Nadene Goldfoot
It all comes about in their belief in the Replacement Theology. Now I'm all for people believing whatever they want-as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Religion should be something that makes people act in a better way towards others and be an aid to their natural understanding of being kind, if such a thing exists, which I hope does. I hope mankind has advanced from the stage of the Chimps who lash out at a moment's provocation. This Replacement Theology belief has turned out to be an attack on Jews, something that I thought was long buried in the Christian history. According to their belief today, Jews are no longer the "Chosen ones' but have been replaced by them. In this theory, there is no room for Jews anymore. If they want to believe they are now chosen, that's fine with me. But by acting on this belief and using it as a crutch to harm Jews is terrible. Is this really being Christian? The other Christian denominations have voted NO.
As far as Jews being the "chosen ones," it's our belief that G-d, in choosing us, gave us the extra responsibility of following his laws. We were the first to be presented with them. Often we have said, "Why couldn't you have chosen someone else?" Remember Tevia's plea in "Fiddler on the Roof"? Look at Genesis 15 and again in Exodus 19:5. It's been a burden, but one we signed onto, so be it. Our conception of being chosen is not a superiority over others but our acceptance of a heavy responsibility and moral duty. It's like being the ones who are A1 in the USA Draft to serve in the army. We're the ones who are to serve. We are not ones to break a promise to G-d. We are the stiff-necked people.
These new Presbyterian ideals have come to them through their trust in the "Kairos Palestine Document that has been written by Palestinian Arab Christians, who have a decidedly warped and one-sided belief. This tenet attacks the legitimacy of not only Israel but of Judaism itself. It justifies terrorism for the Palestinians and blames Israel for all the ills in the Middle East as if nothing else has been going on there. It fails to mention the actions of the Arabs such as their rocket attacks on southern Israel, the anti-Semitism constantly taught to their people in the schools, through the PA TV station like al-Jazeera, and in the mosques. For them, the ends justify the means, regardless.
Update 7-6/12 In a narrow vote, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) rejected divestment from companies doing business with Israeli security forces in the West Bank. I'm thankful that some had reviewed their attitudes and ideas and did not pass this act that would have done much harm to the peace process.
Resource:http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/presbyterian-committee-passes-call-for-divestment-from-occupation-profiteers.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/02/kairos-palestine-against-israels.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-sabeel-movement-is-harming-israel.htmlhttp://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2011/05/social-studies-101-definition-of.html Apartheid
http://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2011/04/date-saturday-march-19-2011-211-am.html
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=276039
http://scripturesolutions.com/2012/06/where-is-the-love-in-the-presbyterian-kairos-palestine-document/
http://www.oikoumene.org/gr/resources/documents/other-ecumenical-bodies/kairos-palestine-document.html
It all comes about in their belief in the Replacement Theology. Now I'm all for people believing whatever they want-as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Religion should be something that makes people act in a better way towards others and be an aid to their natural understanding of being kind, if such a thing exists, which I hope does. I hope mankind has advanced from the stage of the Chimps who lash out at a moment's provocation. This Replacement Theology belief has turned out to be an attack on Jews, something that I thought was long buried in the Christian history. According to their belief today, Jews are no longer the "Chosen ones' but have been replaced by them. In this theory, there is no room for Jews anymore. If they want to believe they are now chosen, that's fine with me. But by acting on this belief and using it as a crutch to harm Jews is terrible. Is this really being Christian? The other Christian denominations have voted NO.
As far as Jews being the "chosen ones," it's our belief that G-d, in choosing us, gave us the extra responsibility of following his laws. We were the first to be presented with them. Often we have said, "Why couldn't you have chosen someone else?" Remember Tevia's plea in "Fiddler on the Roof"? Look at Genesis 15 and again in Exodus 19:5. It's been a burden, but one we signed onto, so be it. Our conception of being chosen is not a superiority over others but our acceptance of a heavy responsibility and moral duty. It's like being the ones who are A1 in the USA Draft to serve in the army. We're the ones who are to serve. We are not ones to break a promise to G-d. We are the stiff-necked people.
These new Presbyterian ideals have come to them through their trust in the "Kairos Palestine Document that has been written by Palestinian Arab Christians, who have a decidedly warped and one-sided belief. This tenet attacks the legitimacy of not only Israel but of Judaism itself. It justifies terrorism for the Palestinians and blames Israel for all the ills in the Middle East as if nothing else has been going on there. It fails to mention the actions of the Arabs such as their rocket attacks on southern Israel, the anti-Semitism constantly taught to their people in the schools, through the PA TV station like al-Jazeera, and in the mosques. For them, the ends justify the means, regardless.
Update 7-6/12 In a narrow vote, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) rejected divestment from companies doing business with Israeli security forces in the West Bank. I'm thankful that some had reviewed their attitudes and ideas and did not pass this act that would have done much harm to the peace process.
Resource:http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/presbyterian-committee-passes-call-for-divestment-from-occupation-profiteers.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/02/kairos-palestine-against-israels.html
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-sabeel-movement-is-harming-israel.htmlhttp://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2011/05/social-studies-101-definition-of.html Apartheid
http://israel-nadene.blogspot.com/2011/04/date-saturday-march-19-2011-211-am.html
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=276039
http://scripturesolutions.com/2012/06/where-is-the-love-in-the-presbyterian-kairos-palestine-document/
http://www.oikoumene.org/gr/resources/documents/other-ecumenical-bodies/kairos-palestine-document.html
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Christians Who Demonize Israel: Kairos
by Denis MacEoin • January 27, 2016 at 5:00 am
"Christian children are massacred, and everything is done in plain sight. Islamists proclaim on a daily basis that they will not stop until Christianity is wiped off the face of the earth. So are the world Christian bodies denouncing the Islamic forces for the ethnic cleansing, genocide and historic demographic-religious revolution their brethren are suffering? No. Christians these days are busy targeting the Israeli Jews." — Giulio Meotti, Italian journalist.
The Kairos document seems to be so egregiously discriminatory that in 2010, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) declared it "supersessionist" and "anti-Semitic."
We must ask why a presentation of the work of Kairos in an Anglican church made no reference whatever to the many associations with extremism and denial of a more rational Christian approach to the problems faced by Palestinian Christians.
Rifat Odeh Kassis, co-author and general coordinator of the Kairos Palestine initiative, is pictured above giving an interview to Al-Manar TV, the official TV channel of Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorist organization. (Photo source: Kairos Palestine)
Last September, during the World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel -- an initiative of the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF) of the World Council of Churches, St. Thomas' Church in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, hosted an event titled "Wall Will Fall".
For anyone unfamiliar with the history, legal issues, and distortions of the Israeli-Arab and Jewish-Muslim conflicts, the deeply one-sided presentations and literature of the event may seem reasonable in the lack of such a context, and this report will, therefore, attempt to rebalance the narrative.
Christians Who Demonize Israel: Kairos
by Denis MacEoin • January 27, 2016 at 5:00 am
"Christian children are massacred, and everything is done in plain sight. Islamists proclaim on a daily basis that they will not stop until Christianity is wiped off the face of the earth. So are the world Christian bodies denouncing the Islamic forces for the ethnic cleansing, genocide and historic demographic-religious revolution their brethren are suffering? No. Christians these days are busy targeting the Israeli Jews." — Giulio Meotti, Italian journalist.
The Kairos document seems to be so egregiously discriminatory that in 2010, the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) declared it "supersessionist" and "anti-Semitic."
We must ask why a presentation of the work of Kairos in an Anglican church made no reference whatever to the many associations with extremism and denial of a more rational Christian approach to the problems faced by Palestinian Christians.
Rifat Odeh Kassis, co-author and general coordinator of the Kairos Palestine initiative, is pictured above giving an interview to Al-Manar TV, the official TV channel of Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorist organization. (Photo source: Kairos Palestine)
Last September, during the World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel -- an initiative of the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF) of the World Council of Churches, St. Thomas' Church in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, hosted an event titled "Wall Will Fall".
For anyone unfamiliar with the history, legal issues, and distortions of the Israeli-Arab and Jewish-Muslim conflicts, the deeply one-sided presentations and literature of the event may seem reasonable in the lack of such a context, and this report will, therefore, attempt to rebalance the narrative.
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