In addition to attacks which have destroyed or otherwise harmed Christian churches and villages in Palestine and Lebanon, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are confirmed dead, and tens of thousands more are rotting under rubble. In Lebanon, Israel has killed thousands all across the country, and in the West Bank, hundreds. No doubt, Christians were among them. Israel designed a new AI system to identify targets in Gaza, deliberately selecting non-military targets and permitting twenty civilian deaths per militant—families shredded to kill one man. Israel calls the system habsora, “the Gospel.”
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It is a deep irony that conservative American Christians, who pride themselves on public identification with Christ and Christian values in a world hostile to his gospel, have abandoned the Church of Christ in Syria, in Palestine, and in Lebanon.… We have exchanged the birthright of the gospel for the lentils of Western civilization. God speaks to us when he proclaims by the mouth of his prophet, “And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.” Perhaps, if God is merciful to American Christians, after the martyrs under the altar have cried out for judgment, the rubble we have made will fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.