There's hope for at least one church

The Presbyterians have at last found a rational voice among their leaders.

Former CIA chief James Woolsey spoke at length, with pictures, and I can only hope his message will sink in.

Woolsey pointed out that in standing up on the side of the Palestinians, the church leaders are demonstrating a serious lack of moral fiber, because they are showing favor for a group whose aim is the annihilation of an entire people (the Jews) and their method is indiscriminate murder:

"We have, I'm afraid, moved into a posture…that, unless what we did two years ago is rejected, we are clearly on the side of theocratic, totalitarian, anti-Semitic, genocidal beliefs, and nothing less."

Did the PC(USA) stand on the side of Hitler in the 1940s?


Woolsey also reminded his audience that

[t]he region lost its best shot at peace in 2000, he said, when then-Israeli Prime Minister Elahud Barak offered Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat a 95-percent withdrawal from the West Bank and $30 billion in compensation.

Woolsey said the proposal was "an extra generous offer, and Arafat turned it down without making a counteroffer, and went back to murdering Israeli women and children in pizza parlors. And yet our church decided to throw its moral lot with the Palestinians."

(I hope the audience members were squirming in their seats, at the very least.)


Plus, as they are pressing divestiture policies, ostensibly to punish Caterpillar for their role in "martyring" Saint Pancake, they are really supporting action to deny rescue and aid to people:

He said not only will the strategy not work, but it will punish such companies as Caterpillar, one of five companies selected for engagement. The company has been responsive to victims of disaster, including the tsunamis in Indonesia, he said.

So, not only are the rest of the so-called leadership of the faithful siding with a totalitarian, terrorist regime, they are also saying that others who have suffered do not matter, if the only way to help them is via a corporation once involved in an accident which killed a reckless young woman. That's some moral high ground, no?

It's just really good to see somebody of faith taking his church leadership to task for this sort of thing.

For the past few years, many Christian church leadership groups have grown progressively more anti-Semitic under the guise of being pro-Palestinian. This has bothered me mostly because several of my better friends and neighbors have come home from services, events and meetings expressing concern for the direction in which their church has been going. Plus, I'm an alumna of a Presbyterian college, so, if I were just a shade more inclined toward belief and practice, I'd probably end up going to the Faith United Presbyterian church one block from my front door. If they would get a new minister (sorry, Bill. Nothing personal, but... aw, heck, it's personal).

At any rate, I'm encouraged that, at long last, the PC(USA) is hearing a sane voice, and I can only hope that voice isn't echoing in the wilderness.

HT: Bill Baar