Post by cato on Jan 23, 2019 16:32:28 GMT
Two Irish bishops have penned a letter to that journal renowned for its love of all things catholic,the Irish Times , condemning the treatment of Palestinians by the Israelis and urging a boycott of products from the occupied territories. This is an attempt to draw up support for a private members bill to ban imports from the territories to Ireland.
At times I believe the modern hierarchy are a penitential cross for the laity to endure. Israel is far from perfect but this jumping on a lefty bandwagon is rather pathetic. Of all the foreign regimes we could boycott or protest against it is strange that the Jewish state is the one singled out for lecturing and cold shouldering. The genocide of christians including within Palestinian self ruled areas and within the wider Islamic world is never mentioned in these epistles to the right minded. Criticising Islam states is bad , attacking the Jewish one is cool. Churchmen assure us real Islam is a , indeed the religion of peace.
How about a boycott of Chinese imports? China illegally invaded Tibet and continues to colonise it on a vast scale. China persecutes all religions including Catholicism inspite of the recent rather naive concordat the Vatican signed with the atheist marxist rulers of China. To challenge that would demand real courage.
At times I believe the modern hierarchy are a penitential cross for the laity to endure. Israel is far from perfect but this jumping on a lefty bandwagon is rather pathetic. Of all the foreign regimes we could boycott or protest against it is strange that the Jewish state is the one singled out for lecturing and cold shouldering. The genocide of christians including within Palestinian self ruled areas and within the wider Islamic world is never mentioned in these epistles to the right minded. Criticising Islam states is bad , attacking the Jewish one is cool. Churchmen assure us real Islam is a , indeed the religion of peace.
How about a boycott of Chinese imports? China illegally invaded Tibet and continues to colonise it on a vast scale. China persecutes all religions including Catholicism inspite of the recent rather naive concordat the Vatican signed with the atheist marxist rulers of China. To challenge that would demand real courage.
