The Community Interest

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Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

Thursday, October 21, 2004

The Presbys Continue Anti-Semitic Trend

First, the doctrine-by-committee American Presbyterians passed an anti-Israel divestment petition that set new standards for malicious and selective outrage.

As Jay Leftkowitz wrote in WSJ:

The church has singled out Israel, alone among all the nations of the world, for divestment. It has demonized Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, and it has delegitimized Israel's right to self-defense. The church is not calling for divestment of its $7 billion portfolio from China, despite China's denial of the most basic political and religious rights and its particularly harsh treatment of followers of Falun Gong. It is not condemning Russia, even though Russia's policies in Chechnya are by any human-rights standard atrocious. It is not even calling for economic sanctions against Syria or Iran, whose human-rights records for their own people are egregious and whose Jewish citizens are denied the basic civil rights and liberties afforded to all Israelis, including its Arab citizens, some of whom even serve in the Knesset.

In contrast to the action taken by the Presbyterian Church this month, the Roman Catholic Church has recognized that one-sided criticism of Israel can at times be so grotesque that there is no name to describe it other than anti-Semitism. And in a document ironically signed the same week as the Presbyterian General Assembly, the Catholic Church equated anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.



Unsatisfied with the level of Jew hatred this revealed, now Presbyterian Church has now declared open allegience with those who would destroy Israel, meeting with Hezbollah - a terrorist group responsible for the deaths of more than 29 American citizens and founded to destroy a democratic ally of the U.S.

Fellow Christians, this is how it begins. Will we sit back and watch the conjuring of vanguished demons?

Completely surreal story. Suicide bombing? terrorists attacks on Israel? Explicit foundational purpose to destroy the state of Israel? Nope. None of this came to Harper's mind. Wonder where he's from? Hmmm...... Oh! look at that! Ann Arbor, Michigan. Whodathunkit?


2 Comments:

Blogger Beth said...

I grew up in a PCUSA church. It wasn't until I went to college did I see the erronious aspects in the doctrine. Now as I understand more about the world and about my own faith, the path of the PCUSA and their churches disgusts me. Not only are they praticipating in Planned Parenthood marches, they are taking sides against the birthplace of their religion. It's truely amazing.

1:25 PM  
Blogger JCH said...

Amen sister. I think we are about five years from a major anti-semitic backlash in America. And it will come from the Left.

1:46 PM  

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