In particular, I was writing in response to an Orthodox Bishop who cited God's promise to Abraham in defense of modern Israel, a promise that Orthodox and Catholic Christianity has always seen as fulfilled in Christianity.
Yes, it would be just as wrong if the Palestinians were Hindu, and I would expect my wife and her family to have a special concern for them. But the fact that these people are Christians of the ancient churches makes them especially hated by religious Jews, who consider them wicked followers of the false Messiah, and by extreme Protestants, who consider them despicable spawn of the Antichrist.
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Re: different question
Date: 2005-02-04 03:10 pm (UTC)In particular, I was writing in response to an Orthodox Bishop who cited God's promise to Abraham in defense of modern Israel, a promise that Orthodox and Catholic Christianity has always seen as fulfilled in Christianity.
Yes, it would be just as wrong if the Palestinians were Hindu, and I would expect my wife and her family to have a special concern for them. But the fact that these people are Christians of the ancient churches makes them especially hated by religious Jews, who consider them wicked followers of the false Messiah, and by extreme Protestants, who consider them despicable spawn of the Antichrist.