Posted on 04/08/2002 11:15:16 PM PDT by kattracks
I made the same mistake yesterday, I was surprised at how many people corrected me. It's just something non-Christians aren't likely to know about.
With a bit of trepedition and putting on my flame resistant suit, as an individual Christian, the Church of the Nativity is just a building. While it may have some possible historic meaning, its survival has absolutely no significance to the Body of Christ, i.e. the speading of the Gospel and the fellowship of believers.
The Church is not a building.
Absolutely!
A "priest inside the church," [Held hostage, that is!] quoted by Reuters, said: "Blah Blah Blah Blah ... carried out an armed attack on the Nativity Church ..... set fire to the parish building in front of the basilica."
Which couple of sentences demonstrate with absolute clarity and unambiguity the abject intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the reuters "reporters" and "editors" -- who went on to use such language as:
..... the 'palestinian' gunmen to surrender and release priests that "Israeli officials describe as" hostages.
And suggested without comment that:
Church officials have said the priests are "not hostages" and "have chosen to remain" in the sanctuary.
This despite that:
"Roughly 200 'palestinians'" [Who shot their way in!] are "believed" to have "taken shelter" in the church, "together with" 4 nuns and 40 Franciscan monks.
When we Civilized Peoples have finished dealing with and exterminating the 'palestinians' and the rest of the world's Hesporophobic terrorist savages, we should go after their allies, the obscene lickspittle advocates who comprise the world's media -- and string every last one of the lying bastards up in Manger Square!
Exodus 3:5 Then He said, "Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand [is] holy ground."
See #26
Aren't most of these monks and priests Palestinian themselves? Of course they would defend their blood brothers, regardless of their actions. Witness the barbaric feuds between Arab states...but let an outsider interfere and they stand together so tightly you can't stick a paper clip between them. "Blood is thicker than water..."
Also, in several phone interviews a priest (Palestinian) inside the church said something to the effect of, "We heard a loud noise and they (the terrorists inside) told me the Israelis were attacking the church." So apparently the clergy inside are not exactly eyewitnesses to the claims of the Palestinians, but are merely echoing what their brethren tell them is going on. Thus, even the accounts of the priests on the inside are not entirely credible, in my view. Every last one of them interviewed by phone was Palestinian and indicate that their stories are relays of what the gunmen told them occurred.
Unarmed friars with rifles, in the hands of terrorists, pointed at their heads.
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