While I have been in wonderment over the last several years as to how we have seen the light and changed the error of our ways and are now completely anti-anti-Semitic, like we turned off a light switch or something, I have at the same time understood that it is only an illusion. The truth is we have become the best of buds with some Jewish people because we perceive it as being in our interest and in the interim we have found another group of Semites to vent our hatred on, Muslims. (Semite refers more to language than a group of people and since the majority of Muslims speak a Semitic language they are now the Semite de jour to hate) Not to mention the Muslims political utility of being a scapegoat for a common enemy whose threat requires that we give up all of our rights without question.

Having grown up in a fundamentalist church, (however I am no longer having to attend therapy to deal with that part of my life and it only took 20 years to accomplish!) I grew up with the understanding that Jews we just evil, period. Although it was not clearly stated, at least not to my satisfaction as to why they were evil, besides of course not believing in the savior, it was just a de-facto truth, they were evil. And as a child if you want to get ostracized quickly in the fundamentalist church of the time period just ask the question, "Wasn't Jesus a Jew"? From that point forward my being a cute boy in the church went straight downhill never to recover.

I have over the last couple of years started asking some of my Jewish friends about these organizations in Israel who are jumping in bed with these Christian Zionist groups and inquiring, do they just not know how dangerous these people are? I have tried to explain to them that if you think these people are your friends you are seriously mistaken and at some point are in for a very rude awaking. Just let Israel one day decide that fighting with their neighbors in the Middle East is just not getting them where they want to go and then decide that they are going to stop killing each other and find a way to get along and you will find anti-semitism will return at warp speed and with a vengeance.

However, I finally had to conclude that they, like many liberals around the country I have talked with over the last several decades, really just do not understand how depraved Christian fundamentals are and just how really dangerous that makes them, especially now that they have some political power and clout. It is just not part of their experience and they tend to think they are just eccentric religious fanatics but their rhetoric of claiming the world for Christ is just ideology. Having been raised that it was my obligation as a Christian that, post secondary schooling, to focus all of my available time, talent and energies to obtain that goal I can attest that it is not just empty rhetoric.

While it may be a news flash to some, their having obtained some political control of government today is what was being advocated as a requirement of being a real Christian in the 60's and we were obligated to accomplish at all cost, that is if we wanted to be right with Christ on judgement day. So no, it is not just ideology, it is a plan of action which from my perspective they have been frighteningly successful at. Let there be no mistake, these people really do want to take over the world and make it a Christian theocracy and have no qualms as to methodology utilized to reach said stated goal.

by Neotheo on Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 05:39:17 PM EST