The anti-Israel and anti-American trend of the mainline churches continues apace. In a disturbingly lock-step manner support for Hezbollah and the Palestinian terrorists flows out of these churches, as listed here, with their recent statements, in Camera. And let's not forget the loony tendencies of the dying Anglicans.
Dr. Bliss wrote about the phenomenon here. The co-opting of the churches (along with all sorts of non-profit orgs) has been going on since the late 60s, but it hasn't run its course yet. (We recently discussed the WCC here.) In the meantime, more people are attending livelier churches with more conservative approaches to life and politics.
Why is this a Left-Right issue? Beats me. I've read lots of explanations, but none of them seem to stick. Heck, Israel is basically a socialist country, while the Arab countries are paleo-capitalist and paleo-everything else. The only clue I have is that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." And America is their enemy, for some reason and, of course, Israel is just an American military outpost.
Or it could be that these ministers and priests listened to John Lennon too many times:
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one.
Maybe we should broadcast this song to the Palis and the Hezzies and Ahmadinejad and Osama 24 hrs/day - it is a good tune, but the lyrics are those of a wealthy, drug-addled infant. I tried to satirize this song once, but it satirizes itself too well.
