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The Latest Threat to Evangelical Support for Israel
The Tower Magazine ^ | July 2014 | Luke Moon

Posted on 07/12/2014 4:31:39 AM PDT by rhema

Conservative Christians have generally been known for their enthusiastic support for the Jewish state. But a new movement of young activists is seeking to change that.

In 2010, a film was released that perfectly encapsulated the erosion of Evangelical Christian support for Israel. The film, With God on Our Side, featured a young man learning about the Palestinian struggle and coming to see Israel not as evidence of God’s faithfulness, but as a mean and heartless nation enabled by American Evangelicals who have embraced Zionist ideology.

The film’s narrative of peace-loving Palestinians mistreated by heartless Israelis and their Christian Zionist supporters has been repackaged and promoted again and again by anti-Israel activists in some of the most influential Evangelical institutions in the United States. These activists, often in high positions, have found eager disciples in places like the megachurch campus of Willow Creek and the academic halls of Wheaton College, one of America’s preeminent Evangelical institutions. And they have been able to exploit the resources of popular Evangelical development organizations like World Vision.

Exposing these activists and their strategy is key to thwarting their efforts to undermine Evangelical support for Israel.

(Excerpt) Read more at thetower.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christian; evangelical; israel; stih; wheatoncollege; willowcreekchurch; worldvision
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To: papertyger

LOL. You should look into stand-up. But try and get the latest gig possible ... the last thing you’ll want is a sober audience :-)

Stay well dear.

Shalom.


41 posted on 07/16/2014 1:30:03 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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