Mark Musser

What is George Soros? This is how Dr. Robert E. Kaplan of Jerusalem has put the question. Not who is he? But what is he? It is highly unlikely that even a rich powerful man like Soros could have such a dominating influence over world affairs without state sponsorship of his activities. Who might that state be? Kaplan thinks he has the answer - Germany. While Russian tampering concerns dominate news headlines, one area of concern that has been overlooked for many decades is Germany’s mounting influential power over media, academia, and/or book publishing, something which Kaplan calls "soft power” in his illuminating book entitled "The Soros Connection" where he demonstrates the very real possibility that George Soros is a political and economic wrecking ball working as a foreign agent for the German state that works alongside the German media. Kaplan received his Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. I was given the privilege of becoming acquainted with Dr. Kaplan in person last December when I participated in Yad Vashem's holocaust seminar. I have written an article http://tbirdnow.mee.nu/george_soros_and_german_media in honor of the time I spent with him that can be linked up with here – George Soros and German Media. Here is a link to Dr. Kaplan’s book called the Soros Connection. https://www.amazon.com/Soros-Connection-Robert-Kaplan-ebook/dp/B01LXC2CNL


Last month in Houston I made a presentation at Chafer Theological Seminary’s annual conference on "German Idealism, Theological Romanticism, Biblical Criticism, and Postmodern Fascism” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohLxxPNxAwo that perhaps some of you may find of interest to take a look at as well. You can view it on the attached link. I have always suspected that there was a strong relationship between German Higher Criticism of the Bible and Anti-Semitism. The German Theological Liberalism of the Second Reich was surprisingly very Anti-Judaism, particularly with regard to their all-out attempt to de-Judaize Christianity from the Old Testament (Torah) as they viewed Judaism as a form of particularistic religious segregation out of step with Enlightenment Reason that was preventing their ‘Liberal’ Protestant Social Gospel from coming to full fruition, even criticizing certain Christians who still clung to their Old Testaments. Their Biblical Criticism was done for the same purposes so they could transcend the written historical biblical text to place themselves into the spiritual vanguard of German national and social religious progressivism since the Bible as written was considered out of step with the modern age (which of course it is …..). Wellhausen’s reconstruction of the Old Testament is especially suspect precisely because the German progressive philosophical ‘theology’ based on Kantian Idealism and Hegelian Spirit (vs. the Bible) allows for spiritual growth and development for the all the world’s religions – except for the Jews. Wellhausen’s infamous JEPD Theory – largely based on a Romantic nationalist theologian by the name of de Wette – essentially was evolution in reverse as the Jews left their pure and simple Hebrew religion (based on a false romantic view of history) by complicating it later on with the alleged unspiritual legalism of Deuteronomy. According to Wellhausen and others, Deuteronomy was supposedly one of the last books put together in the Old Testament rather than be one of the first (largely written by Moses).


Kant’s Idealism is also very troubling, which was the philosophical foundation for German Theological Liberalism, as he too wanted to de-Judaize Christianity with his so-called autonomous reason. I was unaware of the depths of his Anti-Semitism. According to Dr. Michael Mack in German Idealism and the Jew, Kant’s whole philosophical enterprise was largely designed to "euthanize Jewishness” (Kant’s own words) from German philosophy and theology, which was viewed as alien or heteronomous since it is based on coercion, ritualism, and materialism rather than the exercise of autonomous freedom of reason. Schleiermacher, the very father of Theological Romanticism, continued Kant’s de-Judaizing of Christianity. Schleiermacher was not only a strong Anti-Judaistic (particular of past Judaism) nationalist, but also sits at the very foundations of German Theological Liberalism. In truth, German Theological Liberalism of the later 1800’s IS German Theological Romanticism of the early 1800’s – just more developed. For example, Dr. Adolf Harnack, the quintessential German Theological liberal of the late 1800’s, actually wrote the Kaiser’s war speech that kicked off World War I.

In short, German Theological Liberalism and progressivism died in the trench warfare of World War I. Secular Romanticism and Existentialism (which German Theological Romanticism & Existentialism are rooted in) together with ‘scientific’ Social Darwinism filled in the vacuum and spiritual void left behind. Worse, the German theological liberals did such a good job of secularizing Christianity for well over 100 years by supposedly destroying the biblical text, that the spiritual life of Germany became hollow after World War I which helped unleash the baser passions, feelings, and instincts of a secular profane world that was no longer accountable to God. Age old Christian anti-Semitism thus became far more lethal and dangerous.

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