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[How about “divesting” from Arab governments that systematically persecute Christians, fly airplanes into our buildings, and hope to conquer America for Islam? Maybe we could divest from brutal regimes such as Sudan, Viet Nam, Nigeria, and dozens of other dark places that persecute just about everyone? If these Mainline Protestants spent as much time on the silent holocaust in Sudan as they do on Israel’s imagined brutalization of Palestinians, two million Christians could be saved in Sudan.
A number of years ago a friend was working as a teacher in Sudan. Initially she loved it, but then people rather suddenly turned quite hostile to her, as an American and thus (nominally) Christian. From what I heard, what's followed there is not a big surprise. --sionnsar]

1 posted on 07/03/2005 6:40:08 PM PDT by sionnsar
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How about “divesting” from Arab governments that systematically persecute Christians, fly airplanes into our buildings, and hope to conquer America for Islam? Maybe we could divest from brutal regimes such as Sudan, Viet Nam, Nigeria, and dozens of other dark places that persecute just about everyone?

What's to divest? Last I heard their economies weren't exactly going anywhere.

2 posted on 07/03/2005 6:46:08 PM PDT by Coyoteman
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...calling on Jews to relinquish their fear and mistrust of Christianity...

Except for the largest group of Christians, Roman Catholics, who hold by straightforward Replacement Theology.

And except for the second-largest Christian group, Southern Baptists, who are the primary financiers of missionary activity specifically targeting Jews.

And except for the third-largest Christian group, the United Methodists, part of the religious left.

And the there's the National Association of Evangelicals, who are moving away from their pro-Israel position: Evangelicals Eye Middle Ground On Middle East

...Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Lapin...

Who is unfortunately barely known in the Orthodox world, and is certainly not a leader therein. Did Rabbi Yaakov Perlow sign on?

...the climate for sharing one’s faith with Jews was warming...

So is this an admission that the point is missionizing and not justice?

3 posted on 07/03/2005 7:36:53 PM PDT by hlmencken3 ("...politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition")
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