Posted on 07/17/2004 9:57:24 PM PDT by Nachum
By an overwhelming vote of its general assembly, the Presbyterian Church USA, boasting 3 million members, is siding with Palestinian Arabs and against Israel, choosing to divest from the Jewish state as it did only with apartheid South Africa.
With the decision, approved in a 431-62 vote at the 216th annual general assembly of the PCUSA, the denomination is believed to be the largest organization or institution to join the divestment campaign against Israel. It is the first Christian denomination to do so.
In 2001, the combined value of the church's foundation and pension fund was estimated at $7 billion.
Leaders of the liberal mainline Protestant church approved several other anti-Israel resolutions at their gathering in Richmond, Va., and also refused to halt funding for "messianic congregations" that target Jews for conversion.
The Presbyterian resolutions came just as Jewish organizations were hailing the results of a historic international interfaith meeting in Buenos Aires last week, where Roman Catholic officials for the first time signed on to a document equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
The assembly set the stage for the church to divest itself from companies that receive $1 million dollars or more in profits per year from investments in Israel or have invested $1 million dollars or more in Israel.
In a news release, the PCUSA liaison to the Middle East, Rev. Victor Makari, was quoted as saying: "If nothing else seems to have changed the policy of Israel toward Palestinians, we need to send a clear and strong message."
The church statement noted that "divestment is one of the strategies that U.S. churches used in the 1970s and '80s in a successful campaign to end apartheid in South Africa."
posted last week Nach.
more crap from long time apostate Prods.....I hope they have a special place reserved for these Satan's Slaves oneday.
the good Presbyterians are the PCA ones...not these PCUSA turds.
*talking about the hierarchy btw....not ol blue haired grannies who won't leave the church they've been in since the 1920s even though it's now run by pinkos and homos.
Argggg. I hate it whent that happens. Oh well. Thanks for letting me know. :)
I left the presbyterian church because of this kind of thinking. I just couldn't stand to sit in the pews and read "human kind" instead of "mankind" out of the Bible anymore. They are a mess and don't get it when it comes to people leaving in droves.
hmmmmm.
I would suggest Americans against Terrorists would divest of Presbyterian Churches
Yes. This is more evidence of the church turning it's back on God and His people..it's disgusting!
too funny
Unitarians, United Methodists,Episcopalians USA,etc. etc. etc. independent catholics even.
Better deals, then, for those who do buy into Israel.
The Presbyterian Church lost me three and a half decades ago when they came to Angela Davis' defense. Screw 'em.
Catholics need to clean house, God love em.
On the Prod front....mine obviously, I was raised Southern Baptist (urban) but today prefer Pentacostal even though I have hesitation about their mode of worship, their message is spot on.
They are not hung up on nuance or ambiguity. I prefer when possible to attend Cornerstone here in Nashville even though it's 20 miles crosstown for me. The preacher is a reformed excon who killed a man in a bad dope deal as a kid and did 10 years in jail in Texas and was reborn and has lived the talk now for close to 30 years. He started with a tiny congregation and now has an arena with average Sunday morning 2 hour service at around 3000 worshippers....incredible. His message is very scriptual and he always admonishes to vote the morality God taught you and pulls no punches on culture or politics although of course he cannot name names.....especially since the left is on the hunt for active conservo-preachers.
I leave there feeling nourished and so happy to have spent my Sunday morning around like minded folks from all demographics possible.
He's on vacation right now. He's on Odyssey channel. His name is Maury Davis, Cornerstone Church Madison TN if you're curious. Beware...the speaking in tongues thing is alien to me ...lol...first time I went, some lady went into it right behind me after some praise music....I about croaked....and then the "responder/translator" went off sounding like a Beefeater sounding watch.....all very unusual to me but the pastor's message is great.
What Church, today, holds Conservative ideals? I am truly interested.
For what it's worth, people have been sending a clear and strong message to the leadership of the Presbyterian Church USA for years with the pitter-patter of feet leaving their churches. It was once a great Christian Protestant Church, and that's when it received most of the donations and gifts. It's been infiltration by leftists with agendas, as has happened in other Churches, that has caused the problems you see now.
My synagogue is pretty conservative...
Whoops. I am Christian. What Christian Church is not Isreal hating? I haven't gone to a non-Military church since I was in my teens. I started life in the Episcopal Church, but pops got angry with their anti-Vietnam and anti-troop support.
Gen.12
[1]
Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
[2] And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
[3] I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves."
What is the difference between the two types? I know that there is a group of Presby. that was pushing the Gay agenda, but I don't think that they have their own sepatate synod or whatever.
See 13.
Most Southern Baptists, Church of Christ and PCA do as well.
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