Reverend Stephen Sizer and his anti-Zionist Anglican thought police

Rev. Stephen Sizer is a known hater of Israel. He is infamous for reinstituting the championing of active Jew hate based on theological grounds - a practice that some people thought, mistakenly, had been buried quite a while ago, especially in enlightened, multipluralistic England. 

 

Sizer uses his theology to bash not only Israel and Jews, but any people who happen to be Christians who might support Israel for any reasons and to any extent. He labels any Christian who supports Israel as a "Christian Zionist," regardless of their theological beliefs or lack of them.

 

If anyone had tried to shut him up, Sizer would be the first to complain that the nefarious Zionist conspiracy was stifling "legitimate criticism of Israel." Unfortunately, nobody has shut him up. The Anglican church tolerates his noxious doctrines. But Sizer himself has resorted to bullying those who disagree with him, and enlisted the cooperation of the British police in doing it!  He has managed to somehow turn the usually friendly and polite British constables into a variety of Gestapo agents acting on behalf of Sizer's bigotry, who go about "warning" people who do not have proper respect for Sizer  Sizer insists that he will continue this systematic campaign until he has cowed all resistance to Sizerism.

 

Citizens of the UK should take note that if they express political opinions that someone does not like, especially if the someone is Sizer, they could be getting a visit from the local constabulary. Perhaps the British police only enforce Anglican theology as in the good old days or maybe they will do this service for Muslim clerics as well.You may want to have some questions asked in parliament. Meanwhile, be careful of your views on the Eucharist and the nature of the Trinity as well as your views of Sha'aria law.

 

Will Britain be re-instituting loyalty oaths soon? Will non-juroring clergy and lay people who do not swear to uphold the doctrine of Sizer be excluded from government service?  

 

Meanwhile, those of us who do not enjoy the dubious "liberties"  of England and the "protection" of Her Britannic Majesty can all blog about it wherever we are. If you live in a commonwealth country however, beware. Sizer claims his thought police will operate there as well.

 

Ami  Isseroff

We are all Seismic Shock or Rev. Sizer and Big Brother

http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2010/01/we-are-all-seismic-shock-or-rev-sizer.html

This time the term Seismic Shock doesn't have anything to do with the tragedy of Haiti. It is about less shocking (but still amazing) story of a blogger being muzzled by a strange synergy between a religious cleric and the gendarmes of the state where both the blogger and the cleric reside.

You may not believe (or want to believe) it, but the state in question is not China, Burma, Cuba or any other of the long list of places where blogging is a risky business. It is United Kingdom - the motherland of modern democracy and freedom of speech. The blogger in question goes under a moniker Seismic Shock and the cleric with the awesome powers to deploy the British police at will is Stephen Sizer, "the vicar or pastor of Christ Church, the international community church of Virginia Water". We'll delve later into more details related to the Reverend, let's discuss the case.

Seismic Shock has done a research into some questionable activities of the Reverend. Apparently, the activities include (but not limited to) dissemination of emails from Holocaust deniers, sharing platform with Holocaust deniers, and shamelessly flaunting his anti-Zionist theology before Iran's apocalyptic Holocaust-denying regime. You can read more about the "Christian" deeds of our good pastor (or vicar, whatever the heck it means) in this post (thanks to Engage).

While United Kingdom is known as a welcoming place for outrageous litigations (frequently successful) against bloggers, this time pastor Sizer has chosen a novel way to intimidate and silence the blogger: he unleashed on him the local constabulary. Again, it may sound unbelievable for the time and the place, but here it is:

At 10am on Sunday 29th November 2009, I received a visit from two policemen regarding my activities in running the Seismic Shock blog. (Does exposing a vicar's associations with extremists make me a criminal?, I wondered initially). A sergeant from the Horsforth Police related to me that he had received complaints via Surrey Police from Rev Sizer and from Dr Anthony McRoy – a lecturer at the Wales Evangelical School of Theology – who both objected to being associated with terrorists and Holocaust deniers.
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The sergeant made clear that this was merely an informal chat...

WTF? An "informal chat"? Is it how the Big Brother designates its (hardly lawful) activities these days? Is it an acceptable practice in UK (granted, formally an Anglican kingdom, but we are so used to this designation being a somewhat funny lip service to a sacred British penchant for tradition) to deploy police force on a mere whim of an Anglican cleric? Is it just another facet of freedom of speech we, unwashed non-British heathens don't grok?