huffpost and Salon — has the chutzpah to rewrite Christian history in order to make Jesus Christ “more Jewish” — even going so far as to claim that portraying Jesus as a “Christian” in Renaissance paintings provided fuel for the alleged “gas ovens” at Auschwitz and the like:
Consider that the Sanhedrin, the ruling body over Jewish affairs, charged Jesus for committing blasphemies against Judaism. Christians later altered the fabricated indictment to “the Jews killed the Christian Jesus.”
That “crime” then became the launching pad for rage, hatred, and unrestrained violence against Jews.
The invention of the Christian Jesusthus emerged as one of the most deadly lies in history. It weaponized the Christ killers charge.
While a consensus of Christian and Jewish Biblical scholars affirm that Jesus lived and died as a dedicated practicing Jew, Renaissance artworks invented a different narrative.
In countless artworks spanning centuries, Jesus displays a cross, thus sending the false message that he is a Christian, despite the fact that Christianity did not exist even as a word or concept in Jesus’ lifetime.
Worse, the image of Jesus proudly displaying a cross is bizarre. If Jesus were to see these artworks, he would likely consider them mockery or extremely bad jokes. Particularly for Jews, the cross represented Roman torture, murder, and genocide.
Similarly, the plethora of paintings of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist falsely turn a Jewish event into a Christian one, as in this 15th century painting by Andrea Verrocchio. In the Gospels’ account, John baptized Jews and only Jews in preparation for the expected arrival of the Jewish Messiah. (Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22). And baptism was an ancient Jewish practice of spiritual cleansing.
Artworks of the betrothal or marriage of the pregnant 13-year-old Jewish girl Mary to Jewish carpenter Joseph are even more outrageous fabrications. By the magic of the paintbrush, Renaissance artists pictured the event as a Christian ceremony, as in this painting by Raphael, which served as a model for other Christianized images of the ceremony.
The unrestrained farce is also evident in the profusion of Madonna and Childartworks. Try to find even a hint of Mary’s Semitic Jewish identity and you will find yourself on a fruitless hunt. Yet the 13 mentions of Mary in the New Testament (12 in the Gospels and one in Acts of the Apostles) are steeped in Judaism.
Hundreds of years later, Hollywood films, perhaps inadvertently, reinforced the lethal fabrication of Biblical history that artworks launched.
In the 1953 blockbuster film “The Robe,” several of the characters convert to non-existent Christianity. In the popular film “Salome,” released in the same year, the Jewish and Roman authorities refer to the dangerous nuisances, John the Baptist and Jesus, who are “preaching a new faith.” Later, the Roman soldier Claudius — Salome’s lover — converts to Christianity. The Jewish Princess Salome joins Claudius and also converts to non-existent Christianity.
The 1965 film “The Greatest Story Ever Told” includes a deception that was not noted in reviews or commentaries. Viewers would not know that Jesus, his followers, and those attending his sermons were Jews. The word Jew is never uttered. They didn’t dress like Jews and none appeared with cues of Jewish identities.
Nor do we ever see Jesus participating in a traditional Jewish prayer service, even though the Gospel of Luke (4:16) says Jesus attended synagogue services “as he always did” on the Sabbaths. It appears that the filmmakers deliberately eliminated, minimalized, or masked Jewish content to play to a Christian audience.
And the deception continues.
In a filmed stage production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” streamed on Broadway HD in April 2023, the camera zooms in on Mary Magdalene expressing her love for Jesus. During her passionate aria, a large cross tattooed on her upper left arm assures the audience that she and Jesus are Christians, which of course they are not.
Would it have made a difference historically if it were fully understood that Jesus, his disciples, and followers remained dedicated practicing Jews throughout Jesus’ ministry and lifetime?
Carmelite nun Maria Theresia thinks so. She, along with other nuns, lives in a convent established at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany as a spiritual practice of prayer, remembrance, and hope.
In the book “I Sleep in Hitler’s Room,” Sister Theresia conjectured to the author Tuvia Tenenbom, “Because the mother of God was a Jew, because Jesus was a Jew, and all the Apostles were Jews, and if we remembered that in those days, the Holocaust would not have happened.”
We can understand why Renaissance artists and their patrons, as well as modern-day filmmakers, Christianized the Jewish life of Jesus. But why have art world professionals — historians, critics, and curators — stubbornly sustained the fraud? Why have commentaries and reviews failed to expose the glaring identity theft of taking the Jew out of Jesus and inventing the Christian Jesus?
Has their over-romanticizing of the Renaissance blinded them to the deadly consequences of a lie that weaponized antisemitism? Might they also be reluctant to criticize artworks that contributed to the Renaissance, which ended the Dark Ages by setting Western civilization on a path toward humanism and enlightenment? If so, they have tragically failed to recognize that darkness continued for Jews. Jews were herded into ghettos and subjected to mass expulsions, forced conversions, violence, and genocidal acts — all driven by hatred for killing the invented Christian Jesus.
Whatever the reasons, it’s time to stop the lie and make amends by telling the truth. The emperor is naked. And telling the truth doesn’t mandate hiding or destroying artworks that are important contributions to Western culture and the development of art.
Telling the truth can contribute to a greater understanding of historic antisemitism that was embedded in Christian society. And truth can advance the reconciliation and healing process of two faiths that share a common foundation — a connection best expressed by the bold pronouncement of Pope Frances: “Inside every Christian is a Jew.”
This histrionic tirade appears to be a new trend among Jews — complaining about the “de-jewification” of Jesus Christ — the dangerous Christian “erasing” of his “Jewish” identity.
No, the Sanhedrin did not accuse Christ of making “blasphemies against Judaism” — the word “Judaism” does not appear anywhere in either the New or Old Testaments.
Judaism is not the faith of the ancient Israelites — rather it is a bastardization of the Hebrew faith — and Judaism’s origins can be traced back to Babylon, according to Jews themselves:
“Judaism was not evolved in Judah; it was in Babylon that Judaism first became that which it was and still is.”
—”The Hebrew Peoples” written by Dr. H. Winckler, L.M. King, Dr. R. G. Brandis, and H. R. Hall. On pages 1781-4, Vol. 3, appearing in Helmsworth’s “History of the World”
And Babylonian Judaism was not codified into a “religion” until 200 years after the death of Christ — making it impossible for Christ to — in any way — have “blasphemed” Judaism.
Of course, this Jew fails to mention that neither words “Jew” nor “Jewish” — appeared anywhere in the original Gospels — the term “Jew” was not invented until the 17th Century — rather the word is ioudaios, which, depending on the context, refers to an Israelite Judahite, an Israelite Judean, or an Israelite from the southern kingdom from the tribes of Judah, Benjamin or Levi.
Today’s “Jews” are certainly none of those things — by their own admission:
“Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a Jew or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.”
–1980 Jewish Almanac p. 3
Thus, we can safely say that the judaized Pope is categorically wrong — inside every Christian is not a “Jew” — but rather inside every Christian is Christ.
As the incarnation of the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ was the apotheosis — the culmination of the Hebrew faith — He embodied the fulfillment of that faith— and His death and resurrection were proof of that fulfillment — the living end.
Christ most certainly did not, therefore, live His entire life as a “practicing” Jew — the whole point of his life was to show that the Law could not bring about salvation without faith in Him — and those Judeans — led by the stiff-necked Pharisees — who clung to the law and wished for an earthly king-messiah who would liberate them from the Roman yoke would never find eternal life.
No, the term “Christianity” is never mentioned in the New Testament, but not because it didn’t yet exist as such — rather it was called “the way of the Lord” (Matthew 3:3) — which is why Jesus said,
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me”
Christ uses this term — “the way” — because that is how the faith of Old Testament Israel is described — never as “Judaism” for good reason.
So here in John 14:6 we are given the very definition of the Christian faith — and the antithesis of Judaism — or Babylonian Phariseeism — which Christ rebuked throughout His entire advent.
Depicting Christ in Renaissance paintings as a “practicing Jew” would have been a true blasphemy — as it would have negated His entire life and purpose — but apparently if Jews had their way, this is how Renaissance painters would depict the crucifixion:
There are plenty of classical paintingsdepicting Christ carrying the cross to Golgotha — and then of His crucifixion — which is why the cross became a symbolic distillation of the faith.
Before His death — and before He carried His own cross to Golgotha — Christ commands His followers to pick up His cross and bear it with Him:
“Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.’”
In other words, the cross symbolized the faith even before He was crucified — it symbolized His entire life and faith from beginning to end — and it did away with the old “way” — as He and His followers became a “new creation” baptized in that faith (2 Corinthians 5:17).
And contrary to what this Jew Bernard Starr claims, Christ was not baptized by John the Baptist to affirm His “Jewishness” — rather, Christ had to be ritualistically cleansed prior to His crucifixion to “fulfill all righteousness” so as to be an unblemished sacrifice to His Father in order to wash away the sins of “the world.”
There is no doubt that the Sanhedrin and Pharisees conspired to murder Christ — just as their forefathers had murdered the Israelite prophets:
“So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.”
Christ intentionally stayed in Jerusalem so that He could be killed by the very same people who killed the prophets:
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her.”
“I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.”
If today’s “Jews” don’t want to be accused of conspiring to kill Christ, then the remedy is quite simple — admit that they are not genuine Israelites from the Tribe of Judah — that their ancestors — mostly Khazar converts — were nowhere near Judea at the time of the crucifixion.
But Jews will never give up this great masquerade — this identity theft — that they are Israelites because it provides them a “get-out-of-jail-free card” with all duped Christians who falsely believe that they are God’s Chosen People™.
And the National Socialists did not round up Jews and put them in concentration camps because they “killed Christ” — or because of some random Renaissance paintings depicting Christ as a Christian.
The Germans forcefully removed the Jews from the Christian German nation because they had systematically destroyed it — and then international Jewry had the temerity to openly declare war on Germany in 1933 for trying to protect themselves from the onslaught of judeo-communism.
Communism is an integral weapon of messianic Judaism:
“Judaism is communism, internationalism, the universal brotherhood of man, the emancipation of the working class and the human society. It is with these spiritual weapons that the Jews will conquer the world and the human race.”
—Rabbi Harry Waton, A Program for The Jews and An Answer To All Anti-Semites: A Program for Humanity, 1939, p. 100
So it was Judaism — not Christianity — which caused this pogrom in World War II — just the last pogrom of hundreds of others that the Jews had inflicted on themselves in Europe over the previous centuries for trying to subvert and judaize Christendom.
And just as they invented their identity as Israelites, the Jews also invented the Holocaust for the specific purpose of deflecting attention away from their genocide of tens of millions of Christian Israelites under the merciless iron fist of judeo-Bolshevism.
And as long as Jews remain in denial of their own responsibility for their fate in WWII — and continue to try to foist their neo-Bolshevik agenda on White Christian nations — they will assure their own ultimate destruction — a real holocaust — during the inevitable fall of their Mystery Babylon:
“…In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ Therefore her plagues will come in one day — death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her….The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing….”
