Careful! The Baby May Go With The Bathwater
By Al Cronkrite The Covenant News ~ October 4, 2005
"In the Name of God, who based His creation of the heavens and earth on the principle of justice, and who founded the sustentation and propriety of human affairs on it; the God, who commanded human beings to cooperate in the path of righteousness and betterment and avoid ill-will, transgression and enmity; the God, who guided great prophets, including Moses and Jesus and the last of the prophets, Mohammad (peace be upon him) as well as all God-seeking and well-intentioned reformers to strive to establish justice and exalt the human status."
This was the opening statement of Dr. Mahmound Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic before the High-Level Plenary of the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 14, 2005.
Not being a fan of the United Nations and being convinced it may now be or have been a tool of the New World Order (the UN may have served its purpose and marginalization may begin), I did not watch the entire proceeding. Neither am I a fan of terrorism, Islam, Mahmound Ahmadinejad or the Nation of Iran. Nevertheless, I would be very surprised if any of the representatives of America, England, or Israel made the slightest reference to justice or to an overarching deity.
I have written previously about the danger involved in demonizing Islam. If the world's elites succeed in squelching Islam, Christianity will fall as well as Judaism and any other religions that support doctrinal exclusivity.
Though God created man in His Own image, it is impossible to access God's perfect perspective. However, it certainly seems plausible that He might be more pleased with the cultish display of devotion that characterized Dr. Mahmound Ahmadinejad's United Nations address than with the purely secular approach of other nations. At least the Iranian President has enough humility to acknowledge a higher power, flawed though he may be.
Iranians know America as the "Great Satan" and there is more than a little evidence for this characterization. A British paper published an article about cage fighting in America's heartland. Two men fight in a cage where anything goes except attaching body orifices. In San Francisco gay men, some naked, some dressed in leather, parade in the streets carrying instruments of bondage. Writer David Rackoff, a self described Socialist, gay, bitter, Jewish Canadian, who is ambivalent over recently becoming an American citizen is the featured noontime interview on National Public Radio. In Florida, our local newspaper contained the tale of a man on trial for attempted murder who had used a machete to attack two other young men who claimed to be vampires, they had cut their arms and were sucking each others blood and kissing each other. He said he had been frightened.
Much of the Western World has institutionalized homosexuality. In several nations, it is illegal to speak pejoratively of homosexuality, Jews, or the Nation of Israel. These distinctly secular groups are protected by law while the Islamic nations who defer to their God and both individually and nationally obey his ordnances are demonized.
The Devil hates Christianity with all the hate that man can generate. The hate homosexuals have for Godly righteousness is reflected in the hate the secular nations of the Western World have for Islam. It is a hate that requires the cruelest of punishments. Jesus was hung on a cross right side up. Peter was hung on a cross upside down. As the Roman crowd cheered, hungry lions were released on hapless Christians at the Coliseum. While much ado is made of the Holocaust, millions of Americans who claim to be Christian ignore the perennial Christian Holocaust with almost the same disdain as our Jewish controlled press.
Yes, we often find ourselves supporting the very thing we hate. While we demonize Islam we promote Judaism and Israel in spite of the fact that both have an equal animosity toward Christianity. If you doubt Jewish antipathy toward Our Lord, watch a few of Hollywood's motion pictures and see how Christians are portrayed. Better yet, go to Israel and flaunt your Christian beliefs, proselytize - be sure you make prior arrangements to get out of jail for that is where you may go.
A very well informed lady persuaded into Dispensationalism wrote me last week contending that God was not finished with the Jews. She may be correct. It is nevertheless interesting that at the time of Abraham, God considered Faith as righteousness. This emphasis on Faith continues through entrance into the Promised Land and the remainder of the Biblical narrative. When Faith in the benevolent enablement of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is not publicly acknowledged, righteousness is missing and support for those endeavors is sin.
Bush supporters are safe; his big tent, big god, egalitarian religion is compatible with plans for the new world order and his secular government will be no threat to you as long as you continue with the effete, antinomian, End Times Christianity, blindly support his government and the Nation of Israel, while expressing hate and revulsion for Islam and Muslims.
The complaints and ultimate persecution will be aimed at Dominionists and at those who seek a Godly legal system for they are the only threat to the egregious evil looming in our future. Law sets the religious base of society. Changes in our laws have changed the culture of America. Secular congressmen produce secular laws and secular judges produce secular decisions.
Bush's new world religion and American Christianity have in common an inordinate inclusiveness. Inclusiveness is a by-word of the New World Order. Words like exclusive or absolute have been removed from the dictionary of the Proletariat and the dwindling Bourgeois; only the elite can use these words. Right and wrong are also in that category. The authoritarians define them.
The October 3 issue of the New American has a short article about newly crowned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts' close friend Richard Haas. Haas has written a book entitled "The Opportunity" that is reportedly admired by Justice Roberts. The book discusses the progress of the New World Order. Hass, who is described as running the Council On Foreign Relations, writes that "sovereignty is conditional, even contractual, rather than absolute". He predicts that, "The world 35 years from now will be semi-sovereign" and "It will reflect the need to adapt legal and political principles to..the most serious challenges." (Emphasis mine.)
Remember "Situational Ethics"? Situational ethics was devised by a British Anglican theologian named Joseph Fletcher who believed that love was the highest law and should be the standard for Christian behavior. It was strongly resisted by Christians back in the 60s and 70s. As with most of the Christian wars with evil, it was without balm and was unsuccessful. Since "love" is vague and subject to wide interpretation it fits well with secular plans and will be a focus of the coming world government.
Christians who hate Muslims and the legal system that has developed around Islam need to understand that if our government succeeds in defeating it and replacing it with the controlled secular government they call Democracy, they will have succeeded in squelching Christianity as well.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn found a haven in America when he was an exile from Russia. There will be no exiles from the coming world government. All of the world will be incorporated and as President Bush explained, you will either be "with us or against us".
During the Twentieth Century, secular governments were sustained by the murder of millions of their citizens. There is good reason to believe that the Twenty First Century may surpass the Twentieth. Purges are a convenient way to decrease the population of the world. Some say it should be halved; that would make 3 billion citizens expendable and why not expend those that are "against us"?
I can understand Alexander Solzhenitsyn's longing for his native Russia. I long for the America in which I grew up.
The text of President Mahmound Ahmadinejac's address and some representative partisan comments are available at this site.