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Saturday, September 02, 2006
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
Jesus, Jihadists and a Just War
by Doug Giles
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Need an example?

Here’s one among many. The ecclesiastical lack of confrontation by the German Church in the early ‘30’s towards Hitler allowed him to wreak havoc in Europe. These “believers,” being focused on their own little world and being flaccid when they should have been firm, assisted Hitler by not resisting what was fermenting in Ole’ Yahoo’s demented pea brain.

The lack of involvement of the Deutsche Christens with what was going down in their day aided the destruction of everything they held dear—not to mention the lives of millions of Jewish people. Oops.

The German Church, which should have been a major player in defying Nazism, instead kum-ba-yah’d their way into Stupidville and assisted those goose-stepping asses in rolling out the red carpet for Adolph’s Mein Krap.

Twentieth-century German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was relentless in his attack upon the testicle-less Teutonic congregations of the thirties. He decried the thought that Christians were to turn the other cheek and tint their windows to such a violent, demented critter and seek a life of peace in some spiritual niche on the sidelines of life. He called such a squeamish, fish-stickered community a group of “salvation egoists,” an “escapist’s church” that was no longer the salt of the earth or the light of the world.

So. What do I suggest a Christian/Christian church should do? Try this . . .

Drop the repellently corny “let’s love ‘em” slop. You sound, and are, ridiculous. You have officially become nicer than Jesus. Look, I love the men, women and kids that have to live unwilling under the apocalyptically deluded dictates of these wizards, but that’s where it ends. The others can go to hell.

Pray biblical imprecatory prayers against the Islamo-fascists. See my Townhall.com column from 07/03/2004

Make the snuffing out of the life of any Islamo-fascist who has nuclear wet dreams a major issue in both how you vote and for whom you vote in the next 1,379 elections.

Send cash to Christian organizations ministering within the Axis of Evil nations. Church, take some cash from your offerings this Sunday and instead of having a portrait painted of your minister or buying a new pagoda for your senior pastor to sit on, send it to nervy missionaries who are attempting to bring good news into places governed by bad men.

* Logon to ClashRadio.com and check out Giles’ latest interview with Gregg Jackson, author of the must have book, Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.

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Imperviousness to Inconvenient Scripture
JimmyJoe,

If what I said in my last post "makes no sense to [you]at all", then what you so blithely refer to as "reality" is thin gruel, indeed.

I'll put it as plainly and simply as I can:

Our Lord and Savior, Whom we will all do well to emulate to the greatest degree possible each day of our lives, was offered worldy political power on a grand scale by Satan. Rather than denying that such power was (and is!) Satan's to give, Christ *rejected* Satan's offer. To the extent that anyone alive today endorses, as a member of an earthly kingdom or nation, acquiring and using political power against others, he or she is *accepting* Satan's offer.

Those who accept Satan's rather than Christ's offer("My kingdom is not of this world."), face the prospect of His judgement, as follows: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many deeds of power in your name?' Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers'."

In other words, He warns us that calling ourselves Christians, but then participating actively or passively in the Satanic machinations of worldy powers (only most *blatantly* as wars of aggression) is not exactly going to cut it as far as He is concerned.

Think here of the people who thought of themselves as Christians, yet who supported Adolf Hitler's aggression. Think, too, of the Americans who think of themselves as Christians, yet supported the invasion of another country that Pope John Paul (who, I should think was at least passingly familiar with Scripture, Just War Theory, and current events) called "immoral, illegal, and unjust."

Yes, you and Curt and everyone else in the world is free to disagree with me, the Pope, or with Christ, Himself regarding anything.

But when you tell me that you and I may have a "fundamental disagreement which all the scriptural quotations in the world won't bridge", you indicate, do you not, that you have closed your mind to the possibility of understanding Scripture in a new way that might require you to change your mind regarding the spiritual efficacy of (satanic) power politics, the most horrific manifestation of which is war?

Hoosier Daddy
This is going on and on. The point is that I do recognize the authority of the Pope. I was trying to explain to you that I am, as a Catholic, under the authority of the Church and Bishop of Rome. I cannot go against the teachings on faith and morals, but that doesn't mean that whatever a bishop or pope says is mandatory for me to believe. A pope only guards the Deposit of Faith, that of the apostles and the early church fathers. He can never claim absolute authority on anything else.
I recommend Catholic.com or EWTN.com for further help. Maybe this will help. God bless you.

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