[Vision2020] More Lunacy from the Reformed Presbyterian Blogosphere --

[Andreas Schou]

Our friends at www.littlegeneva.com, once again, prove to be their own worst enemies. Their 'headline' link today?

"Jew Henry Makow with a convincing argument that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is authentic."

Gosh. Could the Reformed "Presbyterian" Theonomists here have anything to do with the Holocaust denier that so recently showed up on our doorstep? From Rousas J. Rushdoony's _Institutes of Biblical Law_, one of the foundational documents of Christian Reconstructionism:

"The false witness borne during World War II with respect to Germany (i.e., the death camps) is especially notable and revealing. The charge is repeatedly made that six million innocent Jews were slain by the Nazis, and the figure - and even larger figures - is now entrenched in the history books. Poncins, in summarizing the studies of the French Socialist, Paul Rassinier, himself a prisoner in Buchenwald, states: 'Rassinier reached the conclusion that the number of Jews who died after deportation is approximately 1,200,000 and this figure, he tells us, has finally been accepted as valid ... Likewise he notes that Paul Hilberg, in his study of the same problem, reached a total of 896,393 victims'. 

"Very many of these people did of epidemics; many were executed." 

>From this quote, S.R. Shearer comments:

"Rushdoony argues that the purportedly inflated Holocaust death toll derives from a "basic insensitivity to truth which too extensively characterizes this age." Jews, Rushdoony argues, were wrongfully killed by Nazis; the number of victims was vastly inflated to shock a desensitized modern world; the Nazis were therein victims of false witness; false witness is punishable by execution. One may deduce from this twisted scheme that those who refute Holocaust "revisionism" and its false calculations deserve death."

-- ACS

(Note: I'm /specifically/ not blaming this on Doug. But if I had to guess who put forward the invite, there's one congregation in town I'd look to first.)