Church Leaders Misplace the Blame for Christian Persecution in the Middle East

American Thinker.com ^ | December 30, 2021 | Steve Apfel

[Kaslin]

Christendom is in dire straits. Historian Tom Holland predicts the unthinkable – a Middle East without any Christian communities. Fr. Francesco Patton, a Catholic leader, Custos of the Holy Land and guardian of Christian holy places in Israel, seemed to be predicting the same thing in his article in a recent UK Daily Telegraph article, where he writes “Our presence is precarious and our future at risk.” He adds that the lives of Christians have been made “unbearable by radical local groups with extremist ideologies.”

Jerusalem clerics and patriarchs piled on their own concern about radical groups trying to purge the region of Christianity. When the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, perhaps the leading Protestant figure of all, vented more spleen about Christianity’s survival in the Middle East with a third article inside a week, we’re bound to conclude that something big must be going down.

As head of the Anglican Church, Welby joined the Archbishop of Jerusalem, Hosam Naoum, to write a shared Sunday Times article stamping their imprimatur on a crunch time for Christianity because Christians “had become the target of frequent and sustained attacks....”

Ha! Jihadists uprooting two millennia of Christianity or so you’d think from reading the news. Think again. The targets of all the angst and outrage were Jews. The damn ‘Zios’ are doing the uprooting.

Now that is odd. The other day a news item landed in my mailbox: “Israel’s Christian community is growing, 84% satisfied with life here.”

In it, I read that “Israel’s Christian community grew by 1.4 percent in 2020 and numbers some 182,000....” Of that number “76.7% of Christians in Israel are Arab.” And importantly, “84% of them [are] saying they were satisfied with life in the country....” Arab Christians tend to cluster in Nazareth, Haifa,

[Tomato lover]

After the Rapture, Christians will be in short supply. I don’t doubt that this article is the ‘Left’ playing Cover Your A**. Surly, after we are all gone, it will be noticeable that those who are ‘missing’ were followers of Jesus Christ.

I’m leaving a Bible in my truck.