http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrislam
http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=1366
http://apprising.org/2011/02/22/the-rise-of-chrislam/
These appear to demented bleatings. However, it must pointed out that The Vatican does not necessarily speak for the Catholic Church and, in fact, cannot do so where it counts.
Bravo Sierra
Waiting for you to add your "whore of Babylon" gibe.
And what do you say to the Rabbi’s who have written very favorably regarding the role of the Pope and the Catholic Church in saving thousands of Jews during WWII?
Glad to know you're swallowing the KGB's propaganda line straight up.
In reality, the Catholic Church was a bitter enemy of Nazism, the Nazis knew it, and Pope Pius XII was directly responsible for saving 860,000 Jewish lives.
Surprise, Christian are not Jews. It may by uncomfortable for Jews but Catholic theology holds that the Church is the new Israel and the true heirs to the promises. The old covenants were a foreshadowing and prelude to the New Covenant in Jesus Christ. Anyone familiar with Saint Paul would be aware of this.
This is not to say that God has abandoned the Jews but rather that at the time of our Lord there was a split in Judaism; some Jews accepted Jesus as the Messiah and some did not. To those Jews who did accept Jesus were joined the Gentiles who together form the Church. The covenant of Moses is no longer operative. This God himself has shown when he allowed the Temple to be destroyed and which has not been rebuilt for 2000 years.
As Saint Paul stated, there is no longer Jew and Greek. The path to salvation for the Jews is the same as that for the Gentiles, through Jesus Christ. To insist that Christians recognize the continuing force of the Old Testament covenants apart from the new universal covenant in Jesus Christ is to insist that they cease being Christian.
Actually, I agree with this; except for the bit about "displacement of 'Palestinians,'" that is.
I've been arguing about this with people at my synagogue about the best way to argue for the right of the modern State of Israel to exist. The Bible is nice, but it doesn't convey any legal right or prohibition unless that right or prohibition is imported into a modern legal structure. Suggesting that it has some standing outside of a modern legal context is little different from suggesting that Sharia Law does.
The right of the people in Israel to govern themselves as they do is based upon the right to own and control private property. The land in Palestine was purchased by an assortment of people whom we refer to as Zionists beginning in the late 19th century (when it was mostly desolate) under the laws of the Ottoman Turks who controlled property transfers at that time. These purchases continued under British law after WWI, and now under Israeli law since 1948. The Arabs who didn't sell or abandon their property still have it (or the people they transferred it to do). To be sure some property, including Arab property, has been condemned under eminent domain claims. All governments do this. But the notion of Arabs being forced at gunpoint or similar threat to abandon their property is almost entirely false. Virtually no one has been displaced, unless perhaps they never had any legal claim in the first place. (And except perhaps in PA administered areas like Bethlehem, and there the only Arabs being displaced are Christian Arabs.)
ML/NJ
You'd present a much better case if you could - just once a decade - prove to the membership that you're capable of rubbing two brain cells together.
This is a very powerful and dangerous MYTH.
Jews and chr*stians may be friends in America, but the world is a big place.
Vatican Condemns Israel for Attacks on Lebanon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665678/posts
This is not about replacement theology or the Vatican’s love of Islam. The Catholic Church must protect Christians as it can. Since the governing class in the west is now anti-Christian, it can expect no support. The only other option in dhimmitude.
If your prospective beliefs, usually acquired from your prospective Churches, are true, you have nothing to fear, because you will find them justified. If not, be ready to change, because reading God's Word with a pure heart cannot help but to change us.
Again, start really reading The Bible. Some do read The Bible, but how much and in what way? Do we read it merely to desperately find support for our own preconceived doctrines or do we read it asking The LORD to show us His truth, no matter what that may be? After we have read it once, we must read it again and again and will be amazed as to how The LORD reveals Himself anew each time we read it.
All this infighting by those who call themselves Christians is not God's will for us. I really believe that if we all start to, and continue to read His Word, we will find agreement, peace and love for each other, and no longer "be at each other's throats".
I think this excerpt and the underlying YNet article are meant to inflame, rather than inform. I want to make the following random, but related points.
1. There has been no such declaration “by a synod” (and I do follow these things closely).
2. The Patriarch’s opinions are not necessarily the Pope’s. In fact, judging by the Pope’s track record on this issue, I know they are not.
3. The Patriarch’s opinions may indeed be shared by some in the Vatican, but these do not necessarily shape policy.
4. There are indeed theological arguments questioning the “theological value” of the existence of the modern State of Israel. Many of these views emanate from so-called Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups who believe that only the Messiah can restore Israel as a political entity. Leaders of this faction have been to Iran to hug A-jhad.
5. Nor is the modern State of Israel in isolation seen as “Israel” by the Church. Yes, the Jews in the State of Israel and beyond, and through the ages are “all of Israel” in the New Testament and Catholic theology.
6. Dispensationalism is a distorted interpretation of the Bible; we should put no credence on it.
7. The Catholic Church has pronounced herself in favor of the existence of the State of Israel. That’s why the Holy See has diplomatic relations with it. (D’uh).
8. The issue on how the modern State of Israel fulfills prophecy or possesses religious connotations impacting on Catholic theology remains AN OPEN ISSUE.
Hope that helps dispel the misinformation stated on this article.
+JMJ,
-Theo