Full disclosure: I am a big fan of Kosher salt, especially for keeping meat dishes from sticking to pans and it really keeps meat from drying out if you use it in a rub. If you are interested in such things, Kosher salt can be and is used in purification, banishment and exorcism rituals in many occult traditions. It also comes in nifty cylindrical cans that are easy to use and store. Thus I have about half a dozen Kosher salts in the cupboard at any one time, and have no qualms using it.

Neo-Nazis and Aztlan supporters have spent the last few years whining effeminately about kosher practices and how we all secretly are forced to eat Kosher food by the evil Jewish conspiracy (which can magically produce Kosher pork products and shellfish) and now thanks to retired barber Joe Godlewski they have an alternative:

Retired barber Joe Godlewski says he was inspired by television chefs who repeatedly recommended kosher salt in recipes.

“I said, ‘What the heck’s the matter with Christian salt?'” Godlewski said, sipping a beer in the living room of his home in unincorporated Cresaptown, a western Maryland mountain community.

By next week, his trademarked Blessed Christians Salt will be available at http://www.memphi.net, the Web site of Memphis, Tenn.-based seasonings manufacturer Ingredients Corporation of America.

It’s sea salt that’s been blessed by an Episcopal priest, ICA President Damon S. Arney said Wednesday. He said the company also hopes to market the salt through Christian bookstores and as a fundraising tool for religious groups.

Arney and Godlewski, 73, said a share of the proceeds will be donated to Christian charities, but neither would specify a percentage.

Since it’s blessed by an Episcopalian it’s really only nominally Christian. But like many anti-Kosher activists Godlewski seems to not understand exactly what Kosher salt is:

Rabbi Sholem Fishbane, kosher administrator for the Chicago Rabbinical Council, said marketing Christian salt as an alternative to kosher salt reflects, at best, ignorance about Jewish dietary laws. He said all salt is inherently kosher because it occurs naturally and requires little or no processing.

Certified kosher foods are not blessed by rabbis but examined by them to ensure that the food and its processing conform with Biblical passages regarding food preparation and consumption, Fishbane said.

He said coarse-grained kosher salt is named for the way in which it was traditionally used – to draw blood from freshly butchered meat, because Jewish law prohibits consuming blood. Chefs often favor kosher salt because it’s crunchy and easy to pinch.

The difference between Kosher salt and regular table salt is basically that Kosher salt is untreated and not processed. That’s it. No blessings go into it.

But hey, don’t think ol’ Joe is some Jew hater. The article ends with this quote:

Godlewski makes his aim clear: “There’s no anti-Semitism. I love Jesus Christ and he was a Jew.”

Right. There’s no anti-Semitism involved in Christians not wanting to use Kosher salt. Of course. Why would anyone think that at all?

Pandagon says this is another example of Episcopalian fundamentalism, not lefty Jew hatred at all.

h/t Jenn Q Public

Update: Jesse Taylor of Pandagon (who is not related to me I would point out) doesn’t understand my last “paragraph”so I’ll clarify.The Episcopalian church is a liberal denomination that has bent over backward to reach out to people like him and his pet racist harpy Amanda Marcotte. Thus they have women clergy, gay clergy, in one case Muslim clergy and have participated in many anti-Israel pro-Palestinian movements. Just like Pandagon!

Because the Episcopalian church is the American arm of the Anglican church pro-sharia Arch-bishop of Canterbury Rowan Atkinson is technically an Episcopalian. His glad handing of Jew hating Jihadis and supporting a parallel justice system to undermine Western civilization  is something you no doubt approve of and something people like Godlewski end up supporting since it ghettoizes Muslim women. I hear he doesn’t like their salt either.

That one of their clergy is involved in this anti-Semitic nonsense indicates that Godlewski himself is an Episcopalian. Since they trend socially liberal he must be one of yours.

Update: I meant Rowan Williams above. Good catch Dodiafae.