I assumed the quotes circulating were made up because no one is this evil but apparently they’re real
She should be fired immediately, this is disgusting
I usually don’t care about the opinion of Political Beth Moore, because I don’t like hearing the Daily Wire twice.
But here’s a fun fact: Had the Jews spit on a Christian pilgrim in front of their assigned Janissary guard under Ottoman Rule- like what regularly happens today in Jerusalem - they’d have been beaten within an inch if their life, and if they survived, fined. By comparison, Israel doesn’t prosecute it because “it’s a cherished ancient Jewish custom.”
The Ottomans conquered a Palestine with 20% Christians, and 400 years later, there were 20% Christians. The Status Quo they established was adopted by Europe and preserved even after their reign ended. The Millet system protected them from Jewish violence, land confiscation, and property forfeiture. It exempted them from military service and exempted the elderly, disabled, widows, and children, and churches from taxation. It emphasized Holy Site preservation, established their legal protection, and on occasion, chipped in for repair.
All facts.
Outside Palestine, and outside that era, they were brutes, and perhaps - in certain eras - just as violent as the IDF is today. None of that excuses or diminishes their atrocities.
Meanwhile, after 77 years of Jewish rule, the Israelis have managed to accomplish what 400 years of Muslim rule could not - the utter collapse of indigenous Christianity in Palestine.
In Gaza, the IDF has murdered FAR more Christians than Hamas. In Lebanon, they’ve killed FAR more than Hezbollah. They bombed churches the Ottomans protected. They taxed congregations to whom the Ottomans gave protected status.
When Israelis defend their genocide, they point at Hitler. When Israelis defend bombing churches, they point at Nagasaki. When Israelis defend Lehava and La Familia burning down Jewish churches, beating Christian clergy, and intimidating nuns, they point at Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Thing is, my taxes don’t fund Boko Haram’s militia, Hitler is dead, and God will deal with the U.S. dropping a nuke down the chimney of the church headquarters in Asia. None of that can be stopped by an act of the U.S. Congress.
Sadly, there are brainless twits auditioning for a guest spot on the Jeremy Boreing Israeli Infomercial Hour who don’t give a single heartless damn about persecuted Christians going extinct in the Holy Land. Whether or not Jesus’ followers “have a right to exist” will not be on the questions list.
After reminding the church that believing Gentiles are the real children of Abraham, and that only Christians inherit God’s promises, Paul tells them to bear the burdens of their fellow Christians (Galatians 6:2).
Not Jews. Not Muslims. Not Buddhists. CHRISTIANS. We shoulder THEIR burdens, and God will one day hold us accountable for funding the nation that has made Christians an endangered species in the Promised Land.
When Christian churches are burned down by Jewish settlers, they don’t complain.
When Israel refuses to investigate and prosecute, they speak not a word.
When churches are told - out of the blue - the properties they’ve held for millennia will be confiscated if they don’t cough up millions in “back taxes” they’ve gone 17 centuries without being charged, they don’t speak up.
When the same churches are bombed 2,3,4 times for no discernible reason, they look the other way.
When nuns in a full habit are sniped in the head with a .308, they don’t care.
When Bethlehem is surrounded and squeezed on three sides to bankrupt and starve its Christian inhabitants, they don’t notice.
And when the Indigenous Christians who were there when the first Israeli prime ministers were still on Europe’s Most Wanted terrorist lists, tell us in official statements through their Patriarchs that they had it better under the Ottoman Millet System, then suddenly they get very interested in Christian persecution in other eras, times, and places to distract you from the reality of that cold, hard, immovable fact.
@jesse_k_fox@ThoughtfulSaint Christ didn’t condemn the adulterer, you’re right. But he definitely rebuked her. It amazes we always wanna skip the whole “go and sin no more” part of that story