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I doubt most American Christians have any idea what the World Council of Churches does from one year to the next. But many of those who do must be saddened, if not outraged, by the WCC’s recent return to the Middle Ages and its endorsement by the Presbyterian church.

“This understanding denies the connection between today’s Jews and Moses, Jeremiah and Isaiah. It marks a return to ‘replacement theology,’ the medieval view that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan and that all biblical references to Israel refer to the “new Israel”—that is, to Christians. For centuries, that view was the theological basis for denying rights to Jews in Church-dominated Europe.”

This time, of course, it’s intended to deny history, i.e., Israel’s claim to the land and its modern right to exist as a Jewish state. And it forms the basis for such things as financial divestment, and demands to end the checkpoints and tear down the barriers that keep out Palestinian suicide bombers.

Not that any of that will happen. It’s just a philosophical return to the bad old days, and blind to boot. Considering that the majority of the Palestinians all this allegedly is designed to help are Muslims, whose Imams have their own brand of “replacement theology.” Which applies to Christianity as well as Judaism.