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2025-05-19T04:45:55-08:00

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Starving Gaza: Evangelicals justify war & ignore Famine #4

Last updated on: May 19, 2025 at 4:45 am By Rob Dalrymple

NB: This is my fourth post in my series on my personal journey of deconstruction/reconstruction. Here is the link to my three previous posts In my earlier posts I noted that my journey of deconstruction/reconstruction was predicated on two primary issues: 1) the church (I speak primarily of the evangelical tradition which I have been a part of) has lost sight of the Gospel and the kingdom and has replaced it with a me-centric version; 2) the church has been abusive.... Read more

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2025-05-18T21:42:33-08:00

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Gaza: This Isn’t Complicated: Starving People Is a War Crime

Last updated on: May 18, 2025 at 9:42 pm By Rob Dalrymple

Suppose a report surfaced showing that a local penitentiary refused to feed the prisoners on death row. Would we be outraged? Well, I hope we would be. Of course, some would attempt to say they don’t deserve food because of what they did. Others might say that giving them food is a waste. After all, they are going to die soon anyway. Our outrage at the starvation of prisoners on death row should not be diminished just because they have... Read more

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2025-05-13T08:32:54-08:00

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Israel-Gaza: What About the Babies? Yeah, What About Them?

Last updated on: May 13, 2025 at 8:32 am By Rob Dalrymple

Today (May 14), Israelis and most Jews around the world celebrate the 77th birthday of the nation of Israel. Tomorrow (May 15), Palestinians will commemorate the Nakba (“catastrophe”). What is a time of celebration for Israelis and many Jews around the world is a time of remembrance for Palestinians of the loss of land (over 500 Arab villages were either depopulated in order to be inhabited by Israelis or destroyed in 1948) and the expulsion of 750,000 Arabs. When it... Read more

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2025-05-17T12:46:04-08:00

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Christianity & Nationalism are they Mutually exclusive? YES!

Last updated on: May 17, 2025 at 12:46 pm By Rob Dalrymple

Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron? How so? I begin by pointing out that the mere fact that we have to answer this question is proof enough. Perhaps, one of the greatest exhortations in the book of Revelation is found in 18:4, “Come out from her, My people.” NB: All translations from the book of Revelation are my own. The “her” in this passage is the Great Harlot, which, as I argue in my commentary, represents the commercial side of... Read more

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2025-05-11T05:49:32-08:00

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Anti-Boycotting Act: When Dissent vs Israel becomes illegal

Last updated on: May 11, 2025 at 5:49 am By Rob Dalrymple

While the world watches on, and while many Christians in the US continue to support Israel’s assault on Gaza, the genocide continues. In addition to the 52,000+ that are dead, over 15,000+ of whom are children, and these numbers are most assuredly low, Israel refuses to allow any supplies into Gaza. As a result, over 70,000 children have been hospitalized for severe malnutrition, over 1.1 million lack nutrition requirements for survival, over 2 million face food insecurity, and things are assuredly only... Read more

2025-04-28T15:23:57-08:00

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Terrorism doesn’t arise in a vacuum: another thought on Gaza

Last updated on: April 28, 2025 at 3:23 pm By Rob Dalrymple

The claim is often made that all that is needed to end the war on Gaza is for Hamas to lay down its weapons and return the hostages: “If Israel lays down their weapons, there will be war, but if Hamas lays down its weapons, there will be peace.” This statement reflects a profound ignorance of the situation in Israel-Palestine and of the nature of violent reprisals in general. Huckabee’s ignorance Last week, Mike Huckabee, former pastor and now US... Read more

2025-04-25T19:04:23-08:00

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I’m deeply troubled that Ben Gvir can speak freely in the US

Last updated on: April 25, 2025 at 7:04 pm By Rob Dalrymple

Israel continues its assault on Gaza A few days ago, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Israeli attacks killed 50 Gazans and wounded more than 150 others in the less than 24 hours. One of the attacks killed three Palestinians when an IDF drone hit a distribution center while Gazans were queuing up for the little available food. At the same time, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was visiting the US. Gvir claimed during his visit... Read more

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2025-04-23T11:20:56-08:00

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Genocide: Why do we have to wait so long to cry out?

Last updated on: April 23, 2025 at 11:20 am By Rob Dalrymple

Virtually everyone today agrees—80 years later—that the Nazi effort to eliminate European Jewry was one of the greatest travesties to face humankind. The few Holocaust deniers out there are rightly silenced. My question is, “Why does it take so long for everyone to agree that a genocide is a genocide?” What if more people spoke up when the Holocaust was happening? Would it have made a difference? Would it have saved lives? What about 80 years from now? What will... Read more

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Gaza; Genocide; Christian Zionism

2025-04-18T06:08:00-08:00

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The truth may make you free, but gaining power not included

Last updated on: April 18, 2025 at 6:08 am By Rob Dalrymple

John 8:32: “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” As I noted in my last post, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) failed to account for all of the phones from each of the 15 Red Crescent emergency workers they killed in Gaza just under 2 weeks ago. As a result, the IDF’s initial explanation of what happened was a lie. NB: The fact that the IDF attempted to bury the bodies of the 15... Read more

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2025-04-14T10:49:21-08:00

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Israel’s war on Gaza: When is it “enough”?

Last updated on: April 14, 2025 at 10:49 am By Rob Dalrymple

An interviewer asks a medical doctor, “Are children in Gaza being shot by snipers?” His reply was, “Definitively! I have two children who were shot so perfectly in the chest that I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately and directly on the side of the head in the same child. No toddler gets shot in the head by the world’s best sniper. And they were dead-center shots. All of the disasters I’ve seen combined–40 mission trips over... Read more

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