Post by Watchman on Dec 17, 2005 16:35:24 GMT -5
People the world over are continuing to view President Bush's wars and his torture scandal as symptomatic of a perverted brand of Christianity. The danger continues to grow that, if President Bush is discredited enough, the brush could become wide enough to paint all genuine Christians with the same hue as President Bush's brand of Christian, thus setting up the expected Christian persecution.
NEWS BRIEF: "The Iron Fist of Jesus", by Jason Miller, Scoop, New Zealand, 15 December 2005
"How much damage will men like George Bush, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Sam Brownback, Ralph Reed, and Rick Santorum inflict before reason prevails and they are unmasked as the twisted, malevolent charlatans that they are? Fundamentalist Christians, adherents to a nauseating perversion of Christianity (conjured from their twisted imaginations and their distorted interpretations of the Bible) wield a significant amount of power in the United States, socially and politically ... Despite recent blows, Republicans still control the Executive and Legislative branches of government, and are well on their way to dominating the Judicial branch ... "
Before you discard this editorial totally because of its anti-christian tone, you should be aware that the views expressed here by Jason Miller, are becoming more and more pronounced throughout the world. Greater numbers of people worldwide are coming to view Christianity in this light because of the horrific wars and terrors unleashed by "christian" President George W. Bush. On the one hand, foreigners can see bombs falling, civilians dying, and entire populations being slowly murdered by Depleted Uranium Munitions; on the other hand, people hear President Bush espouse his Christian beliefs, and they can see and hear terribly misguided Evangelical leaders backing the President and telling their constituents that he is a genuine Christian, and calling his wars "Just".
Let us now return to this editorial.
"One of the rationalizations for the illegal occupation of Iraq (and the murders of over one hundred thousand innocent Iraqi civilians) is that the United States is engaged in a struggle of "good versus evil". In spite of repeated heinous acts committed for years by the United States in the Middle East, including state terrorism resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, installation and/or support of ruthless dictators (i.e. Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran) ... these pseudo-Christians have managed to convince many Americans that the US is 'good' and the 'terrorists' (i.e. the Resistance to US occupation in Iraq) are 'evil' ..."
Mr. Miller then identifies his religious background as Methodist.
"Growing up Methodist, my indoctrination into the Christian faith was rather moderate. I do not recall our ministers preaching fire, brimstone, or eternal damnation. Somehow I missed the interpretation of Revelations in which the Christo-Fascists have determined that Christ will return to Earth to 'judge and make war'." (Ibid.)
While it is prophetically true that Jesus will return to earth in great fury and anger to judge the peoples of the world, it is not true that Christian forces operating under the flag of the Christian Church must first seize control of the world for Jesus. That is the teaching of Dominion Theologians, like Pat Robertson and George Bush. Increasingly, peoples of the world are beginning to view President Bush's wars and his calls for "Regime Change" as the logical outworking of Bush's "christian" viewpoint. If allowed to continue, will one day bite genuine Christians in the neck, and probably fatally so.
I believe that genuine Christians are being set up for persecution by these horrific events, and that if the "patron saint" of the Dominion Theologian position -- President Bush -- is ever brought down into disrepute, the prosecution of Christians will not be far behind.
This following article is in much the same vein as this Scoop editorial, which we considered, above. However, "Christo-Fascists" gives way to the term, "Christian Zionists". Both terms refer to President Bush and his Evangelical allies.
NEWS BRIEF: "Christian Zionism - Terror In Jesus' Name", by By Yoginder Sikand, CounterCurrents.org, December 14, 2005
"Christian Zionism is a call for global war. The belief that Christianity is the sole truth, that all other faiths are 'Satanic' or 'false', that the Jews must all gather in Palestine to fulfil so-called Biblical prophecies, and that a grand global war will soon erupt leading to the massacre of hundreds of millions and heralding the 'second coming' of Jesus, who will establish his Christian kingdom extending till the four corners of the world, clearly indicate the hate-driven, global expansionist project of Christian Zionism."
Carefully read this entire article, for it does express the growing antipathy of the peoples of the world toward anything hinting of Fundamentalist Christian. You and I are the ultimate targets for this persecution.
Cutting Edge
NEWS BRIEF: "The Iron Fist of Jesus", by Jason Miller, Scoop, New Zealand, 15 December 2005
"How much damage will men like George Bush, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Sam Brownback, Ralph Reed, and Rick Santorum inflict before reason prevails and they are unmasked as the twisted, malevolent charlatans that they are? Fundamentalist Christians, adherents to a nauseating perversion of Christianity (conjured from their twisted imaginations and their distorted interpretations of the Bible) wield a significant amount of power in the United States, socially and politically ... Despite recent blows, Republicans still control the Executive and Legislative branches of government, and are well on their way to dominating the Judicial branch ... "
Before you discard this editorial totally because of its anti-christian tone, you should be aware that the views expressed here by Jason Miller, are becoming more and more pronounced throughout the world. Greater numbers of people worldwide are coming to view Christianity in this light because of the horrific wars and terrors unleashed by "christian" President George W. Bush. On the one hand, foreigners can see bombs falling, civilians dying, and entire populations being slowly murdered by Depleted Uranium Munitions; on the other hand, people hear President Bush espouse his Christian beliefs, and they can see and hear terribly misguided Evangelical leaders backing the President and telling their constituents that he is a genuine Christian, and calling his wars "Just".
Let us now return to this editorial.
"One of the rationalizations for the illegal occupation of Iraq (and the murders of over one hundred thousand innocent Iraqi civilians) is that the United States is engaged in a struggle of "good versus evil". In spite of repeated heinous acts committed for years by the United States in the Middle East, including state terrorism resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, installation and/or support of ruthless dictators (i.e. Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran) ... these pseudo-Christians have managed to convince many Americans that the US is 'good' and the 'terrorists' (i.e. the Resistance to US occupation in Iraq) are 'evil' ..."
Mr. Miller then identifies his religious background as Methodist.
"Growing up Methodist, my indoctrination into the Christian faith was rather moderate. I do not recall our ministers preaching fire, brimstone, or eternal damnation. Somehow I missed the interpretation of Revelations in which the Christo-Fascists have determined that Christ will return to Earth to 'judge and make war'." (Ibid.)
While it is prophetically true that Jesus will return to earth in great fury and anger to judge the peoples of the world, it is not true that Christian forces operating under the flag of the Christian Church must first seize control of the world for Jesus. That is the teaching of Dominion Theologians, like Pat Robertson and George Bush. Increasingly, peoples of the world are beginning to view President Bush's wars and his calls for "Regime Change" as the logical outworking of Bush's "christian" viewpoint. If allowed to continue, will one day bite genuine Christians in the neck, and probably fatally so.
I believe that genuine Christians are being set up for persecution by these horrific events, and that if the "patron saint" of the Dominion Theologian position -- President Bush -- is ever brought down into disrepute, the prosecution of Christians will not be far behind.
This following article is in much the same vein as this Scoop editorial, which we considered, above. However, "Christo-Fascists" gives way to the term, "Christian Zionists". Both terms refer to President Bush and his Evangelical allies.
NEWS BRIEF: "Christian Zionism - Terror In Jesus' Name", by By Yoginder Sikand, CounterCurrents.org, December 14, 2005
"Christian Zionism is a call for global war. The belief that Christianity is the sole truth, that all other faiths are 'Satanic' or 'false', that the Jews must all gather in Palestine to fulfil so-called Biblical prophecies, and that a grand global war will soon erupt leading to the massacre of hundreds of millions and heralding the 'second coming' of Jesus, who will establish his Christian kingdom extending till the four corners of the world, clearly indicate the hate-driven, global expansionist project of Christian Zionism."
Carefully read this entire article, for it does express the growing antipathy of the peoples of the world toward anything hinting of Fundamentalist Christian. You and I are the ultimate targets for this persecution.
Cutting Edge