Thursday, November 2, 2023

Nearly 100 Ohio churches leave UMC amid homosexuality schism

  Church & Ministries News (christianpost.com)

"Nearly 100 congregations in Ohio have left the United Methodist Church amid the denomination's ongoing debate over homosexuality, joining thousands of other churches in the United States that have done the same.

"At a special session of the UMC West Ohio Conference held last weekend, 96 churches were granted their request to disaffiliate from the mainline Protestant denomination.  

"The session was held at Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church in Tipp City, with around 800 clergy and laity in attendance. Bishop Gregory V. Palmer presided over the gathering.

"In addition to the 96 disaffiliations, the session also dealt with budgetary issues, recommending the sale of two camping properties and electing additional delegates to the UMC General Conference.

" 'We were empowered to make some challenging decisions," said Palmer in a statement. "We brought glory to God by the patient, honest, and respectful way we engaged one another. In spite of the challenges, we have come through, our future is open because God is able."

"In June, the West Ohio Conference voted to allow 172 congregations to disaffiliate from the UMC, having allowed 80 churches to leave the denomination last year. It is estimated that, at present, the regional body covering over 50 counties has a little over 600 member congregations remaining." . . .

Harvard Student Surrounded by Pro-Palestinian Mob in Latest Campus Madness –

 While we haven’t quite reached that point yet, the madness on college campuses continues, and recently, a crowd of pro-Palestine demonstrators surrounded a Harvard student on campus and yes, yelled “shame, shame, shame” at him. The incident occurred on October 18, but video footage was only posted on Wednesday.


RedState   . . ."The student's crime? He was videotaping them. Which begs the question: Why do all these supposed tough guys (and girls) whine like bratty kids when someone exposes their own behavior? If you’re not proud of it, don’t do it.

The incident occurred at a “Stop the genocide in Gaza” die-in demonstration by the Harvard Business School, where hundreds of participants laid on the ground and pretended to be dead:

According to the Harvard Crimson, the school’s student newspaper, the confrontation at the demonstration was sparked when the accosted student “began to film demonstrator’s faces.”

“Within minutes, he was escorted out by protest organizers, who blocked his camera with their keffiyehs — traditional scarves worn by Palestinians that have come to symbolize Palestinian nationalism,” the newspaper wrote. “Demonstrators yelled ‘shame’ at the disruptor as he left.” 

"One of the protesters has reportedly been identified as Ibrahim Bharmal, the editor of Harvard Law Review.

"This is allegedly our nation's best and brightest:"

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 The Left Only Sees Evil When It Fits Their Narrative (VIP)

What the Heck Is With Higher Education? Myriad Student Groups Express Support for Hamas Terror Attacks

Cornell Students Told to Avoid Kosher Dining Hall, Jewish Students Reportedly Afraid to Leave Their Rooms

One Sick War

 Victor Davis Hanson; American Greatness

There are 500 million Arabs in the world, and nearly 2 billion Muslims—but only 9 or so million Israelis.  Nearly fifty percent of the world’s oil reserves are found in the Muslim Middle East. Westerners, like tiny Israel, are considered too rich and powerful, while non-Westerners are romanticized as blameless, victimized underdogs.

 

One incredibly distressing picture shows blood smeared across a nursery

 "There is something surreal, even sick about the current Gazan war.

"Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants and students, and radical leftists chant nonstop “Free Palestinian from the River to the Sea.”

"More recently, they are also yelling, “Israel, you can’t hide, we caught you in genocide.”

"Consider the hypocrisy of that dual messaging.

"Hamas and its supporters are openly and eagerly calling for the genocidal end of Israel by wiping it out from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

"Yet at the same time they also claim it is Israel that is committing genocide—the very current self-described agenda of Hamas and its expatriate community of devotees!

"The war has become crazier still.

"Hamas and its megaphones abroad also blast Israel daily for retaliating for the October butchery of some 1,300 Israeli infants, children, women, and the elderly.

"They further demand Israel must be selective in its airborne targeting of the Hamas killers, who burrow beneath hospitals, mosques, and hospitals and use civilians as shields.

"Hamas takes for granted that a supposedly heartless Israel nevertheless will be reluctant to strike the Hamas terrorists when and if they are surrounded by civilians.

"Indeed, Gazans are put in more danger by Hamas than they would otherwise be by the Israel Defense Forces." . . .

Kfar Aza kibbutz attack: Children, women, elderly 'butchered' in Hamas attacks on border communities, IDF says | CNN  . . ."Maj. Gen. Veruv said his soldiers spent “about 48 hours” fighting “waves and waves of terrorists” on roads and in neighboring communities. He said he had started fighting militants in the Yakhini moshav (community) on Saturday, moving then “from battle to battle,” on the road to Sderot, before reaching the Be’eri kibbutz on Monday evening.

“ 'I saw hundreds of terrorists in full armor, full gear, with all the equipment and all the ability to make a massacre, go from apartment to apartment, from room to room and kill babies, mothers, fathers in their bedrooms,” Veruv said." . . .

Hamas killers 'roasted babies in an oven' during October 7 terror attack, Israeli first responder claims | Daily Mail Online   . . ."Continuing, he says: 'As they opened the bag there was a gruesome sight, what appeared to be a baby.' He said the 'body was really swollen [and had] what looked like a heating element attached.

" 'They told us afterwards, after we left the room and they had worked on the body to identify it [that] after the terrorists murdered the parents in a very gruesome way at home, they then took the baby and literally put him into the kitchen oven.

" 'While the baby was still alive they put him into the oven and they cooked the baby alive,' he claims. 'The body was burned and unfortunately, as far as I could see, the body became swollen as a result [a] heating element of the oven became attached to the body itself. 

" 'We must show the world these gruesome sights and to tell the world that it impossible to deny what these savages did,' he says." . . .

The Palestinian massacre of the 1972 Israeli Olympic team

Has Rashida Tlaib heard of this? What would she have to say about it? TD

 Munich Massacre (history.com)

. . ."Upon breaching the Israeli dorm, wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano were killed almost immediately. Horrifyingly, Romano, according to the Associated Press, was castrated and Weinberg’s body was thrown to the street. Some escaped, but nine Israelis were quickly taken hostage, including weightlifters David Berger, who was born in America, and Ze’ev Friedman, wrestlers Eliezer Halfin and Mark Slavin, track and field coach Amitzur Shapira, sharpshooting coach Kehat Shorr, fencer Andre Spitzer, weightlifting judge Yakov Springer and wrestling referee Yossef Gutfreund.

"A 9 a.m. deadline was set for the terrorists’ political prisoner release demands—not meeting it, they said, would result in one hostage being executed every hour." . . .

Below: "But the helicopters which awaited them became the scene of almighty gun-battle as police snipers tried to ambush the group. Within two hours, all of the athletes were dead - slaughtered inside the helicopters by the Palestinians. One German police officer also lost his life and only three of the hostage-takers survived."

A member of Black September used a grenade to destroy one of the two helicopters that had Israeli hostages inside. The burned-out army helicopter is pictured here at Fürstenfeldbruck air base on Sept. 7, 1972.

Olympic athlete who escaped 1972 Munich massacre discusses parallels with current fighting in Israel (news12.com)

Munich Massacre at the Olympics • History Infographics