Breaking News: Israel Shuts Down Christ’s Resurrection Site. Bishop Strickland & Tucker Respond.
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What are the implications of Israel closing the Church of the Holy Sepulcher?
Bishop Strickland, thank you so much for doing this. What do you make of the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by Israeli authorities on Palm Sunday?
Well, really, Tucker, probably some things have developed even since the last thing I saw, but it looked like they were deciding to open it after all or whatever. To me, really, Tucker, this comes down to a consequence of the evil that we see that we're witnessing. And I think we need to pay attention to it in that context. As we already discussed, the large-scale destruction of civilian life is never morally justifiable by any nation, by any entity, for any reason. It's just not. And to me, the closure of the Holy Sepulchre, the holy site for us. There's so many in the Holy Land, but the closure of that and the not allowing the procession of Palm Sunday is a tragic consequence of just how far off the mark
really the world is at this point in so many ways and what's going on there, we must speak calmly, lovingly, clearly that no, we can't allow this. And the closure to me is just one of many tragic consequences where This has to be addressed, and we've got to keep going back to that principle that the large-scale destruction of civilian life can never be morally justified.
Amen.
What defines a justifiable war according to Bishop Strickland?
And I'm glad to hear at least one religious leader in the United States say that so clearly. I think that any believing Christian would agree with that as a foundational part of the faith. But you're hearing just the opposite. And I want to ask you about that in just a minute. But you don't seem like you believe that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed for, quote, safety reasons.
Well, I really don't know, Tucker. And maybe for some, making those decisions, that's the reason. But why would it be judged to be a place that is unsafe because of this chaos that surrounds it? So like I said, I think it's a consequence of everything we're seeing, which is immoral and is destructive. I mean, in very significant ways, you're a man of history, and we all need to be people of history. And if we look at history, these days will be marked in history as a very devastating time, similar to things that we can look back in the last 100 years, 200 years. 2000 years, that when these kind of moral aberrations begin to just take over, we need to speak up. And I really don't know the motivation for the closure of the Holy Sepulchre.
I mean, I can surmise a lot of things. The possible reopening or partial that I've heard about, I don't know if even that's accurate. That's part of I know what you're finding and what we're all finding is so much misinformation, so many false messages, it's really hard to know what is true. And that's why I think it's so important, and I will be a broken record repeating, we can never justify the large-scale abuse destruction and devastation of civilian life as morally justifiable. We can't do that. And I think we have to keep going back to that home base with all the chaos that we're all dealing with.
I think one of the things that we can say is that Christianity, targeted or not, the core tense of Christianity, whether on purpose or not, is often in the crosshairs. We know that, I believe, talking to people in Jerusalem this morning, that there were no synagogues completely closed. And we know that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was not closed during the last two world wars. We know that the idea was to have a Catholic leader and three others in there for a live stream service, and that was banned. So it's hard to understand how this was done for safety reasons. And moreover, I wasn't aware that the government, the secular government of Israel, owned the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
How does Bishop Strickland defend Carrie Prejean Boller?
Or, by the way, the Dome of the Rock or any other religious building owned by someone else in East Jerusalem. I mean, where does this authority come from that you can just close someone else's church?
Well, I don't think it is true authority. And it's basically totalitarian saying, we've got the power, we've got the bombs, we can do what we want.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What are the implications of Israel closing the Church of the Holy Sepulcher?
0:04–1:53
2
What defines a justifiable war according to Bishop Strickland?
1:53–5:04
3
How does Bishop Strickland defend Carrie Prejean Boller?
5:04–6:03
4
What is the significance of Bishop Strickland's statement on Gaza?
6:03–6:46
5
Why is large-scale destruction of civilian life never morally justified?
6:46–10:40
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How does Bishop Strickland view the current state of Christianity?
10:40–12:15
7
What should be the Christian response to persecution?
12:15–14:52
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How does truth play a role in Bishop Strickland's message?
14:52–1:19:10
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