WorldNetDaily: Episcopal Church next to shun Israel?
Joing the ranks of the seething,whining,terrorist enablers and liberal apologists for the behavior of the so called Palestinian people is the Anglican Church possible including the Episcopal Church in the US as well.
A committe of the worldwide church recently returned form the mideast determined to recommend that the church divest from investments in Israel and from companies doing business in Israel.
"Jenny Te Paa of New Zealand, who led the delegation, told AP the Anglican Church is likely to accept the divestment proposal, since it is becoming increasingly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause"
also
"While touring Israel and the West Bank areas, the Anglican leaders were exposed "to the draconian conditions of the continuing occupation under which so many Palestinians live," according to the group's website. "
From the Jerusalem Post
Neither the Anglican delegation, nor the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the US last summer, apparently found anything disquieting in today's world aside from Israel. Islamic terrorism - including decapitations, suicide bombings, hostage-taking, and school sieges do not trouble these ecclesiastical entities. Neither do Palestinian bloodlust, Syrian tyranny, Iranian nuclear threats, Sudanese genocide, Saudi export and financing of terror, and much more.
Instead, while Western civilization is increasingly menaced, Israel - the sole
democracy in the region - is singled out for rebuke and sanctions because it dares defend itself against those who would destroy it. In what moral universe are Israelis, who must defend every bus, caf , and kindergarten against terrorists, more worthy of censure than the terrorists themselves? also-the money quote
We recognize that these resolutions are coming from Christian denominations that are shrinking in membership, in no small part because of the radical political stances that they take
The Episocopal Church in the US was and to some extents still is the home of the Protestant elite. As such its members have traditionally been strong in industry,academia,social institutions and have controlled a disproportionate amount of the nations wealth. After World War II this ascendancy rolled over with the GI Bill and a generally more tolerant and open society. To the credit of this group many were at least sympathetic and some were extremely active in extending the franchise to blacks in the crucial mid nineteen sixties. Two events at about the same time in my opinion forshadowed the end of the liberal consensus and hastened the decline the WASP aristocracy:
First was the change from tolerant and liberal to meddlesome and radical-the key intellectual dishonesty for which we as a nation are still paying the price was the confluence of the pro civil rights and anti Vietnam War stances
Second was an alliance of the elites with the underclass and against the middle class-this created the concept or at least allowed it to become universal of the "limousine liberal"-as a focus of working class resentments and the creation of the Reagan democrats. For Jews the fault lines were painful-while aspiring out to the working class(yes in the nineteen sixties most American Jews were working class)-Jews were also sympathetic to the plight of those less fortunalte than themselves. A color blind society was one thing and a good one but affirmative action reeked of the quota system under which so many had so recently suffered. Who was and is being displaced by the recipients of affirmative action it was working class youth at first-not the elite graduates of St. Pauls and Groton.
The blacks never threatened the WASP's but the Jews and also the Iristh,Italians, Greeks etc did and still do.
Ths brings us to CBS-William Paley the founder of CBS was apparently quite ambivalent about his Jewishness-while the mainstream media has often had Jewish ownership it rarely has had a Jewish face-Cronkite,Huntley-Brinkley,Rather,Jennings,Brokaw-these WASP figureheads are threatened just as much as their Episcopalian and Anglican brethren-
George W Bush is reviled because he turned his back on these clowns in favor of the more down to earth and less hypocritical mainstream Methodist church
The Anglicans are represented by jokers like this Bishop
"Bishop John Bayton has recently returned from the Holy Land where the new ‘separation wall’ he says 'is an expression of collective madness........Unequal because in the end a sling-shot stone is no match for an Apache helicopter gunship and a child’s stone is no match for a rubber bullet. God’s scales of justice weigh heavily against the murderers of innocents, be they Palestinian or Israeli.
In early August I took a group of students to Bethany . We were not able to get into Bethany to visit the church of Lazarus , Martha and Mary, but as we stood gazing up at the 39 foot high barrier, we smelt the stench of death all about us. No-one is able to pass in or out without a permit from the Army. It is the cause of terrible poverty and malnutrition"
This asshat is claiming the wall is the cause of poverty-that Paestinians are equal morally to Israelis-No wonder the Anglican and Episcopal denominations are shrinking-they are passing through a stage of evil-fortunately of only minimal effect if only because of their weakness and increasing irrelevance-
come to think of it -a perfect faith for Europeans-
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