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"THE JERUSALEM DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN ZIONISM"
Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem
August 26, 2006


"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God."
(Matthew 5:9)

Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that
embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby
becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The
Christian Zionist programme provides a worldview where the Gospel is
identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. In its
extreme form, it laces an emphasis on apocalyptic events leading to the end
of history rather than living Christ's love and justice today.
We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as false teaching that
corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation.

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Inspired by a combination of discussion around my post about Christian Zionism and tanyad's post about the Left Behind video game, I bring you

*drumroll*

A Force More Powerful Video Game, itself based on the documentary series, A Force More Powerful.

This is the game -I- want. We use excerpts from the documentary in CPT training. I found it absolutely fascinating. But, you know, I'm weird like that.

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From the altfriday5:

1. How much time do you spend keeping up with the news? Why?

In usual working days, constantly. It was part of the job. Read the paper, get feeds on LJ from BBC, Al Jazeera and Ha'aretz, and any links that other news-aware folks on my f-list (of which there are a-plenty) will post. On the internet constantly, so there's no excuse for not following things closely.

These days, hardly any. Takes emotional energy and focus I just don't have. I still get the headline feeds on my LJ, tho I don't read them as carefully as usual.

2. What are your main sources for information about current events?

Well, I named them above, but I'll give you links here: BBC online, Al Jazeera online, Ha'aretz online, and in print, The Chicago Tribune.

3. Which current news story has you the most angry or upset? Why?

Right now? Pretty apathetic, except for snippets of stuff in the Middle East. For months I was obsessed mostly with my four colleagues who had been kidnapped in Iraq. Don't remember much before that.

4. Which current news story has you the most happy or excited? Why?

Again, I have a new-found low level of apathy towards news in general. I suppose Kofi Annan's recent visit to Israel/Palestine has me hopeful.

5. If you could change one thing about the way news is gathered and disseminated, what would it be?

Drown Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN. No, really, I mean drown them, as in, with water. In general, American media sucks purple donkey balls, because its been turned into a Media Event instead of just watching or listening to the news. There is this high level of drama involved with news in this country, and the media, especially television media, seems to love to see folks panic. And, in turn, Americans seem to love to panic over the news.

I could go on and on about that. But I won't. Not now, anyway.



The Questioner says: Don't forget your links!

Commentary on various recent posts and comment threads

Interpret as you will.