Everywhere societies are hollowed out, the struggle is to survive rather than thrive. We’re not better off in any sense. If societies aren’t collapsing under internal stress then they’re struggling with endless war and with news services and governments neither of which can be trusted.
Meanwhile and elsewhere.
Believing something doesn’t make it so.
There are no Chosen people, there is no Master race. The Nazis believed the latter and the Chosen people are using the same tactics now to obliterate the Palestinians. The tribal god of the Jews bears no resemblance to the Father of whom Christ speaks.
The brief Roman Catholic education to which I was subjected didn’t make mention of just how the land was given to the Israelites – breath-taking in its cruelty. The land wasn’t empty so – ‘kill them all if they don’t give up’ was the commandment of the Lord.
Why didn’t their god just metaphorically snap his fingers and the land is emptied in an instant. And later, why was there a need to paint a sign above the door on Passover so that the wrath of god doesn’t affect the thus protected household if that god is all knowing?
Many gods were worshipped or accepted as such in those days, real entities perhaps – I don’t know - but not god in the sense of a universal consciousness, more like overgrown, powerful human type entities with all the capricious behaviours that human beings employ.
Again, not the God of which Christ speaks.
You cannot be both a Christian and a Zionist – they are diametrically opposed in nature. The lie that binds them both together is a belief that Christ’s return can be hastened if only prophecy be fulfilled – basically that god can be tricked. God is irrelevant to a Zionist whilst religious Jews await their own messiah, one who will finally allow them to rule the world – or not.
Judeo-Christianity – what a combination, a suggestion that the two faiths are linked in some positive way, shared values perhaps. Christianity is universal, Judaism is tribal. Not only does Judaism reject Christ or, as much to the point, reject the teaching, Christ is reviled. The Talmud makes that clear.
Antisemitic isn’t the issue – it’s a meaningless phrase.
There is no war in Gaza, it’s always been a slaughter and this is deliberate. The fact that our collective leaders shuffle uneasily rather than address this glaring reality is dreadful.
Trump presented himself as a man of peace and is clearly not regardless of Israel giving Trump a letter putting him forward for the Nobel Peace prize. While Trump is probably not the anti-Christ, he’s a caricature and is certainly a liar and delusional.
As to the Christians of the variety of unconditional support for Israel, you’ve lost your way. What happened to ‘Love your neighbour and Do unto others …’ we all know the quote and it doesn’t include turning a blind eye to the genocide in Gaza.