Jesus and the Pentagon

"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet."


Author: Matthew 24 Verses #: 6

Jesus tells his listeners to not be concerned about wars or even rumors of wars.  He boldly claims that war is necessary for the end of time to come.  Millions of christian americans wake up everyday and hope that they will be raptured, the world will be destroyed by war and Jesus will come back and set up a theocratic world-wide government that will last for 1,000 years while satan is subdued.  At the end of the 1,000 year millenium, the angels will fight it out, at which time god and his armies of angels will win and eternity will be established.  For a believing nation, that clings to the "supposed" words of a palestinian prophet from 2,000 years ago, possession of an earth destroying military empire is strangely comforting.  We have it within out power to fulfill this prophecy  and no one seems troubled.  The peace movement is "dead" or at least nearly silenced as unpatriotic and unbiblical.  God has always approved the killing of tribes outside of the hebrews and christians.  "Love your enemies" does not apply to Iraqi's, Afghani's or Iranians.  It is nearly impossible to convince an american christian to oppose the wars of the past decade and the next decade.  At the very least they consider it a hopeless endeavor to oppose war, and in a larger view, it is not in their best "eternal" interests to do so.
Consequently, the earth is now poised with muslims who are taught that Islam must dominate the planet and the christians who believe that war in the middle east is necessary to usher the "end times".  The children on both sides will suffer a great deal in the next century because of these ancient prophets and their books.  Maybe humans should at least be humane and not create offspring who are destined by the prophets to kill and be killed on behalf of their commands.  Just because a prophet declared divine revelation doesn't mean that he heard from god or was god.   Panda's have stopped breeding in the face of ecosystem stress, should humans do any less when we are poised to destroy the planet?

Hitler proclaims to be a christian

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. ...Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. ...
- Adolf Hitler, speech on April 12, 1922
 
Hitler had command of christian theology and never denounced his faith.  He justified his hatred of the jews with his theology and justified the holocaust by proclaiming the jews were  "liberals" and "evil".  We participate in the same rationalization today as a nation who invaded "evildoers" as Bush was remembered as saying.  We killed 1 to 2 million Iraqui's and destroyed their electrical grids and water systems because they were "evildoers".   Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi nation were accused of threatening to use weapons of mass destruction, which we now know never existed.  Hitler justified the holocaust as eliminating the "evil" jews and we justify war by eliminating muslims in a genocide and war of tyranny and terror upon the populations in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Fallujah will never be free of depleted uranium.  It is a place of birth defects and cancer and illness from our weapons foisted upon them.  The current wars are not condemned by the church or the american population, even though they are creating a deficit that we will never recover from.  Bush could never have taken the nation to war if the church and "evangelicals" were to have vehemently opposed him.  Hitler could never have carried out the holocaust if the german church and the catholic church would have stood up for the jews.  This is just a fact.

Violent Biblical Genocide of the Ammonites

"He brought forth the people who were therein, and cut [them] with saws, and with iron picks, and with axes. David did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem."


Author: 1 Chronicles 20 Verses #: 3

This is a description of mass murder and genocide of the Ammonites.  This story about David is repeated twice in the Old Testament.  When one ponders on why America is addicted to war and spends 51% of funds from the treasury on military empire you need look no further than the "good book" that we swear on in all courts of law.  David is described as a "man after God's own heart".  David's reign as King was one of the most violent in the whole of the Old Testament.  Thou shalt not kill did not apply to foreigners and groups of people living in proximity to David's kingdom.  Modern day jews and christians alike hold the biblical view of genocide and military dominance of societies who believe different than they do.  America killed 3 to 4 million Vietnamese without regard to women and children and destroyed whole villages during the Vietnam war without resistance by "the church".  One year after Martin Luther King spoke out against the Vietnam War he was killed.  The church was silent during Vietnam and has been silent during the Iraq war.  Pro-life evangelicals do not grieve for the loss of life within Iraq by our bombs and tanks and guns.  They concern themselves with forcing women to carry, birth and raise children that they do not want and remain in agreement and in support of a violent military agenda.  No doubt, the violence and constant warfare in the Old Testament numb the conscience of believers of Yahweh.