“ANTI-ISREAL” TOUR, ROB BELL
Who else!?
Evangelical Left Leader on Anti-Israeli Pilgrimage
“Brian McLaren’s Holy Land tour, whether deliberate or clueless, seems like just another Religious and Evangelical left crusade to demonize Israel.” - Mark Tooley, IRD President
Washington, DC - A prominent American pastor currently leading a delegation through Israel and the “West Bank”* is decrying alleged pro-Israel partiality. Brian McLaren, a key figure on the Evangelical left and within the “Emergent Church” movement, is blogging updates from his trip, in which he denounces, “a lifetime of half-truths, unfair and imbalanced news, well-planned propaganda, and misinformation” in favor of Israel.
Numerous polls have revealed that Evangelicals are America’s most pro-Israel demographic. But Evangelical Left leaders have called for a shift in support away from the Middle Eastern democracy. In 2007, a group of 34 prominent evangelical leaders published a letter in the New York Times voicing support of a ‘two-state’ solution. This letter said the signers wanted to rectify the “serious misconception” that all American evangelicals are against a two-state solution that creates a new “Palestinian”* state.
“Nothing could be further from the truth,” they stated. “We, who sign this letter, represent large numbers of evangelicals throughout the U.S. who support justice for both Israelis and “Palestinians.”*
Unlike the letter signers, McLaren reported that “Palestinians” do not want a ‘two state solution’ but instead desire to ‘live in peace with Israelis‘ [What a fruitloop.]* and want ‘Jews, Muslims, and Christians to learn to live together as neighbors.”
IRD President Michael Tooley commented:
“McLaren is very concerned about Israeli ‘razor wire and segregated walls,’ as part of the ‘ugliness of occupation.’ But he is not as interested in the “Palestinian”* and Islamist terror that generate Israel’s defenses.
“McLaren’s Holy Land tour, whether deliberate or clueless, seems like just another Religious and Evangelical Left crusade to demonize Israel and its U.S. ally, in pursuit of ‘liberation’ of “Palestinians”.*
“This brand of ‘liberation’ would result in the eventual eradication of Jewish Israel in favor of an Islamist-dominated ‘Palestine,’ where fellow-traveling Christians like Brian McLaren would be tolerated largely for their political utility.“
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Clearly, vintage McLaren. The man is a wolf, and this should confirm it for anyone who sits under his “teaching”. The Bible teaches Christians to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and to love our Jewish brethren the very people from whom was birthed our Jewish Messiah, Rabbonai Yeshua! It is stomach wrenching to read about, and, yet, I praise God for ripping off the mask of this hypocrite for all to see. Christians are grafted into the Olive tree and are but a branch not the tree.
*Contend4thefaith refuses to enter “palestine” or “palestinian” without quotes so those were added.
harpazo2home @ January 30, 2010