“But Mark! How can that be when they are all pro-Israel?”
Easy. The same way they can support criminals, rapists, and killers while using the unborn as human shields. The same way the butcher in Minnesota could rub his Precious Feet pin while gunning down Melissa Hortman and her husband. The same way Marco Rubio can call himself “prolife” while gleefully killing 14 million people with the destruction of USAID.
White House Bible Study Pastor Ralph Drollinger has repeatedly said that Jews “executed” Jesus in lessons and on video for Trump cabinet members and other officials.
Drollinger made news during Trump’s first term as the leader of Bible studies for President Donald Trump’s cabinet and members of Congress through Capitol Ministries. The second Trump administration has featured increased visibility for the White House Faith Office, and in March the White House study was resurrected.
Independent journalist and veteran news producer Jonathan Larsen has been tracking Drollinger’s teachings, which have very recently included multiple examples of the longstanding anti-Jewish “executing” Jesus trope. Larsen writes:
In two study guides and videos, right-wing preacher Ralph Drollinger, who runs the Bible studies, made multiple references to Israel, or its people, killing Jesus.
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The first of Drollinger’s two online study guides, dated June 13, argues:
“[T]he spiritual blessings of the Abrahamic Covenant accrue to the Church for a time (until God grafts Israel back in) due to the present apostasy of Israel, having executed the Messiah.”
That reference also appears on a Capitol Ministries pamphlet for the lesson, one which Larsen points out carries the endorsements of several senior Trump officials.
And in a video lesson in June, Drollinger made the attack on camera:
Since Paul’s a Jew, he doesn’t want his audience to know, well, what happens to the Jews, because they for by and large rejected the messiah. They’ve been sidetracked. … In other words, Israel has stumbled. They’re on the side track of God’s plan as He grafts in the gentiles into His kingdom. And they’ve been sidetracked because they crucified their messiah.
Just a reminder from the Catechism about this vile filth:
595 Among the religious authorities of Jerusalem, not only were the Pharisee Nicodemus and the prominent Joseph of Arimathea both secret disciples of Jesus, but there was also long-standing dissension about him, so much so that St. John says of these authorities on the very eve of Christ’s Passion, “many.. . believed in him”, though very imperfectly. This is not surprising, if one recalls that on the day after Pentecost “a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith” and “some believers. . . belonged to the party of the Pharisees”, to the point that St. James could tell St. Paul, “How many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; and they are all zealous for the Law.”
596 The religious authorities in Jerusalem were not unanimous about what stance to take towards Jesus. The Pharisees threatened to excommunicate his followers. To those who feared that “everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation”, the high priest Caiaphas replied by prophesying: “It is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.” The Sanhedrin, having declared Jesus deserving of death as a blasphemer but having lost the right to put anyone to death, hands him over to the Romans, accusing him of political revolt, a charge that puts him in the same category as Barabbas who had been accused of sedition. The chief priests also threatened Pilate politically so that he would condemn Jesus to death.
Jews are not collectively responsible for Jesus’ death
597 The historical complexity of Jesus’ trial is apparent in the Gospel accounts. the personal sin of the participants (Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate) is known to God alone. Hence we cannot lay responsibility for the trial on the Jews in Jerusalem as a whole, despite the outcry of a manipulated crowd and the global reproaches contained in the apostles’ calls to conversion after Pentecost. Jesus himself, in forgiving them on the cross, and Peter in following suit, both accept “the ignorance” of the Jews of Jerusalem and even of their leaders. Still less can we extend responsibility to other Jews of different times and places, based merely on the crowd’s cry: “His blood be on us and on our children!”, a formula for ratifying a judicial sentence. As the Church declared at the Second Vatican Council: . . .
Neither all Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with the crimes committed during his Passion. . . the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture.
All sinners were the authors of Christ’s Passion
598 In her Magisterial teaching of the faith and in the witness of her saints, the Church has never forgotten that “sinners were the authors and the ministers of all the sufferings that the divine Redeemer endured.” Taking into account the fact that our sins affect Christ himself, The Church does not hesitate to impute to Christians the gravest responsibility for the torments inflicted upon Jesus, a responsibility with which they have all too often burdened the Jews alone:
We must regard as guilty all those who continue to relapse into their sins. Since our sins made the Lord Christ suffer the torment of the cross, those who plunge themselves into disorders and crimes crucify the Son of God anew in their hearts (for he is in them) and hold him up to contempt. and it can be seen that our crime in this case is greater in us than in the Jews. As for them, according to the witness of the Apostle, “None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” We, however, profess to know him. and when we deny him by our deeds, we in some way seem to lay violent hands on him.
Nor did demons crucify him; it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
The fastest way to hell that I can think of is to look God in face and tell him, “Jesus didn’t die because of my sins, but because of the sins of that Jewish guy over there.” It is the complete hellish fruition of the MAGA cult’s deeply ingrained habit of using accusation as confession. Enough of this demonic evil!
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I find it disturbing that we have to deal with Anti Semitism today, 2025 in the United Stares. I thought that we were beyond that. The last thing we need are “Christian” con artists, taking Biblical quotes out of context and peddling toxic poison. Time to call out these phonies.
The reason we are where we are today is precisely because people assumed that questions of justice and decency happen in a linear progression and that history has some sort of built in safety mechanism that prevents backsliding.
Anti-Semitism, racism and any other barbaric system of thought you can think of – we were never beyond that in the sense that it never left. It was always lurking in the dark corners and went unspoken by most for many years. Like latent syphilis, it leads the patient (or society) to believe they are cured because the outward symptoms have subsided. In fact the infection rages on unchecked, destroying the body from within. Only years later does the full horror reveal itself.
MAGA is who this country always was. For all of our history we held some aspirations to do better, and for maybe two thirds of a century we made concrete efforts and real progress.
But then the consensus changed. America decided it preferred its old and more vicious version of itself. It has publicly and proudly embraced it. The majority ruling party has made the old hate ideology it core identity and agenda.
Republicans seem to think that acknowledging slavery is “woke” and thus wrong. They say that this will make White people feel guilty. Well, I don’t feel guilty, but to deny that slavery was a moral abomination is to not be honest.
Florida Republicans attempted to depict slavery as some sort of jobs program. Thus, we were doing slaves a favor by enslaving them. The lack of honesty is breathtaking.
The current antipathy towards immigrants is also disturbing. The Government may be legally justified in some of the deportations, but detainees should be humanely treated. Roughing people up, making them sleep on concrete floors, depriving them of food and water is actually being cheered by MAGA. The inhumane treatment of detainees is regarded as a good thing.
It’s pretty revolting what MAGA has become.