POLITICAL CHRISTIANITY AND AMERICA  

A LESSON FROM HISTORY

By: Novakeo

If history is to serve mankind in any positive way, we must collectively 
endeavor to learn from it, especially from past mistakes in socio-political 
behavior. There is a dangerous development within this countries 
political landscape concerning the convergence of interests between 
many in the Christian right and the Bush government, specifically with 
Bush's cabal of Israel first fanatics described as neocons or main 
stream conservatives.  

This unholy alliance between Christian evangelical dispensationalists, 
charismatics and the liberals in drag of the Republican Party can be 
best described as an apostasy for the church and the whoring of its 
fundamental principles. This vile degenerative union can find in history a 
familiar parallel of what will be the inevitable maturation and outcome 
when God's Kingdom which at present is spiritual and not of this world 
is converged with human government. We need not look further then 
Germany in the 1920's and early 1930's to find a similar dimensional 
parallel.  

First, we must look at the societal conditions of Germany and where 
German Christians were politically and socially. We also need to ask 
ourselves and look at what were the conditions which was post World 
War I Germany that allowed for the great deception which was National 
Socialism. 

What were the conditions in the German Christian community that gave 
birth to a yearning for a political and national savior that would 
reestablish the Christian conservative traditions and national 
greatness which was the old Reich? Most of us know that the majority 
of the leaders of the Nazis including Adolf Hitler were not Christians 
at all, but that does not really matter here because, then, like today, 
truth was something in an alternate reality. What was real to Germans 
at that time was the relative perception of a Christian political 
savior that promised them everything they wanted to here. The Nazis 
had an extraordinary religious component to them and that the Christian 
community was in such a state that they willfully accepted this hideous 
delusion. They wanted to believe and no amount of truth would alter their 
perception.  

Ultra liberalism permeated German society on all levels; everything 
that conservatives and Christians regarded as perverse was glorified 
in post World War I Germany. Sexual promiscuity, sodomy and feminism 
were the order of the day. In the media, any deviancy was magnified 
and glorified and declared normal behavior. Sound familiar?  

Prostitutes and pornography was rampant and regarded as daring where 
violent rape of young girls and boys was exiting and an object of lusting. 
All of it was sensationalized by the German elites in the media, social 
and cultural circles. Of course all of this was anathema to the 
conservatives and Christians of Germany; they rightfully saw this as 
cancerous and detrimental to their country and society. They saw the 
political left of Germany as cultural murderer's that needed to be 
stopped at any cost, even making alliances with the devil was deemed 
necessary in order to establish an opposition and deterrence to the 
liberal-socialist-communistic scum that was destroying the moral fabric 
of the nation. German Christians and conservatives rightfully concluded 
that it was a deliberate social and political policy by Germany's 
liberal intelligentsia to destroy the vestiges of cultural identity 
and the national pride of the nation. Indeed, that is the essence of
liberalism and all its variants today as it was then in Germany.  

There is nothing new in organized religion getting politically involved 
with the political and economic elites of a country. It happens over and 
over again through out history, and it always morphs, for any country 
in question, into a very aggressive and belligerent establishment and 
government. And whenever organized religion chose to get involved with 
the elites of the nation, it was always in the accepted premise that it 
was doing so to save the moral fabric of the society in question. 

German Christians and conservatives decided that they needed to save 
the nation and the only party that was singing their tune was the 
National Socialist German Workers Party. Never mind that the Nazis 
were really politically leftist, what mattered most was the Nazis were 
saying what they desperately needed to here, and that was enough to 
allow themselves to be deceived and manipulated by clever homicidal 
hypocrites. That is what is happening to a lesser extent today in this 
country to the religious right who are allowing themselves to be 
manipulated by so called mainstream conservatives (neoconservatives) 
who are nothing more than closet liberals singing the right tune in 
the ears of the deceived religious right.  

But how could that be? How can good people many which are very 
intelligent people be manipulated this way? The answer can be found in 
apostasy - a falling away from the true faith in order to save something, 
to compromise essential beliefs which always results in delusion and 
hypocrisy. To make things worse they believe what they are doing is 
scriptural and under God's sanction. Men never do more evil than when 
under the influence of religious/political conviction. Does one think that 
the German Christians and conservatives were any less moral or upright 
in good standing religiously and morally? Of course not! The condition 
that was Germany of the 1920's and early 1930's was horrible to say 
the least. Glorified decadence, economic turmoil was ripping away at 
the moral fabric of the society, and the traditional foundations which 
was keeping the culture together were quickly slipping into the cesspool 
of anarchy, something had to be done!  

Weather one heads towards the abyss in leaps or in small steps the 
end is inevitably still the same. German Christians and conservatives 
knowingly and deliberately aligned themselves with what they thought to 
be their political and cultural savior who promised to return them to the 
Christian traditions which once was Germany. They wanted to believe to 
the point of willful blindness.  

February 16, 1933, we read - "Today Christians, stand at the head of 
Germany, I pledge that I never tie myself to parties who want to destroy 
Christianity, We want to fill our culture again with Christian spirit, We 
want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the 
theater, and in the press u in short, we want to burn out the poison of 
immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result 
of liberal excess during the past few years." - Adolf Hitler.  

We all know that Hitler and his gang brought liberal excess to new 
heights, the Nazis were the quintessence of immorality - sodomites and 
pedophiles they were, but in the end that did not matter, what he said 
was more influential and important than what he did.  

Author and correspondent William Shirer who was in Germany in 1933 
wrote of Hitler - "Today, as far as the vast majority of his fellow 
countrymen are concerned, he has reached a pinnacle never before 
achieved by a German ruler. He has become - even before his death 
- a myth, a legend, almost a God." The deception was complete, 
established by an intense Christian component and an enthusiastic 
community which wanted to believe despite its obvious fallaciousness.  

This delusion was further cemented by the miraculous economic turnaround 
and the reemergence of a prideful nation under the Nazis. To conservatives 
it was further proof of the righteousness of Hitler and his bunch of
twerps. Listen to these two quotes and ask yourselves does it ominously
sound
familiar? - "We pray our Lord that He would continue to bless us in our 
battle for freedom" - "And we will pray the Lord God for that, the 
salvation of the nation" Adolf Hitler 1940-1941.  

Today we see the continued associations between the so called 
Christian right and the Republican party and it is progressively 
becoming stronger as we speak. Like their Christian German brothers 
before them they are willingly being deceived by the oligarch and are 
trying to whore God's kingdom with that of the god of this world. They 
are doing it in the name of defending Israel and in the name of saving 
this country from liberal immorality. These evangelicals, who demand 
that this country disregard its own vital interests to defend that of 
Israel's, at all costs, are deluded in their politics and most significantly 
in their theology. This nation's survival does not rest on the policy of 
unconditional support for the state of Israel but rather its very survival is 
predicated towards a national repentance for its rebellion towards God 
and His word. Neither is the eternal destiny of Christian believers 
predicated on how we relate to the state of Israel, its exclusively and 
completely relative to God's grace and to the work done by His Son on 
the cross with the shedding of His blood.  

Technology won't save us, the policy of "preemptive strike" which is 
nothing short of naked aggression and the complete thrashing of all just 
war principles will definitely not protect and save this nation. God did not 
bless this nation and its founding fathers so it could in the future go 
abroad to find monsters to slay and in the process of this grotesque 
self-deception become the very monster they seek to destroy. The United 
States was not established so it can become Israel's protectorate that 
is the sole responsibility of God and Israel.  

The ultimate heresy of bringing into human government a religious 
attitude and perspective will not save this country it will guarantee its 
destruction. It is no different when Christians create politically religious 
states then it is for Moslems. Both are equally perverse and suicidal. In 
God's word it simply states - "My kingdom is not from this world; if my 
kingdom were from this world; my followers would be fighting to keep 
me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not 
from here." John 18:36  

"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this 
notice and hyperlink intact."

Novakeo is editor and writer for America First on Foreign Policy (AFFP). 
He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.

Published in the November 29, 2002 issue of Ether Zone.

Copyright (c) 1997 - 2002 Ether Zone.

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Cheers, Steve..

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