{"id":10268,"date":"2010-10-19T10:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10268"},"modified":"2010-10-19T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:45:16","slug":"with-sizer-on-our-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/with-sizer-on-our-side\/","title":{"rendered":"With Sizer on our side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2010\/10\/19\/turning-churches-against-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWith God on Our Side,\u201d the new anti-Israel movie produced by an evangelical pastor and aimed at evangelical audiences, is touring America this month, with anti-Israel British Anglican priest Stephen Sizer in tow.\u00a0 On October 27, it was originally going to be screened in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, doubtless hoping to appeal to young evangelical Congressional staffers, whose numbers and influence likely will increase in the new Congress. \u00a0Now, for whatever reason, it instead will\u00a0screen\u00a0at a Lutheran church on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The Evangelical Left is anxious to neutralize evangelicals as America\u2019s typically most pro-Israel demographic, especially by focusing on the plight of Palestinian Christians, who are portrayed as victims exclusively of\u00a0Israeli oppression. \u00a0\u201cWith God on Our Side,\u201d predictably, portrays pro-Israel Christians as mindless zealots indifferent to Palestinian suffering and exploiting Israeli Jews as merely tools for precipitating the Second Coming.\u00a0 Hapless quotes from Christian Zionists are contrasted with thoughtful articulations from Palestinian Christians and other pro-Palestinian advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Anglican priest Stephen Sizer, prominently featured in the film, bewails\u00a0Christian Zionism on\u00a0his website:\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAspects of this belief system lead some Christians in the West to give uncritical support to Israeli government policies, even those that privilege Jews at the expense of Palestinians, leading to great suffering among Muslim and Christian Palestinians alike and threatening Israel\u2019s security as a whole.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rev. Stephen Sizer is upset with evangelical Christians who support Israel based on what he calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/editorial_opinion\/opinion\/correcting_myths_about_christian_zionism_again\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Zionism<\/a>, a belief that the Jews\u2019 return to the Holy Land and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 is in accordance with Biblical prophecy. I don\u2019t find that idea unpersuasive; I do find Stephen Sizer\u2019s crusade against it lacking in honesty. It seems to me that he is engaged in political agitation thinly concealed by a veil of religious sanctimony.<\/p>\n<p>While Israel isn\u2019t perfect, there are plenty of political reasons to support it, the main one being that it is an oasis of democracy in a desert of vicious tyrannies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: \u201cWith God on Our Side,\u201d the new anti-Israel movie produced by an evangelical pastor and aimed at evangelical audiences, is touring America this month, with anti-Israel British Anglican priest Stephen Sizer in tow.\u00a0 On October 27, it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/with-sizer-on-our-side\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[2079,2180,1486],"class_list":["post-10268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-zionism","tag-christian-zionism","tag-israel","tag-stephen-sizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}