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Michael Fruend: A place where Israel is loved - 'Tucked away in a far corner of northern Europe, the tranquil and resourceful nation of Finland often gets unjustly overlooked...'
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I perhaps shouldn't indulge this remark, but there is a deep-seated and multi-faceted irony in one of the more prominent aspects of Fruend's article: the Christian support for Israel. The irony is that Jewish communities should always be hoping and/or praying that Christian communities become more Christian, not less.
A thesis-length paper would be needed to adequately explore the set of historical, sociological, ideological, political, philosophical, theological and still other issues involved in this fact, but that's what it is, a fact. Also, this is true regardless as to whether the Christians in question are simple and humble fideists or are sophisticated and highly educated, a la an Ellul or a Bonhoeffer in the last century. It's a fact that can never be proven in a ratiocinated/deductive sense, and can only be "explored" in a great deal of depth and breadth, but it's a profound truth nonetheless.