Suggested Answers to the Third Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the Third Short Quiz

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Question 1

Did the NYC Harvard Club announce on May 1 that Prof. Dershowitz would discuss “The Preventive State” at 12 noon EDT on Wed June 11 in person at the Club?

Answer 1

Yes.

Question 2

Does the format of such presentations (30 minute talk followed by 30 minutes of Q&A) mean that Prof. Dershowitz is GOING INTO THE LIONS’ DEN – to be surrounded by believers of THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE (especially the younger graduates who have been "brain washed" by modern professors)???

[For details of THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE, please see Q&A-19 through Q&A-28 of the First Short Quiz.]

Answer 2

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 2

Were all of the Jewish pograms down the centuries INCLUDING HITLER’S POGRAM (aka Holocaust) caused by St. Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD) and his Doctrine of Blood Guilt that every Jew alive at any point in time is guilty of the “murder” of Christ???

Answer 3

Absolutely!!!

Question 4

Did Yours Truly document this with a 10/9/2022 Email to his Harvard Law School Class of 1967 weekly Zoom chat classmates which said –

Subject: St. Augustine’s Doctrine of Blood Guilt – Not Revoked Until Vatican II

Dear Friends,

I apologize for sending e-mails two weeks in a row, especially after talking on 6 different topics today.

However, many participants in today’s Zoom chat seemed skeptical about St. Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD) and his Doctrine of Blood Guilt – which holds that any Jew alive at any time including the present, is guilty of the “murder” of Christ.

Which was NOT revoked by the Roman Catholic Church until Vatican II.

And, so far as I am aware, has NOT been revoked by the Orthodox Church of the Eastern Roman Empire or, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, by any of its resulting fragments (Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, etc., etc.).

Unfortunately, it is usually considered impolite to notice how St. Augustine’s Doctrine of Blood Guilt produced nearly 2 millennia of pogroms, including Hitler’s pogrom (aka Holocaust).

And how Vatican II’s revocation of the Doctrine of Blood Guilt came two decades too late to avert Hitler’s pogrom (aka Holocaust).

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BECAUSE OF YOUR SKEPTICISM, IT SEEMED DESIRABLE TO CITE CHAPTER AND VERSE.

St. Augustine based his Doctrine of Blood Guilt on the Christian Bible account of Christ’s trial before Roman Governor Pontius Pilate (Matthew Ch. 27) in which the Jews in attendance allegedly proclaimed when Pilate tried to release Christ – “His blood be on us, and on our children.”

Augustine was not bothered by such niceties as what percentage of the Jewish population actually attended the trial AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT RIGHT ANYONE HAS TO CURSE THEIR OFFSPRING THROUGHOUT AN INFINITE NUMBER OF GENERATIONS.

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A good historical account of Augustine’s Doctrine of Blood Guilt and its unfortunate ramifications is contained in the famous book "The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism" by Fr. Edward Flannery in 1965, published shortly before the promulgation of Nostra Aetate, aka the RCC Revocation of the Doctrine of Blood Guilt (also in 1965).

The reason why this book is so famous???

Fr. Flannery (1912-1998) was, inter alia, the FIRST director of Catholic-Jewish Relations for the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, a position he held from 1967 to 1976.

[At least the U.S. RCC Bishops are serving penance, however inadequate.]

*********************End of 10/9/2022 Email*********************

Answer 4

Absolutely!!!

Question 5

BTW, doesn’t Fr. Flannery’s 1965 book title reference “Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism"???

Answer 5

Yes.

Question 6

Is this because even before the Christian era, The Roman Empire tolerated all local religions EXCEPT JUDAISM because Judaism preached that God’s Law trumps any temporal ruler???

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

BTW, is this why the Pharisees tried to trap Christ who famously replied “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what are God’s”???

Answer 7

Yes.


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But back to THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE

Question 8

Do you think Prof. Dershowitz would be much more intelligent to spend his 30 minutes of presentation at the NYC Harvard Club on June 11 talking about --

• How St. Augustine’s Doctrine of Blood Guilt was official Roman Catholic theology until 1965, three decades too late to avert Hitler’s pogram (aka Holocaust), AND

• THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE and its perpetuation of “Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism"???

Answer 8

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 9

And then let “the lion’s den” try to warp the Q&A period around to his ill-focused “The Preventive State” – ill focused per his claimed thesis of preventing Iranian nuclear weapons???

[Please see Q&A-5 of the First Short Quiz.]

Answer

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 10

After all, won’t Prof. Dershowitz and the “lions” be “talking past each other” since the “lions” are true believers in THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE???

Answer 10

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 11

And do you think Prof. Dershowitz would be much more intelligent to immediately begin work on a new book entitled “THE BIG PALESTINIAN LIE” which also documents “Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism" including Saint Augustine's infamous "Doctrine of Blood Guilt"???

Answer 11

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

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