07-02-2021, 10:06 AM
There's an awful lot of propaganda going around today about the history of the Holy Land. One of the most annoying things about this effort to twist the story is how Zionist Christians ignore the huge presence of Christians during the period between Christ's Resurrection and current times. Even before the Crusades, a huge number of Christian scholars gathered in the land there and built academies.
Further, the Jews who were also there remained hostile to the Christians, and frequently with violence. No surprise, then, that Christians returned the favor, though seldom with reciprocal violence. Without digging into the murky details, for which documentation is really lacking, and what we have is of poor quality, my point is that the Crusades have very little to do with the actual representative presence of Christians in the Holy Land over the past 2000 years. And today the Zionist Christians, having been seduced into taking up the cause of their Jewish enemies, falsely deny even now that there is any significant Christian presence in Palestine. It's not just Muslims that Israel is oppressing; it's an awful lot of Christians -- who just don't happen to be American evangelicals.
Granted, there is a lot of nonsense that parades falsely under the label of "Christianity" there, just like it is in the rest of the world, but there are genuine people of faith there suffering primarily because American evangelicals enable Jewish hatred. What a perverted thing American Christianity has become.
Further, the Jews who were also there remained hostile to the Christians, and frequently with violence. No surprise, then, that Christians returned the favor, though seldom with reciprocal violence. Without digging into the murky details, for which documentation is really lacking, and what we have is of poor quality, my point is that the Crusades have very little to do with the actual representative presence of Christians in the Holy Land over the past 2000 years. And today the Zionist Christians, having been seduced into taking up the cause of their Jewish enemies, falsely deny even now that there is any significant Christian presence in Palestine. It's not just Muslims that Israel is oppressing; it's an awful lot of Christians -- who just don't happen to be American evangelicals.
Granted, there is a lot of nonsense that parades falsely under the label of "Christianity" there, just like it is in the rest of the world, but there are genuine people of faith there suffering primarily because American evangelicals enable Jewish hatred. What a perverted thing American Christianity has become.