Theological incitement within the World Council of Churches
by Melanie Phillips:
Christian leaders remain silent as another church figure recycles its oldest hatred.
The World Council of Churches has gone full theological incitement against the State of Israel.
In a recent Zoom webinar with more than 300 Christian activists to promote a film about the pro-Palestinian activism of Michel Sabbah — the former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem — Rev. Frank Chikane, the moderator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, went much further than the usual falsehoods about Israel’s “brutality” towards the Palestinians.
“We need to begin to say to those who support Israel to brutalise Palestinians that the blood of the people of Palestine will be sought from them because they collaborate by allowing this system to continue,” he said.
Chikane’s apparent incitement to violence clearly channelled Matthew’s infamous curse in the New Testament: “His blood be upon us and on our children!”
This curse, calling for retribution in perpetuity against the Jewish people for the crucifixion of Jesus, resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Jews through the centuries.
Since Jesus was held to be the son of God, the charge of deicide justified the slaughter of the Jews on theological grounds and turned them into devils.
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