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When did she become super duper religious to go on a pilgrimage to Israel? How many nonjews do you know traveling to Israel? |
I will if you can tell me what disorder makes one susceptible to such garish displays of tomfoolery. On second thought I don’t think it’s supposed to make sense. From Martin Luther King’s “A Proper Sense of Priorities” “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” The tomb of darkness that your sincere ignorance has encased you in, isn’t inescapable, but first you must summon the courage to embrace uncomfortable truths. For there is deep value in honesty and truth, there however is nothing honorable in the embrace of those that bear false witness. Salvation from stupidity will be your reward. Go in peace grasshopper! |
Many Christians travel to Israel and have friends there. |
Christians make pilgrimages to the Holy Land in droves, are you kidding? That goes for the spectrum of Christians from liberal ones who actually embrace the teachings from the Sermon on the Mount to the evangelical prosperity Christians who believe the Jews and conflict around Israel are the key to Armageddon and the second coming. Do you actually know many Christians? |
I am sure, but how many American nonjew millennials do you know who want to travel or have traveled to Israel? I don’t know even one. |
Yes I do and maybe two have traveled or have any interest in going to Israel. |
You can search the stats yourself, but pre-pandemic something like 2.5 million Christians visited Israel every year. Obviously the pandemic shut those numbers down, but they were rising again until the October 7 attack after which the numbers have been far lower due to the ongoing conflict there. |
To me that's weird. I've attended mostly liberal churches primarily Episcopal but other denominations as well and it seems like every year there were at least a few members of the congregation going to Israel. Being there are Christmastime is particularly attractive to some Christians as a spiritual pilgrimage. |
And yes, I know that Bethlehem is in the Palestinian West Bank, not Israel proper - although Netanyahu and his ilk would like to change that if they could. |
Perhaps it’s weird, but Israel is not a top destination for nonjews. There are probably at least 100 more popular destinations atm. |
Right now Israel is not a top destination for anyone, they are at war and have a madman in power. As to the rest of your comment - I don't think you are properly contextualizing 'top destination' in your assertion. Israel in peacetime may not be a top destination for vacationing, but for spiritual pilgrimage it's quite obviously a top destination because it's the only place on the planet where our Lord Jesus Christ was born, crucified and rose again. |
I guess. Only maybe ministers or clergy members or super extreme right wing Christians had any interest in going there. I still don’t believe Erika’s narrative of they just so happened to coincidentally be in Israel at the same time. |
| charlie kirk was nothing but a con just like Don the Con. |
As I said and will now restate because you lack reading comprehension skills, I have attended LIBERAL churches and those are the Christians I personally know who wanted to make pilgrimage to Bethlehem and other places in the Holy Land which are noteworthy from Christ's earthly journey. I think you are not a Christian yourself if you cannot grasp this. Yes, I am sure conservative Christians also make pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but plenty of LIBERAL CHRISTIANS make pilgrimage there too - and no, they aren't all clergy by any means. Don't be blinded by your hatred for Kirk and Kirk's wife - I have no idea about the context of their meeting or any of the conspiracy theories being discussed here, but I DO KNOW about Christians making pilgrimage to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee, etc. https://holylandpilgrimages.org/ |
I know lots of people, Christians, none of whom have any interest in ever traveling to Israel. And the younger the people, the less interest they have. |