Conservative vs. Liberal Christians
While Pope Benedict XVI condemns militant Islam and evangelical Christians donate millions to Israeli medical services, American liberal Christian organizations are following their Anglican cousins and trying to break Israel's back:
The Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church USA, the United Church of Christ and the Virginia and New England conferences of the United Methodist Church? They are among the congregations weighing questions related to their investments in companies involved in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories... Nancy T. Ammerman, professor of the sociology of religion at the Boston University School of Theology, told the Boston Globe last May, "My sense is that the relationship between liberal Christians and American Jews is as strained right now as it has been since 1948," the year the state of Israel was created.
Many liberal American Jews whose pro-Israel credentials are unimpeachable seem to believe that "conservative Christian" is still synonymous with "anti-Semitic." That equivalence is no longer tenable, and it appears that nowadays the opposite is more likely to be true.
The Presbyterian Church, the Episcopal Church USA, the United Church of Christ and the Virginia and New England conferences of the United Methodist Church? They are among the congregations weighing questions related to their investments in companies involved in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories... Nancy T. Ammerman, professor of the sociology of religion at the Boston University School of Theology, told the Boston Globe last May, "My sense is that the relationship between liberal Christians and American Jews is as strained right now as it has been since 1948," the year the state of Israel was created.
Many liberal American Jews whose pro-Israel credentials are unimpeachable seem to believe that "conservative Christian" is still synonymous with "anti-Semitic." That equivalence is no longer tenable, and it appears that nowadays the opposite is more likely to be true.
