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Presbyterian Seminaries: Schools for Anti-Semitism?
ModernConservative.com ^ | David Paulin

Posted on 06/15/2006 8:13:50 AM PDT by connell

In the coming days, leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA will take up a controversial issue – whether to divest from Israel. Why do these Presbyterians think as they do? Their critics overlook the obvious: It’s because of what’s being taught in some Presbyterian seminaries, where future church leaders are inculcated with the moral and religious foundations that shape their world views.

Leaders of the Presbyterian Church USA take up an old obsession in the coming days: Israel. They’re expected to vote on whether to divest from some multinationals doing business there – a controversial process launched at last year’s general assembly, amid a storm of controversy. Critics inside and outside the church have vigorously protested their actions.

To Presbyterian decision-makers, however, divestment is all about human rights – or, rather, Palestinian rights. They mercilessly villainize Israel for violating them, criticizing its anti-terrorism policies – its... continue

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TOPICS: Education; History; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; antisemitism; arab; christian; christianity; divestment; israel; jew; jewish; judaism; palestinian; pbusa; pcusa; presbyterian; religion; securityfence; terrorism; terrorist
Jews and Christians both need to take note of what is happening here.

Christians, because the Presbyterian Church USA is a Christian denomination, albeit arguably nominally so.

Jews---especially those who are still voting Democrat---need to take note because there is a DIRECT CORRELATION between the anti-Semitism of PBUSA and the fact that they are on the Left.

Today, the new home of anti-Semitism is on the Left. In the absence of a sober recognition of that inescabable fact by both Jews and Gentiles alike, dealing with the problem will be significantly more difficult.
1 posted on 06/15/2006 8:13:55 AM PDT by connell
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Christians, because the Presbyterian Church USA is a Christian denomination...

You owe me for one computer keyboard.I'm experiencing my own little version of "The China Syndrome" right now!

2 posted on 06/15/2006 8:45:44 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Gay State Conservative

Are your control rods malfunctioning? Did your cooling water pumps fail? Do we need to issue evacuation orders?


3 posted on 06/15/2006 9:04:31 AM PDT by connell (Christopher from ModernConservative.com)
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Bump


4 posted on 06/16/2006 11:30:59 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room - Dr. Strangelove)
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To: connell

Ping


5 posted on 06/16/2006 11:31:28 PM PDT by garbageseeker (Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room - Dr. Strangelove)
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