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		<title>Blaming Israel for the Middle East&#8217;s Christian Exodus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Walton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian Palestinian activists claim Zionism is a greater threat to their coreligionists than radical Islam. ]]></description>
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<p>Jewish settlers, the Israeli government and “Christian Zionists” are the main cause of Palestinian Christian emigration from the Middle East, not the rise of Islamic extremism, according to the chiefs of two Palestinian Christian groups.</p>
<p>In protesting letters to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Anglican Priest Naim Ateek of Sabeel and Kairos Palestine Coordinator Rifat Odeh Kassis chastised the head of the Anglican Communion for citing increasing Islamic extremism as a key factor in the departure of Christians from the region.</p>
<p>In a June 14 interview with the BBC Radio, Williams warned that Islamist groups were exploiting the chaos of the “Arab Spring” revolutions to attack Christian minorities.  In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, Christians who had once been in the majority were now a &#8220;marginalised minority,&#8221; Williams told the BBC.</p>
<p>There has been a Christian exodus from Muslim majority countries throughout the Middle East for the last century.  But anti-Israel activists only cite the departure of Palestinian Christians as a tool for blaming Israel.</p>
<p>“Your inaccurate and erroneous remarks cite Muslim extremism as the greatest threat facing Christians in Palestine, and the primary reason for our emigration,” Kassis complained to Williams. “We were hoping that Your Grace would have a different voice than the one in mass media and other right wing political parties, which exploit our sufferings to fuel some islamophobic tendencies and negative images about Islam.”</p>
<p>In his own letter to Williams, the Rev. Ateek explained:  “Your words were negatively received by our people; and we have been asked by our friends &#8211; locally and internationally &#8211; to make a public response.”</p>
<p>Patterned after a group that opposed South Africa’s apartheid, the Kairos Palestine group includes the Patriarchs of indigenous Latin and Orthodox churches in the Holy Land, plus a number of other Christian prelates. Like the South African group, Kairos Palestine calls for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel ostensibly on behalf of oppressed Palestinians. The group does not similarly criticize Fatah or Hamas, except for blanket condemnations of all violence. Sabeel is a Palestinian liberation theology group that sharply criticizes Israel – and by extension, the United States – as imperial forces that oppress an aggrieved indigenous population. It regularly denounces Israel and also likens it to the South African apartheid state, claiming Israeli racism. Sabeel devotes almost all of its energies towards organizing campaigns against Israel and networks with friendly overseas church officials in North America and Europe, counting as supporters former U.S. Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Edmund Browning.</p>
<p>In his letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ateek insisted that Palestinian Christians primarily identify themselves as part of a Palestinian majority, not as part of a Christian minority.</p>
<p>“You singled out the extremist Islamists as a threat to Christian presence, but neglected to mention two other extremists groups, namely, Jewish extremists represented by the religious and racist settlers on the West Bank that are encouraged directly by the present extreme rightwing Israeli government, and Christian extremists represented by the Western Christian Zionists that support Israel blindly and unconditionally,” Ateek wrote. “Jewish and Western Christian Zionists are a greater threat to us than the extremist Islamists.”</p>
<p>Ateek cited a 2006 survey of Christians in Israel and Palestine conducted by Sabeel that indicated that the primary causes for the emigration of Christians from the West Bank were political and economic conditions.</p>
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		<title>Keeping the Global Warming Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Walton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Religious Left is on a holy mission to achieve global wealth redistribution through climate change fear-mongering. ]]></description>
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<p>Even as the science for apocalyptic, human induced global warming continues to implode, the Religious Left is keeping faith.  Episcopal Church activists last month gathered in the balmy Dominican Republic to tout a “carbon tithe” by the world’s wealthy nations.  This “tithe” would transfer billions of dollars  to ostensibly victimized countries of global warming, where no doubt the windfall would help third world regimes about as much as the Great Society’s transfer payments elevated America’s inner cities.  But the Religious Left always has faith in “things unseen,” despite all evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>These particular Episcopal global warming fear-mongers came from the north and the south and the east and the west, as though in fulfillment of the biblical end times. Or more specifically, they came from South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and the U.S., including the bishops of California, who no doubt would be piously loath to miss any global warming guilt-fest.</p>
<p>“We have lost a sense of connection with the world, and have become dominators rather than ‘good gardeners;’ over-developed countries have given themselves over to the sin of consumerism,” a fretful statement by the group intoned. “This sin, as sin always does, has clouded and distorted all our relationships: between people, with the Earth, and with our creator God.”  The Religious Left sometimes, a little pantheistically, likes to speak of “relationships” with inanimate objects, like “the Earth.”  For them, sometimes “the Earth” displaces a higher authority whom believers better merits a “relationship.”</p>
<p>The Episcopal group met around the theme of “climate justice” December 7 – 10, 2010 in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic at the Bishop Kellogg Retreat Center, intentionally overlapping with the United Nations&#8217; climate change meeting in Mexico.  For the Religious Left, the UN carries almost transcendent authority, though perhaps not so much as “the Earth.”</p>
<p>The meeting originated out of a companion diocese relationship between the Episcopal Diocese of California and the Anglican Diocese of Curitiba in Brazil.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hoping to change the conversation in the church from one of climate change to climate justice,&#8221; the Rev. P. Joshua &#8220;Griff&#8221; Griffin, environmental justice missioner in the Diocese of California and one of the conference&#8217;s organizers, told <em>Episcopal News Service</em>.</p>
<p>Participants originated from the Episcopal Dioceses of California, Central Ecuador, Colombia, Connecticut, Dominican Republic, Haiti, New Hampshire, New York, Olympia, and the Anglican Dioceses of Cuba, Cuernavaca, Curitiba, Guatemala, and Panama. The participating Anglican provinces were Brazil, Central America and the mostly U.S. Episcopal Church (TEC).  All three provinces are closely related, with the Brazilian and Central American Churches having originated from the U.S.-based Episcopal Church.  Unlike most conservative Global South Anglicans, most of the small provinces of Latin America are tightly wed to the U.S. Episcopal Church and influenced by its leftward drift. Some Latin American dioceses are actually a part of the U.S. Episcopal Church.</p>
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