A WELL QUALIFIED STATEMENT BY A LATIN PATRIARCH!
“If there’s a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against,” – Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah
December 22, 2007
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No religious group is more qualified to make this statement that a representative of the Catholic Church. No other so-called Christian Fa ith
Group has ever dominated so many European countries and kings as has the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope exercised control over all of Europe in religion’s darkest hours, and millions were put to death if they did not profess the Catholic faith, in what amounted to Catholic Europe.
The Catholic Church controlled Europe for centuries, exercising the cruelest kinds of discrimination ever practiced in the name of God. It is a well documented historical fact.
No other religious group ever had themselves proclaimed as the state religion in so many European countries.
So, while the Catholic Church, represented by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, does have experience in state domination and discrimination against any other belief where it controls religion, his statement about Israel being declared a Jewish state is totally absurd, considering the horrific track record of the Roman Catholic Church.
I expect the Catholic Church to side with the Arab forces in the eventual Middle East War between
Israel and Islam.
Revelation 18:3-5 – For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. [4] And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. [5] For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
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Catholic leader rejects Israel’s Jewish identity
December 19, 2007
Top Roman Catholic clergyman in Jerusalem slams definition of Israel as Jewish nation, says land must be shared by all religions. Latin Patriarch says Israeli-Palestinian conflict has unleashed ‘forces of evil’ across Middle East, conflict perpetuates because of Israel’s ‘unwillingness’ to make peace.
News agencies
Israel’s identity as a Jewish state discriminates against non-Jews, its top Roman Catholic clergyman said in a pre-Christmas address on Wednesday in Jerusalem.
“If there’s a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against,” Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah told reporters at the annual press conference he holds in Jerusalem before Christmas.
In his address, which he read in Arabic and English, Sabbah said Israel should abandon its Jewish character in favor of a ”political, normal state for Christians, Muslims and Jews.”
Sabbah denounced Israel’s demand to be recognized as a Jewish state by the Palestinians and said “God made this land for all three of us, so a suitable state is one who can adapt itself to the vocation of this land.
”This land cannot be exclusive for anyone,” he said, adding that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had unleashed “forces of evil” across the Middle East and that it was Israel’s obligation, as to end the warring. “The one who will decide is Israel. If Israel decides for peace, there will be peace… Until now, there has been no peace, simply because there has
been no willingness to make it.
“Sabbah expressed hope for peace in the Holy Land and urged both sides to shun violence, whether “carried out by the state or by extremists”
Arye Mekel, a spokesman for Israel’ s foreign mini
stry, said Israel provides full religious freedom to people of all faiths.
”We reject his claim that other religions are not enjoying equal rights in Israel,” Mekel said.
Israel has long pointed out that other countries call themselves Islamic republics and are not criticized.
Sabbah, who has been the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since 1987, is the first Palestinian to hold the post and is frequently critical of Israel.
He also lashed out at Israel for visa restrictions he said were unfair to Christian clergy.
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