The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada went on record expressing “deep concern” regarding the interception by Israeli Defence Forces of relief ships from Turkey and Ireland. The ships were attempting to disrupt the Israeli blockade of Palestinian ports to deliver relief supplies to Gaza.
Nine people were killed May 31 after the Israelis boarded ships heading toward Gaza. On June 4, an Irish Gaza-bound aid ship was forced to head towards the Israeli port of Ashdod instead.
The synod passed the motion by a show of hands after a short debate. “It’s not for us to declare to the nation of Israel how to defend themselves,” said David Parson from the diocese of the Arctic.
Bishop Dennis Drainville of Quebec argued that the synod was within its rights to object to what he considered an unjustified action. He quoted Martin Luther King as saying that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere.”
Oh, realllly!
I wonder, how many resolutions have they passed condemning North Korea’s vast system of slave labor camps? How many have they passed condemning the ethnic cleansing of Christians throughout the Muslim world? Could someone point me to the text of their resolution dealing with the Taliban’s decision to publicly hang a seven year old boy in the last few days as a “spy.” What about Cuba’s use of insane asylums and electric shock “treatment” for dissenters from the Communist dictatorship?
Have they gotten around to addressing either the Stalinist man made famine in the Ukraine or the mass murder of more than 20 million others under his reign (including every single Orthodox bishop who was in office in 1918 and 95% of the Russian Orthodox clergy and monastics)?
No? An oversight I am sure.
The moral hypocrisy of this body is breathtaking and thoroughly revolting.
I will stop there since I don’t think I could post anything else that would not get deleted.
I suppose this is as good an avoidance of their own sin as any other.
Why talk about the injustice of taking the donations of faithful believers in Jesus Christ over centuries to fund their own definition of “justice” when they can look to a poorly understood geopolitical event halfway around the world?
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None of those outrages you mentioned are even on the radar screen of the Left. After all, most of them were committed by leftists regimes. Remember the cry of the old French socialists, “No enemies on the Left.”
Besides what Ad Orientem wrote, it is very meet and right that they condemned Israel but I don’t think it will be effective. How long has it been since a world leader has taken a mainline church seriously?