#christ in the rubble

[sadanandaom]

[holyfigtree]

“We are outraged by the complicity of the Church. Let it be clear: Silence is complicity, and empty calls for peace without a ceasefire and an end to the occupation, and the shallow words of empathy without direct action — are all under the banner of complicity. So here is my message: Gaza today has become the moral compass of the world.

If you are not appalled by what is happening; if you are not shaken to your core – there is something wrong with your humanity. If we, as Christians, are not outraged by this genocide, by the weaponizing of the Bible to justify it, there is something wrong with our Christian witness.

If you fail to call this a genocide. It is on you. It is a sin and a darkness you willingly embrace. 

Some have not even called for a ceasefire… I feel sorry for you. Despite the immense blow we have endured, we will recover. We will rise and stand up again amidst the destruction, as we have always done so as Palestinians. 

But as for those who are complicit, I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this? 

Your charity, your words of shock after the genocide, won’t make a difference. Words of regret will not suffice you. We will not accept your apology. What has been done, has been done. I want you to look at the mirror and ask: where was I? […]

In this season, we have been troubled by the silence of God. In the last few months, the Psalms of lament have become a precious companion. We cried out, My God, My God, have You forsaken Gaza? In our pain, anguish, and lament, we have searched for God, and found Him under the rubble in Gaza. If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble in Gaza.

— Father Munther Isaac, "Christ in the Rubble: A Liturgy of Lament" Sermon delivered in Bethlehem

[liberty1776]

Remember our Christian Brothers and sisters and other fellow humans that are being murdered in Gaza by the ungodly antichrist Zionists.

Kelly Latimore, Christ in the Rubble, 2023

[bookkats]

#Advent Day 14 Christ is Coming

Dr. Wil Gafney “Christmas is not Canceled. Festive Christmas celebration and public displays are. But the Feast of the Incarnation will continue to be observed. There will be church services for the local residents. Tourism is strongly discouraged.” Layla Darwish: Most average Americans doesn’t even know Christmas is cancelled in Bethlehem. Christ IncarnatesChrist always comesthat is the…

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

Bethlehem Pastor Rev. Munther Isaac:

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[bootdork]

Sorry but as a Christian you cannot possibly be siding with Israel. Israel is bombing the oldest churches in the world, shooting at people inside their parish, exterminating the oldest Christian community in the world, bombing congregations during mass. You cannot claim to follow Christ's teachings if you condone this immense violence.

Exodus 22:21 "Do not oppress or mistreat a foreigner."

Psalm 11:5 "God tests the righteous, but those who love violence, he detests."

Psalm 68:30 "Scatter those people who delight in war."

Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God."

Habakkuk 2:9-13 "Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain to set his nest on high, to escape the clutches of ruin! You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life. The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it. ‘Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime!'"

[rimbaudofficial]

Look not to get Christian on main but this is an incredible icon.

[hauntingblue]

Oh now the villagers know..... and arlong burned the town to punish her..... for some reason

[nabumalikata]

feel like pure shit. just want them back.

[magnoliamyrrh]

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[riotouseaterofflesh]

Christ under the Rubble. Lutheran Christmas Church Bethlehem

“This year Christmas celebrations are cancelled in Bethlehem”

A Liturgy of Lament

Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, Bethlehem Saturday December 23rd, 2023

[e1dritchqueer]

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[randompiggy]

Cool so I get that a bunch of you don’t think Arabs are people or whatever, but if we could not say that a guy who is facilitating a genocide “has actually done a lot of good” and that a woman who has pledged publicly, multiple times, to continue the genocide would be a “legitimately good president” that would be great.

I’m sick to bastard death of people pretending that people don’t want to vote for Harris because they’re inflexible far-left anarchists who aren’t willing to compromise on political positions slightly to the right of theirs. Over 100’000 people have been killed in the last year. More bombs have been dropped on Gaza in the last year than the Blitz, the bombing of Dresden, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Yesterday CNN published a piece about IDF soldiers running over hundreds of people with bulldozers, and the point of the piece was how traumatising it was for the soldiers, how they can’t eat meat anymore after mangling people into meat. There are death marches happening in Jabalia in the north of Gaza right now. People are being lined up, men and boys separated from the group, and brought to mass graves where they are killed or buried alive. Since more than 70% of civilian infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed, Israel is just bombing people in tents now where they burn alive. The bombs killing people are American bombs, the money funding it is American money, the political cover that allows it to continue comes from American politicians.

I don’t know what it will take for people in the West to acknowledge the scale of what is happening. I don’t know if I have to share a steady stream of images of people’s mangled bodies, not able to rest even in death, I don’t know if I have to tell the stories of the Palestinians I know, of the children I know who escaped Gaza this year and are rehabilitating limb amputations, if I have to do thought experiments with you saying “pretend Beirut is New York and they are bombing outside JFK and Columbia Presbyterian”. If I have to explain that the number of children killed is not incidental but intentional. It is beyond exhausting to watch people be so flippant about the hell on earth that they are funding and electing. Vote for whoever the fuck you want, I get the stakes, but acknowledge the reality of what is going on, acknowledge the reality of your choices, acknowledge that you live in a country that is making you choose between complicity in genocide and complicity in genocide

I mean honestly I don’t hate Harris. or Biden, who has actually done a lot of good in the last four years especially considering the mess he had to clean up. but whatever gets the “my imaginary moral high ground is more important than peoples’ lives” fucks to vote.

[lokoleyacongo]

A Bethlehem Christmas Appeal for Solidarity

Separation wall dividing Bethlehem from Jerusalem; begun in 2002 as response to Palestinian Second Intifada, it stands 26 feet high. 2018 Photo by Alissa on the website inlocamotion.com . “We are angry…  We are broken…  This should have been a time of joy; instead, we are mourning. We are fearful.” With these words Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac began his Christmas sermon “Christ in the Rubble” in…

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[bookkats]

Love in the Rubble

Jesus Christ,I think it’s much easier to picture youin a stable, cozy among the hay–Then in the cave that they showed me in Palestine, where all the animal are stabled. I remember, when I toured Bethlehemamong the Christianshearing talk of building permitsand dirt roadsthe lack of permitsand that a lot of the fightingwas really about water access“Is it like Syria?” I asked?Aware, that Syria…