Whenever I write anything remotely pro-Palestinian I usually get some Christian that tries to derail me in one way or the other….usually it is a quote from their book about Israel is for the Jews given to them by God….so it sez in the Old Testament….I then ask them who wrote the book? The answer is simple……Jews.
Their unshakable support for anything Israel just amazes me…..why? Is it that for the prediction of the “end of days” there must be an Israel and a rebuilt temple? Whatever it is most are almost rabid in their support of Israel. I hate to tell them but the feeling is NOT mutual.
They never seem to grasp that Christians are not as welcome as they think they are……at Christmas and Easter okay but that is a money thing from the tourism not some religious tolerance.
In the past Christian chapels and churches have been destroyed in various ways not by Palestinians but rather Ultra-fundamentalist Jews….the most recent attack…..
In recent years, the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth) has become a significant religious holiday for evangelical Christians who support Israel. They come to Jerusalem by the thousands from all over the world for a week of celebrations that include study sessions of the Bible and the New Testament. This year, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem held a convention at an auditorium in Jerusalem attended by thousands of Christian Zionists.
It seems, however, that certain groups in Israel are deeply concerned by the growing phenomenon and even fighting it. According to those opposing it — for the most part, ultra-Orthodox and other religious Jews — it is actually Christian missionary activity aimed at encouraging Jews to convert to Christianity. Recently, in an unusual move, Israel’s Chief Rabbis David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef issued an appeal against the convention, describing it as “a spiritual danger” “undermining the Jewish character” of Israel.
The Yad L’Achim organization, which its leaders say has been fighting Christian missionary activity for 50 years, is behind the struggle against the convention in Jerusalem. Yad L’Achim considers it a dangerous and even an illegal attempt to proselytize about Christianity in the Land of Israel. “For years we had a tacit understanding with the International Christian Embassy in Israel, whereby they steered clear of missionary activity, and over the years, they did keep their part of the deal,” Rabbi Shmuel Lifschitz, who heads the organization, told Al-Monitor. “However, last Sukkoth, they hosted soldiers and young Jews and openly preached for conversion to Christianity. As far as we are concerned, it was crossing a red line.”
Christians time to wake up and smell the coffee…..you are NO more welcome in Israel than is a Muslim!
Ask the Catholic Church if you do not believe what I say…….read this…..
Last week Israeli security forces arrived with bulldozers at a piece of property owned by the Catholic Church in east Jerusalem, close to the West Bank city of Bethlehem. They said it had been built without a permit and proceeded to destroy it.
This provoked a backlash from the head of the Catholic Church in Israel who said the demolition was carried out without any prior warning.
“This act is against the law, against justice and humanity, against any ideology upon which peace can be built and increases segregation and hate,” Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Faud Tawwal told AFP at the site of the demolition on Tuesday. The property had been standing before Israel annexed the area after the 1967 Six-Day War, he said.
Does this sound like anything you have heard or read in the last year or so?
Time for Christians to get off this soapbox of some fictional occurrence from some unproven historical outlook and realize that Christians are NOT wanted in the Holy Land…….your dollars are fine….but your religion has to GO!
STOP! Letting some religious promise blind you to reality!
You are firing on all cylinders……grin
I tell u wot if we had no religion we would still be fighting/murdering each other in the Name of Zeal..:)
or at least the males wld while poor women and kids suffer oh and the old folk! ;(
Death to the religious babble….
I agree….we humans will always find a way to kill each other….
Your title question is easily answered, my friend. Christians are trained to comply with virtually ANY authority from the time they first hit Sunday School, when mom & pop blithely turn them over to the acolytes to have them trained, with an admonition to “mind what the teacher tells you!”…
Unless, like a few of us, they are already resistant to such pressure, most of them never stand a chance; they are slaves from birth to death…
Sad, but, look at history, as I know you have….
gigoid
Even when faced with facts they still blow Israel…..sad….so sad….chuq
Religious promises do not operate on sensual perception but on an invisible quality called “Faith.” Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen. People who try to live their lives according to the generally-accepted constructs of “Reality” will never realize the rewards promised to those of faith. Israel may hate the Christians but then Christians have always been hated. Enduring hatred is the hallmark of Christianity. By His loving self-sacrifice in the face of the most intense hatred imagineable and by His act of forgiveness to all who hated Him He redeemed the spiritual world and opened the doors of Paradise to those who dare to exercise the facility of faith over reason. There is a spiritual blindness in the world that cannot discern this — cannot see this — cannot understand this.
My point is the the Jews are burning churches, killing Christians and no one has the guts to condemn them….that is silly.
Never trusted them in the first place.
Wise man……