While very little was reported on the subject by mainstream media and Traditional Catholic outlets, last week saw the founding of what could only be described as a universal Judaic religion, one without Christ as its head of course.
The First International Noahide Congress was held Nov. 2-6 in Jerusalem, marking a significant milestone in the establishment of this religion that seeks to establish laws for non-Jews to live by.
Convoked at the Seven Arches Hotel on the Mount of Olives, the congress was organized by the Jerusalem-based Noahide World Center, also known as Brit Olam, under Rabbi Oury Cherki. It brought together representatives of Noahide communities from six continents to transform scattered groups into a coordinated, international religious organization.
According to The Jerusalem Post, the congress is pursuing the establishment of an international rabbinical court called “Beit Din.” It also is seeking to create a “unified educational syllabus, organizing six continental regional councils” and a “three-arm financial funding model” within a signed founding charter. Naturally, Jerusalem will serve at the movement’s spiritual center.
Traditional Catholics should be deeply concerned that an organized Noahide project is emerging given that it purports to offer a path to righteousness without acknowledging the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Not only this, but as Integrity’s Managing Editor Alexander Petersen has noted on X — quoting French antimodernist Msgr. Henri Delassus (1836-1921) — it mirrors the anti-christic designs of Jewish Zionism.
What are the Noahide Laws?
The Noahide movement derives its principles from rabbinical Judaism, particularly the Babylonian Talmud, which champions seven commandments to bind upon non-Jews. These include prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, sexual immorality, the consumption of flesh taken from a living animal, as well as the requirement to establish courts of justice.
The Dispatch
On the surface, these “commandments” might seem innocent enough, even noble and broadly in line with the natural law recognized by the Catholic Church. But as usual, the devil is in the details: These laws are to be interpreted according to rabbinic Jewish principles, not Catholic teaching or the natural law tradition. Under that interpretive framework, the worship of Jesus Christ would be regarded as idolatry since Judaism rejects Christ as the Son of God and the doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity. According to traditional Jewish law, idolatry is classified as a capital offense.
Further demonstrating why the event should not be dismissed as harmless, the congress also advanced the use of religious texts, including the Brit Shalom code of conduct and a prayer book adapted for Noahide worship. Its newly established international court Beit Din is intended to only provide religious guidance. For now.
Integrity Magazine already raised concerns earlier this year about the implications of applying Noahide religious principles to societies historically shaped by Christianity. Fr. William Jenkins of the Society of St. Pius V has also warned that the prohibitions against idolatry and blasphemy could become highly dangerous if interpreted by religious authorities who reject the Holy Trinity.
Ben Shapiro, founder of The Daily Wire, conservative charlatan, and Orthodox Jew, also caused controversy with comments he made on the subject while a Turning Point USA event in Iowa on October 8. Asked why he was not Christian, Shapiro explained to the overwhelmingly Christian audience that non-Jews need not convert to Judaism to attain salvation but should instead observe the Noahide commandments.
His remarks provoked criticism from Catholic and Protestant commentators, including Carrie Prejean Boller and Protestant minister Joel Webbon.
Shapiro’s remarks exposed not only the contradictory nature of political cooperation between Christians and Talmudic Jews within contemporary American conservatism, but also the untenability of such a relationship when viewed through the lens of Christ’s Social Kingship and Judaism’s rejection of that reality.
It is therefore important to understand that this Noahide congress was not merely some insignificant, exotic little religious gathering, but the birth of a new, Judaical religious movement whose implied aims place it in direct opposition to Christ and true Israel, the Catholic Church. In other words, it seems the continuation of the religious opposition to Christ that began shortly before 33 AD. More troublesome still is the fact that it perfectly sets the stage for the entrance of the Man of Perdition.
