Friday, June 25, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
CAMERA: British Methodists Prepare to Throw Israel Under the Bus - 'The Methodist Church of Great Britain is currently holding its annual conference in Portsmouth, England. At the conference, which began on June 24, 2010, delegates will vote on a report about the Arab-Israeli conflict titled "Justice for Palestine and Israel." The 50-plus page report calls on Methodists in Great Britain to embrace the Kairos Document issued by Palestinian Christian leaders late last year and to participate in a boycott of Israeli goods produced in the West Bank. The arguments used to justify these actions are similar to those offered in statements and resolutions about the Arab-Israeli conflict offered by mainline churches in the U.S. during the past decade. The document subjects Israeli policy and Jewish self-understanding to intense scrutiny but offers nary a word of criticism of the anti-Semitic ideologies used to justify violence against Israel and to deny its right to exist...'
The irony is these are more ideological fideists, variously co-opted by essentially leftist interests and assumptions and naivete, than they are Xian fideists as such.
Naivete, credulity, unassuming acceptance of tendentious presentations, superficial and feel-good analyses or virtually no serious analysis at all, no real "ground" under their feet (comprehension of the world, of human nature, etc.), all that and more - essentially, the "good German" syndrome, redux.