Christian Zionism

On Easter: Have Joy and Go to Work

26 March, 2008

As a child, "Good Friday" seemed a paradox. What can be good about the day one is tortured and murdered by his enemies? But the words attributed to Jesus' mouth say otherwise. He said His kingdom was spiritual one therefore it cannot be here on earth, as so many "Christians" now wrongly believe; if it were, we would have nothing to do for Him!

Jesus needed to shed his earthy body. It was only used for a little while to teach us. His kingdom began on earth when his body died. It is logical that He is a silent spirit among us, to lead those who will listen to him through words he left.

If to the contrary, Jesus was to have an earthly kingdom, as Christian Zionists say, he could have grabbed a human weapon and mowed down the Pharisees who condemned him along with enough of the Roman Legions to cause Pilate to depose Herod and install Jesus as "King of the Judeans." After all, this is what His followers expected in spite of all his teaching to the contrary.

What makes Jesus so believable to me is that He plainly told them the agenda but no one believed him until after he was crucified. Jesus said to Pilate "my kingdom is not of this world" and he expects us to believe it and act like we believe Him.

Jesus' most remembered words are about making peace. But man's nature is to enable those who make war. Jesus did not die for Christian-Zionism, which preaches a wrong doctrine of a warring Jesus that they expect to return on a white horse with a monster sword in his hands to dispatch most of the human race. We humbly believe God must see Christian-Zionism as the vilest apostasy in the 2000-year history of Christianity.

Our mission is to rescue followers of Christ from the apostasy called Christian-Zionism, and its sly forerunner that goes by the name of Judeo-Christianity, also an oxymoron.

We try as best we can to reach out to the "lost sheep" inside our churches that do not know they are lost. They will remain lost if they listen only to their apostate religious leaders.

Our purpose is to point the ancient way to the "Strait Gate." Christian-Zionism, by whatever name, is not that path and is purely a political movement.

We ask Christ followers to be Peacemakers in His name, and reject the evil of warring on behalf of Israel, or any other state. We invite you to join us in taking joy in Jesus' sacrifice. It seem all too obvious that Jesus left a role for us to play here on earth. We could not accomplish it if He was here carrying out justice with a club.

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Follow Christ, Reject "Christianity"

24 March, 2008

The evangelical churches stated reason for attacking Islam is Muslim “militancy.” The Christian Right’s leaders managed to read far enough into a Qur’an to find passages about conflict with other tribes in the 7th Century when the book was scribed. Islamic militancy is the standard line of defense by dispensationalist pastors. They learn from the successful patterns of their Celebrity Christian mentors.

The more aggressive Celebrity Christians now use the term "Islamic fascists" a new favorite fad term at the “Christians United for Israel" first "Washington-Israel Summit" as Dan Jennejohn reported:

“Amidst plenty of the celebratory song and dance usually associated with evangelical meetings and a three-course meal was served to over 2,000 attendees, a series of prominent religious and political speakers got up to promise unquestioning support for the state of Israel.”

No evangelical I have ever met admits that he is at open war against Islam, it is always Islam who is the aggressor, and he is acting out of enlightened self-defense.

Pat Robertson told his “700 Club” audience that he traveled to northern Israel in a show of support for the Jewish state. In every modern case the battle is being fought on Muslim turf. Muslims were invaded first, not the other way around. Gaza, the West Bank, Iraq, Lebanon, Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo are a few good examples of Muslim holy wars where they were invaded, and every battle has been fought entirely on Muslim territory.

The World Trade Center is offered as an exception to the rule, but it is falling increasingly under question as history plays out the facts that have been denied to us. Today’s Christian Right leaders expect the rest of us taxpayers to hire mercenary armies of Israelis and our own all paid military to kill Muslims for them.

“Christian” leaders like Pat Robertson amass huge fortunes and from politically favored NGO’s (non-government organizations) to dip into the taxpayers’ contributions when reconstruction time comes to Iraq and Palestine and Afghanistan. We pay for Pat’s share of our mercenary armies, while he and John Hagee enjoy tax-exempt status at almost every level. At least the Muslims fight and die in there own wars on their own lands. For instance, Muslim Iraq, which is very poor indeed, has pledged 60 million dollars of its diminished oil revenue to support Hezbollah in Lebanon. . If Iraq gives the money it is Muslims sacrificing for Muslims, with a minority of non-Muslims who can scarcely object.

Conversely, the American Congress, under heavy lobbying pressure from the “Christian Right” and the Jewish AIPAC pledged $2400 million (2.4 billion dollars) in military aid annually to Israel. According to the polls about 85% of Americans still think they are in some way “Christians” but the leaders of the churches who do the lobbying for war are virtually 100% exempt from payment of property and income taxes, state and federal, so Celebrity Christians do not participate in the cost of the wars they enable. We American non tax-exempt taxpayers pay for the wars of the Christian Right, fought on Muslim soil.

Conversion of the hungry and orphans, by offering food with prayers attached, is no different than conversion by the sword, which “Christians” accuse Islam of doing.

What makes some “Christians” so bloodthirsty toward Muslims?

“Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy,” therefore, “Christians” feel they must support the prime enemy of Islam, Israel. "Christianity" has become associated with Christian-Zionism, an American invention. Jesus would challenge it, as he challenged the Pharisees of his day. Christ followers do not hate or kill, “Christians” do.

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Why Should America Honor Israel

11 March, 2008

Pastor Dan was waiting with a sign adorned with two Israeli flags reading “AMERICA STANDS WITH ISRAEL” when I arrived. Thus my question, “For what noble act would you honor Israel?”

I asked Pastor Dan least a dozen times to give me one good reason why any follower of Christ would honor Israel while we stood holding opposing sign in front of his church. Christian Zionism is beginning to collapse, and disintegrate it must because the words of Jesus are anathema to the acts of political Israel. Pastor Dan did not tell me what scriptural course he sailed to arrive at the link between political Israel and Jesus Christ, but I am going to make a very good guess, and I will invite him to comment.

Pastor Dan will assert that his “salvation” depends exclusively upon his acceptance of Jesus Christ, and it is here his course becomes very confused. For Dan also believes he has an absolute responsibility to love political Israel but with slightly less reverently than Jesus. John Hagee contends America’s “blessings” come from our loving care for Israel. Word of Life Christian Center defended political Israel by holding up some thirty signs and an estimated 90 Israeli flags in front of its church when Project Strait Gate appeared. Secular thinkers might view Pastor Dan’s logic to be legally and historically topsy-turvy.

For by no stretch of logic can one credit a 60 years old political state that borrowed the name “Israel,” with the advent of Jesus 1900 years earlier. Some of our religious readers will be tempted to dismiss Pastor Dan as a harmless. But that is sadly wrong on both counts. Some 60 million Americans think much like him, and he is part of a group that is much better organized than their critics are.

This is reminiscent of the popular and catchy Nashville ditty of slight-of-hand genealogy of the 1950’s, “I Am My Own Grandpa.” Some of our a-religious readers will be tempted to dismiss Pastor Dan as a harmless. But that is sadly wrong on both counts. Some 60 million Americans think much like him, and he is part of a group that is much better organized than their critics are.

The long list of those who reject “Israel first” theology probably includes most of the professors at Bethel Seminary where Pastor Dan graduated in nearby St. Paul, which is associated with the old Baptist General Conference.

Christian Zionism is a tool used by others, including the State of Israel, to engulf America in serial wars. It is up to those who understand it to expose it. And at the same time we need to remind the Mainline churches that they have timidly and politely allowed Jesus’ name to be rubbed in the filth of political Israel.

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