Anti-semitism
Thanks to daughter Linda for pointing me to this interesting article. My education about things Presbyterian continues.
With the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA scheduled to convene in June for the first time since the 2004 GA passed a notorious anti-Israel divestment resolution, supporters and detractors of divestment are discussing whether the Church’s decision was anti-Semitic, or – somehow – anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic. Curiously, despite the storm caused by the divestment vote, most Presbyterians remain unaware of the extent to which the PCUSA leadership has involved itself in old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism.
The anti-Semitic alliances undertaken by the national church are particularly surprising in light of the well-known open-minded and unbiased attitudes of the overwhelming majority of Presbyterians.
Few of us sitting in Presbyterian pews are able to figure out what the anti-Israel divestment issue is all about. It helps to know something about “old-fashioned theological anti-seminism, and we all need to be aware of the misguided activism of some of our denominational leaders and that the PCUSA formally rejected Replacement Theology in 1987.
Dave, head-scratching pew-sitter.
