Posted on 01/15/2005 5:24:12 PM PST by hope
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Massachusetts church's 'pro-terrorism' speakers protested
Demonstrators will show up Sunday morning during services
Posted: January 15, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
A group of Christians and Jews plans to hold a demonstration tomorrow at a Presbyterian church hosting a program presented by the International Solidarity Movement, which supports "armed struggle" and has advocated the destruction of Israel.
The Christian Jewish Anti-Terror Alliance said the protest at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in Somerville, Mass., will take place as the program begins at 11:45 a.m.
The church is hosting a program and brunch entitled "A Report Back from Palestine" at which the Boston support group for the International Solidarity Movement, or ISM, will speak to the congregation.
"The time has come for Christians to stand with Israel against the terrorists who for 50 years have been trying to destroy the Jewish state, and who have brought suffering and death to thousands of Israelis and Arabs, said Dennis Hale of the Christian Jewish Anti-Terror Alliance.
Hale, a member of a local Episcopal parish and teacher of political science at Boston College, said "the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church has decided to stand with the terrorists instead."
He insisted ignorance is no excuse, since the ISM has made it intentions and loyalties "crystal clear."
"The Christians who stand with them are not defending peace and justice; they are defending religious fanatics and killers," Hale said.
The ISM says in its mission statement that the Palestinians have a right to "armed struggle" and its leaders have endorsed suicide bombing as a "noble" form of jihad. The group's media coordinator, Flo Rosovski wrote, "'Israel' is an illegal entity that should not exist."
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church is a member of the Presbyterian Church, USA, or PCUSA, which is one of several Presbyterian denominations.
As WorldNetDaily reported, in July the General Assembly of the PCUSA voted 431-62 to divest from companies that are invested in Israel.
But the assembly called "terrorism – whether state, group, or individual – immoral because it wrongfully and deliberately attacks innocent civilians," and is "a dead-end alternative to a negotiated settlement of the conflict."
In October, an official PCUSA delegation visited Lebanon and met with leaders of the terrorist group Hezbollah.
Elder Ronald Stone, speaking on Al Manar, the televised voice of Hezbollah, said "we treasure the precious words of Hezbollah and your expression of good will towards the American people ... ."
Since its founding in 1982, Hezbollah has been responsible for hundreds of attacks against Israelis and Americans, including the 1983 suicide bomb attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 200. Hezbollah also attacked the Israeli Embassy in Argentina in 1992 and the Israeli cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994.
Three top church officials responded, stating, "The visit to Hezbollah and the comments on that occasion by members of this Presbyterian group do not reflect the official position of the Presbyterian Church."
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I'll see if I can make it down there, since I've given up on installing my Shaw laminate floor myself due to its crappy interlocking system.
There is a growing number of churches who are members of the World Council of Churches and some who are not that are supporting a Palestinian State in Israel.
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I can't get any of your related stories links to work.
These are people with a leftist agenda. They would like nothing better than to use churches to further it.
(Gen 12:1 KJV) Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:
(Gen 12:2 KJV) And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
(Gen 12:3 KJV) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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(Gen 17:20 KJV) And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
(Gen 17:21 KJV) But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
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(Gen 26:1 KJV) And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
(Gen 26:2 KJV) And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
(Gen 26:3 KJV) Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
(Gen 26:4 KJV) And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
I made up a few fliers - suicide bomber in crosshairs with "what is required of you but to do justice?" - Rachel Corrie screaming and burning the American flag amid children, and a quote of Gen 12:3.
"The Christian Jewish Anti-Terror Alliance said the protest at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in Somerville, Mass., will take place as the program begins at 11:45 a.m."
One reason for the bleeding white of what used to be the big mainstream Christian denominations is that they've been taken over by a-holes who are making them into political organizations. And as political organizations, they support fascism, abortion, gay marriage...
The ISM member who confronted me about my "Rachel Corrie in a screaming rage" sign seemed to think that just because ISM members do not commit violence that they are not accountable for supporting violence.
Do you have a .jpg of that poster you can put up on the thread?
The local Indymedia has been crying their hearts out over her. I think she should be deported back here to the US and tried for assisting terrorism.
She's already been sentenced, so it's too late for a trial.
If that happened I think she'd be crushed....
Unfortunately the Presby Church (USA) has a very biased stance toward Israel. They are looking to divest of certain companies that do business there and last fall 2 mid-level, yet tenured employees of PCUSA were fired because of a meeting that occured between Hezbollah and a fact-finding trip to the Holy land. I just read of a similar meeting with Hezbollah that occured when a Presby (USA) seminary traveled to the area.
Google the name Clifton Kirkpatrick, who is their Clerk of Session and you will find the definition of leftist wingnut.
They were mainstream. Just taken over by leftist loonies unfortunately. As others pointed out there are various factions of Presby's who've split off from each other. Not all are so leftist.
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