By de Andréa,
Opinion Editorialist for
‘THE BOTTOM LINE’
The
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’ has made an outrageous turnabout with
Israel, but it isn’t the only so-called Christian Denomination to turn against
Israel in favor of the Demonic Muslim Jihadists.
The Evangelical
Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), the largest Lutheran denomination in the
U.S., earlier this month passed two anti-Israel-related resolutions at its triennial assembly in New
Orleans, La. One resolution established an “investment screen” that will
recommend where Lutherans should invest their money with regard to Israel and
the non- recognized non-historical Palestinians. The other urged that Obama
cutoff of U.S. aid to Israel unless Israel meets a series of conditions and
calls for the immediate U.S. recognition of “the state of
Palestine.” What State of Palestine are they talking
about? The ‘Roman State’ of
Palestine? Do these people know anything
at all, about ancient history?
This is so
wrong in so many ways, I truly don’t know exactly where to begin. What I would
like to do is crack a few heads. Not
literally of course. But like Paul the Apostle
did in Corinth Greece when he found different church groups squabbling about
who baptized who, or who was the one who told them about the good news. And he said she said etc. the result of the
Christian church was division rather than unity. Moreover, it looks to me as if few protestant
churches have ever read the book of Corinthians, or maybe none of Paul’s
teachings. I don’t know!
The fact
that Luther broke away from the Catholic Church is kind of like the Christian
Church breaking away from Judaism. And I don’t mean that in a positive way
because I personally don’t believe that the separate so-called actual religion
of Christianity was ever meant to be. Meaning that I don’t see that as Gods
will. Well… That statement should raise a few eye brows to say the least. But what
I do see as a result, is corruption and disunity. I have been to many denominational Christian
Churches and it so reminds me of Paul at Corinth. All divided over non-Biblical fine points of
doctrine according to whose teaching they follow. Westley, Luther, Calvin…Like Paul said, I am
sure glad I didn’t baptize any of you except a few, or you would start a church
of Paul. Whatever happen to Bible
doctrine, none of these church leaders were ever canonized, at least not to the
degree of adding scriptural doctrine to the Gods Word? By whose authority do they do that???
I have also
been to the Middle East, to Israel, talked to so call Palestinian Muslims. I
have been to Orthodox Synagogues, and to Messianic Synagogues, and it really
wasn’t until I spent time with Messianic Jews that I realized that this’ my
friend…is the way it was supposed to be. The fulfillment of the Messiah and the
grafting in of Gentiles, completing the promise to God’s chosen people. We are all God’s chosen. But alas, the Jews couldn’t comprehend it all,
because they lacked spiritual discernment and rejected their own Messiah and
forced the split of the Gentiles. Thus creating the Catholic Church, which
became corrupt and forced yet another split. This created the Pro-testants,
which created even more splits, and so on and so on, until today in the
Christian church, we have total disunity from each other. Moreover, now as you can see, rejection of
the Jewish people, and support of Satan’s people by these same denominations. I cannot say, that by anyone’s measuring stick,
that this is a good thing! Do we think
God is pleased by all this nonsense???
The
following are some comments from some well-known activists and news
organizations to show you I am not standing alone with this:
Dexter Van Zile, a
Catholic pro-Israel activist, who monitors and analyzes the Christian media for
the Committee on Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) said, “the
Lutheran Church has an outrageous obsession with Israel.” He told JNS.org the group “has been beating up on Israel for a long time, and this is
just the latest example.”
David Brog, of Christians United for Israel, said in a statement that the
resolutions “blame Israel and only Israel for the conflict in the Middle East. Such
one-sided scapegoating of the Jewish state will only fuel further Palestinian
rejection and violence.”
Lutheran student
activist Austin Reid told JNS.org the church’s resolutions “send
a message of discrimination against Israel and neglect to hold the Palestinian
leadership accountable for misguiding the Palestinian people.” Reid is
an Emerson Fellow at StandWithUs and attends the ELCA-affiliated Capital
University in Ohio.
“It is just a step away from boycotting,” CAMERA’s Van Zile said. “The Lutherans seem to be doing something
similar to what the Presbyterians did a few years ago. First, they set up
criteria that would disqualify Israel from investments. Then they declared they
can’t invest in Israel because it doesn’t meet the criteria.”
The report, called
the ELCA Middle East Strategy is a 2005 church document that recommended “making
consumer decisions that favor support to those in greatest need, e.g.
Palestinian providers as distinct from Israel settlers on Palestinian
territory.”
The document accused
Israel of fostering an “environment of oppression,” and
claimed that Israel’s security fence “poses an imminent threat to the future of
the church in the Holy Land.” The document also complained about the “destructive
effect” of Israeli policies on “the ability of Palestinians to marry and
raise families.”
The marriage and family’s
reference could lay the groundwork for falsely accusing Israel of “genocide,” according to some experts.
Article two of the definition of genocide adopted by the United Nations in 1948
includes “imposing measures intended to prevent births within [a targeted]
group.”
The language choice
raises the danger that the Lutheran church “may falsely allege, or at least imply, that
Israel is guilty of genocide,” Prof. Elihu Richter, director of the
Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention, told JNS.org. That allegation could then be
used as a basis for denying U.S. aid to Israel and justifying a Lutheran
boycott of Israeli companies or products.
Ignoring Palestinian abuses
The
second ELCA resolution calls on the Obama administration to present a plan for
establishing an “independent” and “viable” Palestinian state, with a “shared
Jerusalem” as its capital. The Lutherans also urge the president to extend
diplomatic recognition to the “state of Palestine” immediately, rather than
wait for the issue to be negotiated between the parties, as the U.S. and Israel
prefer, even though Netanyahu said there will never be a Palestinian State.
On U.S. aid to
Israel, the resolution asserts the U.S. should halt all military and financial
assistance unless Israel agrees to “comply with internationally recognized
human rights standards as specified in existing U.S. law, stop settlement
building and the expansion of existing settlements in East Jerusalem and the
West Bank, end its occupation of Palestinian territory, and enable an
independent Palestinian state.”
Pro-Israel activists
see those terms as blatantly one-sided. Former Assistant Secretary of State
Elliot Abrams, writing in Newsweek, called the ELCA “a
church in decline but one whose enthusiasm for attacks on Israel never wanes.”
He noted when the Lutherans refer to construction in eastern Jerusalem, they are referring to “just
construction by Jews,” with no mention of Palestinian construction in the city.
Likewise, the resolution targets U.S. aid to Israel, but ignores U.S. aid to
the Palestinian Authority, which is approximately $500 million annually. So you see the Communist U.S. government also
supports the Palestinian terrorists.
In the Lutheran resolutions, there was no mention at all…of
the PA’s behavior.
The ADL’s Rabbi
Sandmel said Palestinian human rights violations were “not mentioned” either by
the delegates, who attended his workshop, nor the Lutheran church professionals
with whom he spoke individually. It would have been “helpful” and “more
balanced” if the Lutherans “showed as much interest in Palestinian violations
as they do in Israeli violations,” he added.
Pro-Palestinian activists are pleased
Supporters
of the resolutions see the ELCA’s positions as consistent with the anti-Israel pro-BDS
stance of other churches. The group, Isaiah 58, a
Lutheran faction that lobbied for the resolutions, issued a statement
declaring, “the ELCA adds its own voice and approach to the growing number of U.S.
churches that have endorsed economic acts of conscience in support of
Palestinian freedom and human rights.”
Meanwhile, the Presbyterian
Church U.S.A., the United Church of Christ,
and the Quakers have all endorsed divesting from Israel. The Episcopal Church
has rejected divestment, while the Mennonite Church has delayed a decision
until 2017. The United Methodist Church’s pension fund dropped five Israeli
banks from its investment portfolio in January.
The real sad thing
about all of this is that these so-called Christians churches are not Christian
at all. They have fallen into the trap
of Satan himself. Supporting Satan’s Muslim
Jihadists and rejecting the Jews, Gods chosen people.
THE BOTTOM LINE: What is wrong with these people?
Calling for a Palestinian State?
On what grounds? Splitting the
city of Jerusalem in half? They did that
with Berlin…oh that worked out well!
I can’t get over the
ignorance of these people. Where did
they go to school or did they? I asked
someone:
“Who will occupy
this so-called Palestinian State?”
“Palestinians he
said.”
I replied with, “What Palestinians?”
“Well the people who
historically lived in Palestine.” He said.
“You mean the
Jews.” I said.
“No the Muslims, the
Palestinians.” He replied.
I soon found out
that his knowledge of ancient history went all the way back to the 1960’s
AD. Because prior to that no one ever
heard of the Palestinians. Unless he
meant the Romans in 72 AD who renamed the State of Israel - Palestine to erase
all traces of the Jews. I’m not sure he
ever heard of the Romans either. So I
gave him a Readers Digest history lesson.
The so-called Palestinians are Muslims…he agreed. And Islam didn’t begin until Mahammad in 610
AD. He didn’t know that. I asked, who lived in Palestine from 72 AD
until 610 AD? No answer…
No
Palestinians ever lived in Palestine until the 1960’s they came from Jordan they
are Hamas they were Jordanian terrorists kicked out of Jordan by King Hussein. And now you want to give the State of Israel
whose history in this land goes back 3000 years, to these Muslim terrorists
whose history of murder and mayhem in Israel goes back 56 years.
His
reply…”Oh!”
Thanks
for listening my friend!
-
de Andréa
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