Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday mass, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

  • aeppelcyning@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago

    Anyone who thinks Israel is somehow a friend of Christians in the holy land is gravely mistaken. The Israeli state frequently suppresses Christian gatherings. It attacked the only Catholic parish in Gaza. The delusion of the American Evangelical movement that somehow Israel is some sort of ally of Christians is amazingly self-defeating.

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      14 days ago

      Because most American Christians don’t believe Israel is an ally to the Christian faith. They believe Israel must be restored for the rapture to happen but that the war that will follow will consume Israel and the people that live there. They don’t believe Israelites are going to heaven.

      My grandpa, who was a truck driver during the Rush Limbaugh years, tried to explain it to me and even as a kid I thought he was bonkers.

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      14 days ago

      Most/many evangelicals are anti-Semitic. They support action like this because they think it is completing prophecy and will help bring about Armageddon and Jesus’s return (that’s to really bad, cherry-picked readings of their own scriptures)

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      14 days ago

      Evangelicals believe catholics are evil, I think. So the Chistians who are cheering on the bringing about of the apocalypse are cool with all that until they start directly target “real christians.” Maybe…

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        14 days ago

        Yep, I grew up being taught Catholics were fake Christians who worship Mary and their saints instead of god, and in so doing are actually worshipping demons because “Satanists” control the Catholic church.