InformedChristian.US - Moral Relativism and Israel

Monday, May 12, 2008

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Dr. Earl Tilford writing in the Jewish Press has an excellent Op-Ed on the problem the "Christian Left" has with Israel. The article is excellent and well worth your time to read. One point he makes is that "Definitive truth, righteousness, and sinfulness are concepts alien to a Christian Left that denies the existence of evil (except as it applies to political and religious conservatives, “big oil,” and anyone who questions the left’s assumptions)."

This is similar to my often stated view that the Left does not believe in "evil" other than violence. To many on the Left, all violence is EVIL and can never be justified. This of course opposes all use of military force. As Dr. Tilford writes "Further, Israel does something Christian leftists find incomprehensible: it uses military power to defend itself." I believe things are even worse on the Left than he claims, as many of those on the Left believe that the mere fact that Israel has and uses military force PROVES Isreal to be evil. This of course does not only apply to Israel, but also to the USA. Much of the loathing of our country by those on the Left is due to the fact we have a powerful military and use it.

Of course the use of force by all the truly evil regimes and dictators around the world is excused by the Jimmy Carter Left who have never found a despotic government they did not favor.

HT to Free Republic for the link to the Op-Ed.