Rupert Murdoch: Many religious ties in closet



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According to Karen Fish in Now Public, if you ask Rupert Murdoch what his religion is, he will tell you this:  He is Christian and his wife Wendi is Catholic.  Rupert Murdoch will tell you that he goes to church most Sundays but he hasn’t converted to Catholicism even though he was knighted by the Pope.

What Murdoch won’t necessarily add to this already-convoluted response is that this is just the outermost view of a closet filled with assorted religious ties.

Jewwatch.com emphasizes that Murdoch’s mother, born Elisabeth Joy Greene, was “the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family.”  An article on that website from David Irving’s Action Report claims that Keith Murdoch, Rupert’s father, was “promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned newspaper where he worked” because of “his wife’s connections.”  Plus, Murdoch Sr. was then able to “buy himself a knighthood” (like father, like son?).  Irving goes on to assert that this maternal connection makes Rupert Murdoch a Jew “according to the law of the Talmud, and indeed according to the present laws of Israel.”

On this same website, Christopher Bollyn of the American Free Press writes about Rupert Murdoch’s

“support for extreme right-wing Zionists, such as Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon.”  He quotes former New York governor George Pataki as having said:  “There is no newspaper in the U.S. more supportive of

Israel than the [Murdoch’s] New York Post.”  Murdoch himself is then quoted as having said this at a fundraiser for the Museum of Jewish Heritage:  I have always believed in the future of Israel and the goals of the international Jewish community.

Many already know about Murdoch’s affiliation with the New York Post.  What they may not know is that Murdoch’s media empire also includes Zondervan, “the world’s largest publisher of Bibles.”  According to Will Braun’s Holy Moly blog, Zondervan not only owns “exclusive North American print rights to the popular New International Version of the Bible” – but it also “publishes books by leading Christian authors

like Rick Warren…”

Resources

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/rupert-murdoch-s-religion-jewish-christian-or-other

http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/some-notes-on-rupert-murdoch-and-religion/

http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-entertainment-news-monopoly-murdoch-jew-part1.html

http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-entertainment-news-monopoly-murdoch-jew-part4.html

http://frstephensmuts.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/did-you-buy-your-bible-from-rupert-murdoch/

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