name: Charles E Carlson
Why Doesn’t God End Our Serial Wars?
29 August, 2007
To those of us who wonder when our warring leaders will be satisfied and bring about an end to conflict around the world...the answer is NEVER.
In the eyes of our political leaders in both parties, war continues to be a necessity to carry out their agenda. We Hold These Truths has exposed that agenda in the past, and those who do not understand it can find lots to read about this on our website.
History is an account of what happens between inexplicable wars. And it rarely provides a logical reason for war. History books seldom tell us our leaders wanted to strengthen their power or increase their wealth, and war is the time-honored path of political choice. Nor are we reminded that the stronger member, not the weaker one, invariably starts wars.
We Hold These Truths has said over and over again, it is our responsibility (if we claim to follow Jesus) to do everything in our power to end the killing. Those of us who live in the USA still think we are the authority over our government, and unless and until we are shown to the contrary, we must keep on trying to control politicians.
Why can't I just go along for the ride like so many who say, "We can't win anyway, so it's best to stay out of the way"? This is a statement we hear all the time. It too, has a simple answer: It's our job to try to resist because God says we must represent Him and His law as long as we have breath. This is supposed to be what Christianity is all about, that is, if you use Jesus Christ as a guide.
An objective person looking at the control mechanism now running our world might well conclude he had better NOT believe in God, lest his conscience force him to resist the irresistible. Those of our readers who have given up on God may feel they have a free pass, but not those who follow Christ. We do not have an option in the matter, Jesus does not give us a pass, when he said, "Blessed are the Peacemakers" he also demonstrated that he meant it.
As we say over and over again...the primary enablers of war today are America's evangelical "Christian-Zionist" churches. They can hardly escape being enablers of our present war in the Middle East because war against Islam is in their doctrine! It is part of their creed necessitated by their support of an Israeli state.
We Hold These Truths is not the only one who has written and recorded much to demonstrate that Christian-Zionism is a religion fallen away from Christianity. Celebrity churchmen who call themselves "evangelicals blow the trumpet our leaders want to hear...that Christ permits (if not demands) war against Islam. In return for this scriptural lie, they are helped to become the celebrity Christians who receive access to the media, tax-free status for huge church businesses, publicity, friendly regulation, and an open field for self-promotion. Most important, the public standards of racism are ignored when Christian-Zionists denounce Islam.
Christian Zionist "The Christian Right" celebrities are the oracles for the unfettered and unapologetic anti-Islam media of our day. Their appointed job in the Neo-Con order of the new world is to campaign every day for more serial wars against Islam. They do it! Whenever you hear someone like Franklin Graham make a racially hateful statement against Muslims he is carrying out his appointed mission in the politicians' War on Islam.
God will not end our Serial wars because he has left this very tough job to the followers of Christ. Every man (whatever his church) who says he follows Jesus must necessarily work for and pray for peace. As part of this peace mission he ought to visit a Mosque. Why? Because Muslims who worship in Mosques also want an end to the Serial wars, they have this in common with followers of Christ. So why not get to know them? I think Jesus would.
You will even find a few followers of Christ bumbling around in perplexity inside every evangelical church. If you have a chance to visit a mosque, don't hesitate to do so. I felt warmly received during my visit. Compare this to downright animosity received on occasion from some of my "bloodthirsty brothers in Christ" when standing outside their churches holding a sign that simply says: "Choose Life, Not War.
The Unacceptable Cost of Christian-Zionism
27 August, 2007
We Hold These Truths' objective for nine years has been to explain why members of this loosely knit group we call Judeo-Christianity thinks and acts as though political Israel was a god. Christian Zionism is co-opted by a foreign lobby, AIPAC, and used to carry out Israeli objectives. It was later referred to as the "Christian Right." Today the millions of people who have made the present state of Israel the centerpiece of their Christian religion have been given the name "Christian Zionists."
We Hold These Truths' Pharisee Watch was created as a think-tank to expose Judeo-Christianity's apostasy. Project Strait Gate was created in 2003 to help correct Judeo-Christian leaders by confronting them in their members' presence, usually by holding vigils outside churches to protest their use of the bible to support war.
Essential facts about Christian Zionism:
First: It must be understood what Judeo-Christianity (also called "evangelicalism," dispensationalism, or Christians Zionism) is: by any name, a 20th Century phenomena, an apostate-cult, meaning it practices, in part, a deviant path of following Christ, and it relies upon many varied human sources other than the traditional bible(s) for its theology.
Second: Judeo-Christianity ascribes holiness to a foreign political state, Israel, as though it was itself a god. It placed political Israel on the throne along side of Jesus Christ, and, in so doing, its teachers ignore, if not annul, much of Jesus' teachings.
Third: Rank and file churchgoers and many lesser known Judeo-Christian pastors think of themselves as moral, even when they are actively contributing to immoral acts, such as supporting mass military assassinations in Gaza and the West Bank. They do not consider these acts immoral because they believe events are ordained, or even demanded, by God. Anger against them is misplaced, because they, too, are victims of their own acts. They probably bring as much suffering upon themselves and their families as on any other middle class group. Because opposing any war that Israel favors is considered a-religious, it is quite likely that there are proportionately as many while, Judeo-Christian boys and girls serving, and therefore killed in military combat, than for instance the sons of agnostics or other religious groups. We have yet to find any date to support or discredit this argument so it is offered strictly as this author's observation and opinion.
Finally, Judeo-Christianity is much larger than generally believed and is active in every state and community in the USA. The new CNN.com is featuring from an upcoming, six-hour television event, "God's Warriors," hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour stated in the introductory segment: "A recent poll found that 59 percent of American evangelicals believe Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. She also asserted: "The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates 85 million evangelicals believes God tells them to support Israel - more than six times the world's Jewish population.
For these several reasons Judeo-Christianity can easily be used by its leader, and by the leaders of Israel, to carry out a political agenda that favors that foreign political state over and ahead of the interests of America, and ahead of the interest of any humans in the USA or any other country except Israel.
Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have written a powerful paper, The Israel Lobby, which tells us Israel has too much influence in US Foreign Policy. Christian Zionism gives the Israeli lobby people power making it virtually unstoppable on any issue. Educate the laymen within our own churches, especially mainline churches, can break Israel's power-hold over our politicians, and it can restore others to follow Christ instead of Israel.
Many more, maybe 100 million, are influenced by Judeo-Christian network TV and big name national and international home Bible studies. AIPAC and many American businessmen have profit interests in war and campaigned for new wars as a matter of business, but it is the Judeo-Christians who have provided the grassroots clout to keep the War On Islam churning.
Christian Zionist leaders like Gary Bauer, John Hagee and Pat Robertson are not the only ones who believe the Christian Zionist vote controls the USA. Politician Tom Delay who was an ardent supporter of every war against Islam, recently was quoted as saying at John Hagee's Night to Honor Israel in Washington DC, that he not only "believes in the Rapture, I live for it" Too bad Delay left the world in such a mess just before his anticipated departure.
Israel lobby harness Judeo-Christianity:Every politician in Congress and those competing for the presidency know George W. Bush became president because he and Carl Rove found a way to identify Bush with the Christian Right, but to get this blessing one must also be Israel blessed. Even today 70% of Republicans support Bush and his war in Iraq because what is left of the Republican Party is predominantly Judeo-Christian.
Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton know this, and candidates who want Christian Zionist leaders to endorse them must go to Israel first and receive its stamp of approval from Israel's reigning power, the Likud government. Hillary Clinton was in Israel to courtesy to the Likud leaders, as did Republican Rudi Giuliani. The Israeli press reported Rudi assured their Likud leaders that if he is the US President there will be no problem with Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel's spokesman quoted him as promising there will be no Palestine state in his White House. Giuliani promises four more years of military aid for Israel, and four more years of occupation and starvation for the Philistines. Israel has ample reason to trust Giuliani so he will get its support.
Now, having earned Israel's endorsement, Giuliani is all set to seek the smiling handshake and endorsement of American Christian Zionist leaders, which then give him access and a forum before 100 million Judeo-Christian US citizens and perhaps as many as 40 million voters. The relationship between the Christian-Zionists leaders and AIPAC is simple and straightforward.
AIPAC pressures Congressmen in Washington to give Israel what it wants; the Christian-Zionist celebrities brainwash the laymen in hometowns to pressure the Congressmen at the polls, and the Congressman takes a junket to Israel and complies. Misguided Christians have been used to fight and support war from the 11th Century Crusades to Iraq.
Judeo-Christianity, like Pope Gregory, teaches we all must honor Israel ahead of America, and even rebuild a temple there before Jesus will come. Celebrity Zionists beat the drums for war that Israel wants, but I have not heard of Hagee or Farwell's son enlisting, or any of the congressmen's children.
The scorched foot soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan include a disproportionately large number of Judeo-Christians, who we believe, often enlist because mom and dad raised him in the Judeo-Christian church where volunteering is considered noble, even today after Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Their youths are taught that if we honor Israel we earn blessings for America from God. We owe it to every Judeo-Christian to tell them about the cost of our serial wars against Islamic non-enemies. What has the Judeo-Christian movement given back to America? We need to appeal to the sense of morality of Judeo-Christians.
We conclude there could have been no Shock and Awe or war of occupation in Iraq were it not for the Christian Zionists' zealous campaign to destroy Muslim nations. The now publicly acknowledged War on Islam is in fact already 17 years old. Project Strait Gate was started to challenge it in its very lair. Jesus and his disciples took their arguments to the temple and the synagogues. We are doing the same.
We Hold These Truths' Pharisee Watch was created as a think-tank to expose Judeo-Christianity's apostasy. Project Strait Gate was created in 2003 to help correct Judeo-Christian leaders by confronting them in their members' presence, usually by holding vigils outside churches to protest their use of the bible to support war.
Essential facts about Christian Zionism:
First: It must be understood what Judeo-Christianity (also called "evangelicalism," dispensationalism, or Christians Zionism) is: by any name, a 20th Century phenomena, an apostate-cult, meaning it practices, in part, a deviant path of following Christ, and it relies upon many varied human sources other than the traditional bible(s) for its theology.
Second: Judeo-Christianity ascribes holiness to a foreign political state, Israel, as though it was itself a god. It placed political Israel on the throne along side of Jesus Christ, and, in so doing, its teachers ignore, if not annul, much of Jesus' teachings.
Third: Rank and file churchgoers and many lesser known Judeo-Christian pastors think of themselves as moral, even when they are actively contributing to immoral acts, such as supporting mass military assassinations in Gaza and the West Bank. They do not consider these acts immoral because they believe events are ordained, or even demanded, by God. Anger against them is misplaced, because they, too, are victims of their own acts. They probably bring as much suffering upon themselves and their families as on any other middle class group. Because opposing any war that Israel favors is considered a-religious, it is quite likely that there are proportionately as many while, Judeo-Christian boys and girls serving, and therefore killed in military combat, than for instance the sons of agnostics or other religious groups. We have yet to find any date to support or discredit this argument so it is offered strictly as this author's observation and opinion.
Finally, Judeo-Christianity is much larger than generally believed and is active in every state and community in the USA. The new CNN.com is featuring from an upcoming, six-hour television event, "God's Warriors," hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour stated in the introductory segment: "A recent poll found that 59 percent of American evangelicals believe Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. She also asserted: "The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates 85 million evangelicals believes God tells them to support Israel - more than six times the world's Jewish population.
For these several reasons Judeo-Christianity can easily be used by its leader, and by the leaders of Israel, to carry out a political agenda that favors that foreign political state over and ahead of the interests of America, and ahead of the interest of any humans in the USA or any other country except Israel.
Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have written a powerful paper, The Israel Lobby, which tells us Israel has too much influence in US Foreign Policy. Christian Zionism gives the Israeli lobby people power making it virtually unstoppable on any issue. Educate the laymen within our own churches, especially mainline churches, can break Israel's power-hold over our politicians, and it can restore others to follow Christ instead of Israel.
Many more, maybe 100 million, are influenced by Judeo-Christian network TV and big name national and international home Bible studies. AIPAC and many American businessmen have profit interests in war and campaigned for new wars as a matter of business, but it is the Judeo-Christians who have provided the grassroots clout to keep the War On Islam churning.
Christian Zionist leaders like Gary Bauer, John Hagee and Pat Robertson are not the only ones who believe the Christian Zionist vote controls the USA. Politician Tom Delay who was an ardent supporter of every war against Islam, recently was quoted as saying at John Hagee's Night to Honor Israel in Washington DC, that he not only "believes in the Rapture, I live for it" Too bad Delay left the world in such a mess just before his anticipated departure.
Israel lobby harness Judeo-Christianity:Every politician in Congress and those competing for the presidency know George W. Bush became president because he and Carl Rove found a way to identify Bush with the Christian Right, but to get this blessing one must also be Israel blessed. Even today 70% of Republicans support Bush and his war in Iraq because what is left of the Republican Party is predominantly Judeo-Christian.
Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton know this, and candidates who want Christian Zionist leaders to endorse them must go to Israel first and receive its stamp of approval from Israel's reigning power, the Likud government. Hillary Clinton was in Israel to courtesy to the Likud leaders, as did Republican Rudi Giuliani. The Israeli press reported Rudi assured their Likud leaders that if he is the US President there will be no problem with Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Israel's spokesman quoted him as promising there will be no Palestine state in his White House. Giuliani promises four more years of military aid for Israel, and four more years of occupation and starvation for the Philistines. Israel has ample reason to trust Giuliani so he will get its support.
Now, having earned Israel's endorsement, Giuliani is all set to seek the smiling handshake and endorsement of American Christian Zionist leaders, which then give him access and a forum before 100 million Judeo-Christian US citizens and perhaps as many as 40 million voters. The relationship between the Christian-Zionists leaders and AIPAC is simple and straightforward.
AIPAC pressures Congressmen in Washington to give Israel what it wants; the Christian-Zionist celebrities brainwash the laymen in hometowns to pressure the Congressmen at the polls, and the Congressman takes a junket to Israel and complies. Misguided Christians have been used to fight and support war from the 11th Century Crusades to Iraq.
Judeo-Christianity, like Pope Gregory, teaches we all must honor Israel ahead of America, and even rebuild a temple there before Jesus will come. Celebrity Zionists beat the drums for war that Israel wants, but I have not heard of Hagee or Farwell's son enlisting, or any of the congressmen's children.
The scorched foot soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan include a disproportionately large number of Judeo-Christians, who we believe, often enlist because mom and dad raised him in the Judeo-Christian church where volunteering is considered noble, even today after Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Their youths are taught that if we honor Israel we earn blessings for America from God. We owe it to every Judeo-Christian to tell them about the cost of our serial wars against Islamic non-enemies. What has the Judeo-Christian movement given back to America? We need to appeal to the sense of morality of Judeo-Christians.
We conclude there could have been no Shock and Awe or war of occupation in Iraq were it not for the Christian Zionists' zealous campaign to destroy Muslim nations. The now publicly acknowledged War on Islam is in fact already 17 years old. Project Strait Gate was started to challenge it in its very lair. Jesus and his disciples took their arguments to the temple and the synagogues. We are doing the same.
War on Islam
25 August, 2007
The State of Israel is acting out the part of the Warmaker's Pit Bull, escalating toward a full-fledged world war on Islam. This is happening with the support of the "Christian Right," a unified minority among the American people, which actually welcomes a war on Islam regardless of the consequences. The Warmaker's policy architects of our present administration admitted long ago they planned continuous war to be justified by the "economic benefits" of war. War on Islam is the Warmaker's economic war to replace the Cold War, and Arab oil is not a coincidence.
But the underlying reason for the war is neither for oil nor for hatred of Islam. It is a war to control our own economy and the life habits of our people; war is and always has been an end in itself for those we call the Warmakers. We suggest a simple, anyone-can-do-it action plan called Project Strait Gate. The whole world knows it is gagging on printing press dollars. Who prints it, and what if the inflation plan fails?
The so-called Neo-cons want war and they control the Administration, so why don't they simply persuade George W. Bush to bomb the next Islamic country, says Iran? Simply stated, no matter how willing Mr. Bush is, he cannot manufacture even one more war. The Warmakers need a proxy for Mr. Bush to start the next war, and provide an excuse for the USA to be drawn into it. That proxy is Israel.
As the War on Islam accelerates the price of necessities will become unaffordable to a greater number. The Neo-Con solution to the obesity of war is more inflation and more war. The evangelical mega-churches and the Zionist-controlled public media protect Israel. The Zionist-friendly media cannot prop up Israel without the Christian Right's media support.
Israel is the Warmakers' proxy. With the support of the press, American Jews, and the vocal Christian-Zionists, the USA will eventually come to Israel's rescue and occupy Israel's neighbors, or so goes the plan.
General Eisenhower called it "the Military Industrial Complex." Perhaps only you doubt the Warmakers exist? The American press has, and will continue to greet Israel's mass assassinations by either ignoring it entirely or by implying that the Hezbollah and Hamas provoke Israel. President Bush, as would be expected from his list of friends and supporters, says Israel has the right to defend itself, and he blames everyone but Israel for the escalation.
He even blames Syria, his cue to Israel to bomb Damascus. "The War on Islam" is not new, it includes Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Somalia, and Bosnia. We Hold These Truths identified this war in an article on March 21, 1994. US foreign policy has been war on "terrorism" ever since the anti-war movement of the 1960s forced a rethinking. We now make war on tiny countries the size of our smallest states.
The Warmakers know full well that Israel's arrogant brutality will beget more violence, and the hatred will correctly focus on the USA.
But the underlying reason for the war is neither for oil nor for hatred of Islam. It is a war to control our own economy and the life habits of our people; war is and always has been an end in itself for those we call the Warmakers. We suggest a simple, anyone-can-do-it action plan called Project Strait Gate. The whole world knows it is gagging on printing press dollars. Who prints it, and what if the inflation plan fails?
The so-called Neo-cons want war and they control the Administration, so why don't they simply persuade George W. Bush to bomb the next Islamic country, says Iran? Simply stated, no matter how willing Mr. Bush is, he cannot manufacture even one more war. The Warmakers need a proxy for Mr. Bush to start the next war, and provide an excuse for the USA to be drawn into it. That proxy is Israel.
As the War on Islam accelerates the price of necessities will become unaffordable to a greater number. The Neo-Con solution to the obesity of war is more inflation and more war. The evangelical mega-churches and the Zionist-controlled public media protect Israel. The Zionist-friendly media cannot prop up Israel without the Christian Right's media support.
Israel is the Warmakers' proxy. With the support of the press, American Jews, and the vocal Christian-Zionists, the USA will eventually come to Israel's rescue and occupy Israel's neighbors, or so goes the plan.
General Eisenhower called it "the Military Industrial Complex." Perhaps only you doubt the Warmakers exist? The American press has, and will continue to greet Israel's mass assassinations by either ignoring it entirely or by implying that the Hezbollah and Hamas provoke Israel. President Bush, as would be expected from his list of friends and supporters, says Israel has the right to defend itself, and he blames everyone but Israel for the escalation.
He even blames Syria, his cue to Israel to bomb Damascus. "The War on Islam" is not new, it includes Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Somalia, and Bosnia. We Hold These Truths identified this war in an article on March 21, 1994. US foreign policy has been war on "terrorism" ever since the anti-war movement of the 1960s forced a rethinking. We now make war on tiny countries the size of our smallest states.
The Warmakers know full well that Israel's arrogant brutality will beget more violence, and the hatred will correctly focus on the USA.
Pat the Hun?
22 August, 2007
Recently, pundits and politicians apparently agreed that the time was ripe for a fresh round of Pat Buchanan bashing, following reports that Buchanan was likely to bolt the Republican Party. In one gloriously orchestrated week, the Washington Post, the New York Times and even the normally conservative Wall Street Journal and Weekly Standard unleashed vicious and usually poorly argued attacks on Buchanan. Later, even judicial egghead Robert Bork weighed in with a strange digression into Buchanan's supposed "anti-Semitism" tacked onto the end of an unrelated Wall Street Journal essay he wrote.
One of the most preposterous claims made by these attack dogs is that Buchanan is self-evidently wrong to question whether American involvement in World War I was good for America or for Europe. For the record, Buchanan is absolutely right. The key to understanding America and Europe in the 20th century is World War I, and on this topic Buchanan reveals himself to be a much wiser steward of America's interests than his fellow Republicans. Indeed none of Buchanan's main points regarding World War I are especially groundbreaking to anyone familiar with 20th century history. The "Great War" was truly an early interventionists' war, involving no interests worth 116,000 American dead. The war was not a struggle between good and evil. Nor was it simply a clash between peaceful democracies and aggressive tyrants. It was in fact a purely European power struggle in the late colonial era, in which the USA had no more reason for military involvement than we do today over the affairs of Yugoslavia, Iraq, or the Republic of Sudan.
Nowadays, columnists can peck away on their keyboards and express with great certainty that America must be willing to fight wherever there is injustice, virtually regardless of American interests. But this is really a post-1917 vision of America's role in the world. After all, nobody ever questions why an earlier America didn't intervene in the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Franco-Prussian War, or the Russo-Japanese War. So why World War I?
All America got for joining the European war in 1917 (besides a lot of dead men) was our share of a worldwide influenza epidemic and a field test for the invasive central planning model of government. Even Britain's own Winston Churchill shared Mr. Buchanan's opinion that American involvement in 1917 led to the war's worst possible outcome--ending the chance for negotiated settlement by making plausible the demand for Germany's unconditional surrender. By 1920, the American public--4.6 million of who had just returned victorious from Europe--overwhelmingly sensed this, which is why we refused to join globalist Woodrow Wilson's new League of Nations.
Conventional historians also agree that the severe terms imposed upon Germany at Versailles in 1919 fostered the conditions that spawned Hitler and World War II. Germany was physically split in two and lost a great deal of territory, plus all of her colonial possessions. It was demilitarized and treated like a pariah state. All this, when the Germans had seemed so close to winning just months before the Armistice, and Germany itself had not been invaded.
Germany's sudden collapse under the weight of American intervention even provided fodder for anti-Jewish sentiment: Europe's self proclaimed Jews who called themselves "Zionists" were accused of "stabbing Germany in the back" by soliciting a pledge from the British for a "Jewish homeland" in Palestine (the Balfour Declaration). These zealots were also associated with communist uprisings in Germany at war's end. Right or wrong, such are the genies released in the chaos of total war.
The controlled media and controlled politicians would rather nobody discuss and debate history, especially nobody as smart and honest as Pat Buchanan. What are they afraid of, that we'll learn something?
One of the most preposterous claims made by these attack dogs is that Buchanan is self-evidently wrong to question whether American involvement in World War I was good for America or for Europe. For the record, Buchanan is absolutely right. The key to understanding America and Europe in the 20th century is World War I, and on this topic Buchanan reveals himself to be a much wiser steward of America's interests than his fellow Republicans. Indeed none of Buchanan's main points regarding World War I are especially groundbreaking to anyone familiar with 20th century history. The "Great War" was truly an early interventionists' war, involving no interests worth 116,000 American dead. The war was not a struggle between good and evil. Nor was it simply a clash between peaceful democracies and aggressive tyrants. It was in fact a purely European power struggle in the late colonial era, in which the USA had no more reason for military involvement than we do today over the affairs of Yugoslavia, Iraq, or the Republic of Sudan.
Nowadays, columnists can peck away on their keyboards and express with great certainty that America must be willing to fight wherever there is injustice, virtually regardless of American interests. But this is really a post-1917 vision of America's role in the world. After all, nobody ever questions why an earlier America didn't intervene in the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the Franco-Prussian War, or the Russo-Japanese War. So why World War I?
All America got for joining the European war in 1917 (besides a lot of dead men) was our share of a worldwide influenza epidemic and a field test for the invasive central planning model of government. Even Britain's own Winston Churchill shared Mr. Buchanan's opinion that American involvement in 1917 led to the war's worst possible outcome--ending the chance for negotiated settlement by making plausible the demand for Germany's unconditional surrender. By 1920, the American public--4.6 million of who had just returned victorious from Europe--overwhelmingly sensed this, which is why we refused to join globalist Woodrow Wilson's new League of Nations.
Conventional historians also agree that the severe terms imposed upon Germany at Versailles in 1919 fostered the conditions that spawned Hitler and World War II. Germany was physically split in two and lost a great deal of territory, plus all of her colonial possessions. It was demilitarized and treated like a pariah state. All this, when the Germans had seemed so close to winning just months before the Armistice, and Germany itself had not been invaded.
Germany's sudden collapse under the weight of American intervention even provided fodder for anti-Jewish sentiment: Europe's self proclaimed Jews who called themselves "Zionists" were accused of "stabbing Germany in the back" by soliciting a pledge from the British for a "Jewish homeland" in Palestine (the Balfour Declaration). These zealots were also associated with communist uprisings in Germany at war's end. Right or wrong, such are the genies released in the chaos of total war.
The controlled media and controlled politicians would rather nobody discuss and debate history, especially nobody as smart and honest as Pat Buchanan. What are they afraid of, that we'll learn something?
Who Is To Blame?
20 August, 2007
Israel is justifying its continuing killing of Palestinian civilians and destruction of their property on grounds that Palestinian terrorist bombers are intentionally killing innocent Israelis. What if, in fact, the human bombers attack military targets and not civilians...is this still terrorism? Though the rest of the world sees it the other way around, most Americans seem to be persuaded that the Israelis are the good guys and the Palestinians are the bad guys.
According to recent polls, these beliefs are derived largely from the media, which uses the label terrorist repeated day after day to describe Palestinians, while labeling Israeli actions as purely defensive.
For instance, according to Fox News on May 5, 2002, a mother from Jenin and her three and four year old children were all shot to death, each hit in the head or upper body, and in a separate incident the same day a nine year old boy from Tulkarem was shot twice in the chest and killed...all in one day. But Israel excused these as military targets and provided various excuses.
The media has persuaded many Americans that if Palestinians kill an Israeli civilian, that's terrorism, which must be fiercely punished; but, when Israelis kill Palestinian civilians, often children, that's collateral damage. Israelis shrug and say they were aiming at government buildings; that civilians were acting suspiciously; or children just got in the way. A majority of Americans buy into the label terrorist state to describe Palestinians based on the acts of 55 Palestinian human bombers.
This number and our information regarding these acts, comes to us from military press releases prepared by Ariel Sharon's government, previous governments, and also from this author's personal observation of military presence in Israel.
It can be shown that all or most Israeli death reports carried in the US media purposely omit mentioning of persons who happen to be in the Israeli Defense Forces or paramilitary, and that the 55 terrorist bombing of innocent civilians were undoubtedly aimed at Military personal.
WHTT thinks it is time to examine the one-sided use of the label terrorist, and to ask whether there is any real difference between Israeli smart bombs and Palestinian human bombs that warrants one being called terrorist, but not the other.
American Militarism Injures Foreign Missions
14 August, 2007
For the purpose of this article, we will define "Militarism" as an attitude among followers of the Christian Right and other conservative Americans, which favors an aggressive, military approach to foreign policy problem solving.
Militarism is that which favors "pre-emptive first strikes" and military intervention in foreign nations, based on such justifications as total obedience to the President, looking for weapons of mass destruction, revenge for 9-11, war on terrorism, nation building, clash of civilizations, bringing democracy to the Third World, fulfillment of Bible prophecy, etc. The Christian Right in general has become known for its support for militarism.
This attitude is widespread among fundamentalists, evangelicals, charismatics and other segments of the Christian Right. The impression is sometimes given that, all Bible believing, conservative Christians support militarism, or that they ought to do so as an expression of their Christian faith. The perception of the public, nationwide and worldwide, is that evangelical Christians in America provide the main bulwark of support for our war in Iraq. Of course, there is nothing new about the role of organized religion in supporting war.
In World War I, churches on both sides of the conflict dutifully supported that disastrous war, and some observers feel that this use of religion to promote war is partly to blame for the lack of interest in God and religion on the part of the disillusioned masses of Europeans from that time until now. Should we make support for the war in Iraq a test of fellowship, when at most only 27% of Americans now support the war as it is currently being fought?
Perhaps we should also pay attention to the possibility that the effectiveness of American missionaries to foreign countries may be adversely affected by the perception that American Christians are promoting militarism.
Recently I spoke with an independent Baptist missionary to a Third World country, who criticized the militaristic emphasis of American Christianity. This sense will aid the American missionary to drop his need to control. The control-syndrome has plagued some missionaries of the past. There is currently an innate American need to control the world.
This requires a military establishment capable of controlling the hostile impulses of other societies who must also have military establishments aimed at controlling our covetous impulses.
As the years drag on and the war continues with no end in sight, support for the war dries up, except among evangelical Christians who perceive the war as beneficial for purposes of fulfilling Armageddon scenarios and "setting the stage" for Christ's return. Evangelicals who do not believe in killing, bombing and torture for purposes of "fulfilling prophecy" are regarded as infidels by the Christian Right.
Gordon MacDonald of World Relief has sounded forth a warning on what our support for militarism is doing to the image of American Christians in the Third World:
"We are now part of an evangelical movement that is greatly compromised - identified in the eyes of the public as deep in the hip pockets of the Republican Party and administration. Our movement has been used. Any of us who travel internationally have tasted the global hostility toward our government and the suspicion that our President's policies reflect the real tenets of Evangelical faith."
Some militarists cite the teaching of a prominent conservative radio entertainer, who appears to hold the position that once the Commander in Chief has committed us to war, it is our duty to support that war without question. Voters in our November elections heavily repudiated militarism as expressed in our war in Iraq, voting out of office many conservative legislators who supported our views on abortion, the homosexual agenda, cloning and embryonic research, and who supported conservative Supreme Court justices.
Surely, it is not a sin to ask questions about the militaristic emphasis of modern evangelical Christianity, to determine whether such a policy is in harmony with the Bible or in conflict with what the Bible teaches.
The purpose of such an inquiry is not to spread discord among Christians, but rather to promote unity. We need to do one of two things - we need to develop and promulgate a Bible-based theological justification for militarism, one that all of us can understand and unite on. Alternatively, if we cannot do that, then we need to allow each other soul-liberty to disagree on this controversial issue, and to avoid demanding conformity of belief over a complex political issue on which good Christians disagree.
The Christian Zionist Lie Must Die
04 August, 2007
At first blush, one could hardly characterize the show of power exhibited by John Hagee's Christian Zionists at his brash Washington Israel Summit in D.C. last week as a dike about to break: 4500 Christian Zionists filled the Washington Convention Center. Senator Lieberman likened Hagee to Moses, a "leader of a multitude." John Hagee was the dealmaker of the hour for Israel, their political rock star, and a political money machine.
But a closer look by religion writer Abe Levy reporting in the San Antonio Express-News, Hagee's hometown newspaper, shows that the Christian Zionist dike is holding back a surging sea of truth and truth-telling. There are cracks. Cracks Hagee will not be able to contain since they are coming from the very people Hagee claims to be saving from holocausts and persecutions.
The first cracks in this Judeo-Christian dike are a few vocal, and significant, Jews and Rabbis critical of Hagee's Christians United for Israel (CUFI) movement. It is the secular Israeli Zionists who control "political Israel" that love Hagee, as do the US neocons and US political pragmatists who accept Hagee's offerings without looking at the logic hand that presents it. It is the secular Israeli Zionists who are counting on Hagee and mega-pastors like him to deliver US voter and taxpayer support for their political agenda in Israel, not to deliver the words of Christ to Christ-followers from the pulpit each Sunday.
"We're supporting Israel because Israel is threatened like no other time in all of her history."
Hagee's spokesman Brog speaks for "Christians", but is himself a practicing Jew. CUFI's excuse for its existence now is that Hagee and his lobby group share Israel's "moral lifestyle." Hagee's followers do support Israel for religious "biblical" reasons that they learned from Hagee were inviolable. Hagee's followers have told us so at many encounters during vigils held at four A Night To Honor Israel extravaganzas.
The next crack in the leaking Christian Zionist dike will break it: When God-fearing Judeo-Christians from thousands of churches nationwide realize they've been conned by political Israel's agents, they will leave CUFI, Christian Zionism, and the hundred-year-old movement we call "Scofieldism", to return to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Pastor Art Preisinger, also a member of Wagner's group, wrote in a searing article after observing A Night To Honor Israel at Hagee's Cornerstone Church, "There was not a shred, a trace, a scintilla of Christianity in the proceedings. It could well have been sponsored by the PTA or the Rotary Club . . . to promote this under the aegis of 'Christian' is, frankly, fraudulent."
The Judeo-Christian cracks and leaks will break into a capsizing torrent. According to the old Hagee, every Christian Zionist must believe the political state of Israel is an act of God, the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and that he or she must support Israel as a conduction of their faith, and believe their individual salvation depends on it.
Levy quotes a Hagee follower: "We know we'll get blessed because we're blessing Israel," said Jean Ann McNally, the CUFI co-state director for Tennessee. Israel is about 85% secular and denies any acknowledgment of Christianity's holy New Testament, the only record of Jesus Christ, and Christianity's universal calls for peace. Hagee has only one characteristic to share with Israel: a common commitment to war that has dominated its 59-year history.
David Brog told reporter Levy that Hagee's critics do not know their own faith:
"I think (Hagee's critics) are misunderstanding Christian theology. God has no set time for the Second Coming. And there's nothing you or I can do about it."
For Brog to tell distinguished Professor Wagner, Pastor Preisinger, or this writer that we don't understand what Jesus expects of his followers is more than a little amusing. This writer, however, is sincerely grateful for John Hagee, who will be the apex for the final and total downfall of Judeo-Christianity and its false premises. The incongruity of Judeo-Christianity and its radical warring mouthpiece is an association that will fail, as all false ideas must, eventually.
But a closer look by religion writer Abe Levy reporting in the San Antonio Express-News, Hagee's hometown newspaper, shows that the Christian Zionist dike is holding back a surging sea of truth and truth-telling. There are cracks. Cracks Hagee will not be able to contain since they are coming from the very people Hagee claims to be saving from holocausts and persecutions.
The first cracks in this Judeo-Christian dike are a few vocal, and significant, Jews and Rabbis critical of Hagee's Christians United for Israel (CUFI) movement. It is the secular Israeli Zionists who control "political Israel" that love Hagee, as do the US neocons and US political pragmatists who accept Hagee's offerings without looking at the logic hand that presents it. It is the secular Israeli Zionists who are counting on Hagee and mega-pastors like him to deliver US voter and taxpayer support for their political agenda in Israel, not to deliver the words of Christ to Christ-followers from the pulpit each Sunday.
"We're supporting Israel because Israel is threatened like no other time in all of her history."
Hagee's spokesman Brog speaks for "Christians", but is himself a practicing Jew. CUFI's excuse for its existence now is that Hagee and his lobby group share Israel's "moral lifestyle." Hagee's followers do support Israel for religious "biblical" reasons that they learned from Hagee were inviolable. Hagee's followers have told us so at many encounters during vigils held at four A Night To Honor Israel extravaganzas.
The next crack in the leaking Christian Zionist dike will break it: When God-fearing Judeo-Christians from thousands of churches nationwide realize they've been conned by political Israel's agents, they will leave CUFI, Christian Zionism, and the hundred-year-old movement we call "Scofieldism", to return to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Pastor Art Preisinger, also a member of Wagner's group, wrote in a searing article after observing A Night To Honor Israel at Hagee's Cornerstone Church, "There was not a shred, a trace, a scintilla of Christianity in the proceedings. It could well have been sponsored by the PTA or the Rotary Club . . . to promote this under the aegis of 'Christian' is, frankly, fraudulent."
The Judeo-Christian cracks and leaks will break into a capsizing torrent. According to the old Hagee, every Christian Zionist must believe the political state of Israel is an act of God, the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and that he or she must support Israel as a conduction of their faith, and believe their individual salvation depends on it.
Levy quotes a Hagee follower: "We know we'll get blessed because we're blessing Israel," said Jean Ann McNally, the CUFI co-state director for Tennessee. Israel is about 85% secular and denies any acknowledgment of Christianity's holy New Testament, the only record of Jesus Christ, and Christianity's universal calls for peace. Hagee has only one characteristic to share with Israel: a common commitment to war that has dominated its 59-year history.
David Brog told reporter Levy that Hagee's critics do not know their own faith:
"I think (Hagee's critics) are misunderstanding Christian theology. God has no set time for the Second Coming. And there's nothing you or I can do about it."
For Brog to tell distinguished Professor Wagner, Pastor Preisinger, or this writer that we don't understand what Jesus expects of his followers is more than a little amusing. This writer, however, is sincerely grateful for John Hagee, who will be the apex for the final and total downfall of Judeo-Christianity and its false premises. The incongruity of Judeo-Christianity and its radical warring mouthpiece is an association that will fail, as all false ideas must, eventually.
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