Why do so many Western Christians continue to unquestioningly back the Israeli government (even cheering on war! 🤮) despite the example & teachings of Jesus?
If you are a Christian, or you know Christians, please consider sharing this thread 🧵:
1. Wrongly assuming that “Israel” in the Scriptures is synonymous with the modern nation state that took the same name in 1948.
(Hat tip to @CandiceBenbow who I saw make the same point on Instagram)
This statement & podcast from Greg Boyd a master class in how *not* to respond to an investigation. It’s disturbing, inappropriate, unhelpful and exposes serious theological failures that obstruct pursing the truth, repentance and healing justice.
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While Greg Boyd’s heart is undoubtedly processing his own grief and showing grace it runs the risk of seeming like a PR framing of details from one party without the narrative of the other that bypasses current the investigation.
It also holds out the false hope of restoration when the investigation is still being carried out. Even if falsely accused, everyone involved should welcome a just and transparent processes that protect and preserve the dignity of all parties in pursing the truth.
People know that George Orwell literally fought against fascism, right?
Like travelled to Spain to volunteer fighting under the red and black flags of the anarcho-socialists, right?
That his “Animal Farm” is a socialist critique of authoritarian Communism, right?
Next time a Trump supporter wants to use Orwell maybe just read some Orwell expressing his own political journey to them...
“First I spent five years in an unsuitable profession (the Indian Imperial Police, in Burma)...
... and then I underwent poverty and the sense of failure. This increased my natural hatred of authority and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had given me some understanding of the nature of imperialism: ...
A study by former Stanford professor now Sydney University's US Studies Centre chief executive @SimonJackman (& team) found,
🦘Aussie conservative voters are ideologically closer to Hillary Clinton voters than Trump voters.
(Yep. Aussie *conservatives*) 🐨
American’s are often confused by Australia’s centre right party being a coalition of the Nationals and the Liberals. But as Liberal party founder PM Robert Menzies put it,
The Hebrew prophets would not see the neutrality of church leaders as a virtue while people are victimised.
They would name it as an idolatrous vice.
The Hebrew prophets would see impartiality in the context of injustice as a travesty. They would ache with those on the receiving end of oppression. They would cry out with the poor.
The Hebrew prophets so radically identify with the hurting that they can’t keep silent while people suffer. Their concern is not for civility but the dignity of those whom the Powers prey upon.