Posted on 08/09/2005 4:32:07 PM PDT by SJackson
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization, is urging Bishop Mark Hanson and the leadership of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) to reject a proposed resolution by the Churchs Caribbean Synod that denies Israels legitimacy and calls for ELCA to push for divestment of the Jewish State. ELCA is convening its biennial Assembly in Orlando today.
"The Caribbean Synods proposed resolution is a major escalation in the worldwide political campaign to delegitimize Israel and is in keeping with the spirit of the 1975 UN resolution that equated Zionism with racism," charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center.
The language of the proposed resolution alleges "57 years" of Israeli occupation, effectively rejecting Israels legitimacy as a sovereign state and casting her as "tyrannical," a "colonizer" and an "occupier."
"This resolution goes way beyond any of the resolutions recently passed by the U.S. Presbyterian Church, the United Church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ," continued Cooper. "It dispenses with politically-correct window dressing including any concern for the security of Israel or of Israels right to a secure future."
The Caribbean Synods resolution also depicts Israels anti-terrorism security fence as a "cement wall on confiscated Palestinian land" with no reference to the suicide bombing campaign launched by Palestinian terrorists which has killed over 1,000 Israeli citizens, the equivalent to 50,000 Americans.
"The Wiesenthal Center urges Bishop Hanson and all of the delegates to the ELCA Assembly in Orlando to reject this one-sided racist document, continued Cooper. "Its passage will not help a single Palestinian, but will damage interfaith relations. We instead urge ELCA to find proactive and positive ways to further humanitarianism and peace in the Holy Land," he concluded.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.
AMEN!!! Either the schmucks still sitting in the pews don't know that they're supporting a left-wing political organization, which is working against them , or they don't care. Ignorance is bliss.
Thank you. I'll add the Nation of Islam to the list, along with Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. The names of all of those organizations will look appropriate together on the list.
I got in a disagreement about the NCC during the Elian travesty. I haven't been back in a NCC affiliated church since.
You know, their 100% right, but I would think that the Simon Wiesenthal center might have bigger fish to fry than the Caribbean Lutherans. I'm quite sure that only 4 out of the 13 Caribbean Lutherans are truly anti-Semitic.
I had it with the ELCA sometime back over their heading in a liberal direction. I don't intend to go to Church to come away irritated. Last time I was in an ELCA I almost walked out on the sermon so I didn't return. After the Elian debacle, I started checking out what Church bodies were members of the NCC -- not going to any of those either.
Think this may be why local nondemoninational churches are beginning to gain members. We had a church start up with 20 members and it now has over 2,000 and attracted people from a lot of the so-called "mainstream" churches. Kind of like the "mainstream" media if you ask me with both very liberal!
The PCUSA's actions are much more heinous, far-reaching and damaging.
I've been a Lutheran for over 40 years, having left the Mennonite Church in my mid-teens. This article is nothing but bonk, intended to throw a stink blanket over an entire Christian denomination. I never heard of a 'Church's Caribbean Synod'. Have any of you before this article?
I personally have never been to a church service and listened to anything derogatory toward the Jewish State (Israel), but I sure have heard about radical psycopathic Palestinian Muslims.
I find it amazing that they go on and cite other Christian denomiations by name, so that the ignorant readers would think that they also have taken part previously in the degrading of the Jewish State, but, not quite as bad as these asswipe 'Church's Caribbean Synod' did.
I find it very offensive, after being life time supporter of Israel and Jewish people to read this sh*t!
Rule #1: Always check the motive.
The motive here is obvious to me.
The free media attention that they get from this is worth more, I'd imagine, than the Caribbean synod's total investment in Israel.
their=they're. Brain fart, I know better.
I'm not as discerning as you. Could you explain it to me?
I'm ELCA and I hope they lose 99% of their membership!!!
Link to the Caribbean synod. No indication of the divestment resolution on their website.
The email is info@lutherancariboffice.com
Link to the congregations in the synod. There are only 35. That's not much. A quick guesstimate has me calculating about 3000 in the pews on Sunday. That's not much for a synod.
The Lutheran Church in Puerto Rico is part of the Caribbean Synod of the ELCA. It has 27 congregations with 26 active pastors and approximately 4,500 members. Congregations in Puerto Rico participate fully in the programs and missions of the ELCA. All use the Spanish language except one congregation in San Juan which has English services to serve the needs of expatriates from the Virgin Islands and other places. Puerto Ricans have been citizens of the U.S.A. since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a Commonwealth since 1952."
Source: elca.org
It's interesting that you linked the media and the NCC churches. In truth, they are part of the same sickness. When the move toward Christianity comes as the pendulum swings, it's the NCC churches that will gain members IMO. The media will whoop it up and damn those who have remained steadfast and ventured out on their own.
The left doesn't fear the apostate. It fears the true believer.
Take a look at the church a lot of movie starts have now clamoured onto. Need I say more?
I do lament even their lost souls. There will be a lot of wailing.
IMO, we have entered a period where two clear sides are taking form. The left has chosen. The apostate have chosen. It should surprise no one that their actions will begin to resemble more and more the demonic leader whose call they have answered.
It's time for study, devotion and steadfastness.
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