Religious intolerance why is Israel so anti-christian?

Question

You cant preach in Israel:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/08/16/evangelical_pastor_ordered_out_of_israel/6256/

A christian is simply accused of preaching and he gets kicked out even though he denies it.

For some reason Evangelical christians think that Israel is their best friend even though you arent allow to try to convert people there and you get kicked out based simply on the accusation.
Demonstrate for peace and a bulldozer runs you over:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/16/rafah.death/

But if they ask for a few billion dollars we gladly pony up while our bridges collapse.

nice call sawyer seems your favorite country (notice the distiction between country and its people) cares even less about genocide in general:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070819/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_refugees

Answer 1

well, it didn't take long for you to be accused of anti-semitism for questioning the policies of the israeli government, did it? i have a serious problem with any state that is controlled by religious leaders of any faith-that kind of entanglement tends to corrupt both church AND state...that being said, if that's israel's official policy, then they are welcome to it-they are also MORE than welcome to keep their hands out of the pockets of the american taxpayer-that goes for any and all theocracies!
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by the way, that 'one little' restriction is not so little for Christians who live in israel-Christ commanded His followers to go into all the world and preach the gospel-i would assume He was including israel...so to follow israel's 'one restriction' is to disobey Christ...funny, if Christ was around today, preaching His message, would israel kick Him out or lock Him up?

Answer 2

Israel is not anti-Christian.

Christians (and Muslims) are free to practice their religion in Israel. Clerics are free to preach to their congregations. What they are NOT free to do, is to proselytize (to anyone, whether Jewish or Muslim). Given the long history of persecution and forced conversions by Christians and Muslims, I don't think it's asking too much for the Jewish State to be free of what is, to Jews, an offensive practice.

If you are a guest in a country, you are expected to follow the laws, like any resident. Your religion may tell you to go forth and spread the good news, but that does not mean that other nations are obligated to allow you to do so.

In the US, people have tried to claim their religion as justification for smoking weed or not immunizing their children, but it does not hold up in court. Your personal religious beliefs do not entitle you to disregard the laws of the land.

If you are really worried about freedom and tolerance for Christians, you should be more concerned about Arab countries. In the West Bank and Gaza, Christians have been harrassed. In 2002, terrorists holed up in the Church of the Nativity, took priests hostage, and used the Bible as toilet paper (imagine the result if Christians had done this in a mosque with a copy of the Quran). You cannot bring Bibles (or crosses, etc.) into Saudi Arabia. Proselytizing in many Arab nations is a capital offense: you'd be LUCKY to be kicked out. We have given billions of dollars to Saudi, Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinians. Why do you pick on Israel?

Answer 3

Things are not perfect for Christians in Israel, or anywhere, but they treat Christians better than so much of the world, especially the Muslim and state atheist world, as well as Buddhist and Hindu theocracies and even parts of Europe. Israel is fairer to Christians.

Answer 4

Just about every religious group has houses of worship in Israel and are allowed to worship unfettered by the government. The one restriction is that any activities designed to convert Jews away from Judaism is illegal.

If you really want to complain about something, try complaining about Saudi Arabia which also gets billions in aid from the US. There, even owning a bible can get someone tossed in prison for a very long time. At least in Israel, Christians, Muslims, Bahai, Buddhists, Scientologists, etc, etc, etc can worship as they wish in peace.

Answer 5

Demonstrate for peace in Isreal...is that because it is somewhat safer to demonstrate in the land thaat's getting hit by rockets and not go inside the land firing the rockets to demonstrate?

As a Christian I support them not in the hopes of converting them, but because this is the land of my spiritual heritage, and when a religion vows to wipe out Judaism...then I have to choose...stand with the Jew, or stand silent?

And silence has already been tried once!

Answer 6

The situation in Israel is really not a difficult one. It is a simple land dispute. Such disputes can usually be worked out in a compromise between the parties involved.

However, religion tends to poison everything. In this case, it has turned a simple land dispute into a impossible morass. Because of religion, this area will continue to be a festering wound for the foreseeable future, with more intolerance, violence, and killing.

This is yet another example of how religion harms society.

Answer 7

Its not that you can't preach its that you can't proselytize. That is the law in Israel and it is Jewish Law - in other words no one can proseltize in Israel and it doesn't matter what religion you are. The same is true in Afganistan and an issue about that occured their as well recently.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 8

Well, for the simple fact that Israel is a nation of Jews and Jews do not believe Jesus was the Jewish messiah.

Answer 9

When someone asks a question such as this I think of a Christian, German concentration camp guard at Auschwitz in 1944. He has a loving family who he takes to church every Sunday without fail. On this day, he is leading a family of Jews to their deaths in the gas chamber. Here's where things get confusing for me. According to the bible, all the German guard must do is accept Jesus as his savior and the son of god and ask for forgiveness of this terrible sin of multiple murders of innocent victims, and he will dwell in heaven forever when he dies after living a long and fruitful life. The innocent Jewish family, however, because they don't believe just as the German does, after having their lives cut miserably short and not allowed to bring up children have, grandchildren and enjoy the other niceties of life like the German will enjoy, will burn in hell for eternity. That's just sick man.

Answer 10

GOD GAVE ISRAEL TO ABRAHAM AND HIS PROMISED SON AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.

NOT ONLY ISRAEL BUT ALL OF THE LAND HE COULD SEE...WHICH INCLUDED THE LAND WHERE A BIG WAR IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. IRAQ...

SO, THERE WILL BE FIGHTS UNTIL THE PRINCE OF PEACE COMES AGAIN. JESUS CHRIST.

THE JEWS AS A WHOLE HAVE NOT ACCEPTED JESUS AS THE MESSIAH THEY BELIEVE THE MESSIAH IS YET TO COME.

THERE ARE SOME THAT HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR THO..

MY BROTHER DOES PREACH IN ISRAEL ON THE STREET AND HE HANDS OUT TRACTS TO PEOPLE.
HE HASN'T BEEN ARRESTED YET...AS A MATTER OF FACT HE WORKED AS A VOLUNTEER FOR THE ISRAELI DEFENSE ONE SUMMER.

Answer 11

Devout Jews in general are against the Gentiles, which is everyone else (including the Christians). I would never presume to try to "convert" a Jew.