[wvns] The Unacceptable Cost of Christian-Zionism
The legacy of pain it is leaving for your grandchildren
The Unacceptable Cost of Christian-Zionism
Charles E. Carlson
Far and near, high and clear,
Hark to the call of War.
Over the gorse and the golden dells,
Ringing and swinging the clamorous bells,
Praying and saying of wild farewells:
War! War! War! (Robert W. Service)
No religious persuasion has ever been more clearly responsible for so
much bloodshed and destruction as has 'Christian Zionism.' This
100-year old offshoot of fundamental Christianity has almost
single-handedly legitimized wars in Arab states since January 1991.
Its power at the polls is only now being understood.
We Hold These Truths' objective for nine years has been to explain why
members of this loosely knit group we call Judeo-Christianity thinks
and acts as though political Israel was a god. We have documented how
they have been misled, especially at the seminary level, by
deliberately corrupted scripture and commentaries about scripture,
which has then been taught from thousands of pulpits and media
outlets. We have amply covered the changes made in the Bible(s) used
by Christian Zionists in prior referenced works. (1)
We note again that the grassroots individuals within this movement are
almost always motivated by altruistic religious belief (this author
was once one of these), while the driving force behind their leaders
is almost always tainted by money and the power of fame.
This paper explores how Christian Zionism is co-opted by a foreign
lobby, AIPAC, and used to carry out Israeli objectives. AIPAC and its
powers were well documented in 1994, in One Nation under Israel by
Andrew J Hurly, and published by We Hold These Truths. (2)
Southern Baptist pastor Jerry Falwell (died in 2007) may have been the
first leader to recognize the potential for linking dispensational
Christianity with Zionism and harness its combined power into a
political movement with loyalty to the state of Israel as its primary
and passionate mission. In the early 1980s, Falwell called his
fledgling army 'The Moral Majority.' It was later referred to as the
'Christian Right.' Today the millions of people who have made the
present state of Israel the centerpiece of their Christian religion
have been given the name 'Christian Zionists.' (3)
We Hold These Truths prefers to describe both the Christian Zionist
leaders and their misled followers as 'Judeo-Christians,' a broadly
accepted term, to reflect the fact that the religion they are
following is no longer traditional Christianity, but one into which
Judaism was injected, producing a radically altered hybrid.
We Hold These Truths' Pharisee Watch was created as a think-tank to
expose Judeo-Christianity's apostasy. Project Strait Gate was
created in 2003 to help correct Judeo-Christian leaders by confronting
them in their members' presence, usually by holding vigils outside
churches to protest their use of the bible to support war.
Essential facts about Christian Zionism:
First: It must be understood what Judeo-Christianity (also called
'evangelicalism,' dispensationalism, or Christians Zionism) is: by any
name, a 20th Century phenomena, an apostate-cult, meaning it
practices, in part, a deviant path of following Christ, and it relies
upon many varied human sources other than the traditional bible(s) for
its theology. (4)(5)
Second: Judeo-Christianity ascribes holiness to a foreign political
state, Israel , as though it was itself a god. It placed political
Israel on the throne along side of Jesus Christ, and, in so doing; its
teachers ignore, if not annul, much of Jesus' teachings. (1) (2) (3)
Third: Rank and file churchgoers and many lesser known Judeo-Christian
pastors think of themselves as moral, even when they are actively
contributing to immoral acts, such as supporting mass military
assassinations in Gaza and the West Bank. They do not consider these
acts immoral because they believe events are ordained, or even
demanded, by God. Anger against them is misplaced, because they, too,
are victims of their own acts. They probably bring as much suffering
upon themselves and their families as on any other middle class group.
Because opposing any war that Israel favors is considered a-religious,
it is quite likely that there are proportionately as many while,
Judeo-Christian boys and girls serving, and therefore killed in
military combat, than for instance the sons of agnostics or other
religious groups. We have yet to find any date to support or discredit
this argument so it is offered strictly as this author's observation
and opinion.
Finally, Judeo-Christianity is much larger than generally believed and
is active in every state and community in the USA . The new CNN.com is
featuring from an upcoming, six-hour television event, "God's
Warriors," hosted by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane
Amanpour stated in the introductory segment: 'A recent poll found that
59 percent of American evangelicals believe Israel is the fulfillment
of biblical prophecy. She also asserted: 'The Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs estimates 85 million evangelicals believes God tells
them to support Israel - more than six times the world's Jewish
population." This author has confirmed that several Pew Foundation
polls have been supporting this statement for more than four years,
and if act suggest higher percentages than used by CNN. (6)
For these several reasons Judeo-Christianity can easily be used by its
leader, and by the leaders of Israel , to carry out a political agenda
that favors that foreign political state over and ahead of the
interests of America , and ahead of the interest of any humans in the
USA or any other country except Israel . For the most part followers
of the cult do not know they are being used. Without this
understanding many are confused between Judeo-Christian religion and
its political agenda. Pro-Israel activists, in cluding John Hagee,
should rightly be registered, as agents for a foreign government, so
open are their objectives.
Some of our allies against serial wars attribute them to Israel
itself, working through its agents and lobbies for the purpose of
gaining US dollar support and creating chaos in the Middle East for
its own benefit. Much more is finally being exposed about the
powerful Israeli lobby led by The American Israeli Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) AIPAC has an agenda that calls for the USA to
finance and bless its occupation of its neighbors and eventually
control the oil of the Middle East and uses tactics that are contrary
to American interests.
Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have written a powerful
paper, The Israel Lobby, which tells us Israel has too much influence
in US Foreign Policy. Their paper has led to a soon to be released
and much anticipated book that is making giant waves across the world
even before it is printed, as Israel seeks to prevent its promotion.
(7.Rapture ready video)
AIPAC and several sister organizations, including Unity Coalition for
Israel , have enormous finances, lobbying and press power, but until
now it has lacked a broad based voter network in the US . Christian
Zionism gives the Israeli lobby people power making it virtually
unstoppable on any issue. It becomes America 's 'Shock and Awe.'
We Hold These Truths sees hope. Educate the laymen within our own
churches, especially mainline churches, can break Israel 's power-hold
over our politicians, and it can restore others to follow Christ
instead of Israel . More important, we see no other way to do it!
Without the voting support of church going Americans, Israel 's
well-established desire to see Iraq destroyed and its oil divided up
resulted in the first gulf war in 1991 and the present contemplated
devastation of Iran is only a precursor of things to come.
According to the Pew Foundations polls, as many as 40 million
churchgoing voters are exposed to John Hagee and hundreds like him on
Sunday. Many more, maybe 100 million, are influenced by
Judeo-Christian network TV and big name national and international
home Bible studies. Without the influence of Judeo-Christians, there
would be no support for bombing Iran today; without it, 3700 Americans
would not have been killed in Iraq , and the 200 Iraqis who died in
just one day of its civil war. Without the Judeo-Christians, our
Congress would not have allowed George W. Bush to breach the Bill of
Rights with Homeland S ecurity or with his aggressive executive
orders; without the Judeo-Christian power bloc we wonder if there
would have been an Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo .
AIPAC and many American businessmen have profit interests in war and
campaigned for new wars as a matter of business, but it is the
Judeo-Christians who have provided the grassroots clout to keep the
War On Islam churning. *
The Dollar Cost of killing:
The occupation of Iraq has paralyzed the oil production from the 2nd
largest oil resource in the world. Before the occupation it did not
cost $50 to fill the family car. Before the occupation Christian
Zionist children and grandchildren could afford milk at a cost per
gallon less than diesel fuel, and truck drivers could afford both milk
and fuel. Before 'wars' on Iraq , American industry was healthy and
had not yet been shipped to China .
Our economic catastrophe is real, lead by the real estate and mortgage
bubble. Why? Because of the cost of a war is over $500 thousand
million dollars, and most of the money has been printed, so it will
have to be repaid in higher prices later on. This judgment is like a
foul smelling vapor that cannot be put back in the bottle. I use the
word 'catastrophe' where others talk of 'crisis' because crisis can
sometimes be avoided and often leads to practical solutions. Not so
with our 'catastrophe.' We have passed the crisis stage years ago when
we began serial wars for economic purposes, printing the money to pay
for them.
This would be a great time for a Judeo-Christian financial 'rapture;'
instead we have a bailout by our benevolent Central Bank to save us.
It tells us openly they have, in only one week, printed $63 billion to
pay for bad loans made by mortgage lenders. Decades ago FED bail out
gifts to big friends were kept as tight secrets to keep the public's
collective mind off 'inflation,' but no more. Now we are told about
it openly to convince us the Bankers who finance war are in control,
and we can trust our retirement plan to Washington and Wall Street.
There is no end to the amount of price inflation we can expect, food
prices will surely be the next to skyrocket on our shopping list for
reasons to be explained in our next issue.
Judeo-Christians as a group are most responsible because it is they
that supported the wars for which all these dollars were wasted on
killing people.
Christian Zionist leaders like Gary Bauer, John Hagee and Pat
Robertson are not the only ones who believe the Christian Zionist vote
controls the USA . Politician Tom Delay who was an ardent supporter
of every war against Islam, recently was quoted as saying at John
Hagee's Night to Honor Israel in Washington DC, that he not only
'believes in the Rapture, I live for it' Too bad Delay left the world
in such a mess just before his anticipated departure. (8)
Israel lobby harness Judeo-Christianity:
Every politician in Congress and those competing for the presidency
know George W. Bush became president because he and Carl Rove found a
way to identify Bush with the Christian Right, but to get this
blessing one must also be Israel blessed. Even today 70% of
Republicans support Bush and his war in Iraq because what is left of
the Republican Party is predominantly Judeo-Christian.
Presidential candidates and congressmen alike know they need the
Christian Right to be elected. Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton know
this, and candidates who want Christian Zionist leaders to endorse
them must go to Israel first and receive its stamp of approval from
Israel 's reigning power, the Likud government. Hillary Clinton was
in Israel to curtsey to the Likud leaders, as did Republican Rudi
Giuliani. The Israeli press reported Rudi assured their Likud leaders
that if he is the US President there will be no problem with Israel 's
continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza . Israel 's spokesman
quoted him as promising there will be no Palestine state in his White
House. Giuliani promises four more years of military aid for Israel ,
and four more years of occupation and starvation for the Philistines.
Israel has ample reason to trust Giuliani so he will get its support.
Now, having earned Israel 's endorsement, Giuliani is all set to seek
the smiling handshake and endorsement of American Christian Zionist
leaders, which then give him access and a forum before 100 million
Judeo-Christian US citizens and perhaps as many as 40 million voters.
AIPAC is an enforcer to make sure the congressman follows through on
his promises, but the votes come from the people who have been
suckered into believing Judeo-Christianity is the same as following
Christ.
Giuliani is openly in favor of abortion on demand and is tolerant of
life practices that are traditionally mortal sins for
Judeo-Christians, but that did not stop Pat Robertson from blessing
him, 'Giuliani will make a fine President,' stated Robertson. It
remains to be seen how Hillary (she is pro-abortion on the record)
will posture herself to be moderated and open minded about a Pro-life,
Judeo-Christian image in order to capture enough Christian Right votes
so she can win, as did her husband Bill in 1996.
The relationship between the Christian-Zionists leaders and AIPAC is
simple and straightforward. AIPAC pressures Congressmen in Washington
to give Israel what it wants; the Christian-Zionist celebrities
brainwash the laymen in hometowns to pressure the Congressmen at the
polls, and the Congressman takes a junket to Israel and complies.
Congress is in the vice between the strongest lobby in Washington and
the biggest lobbying voting block in the country. Why would they
listen to you or me?
Zionism deceives Christians:
Misguided Christians have been used to fight and support war from the
11th Century Crusades to Iraq . The names have changed but the
message has not. A Pope who called himself Gregory VII is said to
have told the bishop and earls who were to lead the First Crusaders it
was up to them to rid the Holy Land of infidels so 'Jesus could return
there.' They passed this message on to the peasants who suffered and
died for this false cause for the better part of 200 years. The result
was the feudal system in Europe .
Judeo-Christianity, like Pope Gregory, teaches we all must honor
Israel ahead of America , and even rebuild a temple there before Jesus
will come. The story has hardly changed in a thousand years. Never
mind the fact that Jesus did not seem to say anything like this.
Gregory VII did not share his private economic dreams with the
peasants, but he did tell the leaders of the Crusade that the purpose
of holy wars was for the loot, and the Crusaders proved to be expert
looters.
The leaders of the Christina Zionists, Hagee, Robertson, and a hundred
more are the knights and barons at the head of the Crusades' columns.
Their loot comes in the mail and from credit card contributions from
the peasant's foot soldiers.
Human coast to the Judeo-Christian families:
Church-going Americans are not only going in debt for war, they supply
their sons and daughters to be killed and maimed in the contest.
Celebrity Zionists beat the drums for war that Israel wants, but I
have not heard of Hagee or Farwell's son enlisting, or any of the
congressmen's children. The scorched foot soldiers in Iraq and
Afghanistan include a disproportionately large number of
Judeo-Christians, who we believe, often enlist because mom and dad
raised him in the Judeo-Christian church where volunteering is
considered noble, even today after Abu Ghraib a nd Guantanamo . Their
youths are taught that if we honor Israel we earn blessings for
America from God. It is these young men who pay with shattered bodies
and broken minds for the free junkets to Israel taken by a reported 80
Congressmen in August 2007.
"Where are you going, Young Fellow My Lad,
on this glittering morn of May?"
"I'm going to join the Colors, Dad,
They're looking for men, they say."
"But you're only a boy, Young Fellow My Lad,
You aren't obliged to go."
"Well, I'm seventeen and a quarter, Dad,
and ever so strong, you know."
- Robert Service about 1918
Recently I was introduced to a sandy-haired, smiling 26-year old with
a crushing handshake. But he walked haltingly on two steel legs and
his hip joints are also man-made so terrible were his wounds in a
rocket attack in Iraq . He talked of friends who have died. He was 17
when he enlisted and the army is all he knows, he would go back to his
unit. It did not surprise me when this clean cut young American told
me he is a Southern Baptist...every bit a gentleman, he looked and
acted the part. He confided that his mother has recently become
adamantly against the War (though he did could not bring himself to
engage in 'political talk'). I know that this mother must be
thinking... if only she had been pro-peace before her young son
enlisted seven years ago.
We Hold These Truths has hear other stories from boys with a
Judeo-Christian upbringing whose parents did not know they needed to
guard their children from recruiters. We owe it to every
Judeo-Christian to tell them about the cost of our serial wars against
Islamic non-enemies. The giant Israeli Lobby does what it wants in
its own interest...in Israel 's interest and they will not stop no
matter what we do.
We must blame those who have influence, the Christ follower who
mistakenly listens to the celebrity Christian leaders, and who are
themselves victims. What has the Judeo-Christian movement given back
to America ? Is has sacrificed the value of loving your brother as
yourself, as Jesus demanded...even loving your enemy. It has left in
its place a legacy of hatred, war, violence, and diluted money, all in
the name of Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament. This can and must
be changed from inside these apostate churches and media sources.
We need to appeal to the sense of morality of Judeo-Christians. Its
members are directly responsible for the three current crises in
American culture, these being the War, inflation and the break down of
morality that always accompanies war. They do it for only one reason;
they are led into following an apostate Christianity that started only
about 100 years ago, first legitimized by Cyrus I Scofield. (1)(5)
We concluder there could have been no Shock and Awe or war of
occupation in Iraq were it not for the Christian Zionists' zealous
campaign to destroy Muslim nations. The now publicly acknowledged War
on Islam is in fact already 17 years old. Project Strait Gate was
started to challenge it in its very lair. Jesus and his disciples
took their arguments to the temple and the synagogues. We are doing
the same.
What is the matter, Young Fellow My Lad?
No letter again to day.
Why did the postman look so sad,
and sigh as he turned away?
Well, I hear them tell that we've gained new ground,
But a terrible price we've paid:
God grant, my boy, that you're safe and sound;
But oh I'm afraid, afraid.
War! War! War! By Robert W. Service, poet of the Alaskan gold rush,
who served as an ambulance driver, but refused to enter combat in
World War 1.
(1) Scofield Reference Bible Audio Visual, Charles Carlson
(http://www.whtt.org/show)
(2) One Nation Under Israel, Andrew J. Hurley, AIPAC power and Israel
's history (http://eshop.whtt.org/eshop.php?id=28)
(3) Forcing God's Hand, Grace Halsell, describing authors Junket with
Falwell to Israel (http://eshop.whtt.org/eshop.php?id=28)
(4) God's Wrath On The Left Behind, Lisa Ruby, an evolution of the
Left Behind Series (http://eshop.whtt.org/eshop.php?id=28)
(5) The Final Apostasy, by Gordon Ginn, Ph.D., a deeper look at the
abuse of Scripture (http://eshop.whtt.org/eshop.php?id=28)
(6) Pew Foundation asks what White Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants
and Catholics believe about Israel (Pew
http://eshop.whtt.org/index.php?new s=2&id=1389)
(7) The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy, John J. Mearsheimer and
Stephen Walt, http://eshop.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=885
(8) Rapture Ready, Mike Blumenthal at CUFI Washington DC .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMRgT5o-Ig
We Hold These Truths
Project Strait Gate
PO Box 14491
Scottsdale , AZ , 85267
http://www.whtt.org
Reports and vigil events
http://whtt.org/straitgate/index.php?id=14&news=1
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