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The Religious Wars of the 21st Century, an Update: Part 3, Does God Require Americans to Support Israel?

Posted in Israel, Politics, tagged , on November 26, 2023| 1 Comment »

People gathered on the National Mall in Washington on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, for the March for Israel rally. Credit…Leigh Vogel for The New York Times

“If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you….”

  • Bill Clinton before the Israeli Knesset, October 27, 1994

In his essay “Who Really Owns the ‘Holy Land’?,”[1] Robert Reymond quoted President Bill Clinton’s words before the Israeli Knesset.  The full quote in his paper reads,

If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you…it is God’s will that Israel, the Biblical home of the people of Israel, continue forever and ever…Your journey is our journey, and America will stand with you now and always.”

Now some may find such rhetoric surprising coming from Bill Clinton.  After all, isn’t Clinton a Democrat, and, as we are told, Democrats hate all things Israel? Isn’t rabid support for Israel a conservative Christian Republican thing?  Well, not so fast.  Yes, conservative Republicans certainly are big supporters of Israel, in particular, conservative Republican dispensationalist Christians.   But support for Israel crosses party lines.

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Radio Lux Lucet 104: Thanksgiving 2023

Posted in Radio Lux Lucet, tagged on November 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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The Religious Wars of the 21st Century, an Update: Part 2, Israel’s Palestinian Problem and Ours

Posted in Israel, tagged , , , on November 19, 2023| 4 Comments »

Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks at a Christians United for Israel event on July 19, 2022

Agents of both Israel and Rome are active in the United States, both gathering intelligence and influencing policy. The U. S. government is manipulated by foreign interests. Both Israel and the Vatican see the United States as their proxy in this religious war.

  • John Robbins, “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century”

I’ve written extensively in the space about the Vatican’s manipulation of the government of the United States, in particular as it relates to immigration.  Israel and its manipulation of the American government, not so much. It’s always seemed like a daunting task to me.     

But the recent events surrounding what’s being called the Israel-Hamas War have served both to bring that manipulation to light and to make commenting on it all the more necessary. 

A recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) titled “The West Should Welcome Gaza Refugees: Europe and the U.S. accepted millions who fled earlier wars”[1] makes a good place to begin this examination.    

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Headed Downhill and Picking up Speed: Ohio’s Election Disaster

Posted in Abortion, Politics, tagged , , , , , on November 12, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Elizabeth Chasteen Day, organizing director for ACLU of Ohio, cheers during a gathering for supporters of Issue 1 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus. Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch.

But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:16

A note to the reader…Before starting on this week’s post, I want to let you know that, Lord willing, I plan to pick up my recent series on “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century, and Update” starting next week.  This weekend I was out of town and that played havoc with my usual writing schedule. And wanting to post something, I thought I’d offer my thoughts on Ohio’s much-commented-on election results from last Tuesday. 

On Tuesday, November 7, Ohio voters shocked the nation by voting to add a very liberty abortion provision to the state’s constitution and passed a law legalizing the sale and taxation of marijuana.  Commenting on the abortion vote, one article I saw had the headline “The Ohio Vote is Only the First Step in America’s Descent into the Valley of Death’s Shadow.”[1] To which I thought, “I’m not so sure.”  Not to defend the vote or abortion generally.  That’s not what I mean.  What I mean is that it certainly isn’t the first step in America’s descent to destruction.  The West in general, and America in particular, have been collapsing for well over a century.  Tuesday’s vote was hardly the first step in our destruction.  We’ve been taking such steps for my entire life, and I’m 57 years old.  I was born in 1966 and America was even then in the throes of the sexual revolution and the hippie sex, drugs, and rock and roll culture. The Civil Rights Movement was destroying civil rights and feminism was on the rise.

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The Religious Wars of the 21st Century: An Update, Part 1

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on November 5, 2023| 2 Comments »

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) answers questions after a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting on Thursday, November 2, 2023.

Speaking before a Republican Jewish Committee audience, newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said,

Steve Scalise mentioned that my first act as the Speaker was to bring the resolution to make formal and official in the Congressional record our resolve to stand with Israel and against the barbarism of Hamas and all of its accomplices.  But I want you to know it’s not an accident that the first resolution was for Israel and my first trip was to come and be with you.  I want everybody to know where we stand…Israel and the US enjoy an unbreakable bond.  It’s forged over decades, of course, of bi-lateral assistance and there are lots of reasons that we do that…Last night I spoke with him [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] on the telephone.  The Prime Minister called me, and I used those very words myself.  I said, “Bibi, it’s good over evil; it’s light over darkness” …I assured the prime minister of our unwavering support of Israel and her people, and I assured him that our Congress and under my leadership we will be there until the end.  We will be there until the end of this conflict. As a Christian, I know and we believe that the Bible teaches very clearly that we’re to stand with Israel; that God will bless the nation that blesses Israel….[1]

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