Dana Mathewson

From Townhall today. A very thought-provoking column. And it contains concrete reasons why I am "on the outs" with the current pope.

Love the explanations about Saint Paul -- feeds right into the novel I'm currently reading about him (sent to me by Jack).

https://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2017/03/24/revisiting-the-christian-past-no-political-progressivism-here-n2303714?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

A NOTE FROM JACK KEMP:

This is a good article. There are limits to what I can say here in comment because of my unfamiliarity with any church's teachings, but I can say something.

Believers, nominal or serious ones, seem to want to pass on responsibility for upholding moral beliefs to the state all too often. And many people have not been trained or though out for themselves how to handle such demands (read: guilt trips) as the one the Pope made concerning accepting Muslim "refugees" who are essentially invaders trying either sooner or later to tear down the values and institutions of a Judeo-Christian society. They alsready demand and get, sub rosa, acceptance of child marriages, but they await the chance to demand that rape of non-Muslim females be accepted (it is already widespread) and that all street signs in Western Europe and America be written in Arabic.

As for the author's remark about aid to Israel being a form of religious perfectionism carried out by the state, this is not so simple a topic. A number of Israelis have called - in print - for the end to foreign aid and yet it still persists. Israel is a paradox - a now strong country that is constantly at risk of annhilation for their neighbors and the thousands of rockets stored in Lebanon. You may not recall this, but when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, they found a huge storage area of Russian made tanks and other armored equipment that the Soviet Union had placed their in advance of their soldiers entering the area quickly and traveling light - then participating in a war (perhaps at Har Meggido - or in English, Armageddon). His brief mention of Israel is also simplistic because Israel is also located at the junction of three continents and is the one place on earth where more wars have been fought than any other location. That makes Israel a significant point of interest for U.S. foreign policy for geopolitical as well as for shared spiritual reasons. Exactly how much access to the Suez Canal would the U.S. have without the presence of Israel as a stabilizing influence? And Israel is the only country in the Middle East that isn't abusing its Christian citizens, something Mr. Kerwick failed to mention. All these are not insignificant issues, even if the author of this article ignores their importance.

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