The Practical Parson

 Yesterday the news broke that the US Episcopal Church had refused to assist in the resettlement of 59 refugees from South Africa.  Of course the media and the church are making an incredibly big fuss over the situation in general, and there is no headline about the refugees that fails to mention that they are WHITE South Africans.  My first gripe with the situation is that this is the only time in the entire saga of refugees BS over the last 10 years that the Media have been not at all discreet in labeling an ethnic group of refugees entirely by their skin color.  Can you imagine the outrage if they had reported articles over previous years about "Black Haitians", or "Latino Mexicans" as refugees?  The liberal world's heads would have exploded in fury.  But yes, because the South African group are ethnically pale-skinned, the press has no qualms at all about just labeling them "white".   Secondly, I hesitated responding to the Episcopal Church's ...

Today, possibly one of the world's most pointless and impotent organizations voted to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.  They decried the "humanitarian" crisis which they claim Israel has perpetrated on the people living in Gaza, and demand an immediate ceasefire.  The secretary General of the UN claims he has never before encountered such a horrendous situation and loss of civilian lived on his watch as secretary general. In total, there are 13 (registered) major wars/ armed conflicts currently ongoing across the globe. On the continent of Africa alone, millions of lives have been lost to civil war and Islamist terrorist uprisings for over 25 years.  In the north of the European continent, of course we have the Russian-Ukrainian war which has been going on for almost 2 years at this point.  Do you want to know what every other war or armed conflict in the world has in common, not shared with the Israel-Hamas conflict?   A United Nations resolution demanding a ce...