By Abraham Cooper, Yitzchok Adlerstein
We won’t be at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church-USA (PCUSA) this year. By casting Zionism as racism on their official website the elite running this Church have crossed a line that makes interfaith cooperation impossible. We will not lend credibility to their destruction of the bridges that brought Presbyterians and Jews together for decades.
We will be sitting it out not because we wouldn’t be welcome. The laity and clergy of this church – whether they’ve agreed or disagreed – always welcomed us as observers, and we’ve been enriched by our dialogue. This Church’s administration has been quite a different story.
PCUSA was, in 2004, the first mainline church to adopt a resolution calling for divestment from Israel.
Immensely unpopular with the people in the pews, it was undone in 2006, but the minority pledged never to give up the fight. So every two years Jewish organizations squandered months of time, beating back the latest anti-Israel resolutions encouraged by the salaried and agendized “insiders” at corporate headquarters in Louisville. The good ordinary folks of the denomination, whatever their views on Israel/Palestine, were dismayed by the investment of valuable time on resolutions that didn’t bring the Middle East closer to peace, but alienated Jews and Presbyterians from each other.
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Look who is calling the kettle black, the PCUSA, can the same be accused of racism, discrimination being Anti-Israel, giving us the Old and New Testaments? The PCUSA would not know wouldn’t it since the PCUSA does not believe in the inspired Word of God, being apostate moving more to the fires of perdition everyday.
Please read the full article, by clicking the link at the end of the excerpt, above.
Our two Jewish friends clearly see, not merely the approach of the PCUSA’s leaders to the Israel/Palestine question, but to any issue in which they have an ideological fancy. In such cases, they care for neither rational consistency nor for God’s revelation. All that counts to them is political power–their ability to prevail with a position that feels right to them. On their view, every man simply does whatever is “right in his own eyes”–and so the task of leadership is to take control of that which seems right.