Never heard the term "philo-Semitism" before. I guess there's a name for everything.
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
Posted on 01/07/2006 8:30:28 PM PST by quidnunc
Danville, Va. – Everyone who worships at the Tabernacle quickly learns three facts about its deeply conservative pastor. He comes from a broken home. He rides a canary-yellow Harley. And he loves the Jews.
There is some murmuring about the motorcycle. But the 2,500 members of this Bible-believing, tradition-respecting Southern Baptist church in southern Virginia have embraced everything else about the Rev. Lamarr Mooneyham.
Out of his painful childhood experiences, Mooneyham, 57, preaches passionately about the importance of home. Out of his reading of the Bible, he preaches with equal passion about God's continuing devotion to the Jewish people.
"I feel jealous sometimes. This term that keeps coming up in the Old Book — the Chosen, the Chosen," says the minister, who has made three trips to Israel and named his sons Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. "I'm a pardoned gentile, but I'm not one of the Chosen People. They're the apple of his eye."
Scholars of religion call this worldview "philo-Semitism," the opposite of anti-Semitism. It is a burgeoning phenomenon in evangelical Christian churches across the country, a hot topic in Jewish historical studies and a wellspring of support for Israel.
Yet many Jews are nervous about evangelicals' intentions. In recent weeks, leaders of three of the nation's largest Jewish groups — the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the Union for Reform Judaism — have decried what they see as a mounting threat to the separation of church and state from evangelicals emboldened by the belief that they have an ally in the White House and an opportunity to shift the Supreme Court.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the evangelical American Family Association, warned in a Dec. 5 radio broadcast that Foxman was "in a bind" because the "strongest supporters Israel has are members of the religious right — the people he's fighting."
"The more he says that 'you people are destroying this country,' you know, some people are going to begin to get fed up with this and say, 'Well, all right then. If that's the way you feel, then we just won't support Israel anymore,' " Wildmon said.
The liberal wing of American Jewry in America had better wise up and recognize who their real friends are.
Non-Jewish American leftists would sell them down the river in a New York minute if not for the Evangelicals.
Never heard the term "philo-Semitism" before. I guess there's a name for everything.
This is a ch__ch. What's missing?
"Never heard the term "philo-Semitism" before. I guess there's a name for everything."
This term has the same root as "Francophile" or "Anglophile."
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
Geez. Christian support for Israel is hardly a new "phenonemon".
Revelation 3:7-10
7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Philadelphia = "brotherly love"
A dear, conservative Jewish friend of mine mused: "Liberal Jews are God's test of obedience for the righteous gentiles." ....inferring that ritgheous gentiles find it difficult to love the liberal Jews...in accordance with His commandement.
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In case anyone needs something to worry about tonight.
A Christian naming their son Joseph, I've never heard of that before.
"Palestine is the wrong name for their State. It should be called Anarchy."—FReeper sgtbono2002
"Then let's wait and see what the Arabs do after they take Gaza. There's nothing like Arab reality to break up a Jewish fantasy."—FReeper Noachian
A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"—Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."
The Nature Of Bruce ~
I was raised with this 30 years ago. The woman who led me to the Lord was named Cohen, and her whole family were messianic Jews.
I was raised that the Jews are the apple of God's eye. You harm them at your peril. "I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you"
"three of the nation's largest Jewish groups — the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the Union for Reform Judaism "
Other than blood(well maybe not so much in yoffie's group)what is Jewish about those three groups?
The ADL which didn't help the Yale five but would help a non Jewish Jew get into a Wasp country club. Union for Reform Judaism where the clergy knows less Torah than high school yeshiva students and whose twice a year constituents wouldn't notice the difference.
The ADL who moere than any group except for the ACLU has prevented any govt aid to yeshivas( which studies now confirm what we all knew - the biggest antidote to assimilation)
Thaes ar eall liberal front groups whose agenda here is ABORTION which has become their golden calf- despite the halachic prohibition except for life of the mother.
True.
Yada, yada, yada.
It's impossible to read this article without noticing a sharp change in tone, an abrupt loss of real interest, the tiresome repetition of foolish left-wing mantras, and the evocation of a bunch of left-wing groups as if they were somehow representative of the essence of being Jewish.
The whole article is designed to grab the reader, bring him in, and then suddenly comes that always to be expected liberal word, "But...."
These Evangelicals are fascinating, well meaning, kind, BUT. Then come the usual complaints.
Life affirming warmth, and then liberal whining. No one but a liberal would read any further. The interesting part is done.
Woody Allen: "Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. "
Nothing quite like a group of people, who, when they're embraced by another group, get all anxious about it and doubt their intentions.
Of course, they're the most liberal of the Jewish denominations who are for the most part secular, anyway.
Geez, this evangelical will occasionally worship at a synagogue for a change of pace.
"A Christian naming their son Joseph, I've never heard of that before."
A first time for everything, I guess. :-P
What a crock. What is this person "guilty" of and who "pardoned" him. Moreover, it's a heck of a lot easier for a non-Jew to gain a heavenly reward than for a Jew. And where does he get off saying that Jews are the "apple of G-D's eye"? How does he know?
In recent weeks, leaders of three of the nation's largest Jewish groups — the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the Union for Reform Judaism
What makes these groups Jewish? Just because they are involved with "Jewish" causes? These are liberal groups peddling the liberal agenda with a "kosher" label.
The liberal wing of American Jewry in America had better wise up and recognize who their real friends are.
There is no "liberal wing" of American Jewry. "Liberal Jew" is a bigger oxymoron than "French honor". These people are liberals who happened to be born to people who were Jewish according to Jewish religious law. Any relationship to authentic Judaism is purely coincidental.
Notice that the journalist does not quote any of those Jews who can explain, from their perspective, why this alliance is a good thing. The ADL and the AJC are filled with your basic liberal, atheistic Jewish neo-socialists. Why doesn't he speak with Dennis Prager, Laura Schlesinger, or someone else who understands?
Empty threat of the year award winner ;o)
It's true.
The principle is called "omninomism."
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