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December 14, 2008
Today's Anti-Semite
is the Church of England, where about two weeks ago a service was held at the historic Wren church of St. James's, Picadily, in Central London that included lessons on how to hate Jews.
The stars of the show were a group of anti-Israel activists, most of them Palestinians and some Jews, who are urging a boycott of products made in the Jewish state.
... and The "Twelve Days of Christmas" was sung as "Twelve assassinations/11 homes demolished/10 wells obstructed/Nine sniper towers/Eight gunships firing/Seven checkpoints blocking/Six tanks a-rolling/Five settlement rings. Four falling bombs/Three trench guns/Two trampled doves/And an uprooted olive tree."
Pretty lame lyrics though, they were not a very accurate depiction of the "conflict," as it was missing so many daily common elements. I couldn't resist giving it a try myself:
12 quassam rockets
11 smuggler tunnels
10 suicide bombers
9 blown up busses
8 kidnapped soldiers
7 fake dead children
6 rocks a throwing
5 martyrs' mommys
4 honor killings
3 churches burning (sshhhh)
2 more blood libels
and 1 Jew pushed into the sea.
After the event was publicized, Israeli Ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor accused the Church of England and its heads of failing to sufficiently condemn the service. "Unfortunately, the criticism from within the Church of England, that should have echoed with bold moral clarity, has instead sounded like a silent night, but far from holy."
In other words, the Church declined to object or otherwise condemn the blatant attack on Israel made from the pulpit of the Church, and in its silence, it effectively gave its seal of approval to the message.
The Church of England, well, it appears to have forgetten their own origins, and somehow lost its way. If this is the message the Church is giving today, then perhaps it's not so surprising that less than 15% of its membership bother to show up for services even once a year anywhere, even in the City of Bethlehem itself.
Of course, I'm no expert on Christmas Carols, but I seem to remember some of the words to one... "Noel, noel! Noel, noel! Born is the King of ..." um... now let me see... what was that next word? Yannow, I don't think it was Palestine. and.... um.... when was that song written anyways? Yannow, I think its almost two hundred years older than what the Palestinians call nabka.
Posted by LindaSoG at December 14, 2008 08:35 AM
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I think that many of the top people in the Church of England have forgotten that they are not a jobs or politically correct club but are a body dedicated to bringing their parishioners to God. They seem, in short, to have forgotten Christianity. *sigh*
Oh, and didn't Jesus grow up as a Jew? What did Pope John Paul II call the Jews as he started his public rapprochement? "elder brothers"?
Posted by: Kevin K. at December 14, 2008 02:59 PM
Or...
Maybe the Christmas carol "The First Noel" has been removed from circulation for having too large a range, and going up to high for untrained singers?
(Sort of what has happened to the US National Anthem. I congratulate sports teams for getting people to sing the National Anthem--unaccompanied!--before games, but it can be a bit hard on the ears.)
Posted by: Kevin K. at December 14, 2008 04:16 PM
Linda I am so glad you posted this. People need to know this goes on. I never would have known if you had not told us. Thank you.
This is so shameful it is sickening and explains too how the UK has gone so pro Muslim. They have sold their souls to Islam,kissing up to it and from the information in your post they might as well let one of the Muzzies run their church of England too.
Winston Churchill would not like this one bit giving in to them like this. Appeasing them!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 15, 2008 08:43 AM
Seems that our nation was founded on grounds provided by the Church of England under King Henry VIII. The Act of Supremacy 1534 declared that the King was "the only Supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England" The Treason Act 1534 made it treason, punishable by death, to disavow the Act of Supremacy. Hmmn Catcha 22 as the Eyeties would say. Ol' Henry decreed his interpretation of the bible to be the rule of the land, so he could murder his wife and take another and another. Not that his subjects could follow suit!!!
Isn't that what the Muzzsies claim? That Islam is the religion of the land.
About 70 - 75 years ago Eugenio Pacelli took a stance which is a lot like today's church of England, Pacelli a brilliant young Vatican lawyer, who had a major part in the drafting of the Code of Canon Law was a believer in the absolute leadership principle. (see Obama) "In 1930 the influential Catholic politician Heinrich Briining, a First World War Veteran, became the leader of a brief new government coalition, dominated by the majority Socialists and the Center Party. The country was reeling from successive economic crises against the background of the world slump and reparations payments to the Allies. (Sound Familiar?) In August 1931, Briining visited Pacelli in the Vatican, and the two men quarreled. Brüning tells in his memoirs how Pacelli lectured him, the German chancellor, on how he should reach an understanding with the Nazis to "form a right-wing administration" in order to help achieve a Reich Concordat favorable to the Vatican.
When Brüning advised him not to interfere in German politics, Pacelli threw a tantrum. Brüning's parting shot that day was the ironic observation- chilling in hindsight-- that he trusted that "the Vatican would fare better at the hands of Hitler ... than with himself, a devout Catholic."
Briining was right on one score. Hitler proved to be the only chancellor prepared to grant Pacelli the sort of authoritarian concordat he was seeking. But the price was to be catastrophic for Catholic Germany and for Germany as a whole."
Seems that Pacelli's authoritarian "Reich Concordat favorable to the Vatican" had farther reaching ramificatioins as history ultimately revealed in 1945 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Sobibor and Treblinka plus many other hell holes.
That the Anglican church would accommodate a service where a song skewed in that manner is sung doesn't surprise me, it's a slip into the abyss of history that is about to repeat itself.
Accommodating the Mohammedan culture and philosophy through appeasement and debasement of values, lowering the ethical bar and political correctness will bring about another halocaust with the requisite apathy as shown by past religious organizations. This shatters conventional beliefs in both books of 'The Book" when it is left to one leaders interpretation.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality, ~ Dante
Thank you Linda.
Posted by: Jack at December 15, 2008 01:43 PM