Posted on 12/05/2010 10:04:52 PM PST by restornu
In many ways, the second half of the 20th century was a high point for Jewish-Christian relations.
Today, however, the anti-Israel politics of certain powerful Christian bodies hampers interfaith relations and threatens to breathe new life into medieval doctrine that demonized Jews for hundreds of years.
In 2007, the World Council of Churches, an umbrella organization of mostly liberal Protestants...
The Amman Call also labeled the barrier Israel has built to keep out Palestinian suicide bomberswhich has effectively saved untold Jewish, Muslim and Christian livesa "grave breach of international law" that must be removed.
In 2008, the World Council of Churches convened a group of Protestant and Catholic theologians to review the underpinnings of Christian attitudes toward Israel. (No Jews were invited.) ...
The Kairos document also describes the Jewish connection to Israel only in terms of the Holocaust, denying 3,000 years of Jewish domicile. "Our presence in this land, as Christian and Muslim Palestinians, is not accidental but rather deeply rooted in the history and geography of this land," it states.
Most importantly, these Palestinian church leaders declared that there must not be a Jewish state because any religious state is inherently racist.
The Kairos document quickly won accolades from religious groups including from the Presbyterian Church (USA),
...was the first mainline American Protestant group to call for divestment from Israel.
This past February, its Middle East Study Committee announced that it would urge the U.S. government to "employ the strategic use of influence and the withholding of financial and military aid" from Israel. While conceding Israel's right to exist,...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center will soon meet with the president of the World Council of Churches to urge an end to its campaign against Israel and the Jewish people. Like anti-Israel diplomatic and academic campaigns,...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
What has the HOLY GHOST told you about PRESBYTERIANism?
If you think the BIBLE is 'true' then why do you think that JS and the early leaders of MORMONism did NOT follow what it taught?
Speaking of a full deck; are you going to be answering any of the simple questions we ANTIs have asked; or will the LURKERS have to take OUR word as gospel here?
= fraud10
I am pleased to offer my services for the Advancement of my CHURCH.
Please feel free to ask me ANYTHING and I'll avoid answering and post something that I think is witty; or a picture of a kitty.
Remember...
I am normal too; and I am a MORMON!
Sincerely,
Resty
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