Wherein I Admonish the Religious Right

Is the United States a “Christian nation”? No, the USA is neither Christian nor a “nation”. The USA is a fictitious entity, an organizing principle around which the powerful legitimize their claim to rule over some 300 millions. Its subjects are of many nations. Some of its subjects are Christians, but the USA itself is by no means Christian. Behold its works. The emissaries of the USA kill and maim people in Iraq and elsewhere and provide no witness of the Good News of Jesus Christ. The agents of the USA and its subordinate political units imprison many thousands of its subjects. They forcibly extract wealth from its subjects and burden them with countless regulations and surveillance. These are not the fruits of an organization inspired by Jesus.

There are among those who call themselves Christian who support the USA in its acts of violence and its plunder of the people. They are the religious right, and their influence is great. If they will repent and recall that Jesus said “blessed are the peacemakers”, they can put an end to war and serve as a blessing to the whole world. They can be a great witness of the revelation of Jesus Christ to the Muslim world if they will open their hearts and submit themselves to Jesus’ teaching and the transformative workings of the Holy Spirit. I pray that God will convict them of the error of their ways and that a great awakening will occur among them so that they may become the light of the world and not bringers of grief. But they are burdened with false prophets who preach war instead of peace, hate instead of love, judgment instead of mercy, slavery instead of freedom. May God grant the people the discernment to cast out these spawn of serpents from among them.

When Jeremiah spoke the truth that the Chaldeans would destroy the city, he was called a traitor and an abettor of the enemy. They cast him into a cistern to die because his words might make the doomed warriors’ courage fail them. So it goes with prophets even now. They who speak out against war are called abettors and comforters of the enemy and demoralizers of the warriors even though they speak the truth. The warriors cannot be trusted with the truth. War cannot be sustained without falsehood. The warmongering preachers of the religious right are the guiltiest liars of all, for they libel God with their lies and are responsible for so much grief. I pray that the people turn from them and turn to Jesus. They have a tremendous opportunity to bring peace and to secure the blessings that inure to peacemakers.