I am the senior pastor of Malibu Presbyterian Church, and late last week I was outraged and hurt by an e-mail hoax purporting to come from my church. We were not aware of the e-mail until we started receiving phone calls from people angry with the message in it. The e-mail claims to be from Rev. R.C. Vachon of Malibu Presbyterian Church. However, we have never had such a pastor here. The e-mail is extremely offensive in that it seems to claim that the past Nazi atrocities are just fables, and that current Israel “merits destruction.”
I studied in Israel and have visited the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem and some of the concentration camps in Germany. I know the atrocities of the Nazi regime are not fables. Our prayers are that we would never forget them, and never allow them to happen again. We may not agree with all of the policies in Israel, but we do not condone the destruction of Israel. We have contacted the FBI and have asked them to investigate this for possible criminal charges against the perpetrator.
Rev. Greg Hughes