Leftist Fred reveals his anti-Israel bias once more in this clap-trap from the PWRDF:
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada and The Right Rev. David Giuliano, Moderator of the United Church of Canada, have written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to request an independent investigation to the bombing of the Shaja ih Family Healthcare Centre in Gaza City on Jan 10, 2009.
One notes, with some amusement, that the PWRDF site has misspelled his name “Hitlz”; a Freudian slip, perhaps.
Sadly, it’s been corrected now. I did take a copy before the correction, though; you can see it on the right.
If Fred wants to investigate someone, how about the Hamas nut cases who train their children to become suicide bombers?
Giving Hiltz the benefit of the doubt for the moment by allowing that it is conceivable that he could be a Christian
, surely he should be able to see that motivation plays a part in what has happened in Gaza.
- Israel wants to be left alone; Hamas fires rockets and calls for the destruction of Israel.
- Israel wants to defend its civilian population, Hamas wants to use its population as a weapon.
- Israel makes every attempt to avoid civilian casualties – even to the extent of warning civilians in target areas, Hamas deliberately targets civilians – even its own.
- Israel accidentally bombs a clinic, Hamas rejoices at the propaganda opportunity.
As the Anglican Church of Canada disintegrates around him, Fred Hiltz can find little better to do than engage in political bigotry; pathetic.
PWRDF’s misspelling of Fred’s name is pretty funny. PWRDF is an agency of the ACoC and stands for “Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund”. Hiltz is the “Primate” in “PWRDF” and they can’t even spell his name right.
My husband and I sat through two of Fred Hiltz’s political speeeches from the pulpit at our Anglican parish, where he was an invited guest. We were shocked. He went into political rant-mode, and never stopped to mention the slightest thing about religion or God. We wondered if someone had gotten it mixed up, and he was campaigning for the NDP instead. Does anyone ever stand up in the congregation during service and offer a rebuttal to a sermon? I certainly felted moved to do so, but restrained myself. His speeches were one long finger-wag about how awful we were (we supposed he meant either Anglicans in particular, or mainstream Canadian Christians in general)to have treated the First Nations people so badly. Well, I for one did not do this, nor did my husband, or anyone else I knew in our parish. We are often bending over to help them, in fact (still….). I think we were supposed to feel guilty by association. Then, of course, all the compensation talk came along from Rev. Hiltz, in regard to the Residential Schools fiasco. I sat there hearing him tar everyone with the same brush, and couldn’t help but feel very sorry for all those Chrisitans who had spent many years of effort and sacrifice truly helping our northern brethren. A few bad apples don’t spoil the whole barrel. Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t there parents amongst First nations peoples even now who abuse and neglect ther own children in great numbers? And they don’t even offer them a good education on the side. Does it strike anyone else that Rev. Hiltz is a traitor to his own, and all the valid and excellent work that many of them did? My husband and I got the feeling he wouldn’t be happy until all of us rushed up to admit our tremendous guilt, and agreed to sign away the rest of the Anglican Church of Canada to the First Nations. I have specified now that none of my offerings are to be used for First Nations’ compensation, although I wish this to go to parish upkeep and many other good causes.
Oh, and don’t get me going on Rev. Hiltz’s anti-Israel bias. I read a copy of the letter in question proudly displayed on the bulletin board of one of our neighbouring Anglican parishes, while my children were engaged in learning about Holy Week upstairs, and I almost gaggged. I am fairly new to Anglicanism. I first realized the Anglican anti-Israel bias when reading Melanie Philips’ “Londonistan”, and immediately looked into how I could support Simon McIlwaine’s Anglican Friends of Israel. Again, how dare Rev. Hiltz speak this way on our behalf! How in God’s name (and I mean that literally) could he have been given the Primate’s position, as someone who is anti-Israel? Makes me reel! I think of being anti-Israel and being anti-semitic as the same thing. Does Rev. Hiltz know that Jesus Christ was a Jew? Or is he just trying to be cool and progressive like the current Archbishop of Canterbury? Why, oh why did any of them go into the church to begin with?