The nation's largest and most prominent mainline Protestant denomination, the 11 million-member United Methodist Church — whose members include both President Bush and Senator Clinton — is set to take up the issue of whether to divest from companies that do business with Israel.The reasoning, of course, is that they think the Palestinians, Syrians, etc. are just friendly, peace-loving people that are being cruelly oppressed by Israel. Which is, of course, 180 degrees from the truth. These countries are interested in only one thing, the destruction of Israel, and the Palestinians are just a pawn in their larger game.
This makes no sense from a political and factual standpoint, and much less from a religious standpoint, since the Church would basically be turning its back on the Jews. I'm glad that my tithing money is no longer going to the Methodists.
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