United Church of Christ Anti-Israel Extremism (Obama's denomination)

American Thinker ^ | Peggy Shapiro

[RoosterRedux]

On June 30, 2015, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ voted to single out Israel for an economic and propaganda war. Ignoring the violent state of affairs in an unstable region, the plague of terrorist groups, and the victimization of millions of Christians and other minority groups, the UCC elected to boycott Israel, the only functioning democracy in the Middle East. Giving a pass to Hamas rockets aimed at Israeli children and the prohibition of any Jews to enter Palestinian-controlled territory, the UCC jumped on the bandwagon of slander to demonize Israel.

Deletion and Replacement of Jews

The vote was reached after a one-sided diatribe against Israel by Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, a Lutheran pastor from Bethlehem. Raheb has a long history of Israel animus and religious extremism.

He denies all Jewish rights to any part of Israel. In 2010, Raheb told an audience at the Christ at the Checkpoint Conference in Bethlehem,

”Israel represents Rome of the Bible, not the people of the land… the Palestinian Christians are the only ones in the world that, when they speak about their forefathers, they mean their actual forefathers, and also the forefathers in the faith."

He erases over 3,000 years of continuous Jewish presence in the land and creates an imaginary history in which even the Israeli prime minister “comes from an East European tribe who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages.” Also note that he did not say that "the Israeli occupation of the West Bank" corresponds to Rome. No, it is the State of Israel as such that he identified with Rome of old.

Adhering to a twisted and repudiated fringe of Christianity, Raheb deletes Jews from the history of Israel.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I worked a second job for several years as a janitor for a UCC church and daycare. They were pretty solidly conservative and the minister was a Navy chaplain.

[Dr. Thorne]

When will Jesus return with a whip of cords and drive the apostates out of these “churches” as He did the moneychangers in the Temple?

[RoosterRedux]

I’m certainly not an authority on the UCC but IIRC the different UCC churches have a lot of freedom (hence Jeremiah Wright opening his church up to muslims).

[2ndDivisionVet]

Jeremiah Wright was a Muslim, prior to “converting” to Christianity.

[RoosterRedux]

Yup. He sure was (or is).

[Zenjitsuman]

These Bastards would have killed Jewish Jesus. They are going to hell enough said.

[Dogbert41]

Makes me angry. I wonder what Bible they read from? The Satanic one?

[Bryanw92]

>>Makes me angry. I wonder what Bible they read from? The Satanic one?

They don’t. To the modern day UCC the bible is useful for pulling out a few bumper sticker quotes to support the Progressive and Homosexual Agendas. But once they get their proof texts, they are pretty much done with it.

[hinckley buzzard]

The UCC's congregational tradition allows for wide diversity of positions. The General Synod is the governing body of the denomination, but has not the power of say the Episcopal church's presiding bishop or the Catholic church's hierarchy. Then again, the stated positions of the UCC have little to do with Christianity as it has historically been understood. In recent years they refused to pass a resolution witnessing Jesus Christ as the Incarnate Son of God. Indeed, at their founding convention in 1957, (I wasn't there but my father was) there were many who did not believe even then in the divinity of Christ. The UCC has little use for sacraments or historic creeds, which in many ways define Christianity as opposed to secular social service agencies.