For all the chatter about peace coming out of Washington, D.C., our present administration is bunkering up to become an even more hardline country of warmongers and meddlers, forcing upon peoples of other nations and other cultures what we publish that the USA stands for. The hypocrisy is evident: we’re sending our military to fight for the freedoms of other people who do not want our brand of “democracy.” Our leaders are doing this while we, the American people, half of which are deluded and half of which are pouting with frustration, are losing freedoms in a reich we never dreamed of finding on our native soil.
How can the world respect America when it is acting like a bunch of drones following a madman, a repeat of 1930’s Germany?
The dispensationalists in the “Christian right” are sitting around waiting for some fuzzy rapture and the hypocrites who disregard all Ten Commandments while claiming to be Christians are leading them into the grand delusion. And the world into a fake Armageddon. It’s doubtful few have even done enough research to know what “Armageddon” (the Bible one) is, they take Hollywood’s version. And they’re going to make it real at the expense of American blood, foreign blood, and the destruction of anything in the way of American hegemony.
So they think.
Isn’t it clear that America is always outdone by guerilla warriors who are more intent on protecting their homelands than we are in protecting ours? How many “wars of liberation” does it take to prove this? Various foreign correspondents have admitted that after all the fighting since March, 2003, the “coalition” in Iraq is losing. Merely taking localized areas is not winning, it is trying to hold wavering lines on a storm-drenched beach. This is no affront to our military — I would pull them out today and let Iraq rebuild itself instead of continuing to blast it off the face of the earth. When will this nation learn to oust incompetent leaders?
The problem with most of our fine citizens is that they can’t see what’s in front of their faces. To them, the US never loses in spite of all our losses since Korea. To them, loyalty to a president who may be a madman, who wants the rest of us to have mental tests, is patriotic. No! Patriotism is loyalty to the Constitution, the document all officials swear to uphold when they take office. It’s the Constitution that frames the operation of this nation, the fundamentals of all its laws and the limits on governmental authority.
So the leaders ignore it.
Changes in the present administration, in preparation for the president’s second term, are consolidating the hardliners against any and all moderates, backing diplomacy with daisy cutters and missiles. And guess what? Overseas, the nations of the world have turned against the United States in such numbers that they will join with just about anyone to help overthrow us before the American people wake up and kick the bastards out of office themselves. We’re all going to suffer for this administration’s lunacy. If the terrorists don’t get us our own leaders will silence those who dare to use their constitutional rights, and the drones that are left will follow compliantly behind the rapture-daft churchgoers who can’t wait for some Armageddon so they can leave faster than lightning can strike the tallest object around.
The Christianity I know isn’t crazy, isn’t dispensationalist, and isn’t warmongering, it is a reconciliation with God that teaches peace and focuses on the world to come, as instructed by the Bible. (See Colossians 3:1-4 for a good example.) Christians have responsibilities: God, family, country. Only the first is constant and unwavering, immutable and eternal. Bringing about wars for any reason is not a part of the Christian faith, although self-defense, and self-defense only, may be permitted if not commanded.
The Church in Europe and the Americas is corrupted, the world has broken down the doors, the politicians take advantage of the sheeple who haven’t bothered to really study to understand their faith, and the diehards in politics take full advantage to gain a voting bloc. It’s worse than a silly system, it is total denigration of the faith once delivered and a dangerous combination of imperial political ambitions mixed with a large evangelical base that is more focused on this world’s affairs than the business of the Church — evangelism, primarily by example.
This is not a defense of radical Islam, but there is so much about Nine Eleven that offers reason to doubt that the culprits to blame may not have been the only ones to blame. The same is true of Ruby Ridge, Waco and Oklahoma City’s bombing. Too much is left unexplained, a scapegoat always dies, the people always suffer, and the heroes are never the leaders but the people themselves who choose to help one another as if they were on the battlefield in a shooting war. They may as well be.
Overhauls in the president’s cabinet and power structure will now, in the second term, be those who advocate and are loyal to his brand of “patriotism” — spreading American influence even farther into the cultures and customs, politics and wars of strategic areas of the world. It conveniently overlooked the plight of the Afrikaners, the Dutch who have been slaughtered in Africa, while bombing camels in Afghanistan and getting involved in defending Muslims as people of peace. It is impossible to tell what side America represents at any given time. One thing is growing more obvious, it isn’t freedom for the people other than the elite of the world’s global governance cabal.
Maybe the US will indeed be “the Armageddon nation,” not in the Bible sense, but in its own version of a motion picture about Armageddon based on special effects rather than biblical knowledge.
Unless there is a drastic change in US policy, back to diplomacy and respect for its own citizenry and concern for its brave military, it will most surely have its well-deserved end in an Armageddon war brought on by its enemies, which happen to be comprised of most of the inhabited earth.
The survivors will then be more than happy to merge with Canada and Mexico for the aid they can render us. Now isn’t that enough to drain your hot tub?
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