Bishops Linda Nicholls and Susan Johnson sent a letter to Justin Trudeau thanking him for supporting the recent UN resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
To state the obvious, Trudeau cares not a whit what Anglican and Lutheran bishops think about Middle Eastern wars. Israel and Hamas care even less. Still, it is only fitting that the ACoC is applauding this resolution from the UN, an organization that is only a little bit less corrupt than the ACoC itself.
Predictably, the letter goes on to excoriate Israel for its actions – which, by and large, do fall within the bounds prescribed by just war guidelines – while ignoring the savage murder, rape, torture, and mutilation of Israeli civilians by Hamas.
The letter ends with a plea for the one thing that would guarantee the absence of a “lasting peace”: a ceasefire before Hamas is destroyed.
Is the Anglican Church of Canada antisemitic, stupid or both?
From here:
We write today to express our thanks for Canada’s vote on December 12 to support the UN General Assembly Resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Though the resolution, with its additional demands, is not binding, the vote is significant for its moral weight and the glimmer of hope it represents for Israelis, Palestinians and the whole world. We are grateful for Canada’s alignment with other nations to act now, as the President of the General Assembly said, ‘on one priority -only one- to save lives’. Canada’s recent pledge of $60 million dollars to the work of the UN Relief Works Agency in preparing and delivering aid shipments and other acts of compassion and care will certainly help in this catastrophic time.
We also join many other Canadians seeking your leadership in concrete, concurrent actions toward a permanent peace. We believe it is only through an end to the occupation and a just, comprehensive and lasting peace settlement that the security of both Palestinians and Israelis can be assured.
From decisions endorsed by our assembled church bodies in June 2023, we call upon the Government of Canada to:
- take active leadership with other nations to end the illegal Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and West Bank since 1967, including settlement construction and expansion in these territories, and by challenging increasing settler violence, upon Palestinian persons and properties, with the full authority of international laws,
- make strong commitments to protecting the human rights and safety of children and youth, to closely monitor and report on the treatment of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system, and on the increasing numbers of Palestinian children killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied territories where a climate of impunity and an almost total lack of accountability persists, and
- take leadership and support local women’s peace building initiatives as reflected in the Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP)and National Action Plan of Women, Peace and Security.
As you know, the effects of the war are devastating, and a ceasefire is essential to addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to building a lasting peace. The members of our churches continue to earnestly pray for peace. Let us all take every opportunity to choose peace and work for peace.
Lots of ignorance on display in this letter. And lots of naivete too. The bishops do not think of themselves as antisemitic, I am sure, but do not hesitate to recommend solutions that put the Israelis survival in question. The best source of information from the Israeli side is, I think, Caroline Glick, on Utube. There is no naivete there!
I am so embarrassed…and then they have the gall to pretend to speak for all of us in their churches. The Bible repeatedly warns against being deceived but here we have two leaders of downward-spiralling denominations showing their full deception for the World to see. It’s shameful. Lord, have mercy!
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“As you know, the effects of the war are devastating, and a ceasefire is essential to addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to building a lasting peace. The members of our churches continue to earnestly pray for peace. Let us all take every opportunity to choose peace and work for peace.”
Here, let me turn that from a political statement to a religious one:
“As you know, the effects of the war are devastating. The members of our churches continue to earnestly pray for peace. Let us all take every opportunity to choose peace and work for peace.”
Messianic Sid Roth’s ‘It’s Supernatural’, Sunday, December 17, 2023 offers The Prophetic lens of Holy Scripture to reveal therein what is taking place with this; to sum up and quote “Psalm 83 is now” placing the Persian Satanic enemy of + Daniel ch. 10 in its unfolding Latter Days context: Iran.
We must work for peace and pray for the return of Jesus Christ to establish the eternal Promised Land.
What better prospects for ‘Peace’ than the PM receiving a public acknowledgement from Hamas for Canada’s UN Ambassador’s voting for a ceasefire; since Hamas already had been identified as a Terrorist Organization by Canada, will the ACC Primate and LCC Moderator receive one too? A Christmas card perhaps?
Adding to the Chorus – female again- of “gross darkness” over spreading not only the best of the worlds former humanity, but now acclaimed Spiritual Leaders of their respective Communion is the PCC Moderator, Indigenous…like Israel? lamenting, “There is darkness in Bethlehem this year”. Would that have anything to do with their anti-Scriptural Spiritual Leadership there cancelling Christmas in or to honour the Hamas Terrorists as “Martyrs”?
March 1st World Day of Prayer – Service drawn up by ‘Christian Women of Palestine’ – ‘Palestine’ Scriptural untruth; one leaves their ‘Christianity’ by any agape love yet to be shown to the Jewish women of Israel among whom would be Yeshua Ha Mashiach’s Mother, Miriam. Left-leaning WCC Churches have shown none: either before, during or after the anti-Semitic horrors of 10/7. None.
March 8, 2024 International Womens Day The silence of the professed Christian Churches now amplified by the UN Report issued on March 5 on Hamas`s Sexual Violence against Israeli Women both on Oct 72023 and ongoing…Ditto The `Potus` State of The Union; but restoration of Roe vs. Wade promised with PP`s Trader in Chief in lucrative baby parts now USA VP applauding.
PP VP visiting a PP Abattoir in a now M dominated State which refuse to vote in the 2024 GE. What is their policy on live birth abortion, the same as the D Party?
Trusting in God can be learned in suffering and difficulties. Can we expect the people in Israel and Gaza to trust in God in their current situations?