Christians’ Love of the Warfare State Is Killing Other Christians
When Will Evangelical Christians Start To See Through This Charade?
Chuck Baldwin
Ever
since the George W. Bush administration, evangelical pastors and churches have
been America’s loudest cheerleaders for virtually every act of war the U.S. has
waged against foreign countries. For pastors such as John Hagee, wars of
aggression in the Middle East are predicated upon the notion of protecting
Israel--even though military meddling by the United States has only served to
make life more dangerous for Israel. But leaving Israel out of the equation,
evangelicals are the first to trumpet U.S. wars of aggression. I would even
suggest that the favorite hymn of most evangelical churches these days is no
longer John Newton’s “Amazing Grace,” but John McCain’s “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb,
Bomb, Bomb Iran.”
Let’s
set the record straight: perpetual war is a tool of elitists and globalists to
enslave the U.S. citizenry. While we are killing thousands of people abroad
(most of whom are innocents)--all in the name of “liberating” them--we are
tightening the tyrannical noose around the necks of the American people. In the
name of the “War on Terror,” the most sophisticated surveillance society in the
history of mankind has been created right here in the continental United
States. With the advent of the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) under G.W. Bush, Washington, D.C., has constructed (and is
continuing to construct) a burgeoning police state the likes of which Joseph
Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and Adolf Hitler could have only dreamed about. And for
the most part, evangelicals are fine with it.
But
what is really happening in those countries that these endless wars are
supposedly “liberating?” And specifically, what is happening to the thousands
and millions of Christians within those countries after having been “liberated”
by Uncle Sam? After all, America’s evangelical churches of every denomination
spend millions of dollars every year sending missionaries around the globe to
evangelize folks. How many missionary slides have we seen? How many passionate,
tearful sermons have we heard imploring us to get a burden for missions? One of
the most sacred elements of any Christian church is its missions program.
So,
on the one hand, evangelicals are weeping, praying, and giving millions of
dollars to make Christians out of the peoples of the world and on the other
hand, they are leading the charge for America’s efforts to rain death and
destruction down upon those same people.
Aside
from the utter inconsistency of the above, what are all of these endless wars
accomplishing for the Christians who live inside the countries that we are
“liberating?” What is all of these Christian-endorsed wars doing to the people
of God around the world? The answer will shock most believers.
According
to an Infowars.com report, “In areas where we spent hundreds of billions of
dollars and where thousands of precious American lives were sacrificed,
churches are regularly being bombed, Christians are being brutally beheaded,
and laws have been passed to make it illegal for a Muslim to convert to
Christianity. If we were not even able to provide the most basic of
liberties and freedoms to the people living in those nations, what in the world
did we actually accomplish by ‘liberating’ them?
“Just
look at what has happened in Afghanistan. We have been at war in
Afghanistan for more than a dozen years, and yet things are so bad for
Christians in that country at this point that there is not a single church left
. . .”
The
report goes on to say, “We find a similar story in Iraq. It is estimated
that before the invasion, there were up to 2 million Christians living in
Iraq. Now that number is down to less than 450,000, and it is falling
fast.
“In
fact, things are so dire for Iraq’s Christian community that some Iraqi
Christian leaders are warning that Christians may soon become ‘extinct’ in that
nation…”
The
report continues, “In Syria, the Obama administration is shamelessly allying
with radical al-Qaeda jihadists in a desperate attempt to overthrow the Assad
regime.
“As
these jihadists torture, behead and even crucify Christian believers, the mainstream
media in the United States is virtually silent about it.
“Why
is the media being so quiet?
“Well,
because exposing what is going on would make the Obama administration look bad.
Those
carrying out this persecution of Christians in Syria are being directly funded
and aided by the governments of the United States and Saudi Arabia.”
See
the report at:
The
same could be said for Christians in the country of Libya.
But
remember that these wars of aggression began in earnest under the “Christian”
George W. Bush administration and have been ongoing throughout the Barack Obama
administration. In fact, Obama’s continuation of the Bush preemptive war policy
is the one thing about the Obama administration that most evangelical
Christians actually support.
And
please understand that what has happened to Christians in Middle Eastern
countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria has happened in every other
country that U.S. government has chosen to pressure--either by military
intervention or economic sanction--including Nigeria and The Sudan.
A
report in National Review Online states, “Prominent indicators confirm that the
U.S. is the chief facilitator of the persecution of Christians around the world
today.
“According
to the recently released 2014 World Watch List, which ranks the 50 nations
where Christians are most persecuted, Syria is the third worst nation in the
world in which to be Christian, Iraq is fourth, Afghanistan fifth, and Libya
13th. All four countries receive the strongest designation, ‘extreme
persecution’ (other designations are ‘severe,’ ‘moderate,’ and ‘sparse’
persecution).
“Aside
from being so closely and harshly ranked, these four nations have something
else in common: heavy U.S. involvement. Three--Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Libya--were ‘liberated’ thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the
U.S. is actively sponsoring ‘freedom fighters’ against the regime, many of whom
would be better labeled ‘terrorists.’”
The
author of this report, Raymond Ibrahim, concludes by saying, “I am often asked,
‘How can we help persecuted Christians?’ At this point, one must respond: ‘How
about starting with getting the U.S. government to stop being the chief
facilitator of Christian persecution?’ Altruism aside, it would be in the
interests of all freedom-loving people--and especially their descendants.”
See
the report at:
I
wonder what the vast majority of evangelical Christians would think if they
realized that their support for all of these preemptive wars around the
world--especially in the Middle East--are actually the major cause of much of
the persecutions against their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I shudder
to think what America’s Christians will say to their fellow-believers in Heaven
who were savagely martyred due to the wars of aggression that they, America’s
Christians, so enthusiastically supported.
America’s
Warfare State, complete with the military/industrial complex, is facilitating
the most egregious persecution of Christians since the days of Stalin, Hitler,
and Chairman Mao and is turning the land of the free into a giant police state.
When will the American people start to see through this charade? When will
America’s pastors and Christians start to see through this charade?
If
America’s evangelical pastors and churches would end their constant support for
all of these foreign wars, if they would recognize the danger--globally and
domestically--that the military/industrial complex poses, and if they would
start putting the interests of this country above their parochial
preoccupations with favored foreign states and personal eschatological opinions
and interpretations, the Warfare State would collapse.
The
Church has always been the compass of the country; and right now, the compass
is broken, and the ship of state is way off course.
Source: Chuck
Baldwin, via Last
Days Watchman
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