By Chuck Baldwin
Thursday, August 9, 2007
That today's Christians appear to be among the most gullible people onthe planet seems to be a gigantic understatement. For example, it wasjust a couple or three decades ago when the largest and mostinfluential churches in America were pastored by strong Bible men: menwho preached hard against sin; men who didn't try to tickle ears anddidn't mind stepping on toes; men who were not afraid to call civiland business leaders to account; men who called a spade a spade. Thosedays are gone.
Today, the largest and most influential churches are pastored byfluff-daisies such as Joel Osteen, Bill Hybels, and Rick Warren: menwho preach entertainment evangelism, political correctness, andfeel-goodism. Today's largest churches share absolutely nothing incommon with America's historic revival-style churches. How canChristians be so gullible to fall for these snake oil salesmen?
Consider, too, how so many Christians seem to consider PresidentGeorge W. Bush's "war on terror" to be bona fide and legitimate. Yet,this escalating and never-ending "war on terror" is doing more to ruinAmerica than anything Osama bin Laden could ever dream about.
The war in Iraq is not only depleting our military readiness, it isfacilitating America's entrance into fascism and even endangering oureconomic stability. According to the Congressional Budget Office,Bush's "war on terror" will soon cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 trillion.Private economists say the actual figure will double that prediction.It is no hyperbole to say that Bush's war in Iraq has Americateetering on the brink of economic recession or worse.
Beyond that, Bush's "war on terror" has convinced Americans (includingmany Christians) that they need to surrender more and more libertiesin order to be "secure." And for those Democrats who expected thattheir party's congressional victories last November would help thwartBush's insidious infatuation with fascism, they didn't. CongressionalDemocrats have caved to the Bush "surrender your liberties or faceterrorism" hysteria time and again. In fact, just before breaking fortheir current recess, Democrats in Congress approved Bush's latestrequest to expand warrantless wiretaps and eavesdropping.
.Bush's war is also working hand in glove with the Council on ForeignRelations (CFR) blueprint for a North American Union, including aNAFTA superhighway and an increase of imports from Communist China. Infact, Jerome Corsi reveals that the bridge collapse in Minneapolislast week could be largely due to the extra burden of trucks comingfrom Mexico, per Bush's SPP agreement with Mexico and Canada.If this is true, and I suspect that it is, we can expect to see moreof this in the months to come.
Even Newt Gingrich, a globalist insider himself, said that Bush's waron terror is "phony." .
Consider, too, that in spite of a dangerous lack of inspections of allproducts imported from China (including food products) President Bushis determined to increase imports from the communist country. Hisadministration is now even working to loosen restrictions againstpoultry products from Red China. This is being done in spite of thedismal track record of China's health standards. One could even saythat China's food imports may be poisoning Americans. And not onlydoes this administration not care, it is in the process of assistingthis atrocity.
Plus, this does not even take into account how Red China is supplyingweapons and ammunition used to kill American soldiers and Marines, orhow it is obtaining much of Iraq's oil, or how this "president,proudly bestowing upon himself the title of 'war president,' supportstrade policies with China that actively undermine the nationalsecurity interests of the United States and our armed forces." Neitherdoes it take into account "that under the administration's prevailingtrade policies, America's chief export to China consists of U.S. jobs,which are disappearing at an estimated rate of 2,250 per day."
In spite of all this, (and a whole lot more), Christians still supportBush in large numbers. How can they be so gullible?
I believe one of the reasons, if not the main reason, that Christiansare so gullible lies in a mistaken, and even dangerous, intrinsictrust of government. I hear and see this attitude expressed among mybrethren constantly.
Part of this problem stems from an illogical and unscripturalinterpretation of Romans Chapter Thirteen. Christians have beendrilled (and dare I say, brainwashed?) into believing that governmentis endemically good and should be thoroughly trusted. Of course, thiswas not the belief of America's Founding Fathers, and neither was itthe belief of Church Fathers.
In fact, our entire system of government is predicated upon adeep-rooted DISTRUST of government. Our three branches of governmentstem from the suspicion that no one branch could be thoroughly trustedand must have at least two other branches to help keep it in check.Yet, even that was not considered enough of a deterrent to combat thepropensity of government to become tyrannical. What the separatebranches of the federal government could not do to police each other,the states and people were to do. In other words, if Christians werereally good Americans, they would distrust, not trust, theirgovernment.
Of all people, Christians should understand the fallen nature of man:that man in a sinful state is capable of anything (unless they attenda "Purpose Driven" church, of course). How is it, then, that theycannot seem to comprehend the evil machinations of people in highoffice? Are they totally taken in by the "I am a Christian" faade somany politicians use? Perhaps.
However, I believe that constant preaching from milquetoast preachersinstructing their people to trust their government is the mainculprit. The lack of discernment and courage of America's pulpits isfrightening. They have produced a generation of Christians incapableof understanding, much less opposing, the manifestations of evil andoppression.
I doubt that most American pastors have even heard of, much less read,R. J. Rummel's book, Death By Government, in which he factuallydocuments that more people have been murdered by their own governmentsthan by all of the world's terrorists, gangsters, and outlawscombined. They have probably never read Frederic Bastiat's book, TheLaw. They have never read Erwin Lutzer's book, Hitler's Cross. I'msure they have never heard of or read the book Vindiciae, ContraTyrannos, one of the most famous of the Monarchomach treatises everwritten, which advances a systematic justification of resistanceagainst legitimately constituted political authority. I doubt thatthey have ever read William Rawle's A View Of The Constitution,Secession As Taught At West Point, etc.
In other words, most American pastors are unschooled and untaught inthe finer points of Biblical authority, the doctrine of jurisdiction,the causes and necessities of civil disobedience, constitutionalgovernment, natural law, etc. As such, they have not taught andtrained their congregants to be good Christians, much less goodAmericans.
In short, Christians are blind and gullible because our pulpits areblind and gullible. As the shepherd goes, so go the sheep.
(Please help me locate the Black Regiment preachers. See: chuckbaldwinlive.com)
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