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31 May 2010 By Keith Johnson
I was driving home early Sunday morning through
Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, "You know you always have the
Lord by your side"
Now I was so pleased to be informed of this
that I ran twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you Jesus, thank you lord
The Rolling
Stones—Far Away Eyes
It cannot be denied that many ‘so-called’
Christians drop the name of Christ like a rich kid
drops his daddy’s name to get a good table at an
expensive restaurant. When they say, “Christ paid
for it all,” what they really mean to say is
“Jesus’ll pick up the tab.”
These very same people will cringe if they hear the
words “Jesus Christ’ or ‘godammit’
used in the context of a stubbed toe. What they don’t
realize is that they have been led to believe a false
interpretation of the Old Testament’s third
commandment. According to both Greek and Hebrew
translations, ‘taking the Lord’s name in vain’
refers to those who falsely profess to be doing God’s
work or using God’s name for self-indulgent purposes.
We witness this every Sunday when the televangelist
preachers take to the airwaves to bilk their
congregations out of their life savings. We also see
this from well compensated celebrity Pastors who
weekly pander pro-Israeli war propaganda on their
gullible flocks.
Nobody does that better than John Hagee, Pastor of
Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. Last
Sunday, Hagee addressed the second annual ‘Christian’s
United For Israel’ event that drew fellow psychopaths
from all 50 states and 50 nations around the globe.
Hagee spewed the same lies and hateful rhetoric that
he’s been propagating for decades.
"Israel is an outpost of freedom and democracy
in one of the most undemocratic regions in the world,"
Hagee said after the event. "Now is the time for
Israel's supporters, regardless of faith or political
ideology, to unite in standing with Israel as she
confronts such serious threats from Hezbollah, Hamas
and Iran."
Hagee pulled out the same old tired line about the
threat of a ‘nuclear holocaust’ from Iran and how
President Ahmedinejad vowed to “wipe Israel off
the map.” Both are debunked lies that are as
ridiculous as Hagee himself. Iran is nowhere near
having the capability to construct a nuclear weapon
and President Ahmedinejad’s exact words were, "The
Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish
from the page of time."
Hagee also conveyed his frustration with the Obama
administration:
"Washington has manufactured a crisis with
Israel over building homes for Jewish people in Jewish
neighborhoods in Jerusalem, something no other
American administration has ever done," Hagee
said in a video message before the event. "Now
there is talk the administration will impose a peace
settlement on the parties whether or not the Israelis
believe their security is guaranteed. In my 30 years
as a Zionist there has never been a more critical hour
for Israel than right now."
People of Hagee’s ilk love politicians like Obama
to kick around. Their need to feel persecuted is an
essential ingredient to lend credence to their ‘end
times’ scenario. Obama is just the latest in a long
string of perceived Presidential anti-Christs that
they’ve been hawking for many a decade.
In reality, Obama has been towing the line for
Israel from day one. As I made clear in a previous
piece, the Obama administration and Israel are in
collusion to deceive the people into believing that
there is a riff between the two nations. This is
being done so the state of Israel can claim complete
inculpability when the U.S. strikes Iran. Besides,
Obama is the Chair of the United Nations Security
Counsel and it would be perceived as an act of
defiance against the UN itself if he were to come out
in support of the settlements. This conflict of
interest is the very reason why our Constitution
forbids President’s from holding more than one office
at a time.
If Obama were the anti-Semitic, Palestinian
sympathizer that Hagee would have you believe he is,
don’t you think he would intervene in—or at least
condemn—the Israeli government’s blockade of a peace
mission currently making its way to Gaza?
Nine ships, collectively known as the Freedom
Flotilla, are currently en route to the Gaza
shore to deliver over 10,000 tons of much needed
humanitarian aid to the impoverished Palestinian
people. Three of the ships are from Turkey, two from
the UK and one each from Ireland, Greece, Kuwait and
Algeria. Among the international coalition of peace
activists on board are European parliamentarians,
former US diplomats and Nobel peace laureates. It is
the largest effort of its kind since the Israelis
seized the coastal territory in 2007.
Israel has threatened that it will use force to
prevent the flotilla from reaching its destination.
The Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli Navy have been
dispatched to the region with instructions to
terminate the peace mission by any means necessary.
The reason the Israeli’s are giving for resorting to
such drastic measures is because they seek to prevent
arms and materials from reaching the hands of the duly
elected Hamas government.
In response, the peace activists have warned Israel
that they will ignore their threats and continue on to
their destination regardless of the consequences.
According to an article appearing in Al Jazeera
Friday, Huwaida Arraf, from the Free Gaza Movement
said "Israel should not be under any illusion
whatsoever that their threats or intimidation will
stop us or even that their violence against us will
stop us." Hanin Zuabi, a member of the
Israeli parliament who is on board the flotilla, told
Al Jazeera that the activists intend to reach Gaza
regardless of plans to stop them. He said "If the
Israelis try to stop us, this will be a huge
diplomatic and political crises for them."
Aid to this battered region is long overdue. Gaza
is a giant prison, sealed off from the world like the
island of Manhattan in John Carpenter’s Escape
from New York. The difference is that the people
who inhabit this place are not criminals; they are
victims of a foreign occupation of terrorists who seek
to starve them out of existence. That is why Israel
seeks to deny them aid of any kind. The Palestinian
people are expected to suffer under the thumb of a
brutal warden as they watch their children die from a
lack of adequate sanitation, basic medical services
and food.
Israel knows there are no weapons onboard any of
those ships and are well aware that if they harm even
one person connected to this peace mission, they will
be facing a public relations disaster of epic
proportions.
But this won’t stop them. Israel may be concerned,
but they don’t fear the repercussions of an
investigation by the United Nations for yet another
human rights violation, nor do they care what the rest
of the world thinks of them. They know that the United
States will always be there to protect them from any
threats and continue to provide resources that enable
them to rain terror upon the people of that region.
Any decent human being should be appalled by
Israel’s callous disregard for human life. Denying
people decent living conditions and food is the
cruelest form of genocide known to man. Medical
experts agree that death by starvation and dehydration
is perhaps the most painful, tortuous, and agonizing
way to die.
How our nation can turn a blind eye to this modern
day holocaust is unconscionable. Obama is not
concerned with the plight of the Palestinian people.
If he were, he would condemn Israel for their actions
and immediately cease any future funding for their
murderous campaign. But this will not happen. Too
many of our politicians are under the control of the
Israeli government.
Each year, many of our American tax dollars are
sent to Israel in the form of aid and are recycled
right back into the coffers of political campaigns.
Each day, Israeli agents in the United States monitor
and keep files on the indiscretions of US Senators and
Congressman and use that information to control them.
Cutting off funds to Israel and expelling their agents
would go a long way in stemming that corruptive
influence, but it would certainly not be enough.
Politicians would still be compelled to act on
behalf of Israel by of a powerful and influential
segment of their constituency. Unlike politicians,
these people have not been bought, nor are they
compromised. Devotion to Israel is part of their
religious conviction. To these people, the fate of
Israel is linked to their own salvation. They number
in the tens of millions and are perhaps more
responsible than anyone else for relinquishing all US
foreign policy decisions over to this alien power.
They are the BIG problem, and the blood of our dead
soldiers and over a million dead Semitic people are on
their hands.
Each Sunday—as Gaza starves—congregations of
freshly showered and scented cultists sit on cushioned
seats in air-conditioned churches across America,
contemplating whether to have lunch at Hometown Buffet
or Red Lobster. They like their church because the
pastor wears a Hawaiian shirt and cracks clean jokes
with a George Carlin wit. They like the church band
because they’re edgy, like the music they used to
listen to before they were converted. They close
their eyes and raise a hand to the sky (Jesus antenna)
phishing for reception from the man upstairs as the
Dave Matthews look-alike sings songs of praise and
worship. The church is the size of an arena with a
large stage and giant screen in the background. On
the screen is an image of troops huddled in prayer,
which fades into an image of a soldier holding a
smiling Arab child, which fades into an image of
F-16’s blazing across the sky, which fades into an
image of troops on tanks handing out bottled water to
a thirsty crowd, which fades into an image of a
soldier reading the Bible, which fades into…
We all know these people. They are among our
friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. They
call themselves Judeo-Christians, Millenialists,
Dominionists and Evangelicals. They say they worship
Christ, but what they really worship…is Israel.
They consider themselves patriotic American’s, but
only as long as America stands with Israel. It is for
this reason—above all others—that we are engaged in
conflicts throughout the Middle East.
Christian support for war is a recent phenomenon
and goes contrary to what Christian’s were taught
prior to the beginning of the last century. The
introduction of the Scofield Reference Bible was the
turning point that replaced traditional, Orthodox
Christianity with Christian Zionism.
In the late 19th century, the World
Zionist movement had set their sights on acquiring
land that American Christians referred to as ‘The Holy
Land,’ but knew that they would face opposition from
obtaining it. Christians of the time considered Jews
to be the persecutors of Christ and his disciples, and
would never allow a Jewish occupation of Palestine.
To overcome this obstacle, the World Zionists
enlisted the help of The Oxford University Press and
an old Civil War Veteran and Pastor by the name of
Cyrus I. Scofield.
The plan was to change the Christian attitude
towards Zionism by creating and promoting a
pro-Zionist subculture within Christianity.
Scofield's role was to re-write the King James Version
of the Bible by inserting Zionist-friendly notes in
the margins, between verses and chapters, and on the
bottoms of the pages. He was also used as a front to
help promote it to the Christian community, where he
was held in high regard. The revised bible
was called the Scofield Reference Bible and was given
widespread advertisement and promotion. It soon
became the best-selling "bible" in America and has
remained so for 90 years.
The Scofield Reference Bible sparked the birth of
the modern day Christian Zionist movement. It
redirected the focus of worship away from Jesus Christ
and concentrated it directly upon pro-Zionist
politics. Without the support of the American
Christian community, Israel would have never come into
existence.
Christian Zionists are taught that Jews are the
chosen people of God and that mankind is obligated to
provide unwavering support to the state of Israel.
They believe that if America fails to support Israel
in every way, then God will turn his back on them and
suffer his wrath.
Christian Zionists will explain away Biblical
passages that point to hereditary connections between
the true Semitic people and the children of Abraham.
Palestinians and Arabs are to be hated, ethnically
cleansed and persecuted if it serves the best
interests of the Israeli government.
Bible passages in the Old Testament (2 Kings 6:21
–23, 2 Chronicles 28:9-11, Nehemiah 5:7-11, Jeremiah
34:11-17, Amos 2:6-7) that condemn the kinds of human
rights violations committed by the Israeli government
are either ignored or justified by Christian
Zionists. Even liberal Jews, who call Israel their
home, are more likely to call out their government on
humanitarian issues than the Christian Zionist.
The relationship between Israel and the Christian
Zionists is a sick and twisted one to be sure. Each
requires the other to die. It’s really nothing more
than a murder-suicide pact.
Israel relies on Christian Zionists to sacrifice
their money, resources, freedoms and children. They
need these things to wage war on their neighbors and
expand their empire.
The Christian Zionists rely on Israel to sacrifice
2/3 of their Jewish population in an apocalyptic war
in the Middle East. They need these things to hasten
the return of Jesus Christ so he can usher them up
into Heaven.
No sane person would ever allow themselves to be
involved in a relationship like this. But these
people are not sane—they are psychopaths.
Every war that has been waged in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries has come as a result of this
unholy alliance. It has wreaked devastation upon our
economy and has cost countless lives. But this is
more than an economic or humanitarian crisis. This is
a moral crisis that calls into question whether we, as
a species, even have the will to keep on living.
70 million Christian Zionists make up the most
coveted voting block in America. All of them pray for
the return of their savior so that he may deliver them
from this horrible, dangerous place and rapture them
up into the safety of his loving embrace. What chance
do we have of saving this world, when the largest
segment of our society just can’t wait to leave the
world behind?
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