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Christian Zionist's End Times: Election Reveals Cracks In Logic
By Charles E. Carlson
ccun.org, November 12, 2008
The 2008 election demonstrated the single mindedness of the
Christian-Zionist voting block; this time in a losing effort. They
were the biggest group of supporters for John McCain, who received over
62 million votes. The Pew Research Center estimated in advance
that some 26 million 'white evangelicals,' members of Judeo-Christian
Churches, like the one to which Sarah Palin belongs, would vote. They
did!
When the smoke cleared we are told about 73%
of the "evangelicals/born again" voted for McCain and 26% for Obama.
All other religious groups divided more evenly except Jews and Muslims.
Surprisingly 78% of Jewish voters picked Obama; "other faiths"
including Muslim, went 73% for Obama. Thus Christian Zionists
voted 180 degrees from the ethnic group they claim love to the most, and
the one they love to fear. Most "Born Again Christians" as the
Pew Exit Poll identifies them, qualify as Christian Zionists by We Hold
These Truth's test, but they would prefer to be called, evangelicals,
dispensationalists, Judeo-Christians, or even "the Christian Right."
Unfortunately, their unity of purpose is confused and is not centered on
Jesus' words; Jesus has to defer to the needs and desires of Israel.
Because they enthrone Israel,
Judeo-Christians have an endemic capacity to be misled on political
issues, including war. For instance they
oppose abortion of unborn children, but never discuss or observe the
violent killing of Arab children in a war zone, nor do they object to
Israel's massive state sponsored abortion program. We have clearly
explained their logic in a new DVD called The Roots of Christian
Zionism. In spite of the 'Obama landslide' it should not
be forgotten that Christian Zionists are not going away but appear that
both their numbers and their leadership are fraying and beginning to
flake off. However, they remain the largest and most powerful
single voting faction, and the most easily manipulated one.
Obviously this was not a normal election, with the biggest percentage
turnout since 1908 when people dearly cared about their vote, some paid
to vote and some ride horses for miles to the polls. Many we know
who are trying to follow Christ's words for peace, were horrified by the
war-committed McCain, but also did not trust Barack Obama to be free of
the Neo-Conservative political influence. We think evangelicals
want to be the first to share Jesus' values of loving your brother and
not killing his children. They did until they were shaped by
Oxford University's Scofield Reference Bible, and influence by world
Zionist lobbies, such as AIPAC and Unity Coalition for Israel.
They voted for McCain/Palin for religious reasons, as did 82% that voted
for G. W. Bush four years ago. Judeo-Christians may have been
the only group in America to take seriously the rumors that Obama is a
Muslim. Churches organized pre-election prayer sessions fearfully
asking God to deliver America from Obama; some referred to him as
'anti-Christ." Now deceased Jerry Falwell's Liberty University
gave its 10,000 students election-day off to work the polls for McCain/Palin.
Obviously, Jewish voters thought otherwise since nearly 80% of
them voting, voted for Obama, according to the Pew Foundation's exit
poll. It seems 26 million Judeo-Christians are out of touch with
the 2 million Jewish voters. Perhaps, the latter are not as
anxious for Armageddon! World Zionism and its Neo-Con
think-tanks have switched tactics of promoting fear of terrorism, as
with Day 9/11, to a new paradigm... fear and distrust of all Muslims,
including the neighbor and his children. Christian Zionists are
the most susceptible to this phobia, perhaps thinking McCain would
protect them from the 1.5% or less, Muslim neighbors. Tough guy,
anti-Arab talk has become acceptable among Judeo-Christians, as we have
learned from our many contacts with them, and is epidemic on national
network talk radio. Comments like 'Nuke-em all' or 'Turn it to
Glass' or worse, are commonplace. Film editor Tom Compton quips
that his fellow churchmen are 'my bloodthirsty brothers in Christ.'
The new Obama Administration will be under huge pressure from those who
financed it to make only a show of downsizing the Iraq War.
Neo-Conservatives who wrote The Project for the New American Century,
calling for war in Iraq, and international banking interests will
pressure Obama to continue and even escalate warring sanctions and
occupations of Islamic states. He has already opined that he favors
staying in Afghanistan, and Iraq will likely be stretched out.
Those Obama is considering for his key appointments seem to
indicate the Jewish voters knew what they were doing when they voted for
him, and Muslims may have been grasping at straws. Both these are
small groups compared to the many millions of Christian Zionists who
voted against Obama in fear. Christian Zionist leaders and
neo-conservative think-tanks have spewed "islamophobia" on
'conservative' talk radio, and internet sites that cater
to born-again listeners. Some radio celebrities could be arrested
for their inflammatory words, had hate crimes legislation not been
repeatedly rejected by Congress. We are lost to the tragedy of
our warring past made manifest. If you doubt that our past has
caught up with us, look at the stock market...down about a trillion
dollars in value the first two days after the Obama miracle. No
matter what Obama's intent, we must not forget that he is a politician.
And whatever is inside him will be pressed hard to be sublimated to the
Neo-Cons. A key was his choice of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is a
Zionist to the core. The Judeo-Christians remain the only
political faction driven directly by religious beliefs that war and the
support of the state of Israel is right, that distrust, even hatred, of
Israel's perceived enemy Islam, is a necessity and prophetic. They
ignore and refuse to discuss this question: Does killing of Arabs stand
in the way of one's hope for Heaven? Well meaning Christian
Zionists will change when they recognize that anti-Islam, or anti any
race, excludes following Christ, and is murder. Laymen
members need to walk out of Zionist churches in mass. Those who
teach an anti-scriptural, false faith will then collapse of their own
error. Americans can only then reclaim their heritage of a moral,
Christian influenced government. We think this is already well in
motion. The error of well-meaning members can be corrected with
patience and logic by challenging the religious beliefs of Judeo
Christians head on. The apostle Paul spoke of "reproving them" in
his letter to the Ephesians. We must not do less. If we
are to recover our influence over our own government we need help, and
to whom shall we turn? The answer remains in the moral
church-going millions. Mainline and orthodox churches are usually not
Judeo-Christians, and there are about 150,000 such traditional church
congregations, but they have been asleep at the switch. With their
renewed help we could empirically re-educate many of the 70
million influenced by Christian Zionism. Together, as we should
be, we could actually influence what our government does.
Strong evidence of 'confrontation' is in the air from mainline churches
(traditional Protestant and Catholic) and we will do what we can to
encourage it. We have called this The Great Turning in the Age of
Serial Wars. Let us look to a future where the swing vote
is not from a group with apocalyptic dreams of yet another war to usher
in mystic Armageddon. Come, be a part of it! Voting
Religiously By Pew Research: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1022/exit-poll-analysis-religion
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2670
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