Monday, 28 September 2009
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We can safely say... WBC is not... sorry Jewish community...
So I may be off in my current events...
But today is Yom Kippur... a day of historical monument established by Hebrew tradition to be a day of most rememberance. A day where the Levitical priesthood of Hebrew tradition would enter into the holy of Holies and offer a sacrifice to redeem the people of their sins and this happens annually and it is sort of a pilgramage for the Israelites to go and get the perfect sacrifice (a lamb without blemish was required for this) to give to the priest to offer to God to atone the people for their sins. It was a long ritual but it had significant meaning.
Anyways, this is a celebration for many Jewish people to keep in memoriam...
Well... I just read in a news clip provided for me by a friend via Twitter... that...
yes this is another incident brought to you by our "good friends" the media-starved Westboro Baptist Church folk... Brooklyn is the setting... and the signs provided by the ever-so-kind WBC peeps, "God hates Jews!" "God hates Israel!" "You will eat your babies!"
Well... suffice to say... and unapologetically, they are wrong... and by wrong, they are unBiblical. Consider that they forget the fact that God chose Israel to be the Chosen race... yes, that's right... Israel. Not White people, not blacks, Indians, Arabs, Asians... not Native Americans or Latin folk... Israel. Jews... people of Hebrew descent... Israel is God's Chosen people. Jealous? Who cares, it's not our call now is it!? And God made His choice on what people He chose... it's the Jews, nuff said.
Well... anyways, I digress... I formally wanna offer an apology on behalf of the WBC and say that what they did as a representation of Christianity is off.... they are... and I am happy to state that they are NOT Christian by any stretch of the imagination... Sorry if their actions and stuff offended you... they are by no means affiliated with the SBC or any Baptist affliation... just because they have the word Baptist in their title doesn't mean a thing namely because their actions do not support sound doctrine, good theology, or even remote lines up with historical Baptist traditions... considering that if we all know Baptist, they have a passion for historic Christian faith and a passion to stay to true Doctrine... in which case, Baptist have been known to love the Jews (which is the call for anyone who calls themselves a Christian) and when someone who calls themselves a Baptist and hold up signs that say "God hates Israel"... we can safely say they aren't Christian...
They don't represent Christianity... they aren't Christian by any means... and if you generalize Christianity by a small tiny insignificant group of individuals who's actions are by no means Christian, then you reader are ignorant, uneducated, and short-sighted with a hint of judgmentality... So i stress...
THE WBC FOLK ARE NOT CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you had a wonderful Yom Kippur Jewish friends...
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Comments (7)
Those people are sick. I dont think anyone thinks they are really Christian because they are just so crazy. And very racist. How sad.
@TheHiddenRose86@xanga - the real sad thing is... because they call themselves Baptists... a good majority of people know Baptist to be a Christian denomination and there by default deem their actions "Christian" in nature... it's to the point that mass media and much of the culture generalizes Christianity by this little sliver of freakos who call themselves a Christian church, with Christian ideals, and with Christian motives and intent and yet complete botch Christianity, mutilating it to be what it never was meant to be... and the masses buy this distortion to the fullest... makes the rest of us look bad...
I wonder if the Baptists could sue for the WBC misusing their name! lol Probably couldn't, but my denomination (perhaps rather unfortunately in this case, I believe) sued a church that was calling itself by the name of the denomination that wasn't officially affiliated with it.
The WBC is really the laughingstock of Christianity today, giving everyone Christian (not to mention Christ) a bad name and probably giving vehement Christian-haters a lot of fodder to boot. Such an epic fail.
By the way, though, that was a nice apology. I hope it gets read by some it was intended for.
@DistantStarlight@xanga - The Baptist Conventions won't sue them... but what they have done is that extricated any ties with the WBC... which makes the WBC an independant group... so there is no implications that will scandalize the SBC or any other Baptist convention... if I know the Baptist Conventions, they won't sue because I think that they like to give the benefit of the doubt in saying that the WBC folk are in fact Christian... and I would like to... but their actions go so far as to picket a synagouge in Brooklyn on Yom Kippur, when Christians are to LOVE the Jews... makes me second guess the benefit of the doubt I wanna give them...
They will know we are Christians by our love . . . therefore, any group that embraces hate cannot be Christian. Excellent post.
@fivethings - well... I would go further to say that the WBC does speak truth... but it's distorted... it's not done in love, but in anger and malice... To attack a group or an ideological perspective is not something Jesus would have done, but to head straight for the conscience and appeal to it. Truth does equal love at times... but why WBC is speaking truth through the lens of anger and rage is beyond me... and what's worse is that this small psycho fringe group is what is defining Christianity to the masses... sadly...