Agreed.
As for Israel's assault on Christianity... this looks more like
Catholicism and Hasidicism in the video on p. 2.
Two sides of the same
mystical coin, imo. :/
Both groups have their own set of rules + beliefs which deviate dramatically (imo) from Christianity and Judaism. I'm not excusing the rudeness-- if we treat our next door neighbors like garbage because we believe the "elite" care about our cause, due to media attention... we may want to consider the source. Generally speaking, anyway. They're just stirring the pot, as you said--> to divide people.
But Jerusalem is the original ground zero-- and I have
no intention of discussing that-- so as far as this thread is concerned, it appears to be more about
politics than anything else.
Which is to be expected.
At fever pitch.
At all times.
With that in mind, we probably shouldn't underestimate the
Vatican's desire for Jerusalem over and above
all parties concerned... just saying.
. . .
The Vatican-appointed Latin Patriarch, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, said that the region’s 2,000-year-old Christian community has come under increasing attack...
In March, two Israelis burst into the basilica beside the Garden of Gethsemane, where the "Virgin" Mary is said to have been buried.
(They also "pounced on the priest" and apparently beat the crap out of him with a metal rod-- maybe iron?)
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quotation marks, mine
In February, a religious American Jew yanked
a 10-foot rendering of Christ from its pedestal and smashed it on to the floor,
striking its face with a hammer a dozen times at
the Church of the Flagellation on the Via Dolorosa, along which it is believed Jesus hauled his cross toward his crucifixion.
“No idols in the holy city of Jerusalem!”
he yelled.
ha!
Very interesting.
The beating of the priest and the statue occurred at the
Church of the Flagellation.
(I don't believe it.)
Anyway... the statues are not representations of Jesus Christ. He 'he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.'
Is.52
He wouldn't have had long hair, either.
1 Cor. 11:14
Link
We aren't supposed to create idols, statues or paintings of God, anyway.
Some of those renderings on the (double) cross are downright vulgar.