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.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
A brigade called the Grim Reapers
"Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?""
Author: Jonah 3 Verses #: 9
The story of Jonah is a story of a prophet who did not want to do what God wanted him to so God caused a big fish to swallow him. As the story goes, Jonah cried out to God for 3 days and 3 nights from sheol (the place of the dead) and God brought him back from death and caused the fish to vomit him on dry land. He then goes to Nineveh and tells the people to repent of their violence and evil or they will be destroyed. The entire population repents and God does not destroy them. Jonah is disappointed that God did not destroy them and goes into deep depression and asks God to kill him.
The book of Jonah is a very exciting and interesting tale of how God worked through a prophet named Jonah and relented of destroying a city of 120,000 people when they began to worship him, the Hebrew God . Jonah believed that God would bring destruction on the city of Ninevah if they did not repent and worship Yahweh.
Many modern americans believe hurricanes, and 9/11 are acts of God meant to punish America for it's evil, but our violence to other countries like Iraq are not interpreted as a violence God abhores. Men like John Hagee and Pat Robertson are blaming any american tragedy on God's anger and judgement. All this implies God punishes some people including children out of anger because america is not "christian enough". This strikes me as very arrogant and superstitious. I suppose the same mindset dimishes bombing raids in Iraq and Afghanistan because those people are evil and deserve the judgement of God. Somewhere in the psyche of America the God of Jonah justifies our "holy" wars against a people who believe and look differently than we do. 18 and 19 year old boys become our "grim reapers" and fight "evil" (GWBush favorite phrase) in brigades in the streets of Bagdad by that name. What a culture believes about God does matter and the muslim world will suffer because we have the bombs and afterall God is on our side!
Author: Jonah 3 Verses #: 9
The story of Jonah is a story of a prophet who did not want to do what God wanted him to so God caused a big fish to swallow him. As the story goes, Jonah cried out to God for 3 days and 3 nights from sheol (the place of the dead) and God brought him back from death and caused the fish to vomit him on dry land. He then goes to Nineveh and tells the people to repent of their violence and evil or they will be destroyed. The entire population repents and God does not destroy them. Jonah is disappointed that God did not destroy them and goes into deep depression and asks God to kill him.
The book of Jonah is a very exciting and interesting tale of how God worked through a prophet named Jonah and relented of destroying a city of 120,000 people when they began to worship him, the Hebrew God . Jonah believed that God would bring destruction on the city of Ninevah if they did not repent and worship Yahweh.
Many modern americans believe hurricanes, and 9/11 are acts of God meant to punish America for it's evil, but our violence to other countries like Iraq are not interpreted as a violence God abhores. Men like John Hagee and Pat Robertson are blaming any american tragedy on God's anger and judgement. All this implies God punishes some people including children out of anger because america is not "christian enough". This strikes me as very arrogant and superstitious. I suppose the same mindset dimishes bombing raids in Iraq and Afghanistan because those people are evil and deserve the judgement of God. Somewhere in the psyche of America the God of Jonah justifies our "holy" wars against a people who believe and look differently than we do. 18 and 19 year old boys become our "grim reapers" and fight "evil" (GWBush favorite phrase) in brigades in the streets of Bagdad by that name. What a culture believes about God does matter and the muslim world will suffer because we have the bombs and afterall God is on our side!
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