by Ghassan Kadi
When you close the door in the face of an evil like Daesh, another will find a way in through the window, and if you close the window, it will find a way through the keyhole. Such is the nature of insidious evil.
Western evangelists are now pushing to get a foothold in Syria. They cloak themselves with disguises of support and friendship and use words that are hard to reject, let alone criticize. But for what ends do they really want to help Syria? And since when have ultra-right-wing friends of Israel been friends of Syria?
There is clear evidence that the Unification Church (aka Moonies) has already spent funds on recruits in the name of charity. Also, a Republican American Senator, ie from the party that gave the world George W Bush, a Senator who openly supported Ted Cruz’s failed presidency bid, and had made many comments about his interest in Syrian Christians only, has made a trip to Syria.
Cruz is nothing more than a new-born nutcase. As a matter of fact, his father, evangelist Rafael Cruz, proclaimed that Christ was going to appear in Ted’s body after he gets elected as president, but his great vision was Trumped away.
The pro-Israel and anti-Muslim policies of Trump and Cruz are not very different. Perhaps the only difference is that Trump is forthcoming.
Cruz is as staunch as one can be in his support to Israel. He falls under the bigger umbrella description of a Christian Zionist. There are many such new-age “Churches” in the West. The “Chapel of the Holy Spirit and Performing Arts Ministries” and its associated churches for example, openly and overtly endorse the state of Israel, and organize annual visits for members. A prominent member associated with this network of Churches has also recently made a public visit to Syria. These are early warning signs yet text-book narrative of how missionaries creep into a community and get established.
Vicious and murderous as it is, Daesh is at least honest about its brutality. Daesh says it and does it as it believes it should be said and done. Daesh does not pretend to preach love, peace and fraternity, and on this count, we cannot accuse it of hypocrisy, cunning and deception.
But when people, individuals or groups, pretend to be friends of secular Syria when in reality they have an agenda that threatens her, then they can be as dangerous as Daesh, because they know how to hide and how to deceive.
I have had to deal with Western evangelists and their new-age Churches in the Levant for decades. I know what they instill into the minds of people in order to lure them. In fact, I had been approached by them for recruitment almost at the same time that I was approached by Islamist recruiters.
They are not much different from Daesh at all except in their attire, the manner in which they approach their would-be recruits, and most importantly perhaps, how they identify those who are vulnerable to their deception, and hence therefore brand them as recruitable.
Daesh promises would-be recruits the bounty of heaven. On the other hand, Western evangelists promise them the bounties of both earth and heaven.
During the civil war in Lebanon, the Lebanese Seventh Day Adventists, for example, were given the impression that they were protected by the USA, and that at the drop of a hat, if a single Adventist was harmed, the Mediterranean-based American Sixth Fleet would storm in to do what is needed to protect their community, with or without any need to ask for permission from the Lebanese Government. I have in fact heard this with my own ears, not once, but many times, because I lived close to their enclave and I knew many of their members.
And even though the Jehovah Witnesses, for example again, are in theory apolitical, in practice, their Levantine recruits live within this same false sense of Western-sponsored protection.
But this is not all. Those Churches offer jobs to the unemployable. They help members find housing, provide free education for their children, medical insurance, as well as other forms of financial security. They even canvass arranged marriages.
And where do you think those evangelists get their recruitment base mainly from? Any guess? Well, not from the Muslim community. Those who convert from Islam into any of those Christian cults are very few. They definitely do not get many recruits from the Catholics either, not only because of their strong affiliation to Rome, but also because Levantine Catholics, mainly Maronites, are fairly privileged, and in the case of Syria, Syrian Maronites seeking any demographic change or relocation, will probably seek refuge in Lebanon, and in Lebanon, they will be welcomed by the Maronite Church which would be happy to increase the numbers of the parishioners.
So where will the Levantine recruits of the Western evangelists come from then?
They will mainly come from one of the most ancient Churches in the world; the Syrian Orthodox Church.
As a matter of fact, all Lebanese and Syrians I know who have converted to any of those new-age cult Churches are, without any exceptions, originally from the Orthodox faith.
I am neither an Orthodox nor am I trying to defend Orthodoxy per se. What I am defending is the ancient Syrian culture, of which Orthodoxy is a prime back bone.
This narrative is based on historic facts that I learnt and experienced as I lived them in Lebanon, and I can see the potential for the same recurring in Syria.
Once Western evangelists set a foothold in Syria, if they are allowed to, they will play the same recruitment tricks, and unless stopped, Orthodoxy will be the biggest loser.
The same Western evangelists who have shed crocodile tears when the Syrian Aramaic town Maaloola fell under the rule of the Islamists, will attempt to destroy its infrastructure by swaying and snatching away the parishioners.
Once converts are created, they will be alienated from their community and their sense of national and regional belonging will be eroded. They will be instructed not to vote, not to donate blood, not to join the military, not to engage in political or religious activities, not to trust others, not to marry outside their faith, and above all, they will be told that should life get tough, they will be the first to get visas into the West.
The potential danger of alienating and radicalizing Syria’s Christians is not any less disastrous for Syria than radicalizing her Muslims. They both serve the same objectives of the same Empire, but in subtly different ways.
After all, when Syria rises victorious, and she will, what will underpin her victory is the religious plurality that she will be able to uphold and preserve. An integral part will be in preserving the ancient Syrian Orthodox Church. Destroy it and you will give Daesh an easier chance for resurgence, and a stronger opportunity for winning the next round in the future, if there will be another one.
The above-mentioned American Senator met with President Assad, but this meeting was misread by the supporters of the former. They regarded the meeting as an endorsement of anyone who “supports” Syria. There is more than meets the eyes here. Syrian officials, including the President, meet with all sorts of diplomats and officials all the time. They even meet with the ”opposition” in Geneva and Vienna. What some short-sighted observers are unable to comprehend is that unlike UN officials and “opposition” leaders that Syrian officials meet with as diplomacy stipulates, this particular Senator has camouflaged himself with the cloak of a supporter. He and his followers seem to think that they have been able to hide what is behind their masks, but the mask is not as opaque as they hope.
It would be wrong to say, for fairness, that all Western evangelists are wolves dressed up in sheep’s clothing. Perhaps those of them who “live on the hill” are, but most of the foot soldiers are delusional enough to believe that they are actually on a mission from God. Either way, they are equally harmful and the naïve nature of the latter group does not render them any less dangerous.
Considering that evangelists nowadays start their illustrious careers on social media, including blogs and Facebook groups, it becomes incumbent upon us, the electronic cyber-based army of secular Syria and the polycentric new world to be aware of them, identify them and stop them in their tracks early in the mark and before their efforts blossom.
This will be, at least for a while, the new direction of the defensive war against the intrusion of the Empire into the Levant.
At present, not even Hezbollah is making any warnings about Western evangelists. It is still very early days, but unless the alarm bells are raised now, they will be flooding in thousands. We have seen them do this in many war-ravaged countries before. In the not too distant past, Western evangelists from mainstream Western Churches flooded Vietnamese refugee camps and competed on recruiting them. The humanitarian aid they provided was conditional to conversion, and many of the refugees were turned into mobile billboard by “donating” to them T-shirts and sweaters bearing the name of Churches. The new-age churches are therefore not alone in their rabid recruitment drive. They have learned scavenging from more ancient institutions.
It would not take a stroke of genius to speculate that the recent visits of some Western evangelists to Syria have been watched and monitored by many similar-minded aspiring “heroes”. Unless stopped, they will come in droves. They will “invade” every evangelical space they can find enough holes to poke their noses in. Where they don’t find holes, they will use drills.
In most instances, before they set up evangelizing schools, they will create a circle of trust for themselves in order to protect their backs and sway their supporters from seeing what is beneath their veil. Then, they proceed to forming charity groups.
In places like Syria now, there are thousands upon thousands of people who genuinely need charity. They are very vulnerable and they will accept charity from anyone, and they cannot be blamed. The evangelists will “use” their charitable camouflage and portray it as a reflection of their “inner goodness”; and thus capture the hearts of those who believe them.
What lurks underneath the Daesh mask reaches the hearts and minds of vulnerable Sunni Muslims only. Daesh capitalizes on their anger and radical views and intensifies them. But what is beyond the mask of Western evangelists capitalizes on general human goodness, and it sees all people as potential targets; without any exception.
Those seemingly benign and allegedly benevolent and charitable evangelists have a history of centuries of deception and experience in knowing how to find the weak spots in good people, how to capture them and how to entrap them.
As the gallant Syrian Army continues to fight along with the support of the most prominent anti-Empire global force, the force of Russia, the Cyber-warfare goes on and takes a different direction.
When the “War On Syria” started over five years ago, the information war was about exposing who was fighting who.
At that time, it was difficult, and almost impossible, to explain and prove that the West was supporting an Islamist Jihadi war against secular Syria when the world believed that the West was fighting those same Jihadists in Afghanistan.
A lot has changed since, and as the masks fell, one by one, even as old partners in the “Anti-Syrian Coalition” find themselves competing and fighting each other in pursuit of any scraps they can grasp, a new mask emerges, and it lurks unnoticed and wishes to remain unnoticed.
The new mask is devious and treacherous.
To unmask this mask will take more than just exposing the lies of the mainstream media (MSM) news.
In the past, the MSM lies were on the “other side” of the fence. This time, the new mask is within our ranks. It has found its way within us, and what it is hiding behind, has become a part-and-parcel of the cyber pro-Syria community we all created.
In their rise to infamy, Western evangelists, aka Christian Zionists, set precedents that give them impunity that elevates them to levels that are beyond reproach and criticism. Say one word to expose them and an army of supporters will jump in their defense, and we have seen this happen very recently. They will stop at nothing. They will change tactics, they will suddenly take turns of convenience, have ghost writers pitching in to make them suddenly look eloquent prolific writers, wise and alluring, and we have also seen this happen quite recently.
And who will be the army of the defenders of the evangelists?
They will come from different walks of life. Most of them will be genuine and honest believers in the deceivers. Many others will be decent people who will give anyone who supports them the moral benefit of the doubt. Then there are those who feel embarrassed for supporting the evangelical intruders and feel that they under an obligation to defend those intruders, who are getting exposed, in order to safeguard themselves. But there will also be those who have vested interests and personal scores to settle. Once again, we have seen evidence of all of the above quite recently.
To wrap this up, we must go back to the initial pertinent questions.
Since when have right-wing American “Christian” evangelists been interested in the victims of American foreign policies?
Since when have they been friends with Syria; Israel’s main archenemy?
Why do they lecture us about their alleged love for Syria without making a single comment about their stand on Israel?
Why do they express concern about Syria’s Christians without expressing any concern about the plight of Christian Palestinians?
How do they explain having members of Churches that are overtly supportive of Israel?
What do they have to hide?
The reality, they are solely and only Muslim-hating bigots; not any better than Daesh, and not any different, except in shallow skin-deep appearances. They want to capitalize on the anti-Daesh passion in order to push their own cultish bandwagon.
Furthermore,
Why are they and their supporters so infuriated because they are now getting exposed?
Why are they fabricating unsubstantiated stories?
Why are former “enemies”, half of whom do not even talk to each other, getting united in order to stifle the exposure?
As mentioned above, in this time and age, those weasels start their careers on social media, and it is on social media that we, the true soldiers for secular Syria, united, can put their careers to an end.
When we befriend them and support them, we are inadvertently giving them oxygen and inviting them into Syria.
Just like five years ago or so we had to look within our own ranks to sort the alleged supporters of Palestine from the enemies of Syria, we now need to weed out evangelists from true friends.
If genuine and unencumbered supporters of Syria see through the evangelist mask, unite in what makes them stand up against Western imperialism, in all of its forms, including religious imperialism, then no one can stop them.
The new challenge begins with recognizing that there is no difference at all between Western-sponsored “Muslim” military offensives and Western-sponsored “Christian” evangelical incursions.
Daesh is not any more Muslim than those Western evangelists are Christian.
This is perhaps the bottom line that ought to be cognized and discerned. And if Daesh decapitates, Western evangelism kills minds, stifles souls and enslaves whole communities. They literally see parishioners as sheep, but this is not what the “Good Shepherd” intended when He proclaimed that He was the way to the Truth.
I am from the US, and let me tell you that those Zio-Christian churches have done our own country much harm; I can’t begin to imagine what they will do to Syria if they get the chance! Pres. Assad would be wise to ban them from entering his country.
Yes he should just as Russia did in the 90s
All they really do is create ethnic separatism & societal strife. Ban them now please, or look at what’s happening in Asia for the end result (civil war x10)
@ Seamus Padraig
I write from the US too. Recently, in a conversation with a casual acquaintance who is a member of one of those “Christian” fundamentalist sects, I happen to refer to someone else as a Jew (no negative context). The “Christian” immediately “corrected” me, how I “should” say “Jewish” and “not a Jew”. I then reminded the moron that his own “Bible” says that one of the signs of “the end of times” is when people start using wrong names for things. “So, let us call things by their proper name” … and the idiot shut up…
They appear to be Spiritual Mercenaries and the question is how do they differ from the old fashioned Missionaries.
Regards, Spiral
I remember what Alexander Lebed said about Mormons in Russia:
“They are spies.”
He got that one right.
Mormons are heavily represented in the CIA. Webster Tarpley pointed this out quite strongly when Mitt Romney went for president. He referred to it as the Mormon Mafia.
Veronica, I never read Tarpley’s book on Romney but I have read his book on 911 and I get his daily free briefing, which is quite detailed, and in depth.
Mormons are under a special sort of mind control that makes them disciplined, loyal to their rules and hierarchy and willing to believe the wildest sort of religious absurdities. That makes them ideal FBI agents and employees, where to participate in some of the worst crimes against the country you must demonstrate a reliability as an order follower that will never allow your conscience to take over and blow this whistle on your criminal bosses.
@ Bro Anon
Webster Tarpley CIA Mormon Mafia & the Benghazi Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAE-42Xeiw
A bit of circuitous way to tell that Daesh has nothing to do with Islam. “Daesh is not any more Muslim than those Western evangelists are Christian.”
But it is exactly what Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s foreign affairs minister said:
“Every religion has perverts and psychopaths who try to hijack it. ISIS is as much Islamic as the KKK is Christian. Don’t they have a cross? Don’t they do everything in the name of religion and Christ? Don’t they believe that Christ compels them to lynch and kill people of African descent? …For anyone to argue that DAESH is Islamic is preposterous… We cannot defeat Daesh in Syria unless we bring about change in Bashar al-Assad.”
Having said that, it is true that the Christian Zionists’ (in whatever form they appear) objectives coincide with those of Daesh. Both would fight the Dajjal/Antichrist and the hordes of Yajuj and Majuj/Gog and Magog (obviously the Russians) on the plains of Syria (Armaggedon/Malhama) where Isa/Jesus would descend from heavens (via a minaret of the Great Mosque of Damascus, no less) and defeat the Antichrist (Bashar al-Assad?). Then in alliance with the Mahdi will conquer Constantinople and Rome and together rule the planet!
Both are hell bent to destroy whatever retains vestiges of the Church (Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Copts, you name it), the non-Zionist Christianity. Protestantism with all its ‘neo’ disguises is nothing but ‘pork eating Judaism’.
I’d be wary of quoting what Adel al Jubair had to say on Daesh! Of course it’s true, but he didn’t go on to say how Daesh is actually ‘one of us’ – as one might conclude from Jubair’s history of cooperation with the CIA, and the CIA’s ‘cooperation’ with Daesh.
The trope that ‘Daesh does not represent Islam’ is too often used by the enemies of Syria as just another deceit – probably with the addendum that ‘Assad has been supporting Daesh’ added to it!
The trope that ‘Daesh does not represent Islam’ is too often used by the enemies of Syria as just another deceit – probably with the addendum that ‘Assad has been supporting Daesh’ added to it!
Yes correct David dear friend.
But when we really examine the issues pertinent to your statement, as Ghassan Kadi has, as we all know he specialises in this field and bravely writes about it, despite his own circumstances of environment, family history etc., and that is one of the reasons why we use the pseudonyms where in fact most Syrians/Levantines doing serious activist work, if they have circumstances that warrant it, will use the pseudonyms…but anyway here are a few links to Ghassan’s work about this issue:
http://katehon.com/article/who-are-real-muslims
/the-daesh-chronicles-the-definition-challenge/
/the-daesh-chronicles-the-we-told-you-so-story/
/the-daesh-chronicles-the-antithesis/
Well, ask the Brasilians about these “Missionaries”. In the seventies, they had intensive presence in Amazonia. Insiders knew that their task had been scouting for an envisioned relocation of parts of the US population and its power structure to the Southern hemisphere in case of an expected nuclear exchange with USSR.
This is not the case with Syria, but the goals are as sinister as those had been.
These same evangelical and fundamentalist missionaries have been, and are, a great problem for the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America, Africa and elsewhere. Their behavior stems from the subjective and unchristian notion that the Holy Spirit tells one that the Bible is inspired, and that their individual, subjective interpretation, is the correct one.
The fallacy of this reasoning becomes patent when one considers the multiplicity of interpretations, even among evangelicals and fundamentalists. If what these missionaries claim is true, then the Holy Spirit has not been doing his job very well.
Those who believe as they do in effect reduce their acceptance of Christianity and understanding of the Bible, to the influence and product of their culture, habit, personal idiosyncrasies and any number of psychological or emotional factors. ,
I wonder how much of their goal is to stall what seems to be growing unity between some christians and muslims. Political zionists who call themselves christian, which include most “evangelicals”, among others have been opposed to it for fairly obvious reasons. The unity movement I mention is the one that imran hosein speaks of for anyone interested in Abrahamic religion. Even if someone isn’t religous it’s still good to study the three Abrahamic ones due to their influence in geopolitics imho.
Your analysis is very true. Protestants did the same with the Armenians of the Ottoman empire.
Ghassan Kadi,
Thank you for your hard work on this article. I must, however, take issue with your statements about Jehovah’s Witnesses. The neutrality of Jehovahs Witnesses is a well established fact – they are not “apolitical” only in some theoretical sense as you have written. Jehovah’s Witnesses are politically neutral and uphold and obey the laws of the countries in which they live. Thus it is impossible that they form any sort of threat whatsoever to the government in Syria, Lebanon, or anywhere else. Said neutrality also motivates individual Jehovah’s Witnesses to maintain strict separation between themselves and any political interests including any and all currently arrayed against the Syrian state.
As for Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Levant feeling “protected” by “the West” – again I must disagree. Scripture foretold and history has proven – that secular staes pursue their own interests – and that when Jehovah’s Witnesses Christian neutrality conflicts with these – it is only God who has protect them.
Jehovah’s Witnesses were killed and imprisoned by both Axis and Allied powers during World War II because of their strict adherence to Christian neutrality.
I am one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and really enjoy reading your articles (along with many others) on this site.
Mr. Kadi,
I will second the comments relayed by Cody whom I consider as my spiritual brother. You see, I am one of Jehovah’s witnesses as well. I was born in Lebanon and lived in both Lebanon and Syria and can tell for certainty that our neutrality as to the political affairs of the world is well known throughout the earth. From first hand experience, where I lived through the Lebanese civil war, as christian witnesses, we were neutral and did not take any side within the conflict. From experience, I can also tell you that the witnesses were persecuted by both Christian and Muslim sects within Lebanon and at no time did we put our hope in any governmental authorities for salvation, whether it was Lebanese, American or whomever. Our hope and faith has always been and will continue to be in the saving power of our god, Jehovah.
As Cody indicated, Jehovah’s witnesses have been persecuted, imprisoned and killed in WWII by both allied and axis powers. In the greater Middle East, Jehovah’s Witnesses have also been persecuted in Arab countries as well as in the state of Israel. Again, all of that is due to our strict neutrality and adherence to Jesus commands to love our neighbor.
Like Cody, I also enjoy reading some of your articles on the website but I hope you take these notations to heart, do additional research if necessary, and make the needed correction to your article.
Regards,
Freddy
The main reason the evangelical church is still tolerated in America is because of its support for Zionism. Once the Zionists succeed in creating “Greater Israel” as a seat for the throne of Lucifer’s world government, they will cast off the American evangelical church like a whore who, having grown old and ugly, serves no further purpose
Christian Zionists = takfiri
They truly are a plague on this earth.
I’m very saddened by your article. I am an evangelical evangelist. Every week I share with many members of the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church here in California about how they can have a personal relationship with God by trusting in Christ’s work on the cross for forgiveness and yielding to Him to become their Lord. I pray with them to do so. I NEVER ENCOURAGE ANY CATHOLIC OR ORTHODOX MEMBER to LEAVE ThEIR CHURCH. I only assist them in establishing a personal relationship with Christ that a great many have shared later with me has greatly helped them. —- I have a number of Muslim friends. They enjoy seeing me and go out of their way to talk with me. While they know we don’t agree on our religious views, they know that I highly respect them as people and am very kind to them. I would NEVER stand by and let them be injured by any Christian or other person. — I often give money through Open Doors USA which goes to helping provide for the practical needs of SYRIAN ORTHODOX BELIEVERS, with nothing to do with getting them to leave their church. — There are an increasing number of evangelical Christians, like myself, who believe that what Israel has done to cause suffering in Syria has been very very immoral – as well as much of what they continue to do to the Palestinians. We believe that Israel has committed many war crimes in Syria – giving weapons to the terrorists; giving intelligence to them; taking care of their wounded; making the number of deep attacks into Syria.
Dear James Padgett,
You are a good and a charitable man, and may we ask you, have you yourself considered getting baptised as a Christian Orthodox? Wherever you are, a Greek, a Russian, a Serbian, an Armenian, an Ethiopian, or any other Orthodox Church priest would be immensely happy to show you the full and true meaning of Orthodox Christianity, the vast Christian light and wisdom preserved by The Church for over 2000 years, the Holy Scripture containing but one, written part of it.
That would require for the “evangelicals” the abandonment of their hard-wired conviction that the “keys of interpretation” are in everyone’s possession. They would have to submit humbly to the Church, a thing that they cannot possibly admit once they think that they are the exclusive possessors of the “personal relation to Christ”.
@ WizOz
You are quite correct. The primitiveness of their hare-brained “teachings” fits very well with the extreme cultural deficiency of the U.S. general population, so no wonder they took roots there. The way they “operate” in other countries their member above describes you himself … “I often give money” … “Open Doors USA” … A lot of financially vulnerable people on our planet, impoverished by that very same gang’s military and economic world mayhem and plunder, being hit twice. But that will come to a stop too, as the Anglo-Zionist Empire assuredly slides under.
yep something Australia,s Aborigional ‘mission slums’ stand as testement too … once the missionaries have destroyed the language, community and cohesion as a culture they move on to find new converts.. seemingly indifferent to the political and economic vunerabilties they expose ‘the noble savages’ too …
and although here in aus it is very much seen as an anglo white supremists agenda it is clearly a centuries old method of dismantleing cohesive societies for ‘remapping’..
Ditto in US. Forcible removal of children to boarding schools with indigenous languages prohibited. The current struggle to preserve and teach language so that language is not lost.
There are a lot of really good comments under Ghassan’s article. Ghassan and I, in our own community, are watching on in horror at the lack of concern about the contents of this article.
I suppose every time a country goes through the mince meat machine of the Western Empire, there is the urgency of fighting those weaponized Takfiri on the ground and the lies of the political enemies and their media stooges.
There just doesn’t seem to be any energy or will left ( understandably) for examining another looming threat … One that like clockwork, knows when to move in like a scavenger on a war torn country and one that now has a great serendipitous gift … Social media where sweet appropriate words can ooze through the porous personal boundaries, potential networks identified and worked on, people contacted and groomed and, importantly, contacts with people inside Syria or connected to them who can start working on politicians and other community and religious leaders.
Because in our 5 1/2 year long social media defense of Syria activities no one except a few of us have objected to these Christian Zionists infiltrating, most “comrades” are de-sensitized to it all, and either taken in by them or just think it’s not a big issue. It is a HUGE issue.
I brought up this issue last week in my article
/orientalists-gatekeepers-evangelists-and-subverters-of-the-syrian-defense-community/
Evangelists and Wahabism share the same mind: extremism. Just that Christ words is all about love so it avoid them to handle guns to persuade normal people to believe their devilish faith. This is not the case with wahabism whose faith allow to kill all kouffar (unfaithfuls). Both are the same idea, using different methods.
Note that motivating force in the Palestine BDS movement is the Church Of Scotland – Presbyteran / Methodist – Uniting Church. They are not the type to kick people out but Hillary Clinton claims to be a member of the United Methodist Church and has called for sanctions on them for the support of the BDS. With the exceptions of independent offshoots like the Australian Presbyterian Church using theological basis they regard Zionism as bunkum and such a literalist interpretation absurd. If Hillary thinks the BDS is Anti-semitic the United Methodist Church should endorse Jewish Bernie who isn’t trying to ban it.
US politics is very divisive and there is a lot of reason why a “Pro-Life” Roman Catholic would not wan’t to endorce formerly Pro-Choice Pragmatic Agnostic Trump who “likes all parts of the Bible equally” – Babtist Canadian Hispanic Cruz was an odd choice but what were the Republican Candidate to choose from.
Newslimited Candidate was Ben Carson – Couldn’t pass medicine so took up a trade and became a Surgeon – Believes that Pi = 3 because he believes in a Literal interpretation of the O/T – “Pro-Life” yes but an Apistolic Chistian brain dead Rapture Believing Pentacostal. Alternatively there was a whole bunch of candidates put up by the Koch Brothers, most notably a Ted Cruz a Commie hating Cuban American who became a Latter Day Saint Post Pentacostal Masonic Mormon in 1979 and now pretends to be Catholic while promising to “melt the sand in the Syrian Desert” – like Tony Abbott what would Pope Francis say about him, not that he would listen to the Pope.
Note that motivating force in the Palestine BDS movement is the Church Of Scotland – Presbyteran / Methodist – Uniting Church. They are not the type to kick people out but Hillary Clinton claims to be a member of the United Methodist Church and has called for sanctions on them for the support of the BDS. With the exceptions of independent offshoots like the Australian Presbyterian Church using theological basis they regard Zionism as bunkum and such a literalist interpretation absurd. If Hillary thinks the BDS is Anti-semitic the United Methodist Church should endorse Jewish Bernie who isn’t trying to ban it.
US politics is very divisive and there is a lot of reason why a “Pro-Life” Roman Catholic would not wan’t to endorse formerly Pro-Choice Pragmatic Agnostic Trump who “likes all parts of the Bible equally” – Babtist Canadian Hispanic Cruz was an odd choice but what were the Republican Candidate to choose from.
Newslimited Candidate was Ben Carson – Couldn’t pass medicine so took up a trade and became a Surgeon – Believes that Pi = 3 because he believes in a Literal interpretation of the O/T – “Pro-Life” yes but an Apostolic Chistian brain dead Rapture Believing Pentacostal. Alternatively there was a whole bunch of candidates put up by the Koch Brothers, most notably a Marco Rubio a Commie hating Cuban American who became a Latter Day Saint Post Pentacostal Masonic Mormon in 1979 and now pretends to be Catholic while promising to “melt the sand in the Syrian Desert” – like Tony Abbott what would Pope Francis say about him, not that he would listen to the Pope.
I observed the “Babatists” doing the same thing in Haiti, & they are operating in Ethiopia, where they are known as ‘pentes.’ Hungry, desperate people are most vulnerable to these operations, which do provide medical care, jobs, food, at the price of evangelism. Their effectiveness is questionable. Most Haitians are still practicing the pagan belief system of Vodeu, their trance cult similar to zar. The pentes are minor players in Ethiopia, orthodox since 300, when 3 Syrian Christians converted the sovereign, Ezana, in Axum. I wouldn’t worry about their evangelism; their subversion of local cultural norms may be more insideous
Correction: insidious!
Is very important the theme you are explaining in this article. The western evangelism was applied to latinoamerica when the Cuban revolution won the war in Cuba and their ideas started to be spread all out centre and south America. The evangelism is an worst enemy than Daesh, you are right.
Some points that may help
I consider myself a post-Christian, i still believe in the Christ but reject the corrupt rebellious western “Churchianity”
Here in the west the churches are turning inwards and cannibalising each other.
The west (my part at least) is falling apart spiritually, morally, and financially.
How can churches (fair weather religion) that let their own societies slip into the abyss (on their watch) have anything solid to offer those riding the storm (Syrians)
Also the attitude of them is selfish, for instance I recently spoke to an old friend from my previous church movement.
I mentioned how I closely followed the Syrian conflict and his reply was:
“you know that’s only a distraction”
So up to half a million dead and millions without a home is just a “distraction” and the local church is all that matters?.
and here is the cold blooded reality of western christianity.
but how did we get so low, well your Daesh chronicles article nailed it on the head.
Like the the twisted interpretation of the koran the chritians in the west have a similar disease.
The root is that the people don’t want to face the truth written plainly in front of them in the verses, so they continue believing lies.
People who wont face the truth are the most dangerous.
we deluded ourselves into thinking that we actually care.
Iv’e challenged many of them and they wont talk to me anymore.
My country of new zealand is influenced heavily by american christianity, I see now that the zionists turned the christians into goy slaves that hold israel up as a golden calf They see anything outside of israel and the “church” as expendable.
Western zionist christianity is a cult of weakness that worships servitude.
The deeper the orthodox dig their spiritual wells the more immune they will be to this attack.
I know that its easy for me to say this from my currently safe (not for long though) country, but please understand that any help you receive from these people will open you up to their false doctrines that will capture your mind.
As they say a little leaven is enough.
Search their belief and doctrine and compare them to your truth and see the errors.
The bible is quite specific on how to deal with heretics
ie 2 Timothy 6:5
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
don’t be fooled by their jargon and apparent “intellectual superiority”
well hope this helps
This is a much needed perspective. Timely, accurate and required reading to understand the motives and objectives of Christian Zionists, who believe in Armageddon and pray fervently every day for the second coming of Christ.
Needless to say, the Christian Zionist movement have a lot of sway in American politics. This is why this dissection of the movement is so critical to be seen in context.
Thanks Ghassan Kadi for another fabulous work.
Recently an evangelist stated he was only helping Roman and Orthodox Catholics to have a ‘personal relationship with Christ’, in response to this article that warns about the political undermining of other cultures by evangelism. Here is an interesting analysis of the personal relationship as a response to a secular culture: “these sermons lack much sense that Christianity has anything to say beyond one’s personal relationship to God. In both conservative and liberal denominations, the language of conversion has been replaced by the language of personal relationship. The language of personal relationship fits with secularity; the traditional language of conversion, of trading faiths through a dying to self, does not.” http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2006/march-online-only/your-own-personal-jesus-is-language-of-personal.html
Here’s what a wise Roman and two of the founding fathers of the U.S said about these people :
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through…all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
“They (the Jews) work more effectively against us than the enemy’s armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pests to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.” Source: Maxims of George Washington by A.A. Appleton & Co.
As the American colonies rose in revolt against political oppression occasioned by the attempt of Jewish banking houses in Europe to consolidate their economic foothold in the New World, no man among the Founding Fathers was more alert to the designs of international Jewry than that shrewd elder statesman of the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps Ben Franklin’s most damning indictment of Jewry was contained in his famous prophecy at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia. In one of the most anti-Jewish utterances of all time, he declared: “I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the Jews. In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation was founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal. “For over 1700 hundred years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only amongst themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race. If you do not exclude them from these United States in the Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land, and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our substance, and jeopardized our liberty. “If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will or how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American’s, and will not even though they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention.” Franklin’s remarks were recorded in “Chit Chat Around the Table During Intermissions,” a section of the Diary of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney of South Carolina. Pickney (1746-1825) attended the Convention as a delegate, and took down excerpts of some of the outstanding addresses and discourses, which he later published in his diary. Perhaps the best proof of the Franklin prophecy—as with any prophecy—lies in its actual fulfillment. What Benjamin Franklin foresaw as an ominous possibility in 1787 has today—a little over two hundred years later—become painful reality.
Not all Christians are nuts. There still are few who follow the apostolic first gospel, obey it and do not follow late 300 a.d. orthodox Catholic pagen religion. God is still at work and pouring his spirit upon all flesh in these last days, as he said he would. Open your eyes and see God is still at work.