Why Some Christians Enable the Neo-Crusade and Others Oppose

By Charles E. Carlson

Every follower of Christ must protest the callousness of celebrity Judaized Christian leaders toward the Arab people and Islam in
general; we must object to the policy of the gradual liquidation of the Palestinians, which is justified by Israel, supported by our
dollars from Washington, and enabled by the support of churchmen popularly called the "Christian Right." If your church is one that is
silent, we ask you to learn and protest its enabling silence.

There is no Christian basis for racism in church. Jesus Christ spoke not one word that can in any way be interpreted to support the killing and taking of one people's land by another. Judaized Christian laymen need to follow Jesus and not their celebrity leaders. We must first object from inside the church, knowing we may be heard. We must then leave the church without hesitation and without a look back, as Christ told his disciples to do when they were rejected. Our churches support "public policy" toward Israel, which can be summarized as the gradual liquidation of the Palestinian people, and serial wars against other tribes. It is impossible to be both a follower of Christ to be a party to this.

We must also recognize that "war" is and has been an economic policy of our country for two generations. War is whispered to be good
business, and indeed it is for a few, including politicians, but is a sin for those who call themselves by Christ's name. God's people are
expected to place a higher standard on life than we can expect from politicians. Mr. Bush is exposing, by his example, Judaized
Christianity and its selfishness and callousness toward life.

Judaized Christian churches have adopted de facto, a racist theology that endorses a favored, or "chosen people." So-called Christian
leaders have and are willing and ready to condemn a not-favored tribe to death. The unfavored tribe is any tribe that is at odds with
political Israel, including the tribes of Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Lebanon. Judaized Christianity is an American spawning. If those who
are committing the sin of supporting genocidal "wars" understand that they have nothing to gain and everything to lose, they will stop.
Judaized Christians are numerous and are part of a huge communication network. It is part of the media and partly entertainment business. It may influence fully half of the American population. Anyone who doubts this need only to watch TBN television for a few hours of Benny Hinn and John Hagee, and count the evangelical churches in your phone book.

THE ABUSE OF SCRIPTURE
Israel bases its claim to Arab lands on the Christian version of the Old Testament. Genesis, Chapter 12:1-3, is its argument and is
supposedly similar to the Torah. God makes a promise to a man named Abram, whose grandson was called "Israel." Here, to quote from the King James Version, is the verse that is the subject of which may be the most monstrous distortion of Scripture in the modern history of Christianity:

"(1) Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I
will show thee;
[2] And I will make of thee a great nation,"......"

The passage seems plain enough; God orders Abram go out and break new ground, promising that He, God, will lead him, protect him, give him a big family, and in the next verse, God promises Abram that he will have an undisclosed place in history that men will find to be a universal blessing.

"(3) And in thee all the nations of the earth will be blessed" (King James Version).

This blessing is not explained, but the one and only traditional view of this bit of Old Testament history is that from Abraham's family
will come the Messiah, Christ the Lord. This is the significance of Abraham in Christian history.

Similarly, composer Frederick Handel found the words for his lyrics of the wonderful oratorio, Messiah, in the Old Testament book of Isaiah, of interest to followers of Christ because it is a prophesy of Christ, the Messiah's coming. .

The present-day state of Israel's political leaders plucked the land argument, not from the footnotes of the Judaized Christians' contrived
study bible; this handy but faulted land deed was planted there a generation earlier by those who paid or otherwise influenced a
convicted, professional forger named Cyrus I Scofield.

Today's Zionists interpret these few words to Abram as a promise of a land grant to the state of Israel, which did not exist until 3000
years after the "promise." To them, it is a sort of last will-and-testament for perpetual ownership of what amounts to be most
of the Middle East.   This blood-related gift assumes all Israelis are Abraham's physical heirs. There is no proof of this, but Oxford Press
actually wrote this in the Scofield Bible footnotes after Scofield's death. There is not a strand of Abraham's DNA connecting Prime
Minister Sharon, or any other Israeli, to anyone in the Bible.

But even if Ariel Sharon could prove his DNA matches Abraham's to the nub, so what? Land is not conferred by lineage without a deed. Arab lands, those that have value, have land titles and records of occupancy. Arabs have deeds. Most Israelis I've met said, as Ariel
Sharon says, "God gave it to us," not caring in the least if one believes them, because they do not believe it themselves.

Judaized Christians in the US also proudly support Israeli racist hate groups operating both in the US and Israel.   Some of these
organizations are too radical even for the Israelis, who consider them a threat to peace. One anti-Arab hate group that calls itself
Christians for Israel's Biblical Land Right (CIBLR)* is touring the US with a movie aimed at Christian audiences, Judaizing them into an
unconditional support of Israel's brutal efforts in holding possession of what is left of the Palestinians' land. The movie does the fanatical C. I. Scofield one better by interpreting Genesis 12 as follows:

"God unconditionally promised all the land to Israel forever" (2) "Israel (the present state) will be a blessing to all the other nations of the world."

How brazen. This Israeli organization, masquerading as followers of Christ, tells us God's promise did not mean a Savior named Jesus, but instead means that God's promise of a blessing to the world is through a corrupted, agnostic warring state with one of the highest abortion rates in the world, that conveniently named itself "Israel." What an insult to Jesus, what blight on the name of Christ, and those who follow Him! Amazingly, CIBLR raises its funds from Judaized Christians.

Are we expected to believe, contrary to all traditional teachings, that this politically criminal and remarkably immoral oligarchy is
God's blessing to all nations?   Judaized arguments for Israeli land rights fall apart like termite-infected wood when you pick them up to
look at them. The only truly honest way to characterize the Judaized Christian position is "Balderdash!" which means, pompous nonsense.

IT IS STILL OK TO BE A TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN
Traditional thinking is not extinct. Mainline Protestants and Orthodox Christianity lost membership to the evangelicals over the
last 125 years after the then neo-evangelical movement was dumped on our shores, another gift from England, where it never flourished.

In contrast to the Judaized Christians and the Israelis, American mainline churches clearly state the traditional Christian interpretation of Genesis 12. For instance, the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELCA), uses a reference book called The Accent Bible (I found in the pews of one church) which provides a single definitive footnote explaining Genesis 12:1-3. It clearly states that the blessing was the Messiah called Jesus who would come to bring salvation to all men.

The overwhelming majority of Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, and Orthodox leaders, regardless of what other faults they may have, teach that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophesies. They also do not teach the Judaized idea of a new temple in Jerusalem, mystical wars, a red heifer sacrifice, Armageddon, and imminent end times, or a convenient "rapture" for the few. Most mainline Reverends, Pastors, and Priests would at least admit that their faith does not support the idea of a political state of Israel as a God icon, nor that Israel should be appeased by throwing one Arab country after another upon its burning altars.

But we find that few Catholics, Orthodox Priests, or Muslim Clerics, or mainline Pastors would be able to explain the powerful political
forces that have supported Judaized Christianity since it snowballed beginning in the late 19th Century. They will privately acknowledge
the apostasy of Judaized Christianity, but have no explanation as to its amazing growth.

Radical commentaries influence potential followers
The Judaized Christian movement is only 125 years old, at most. It won its early converts from the complacent mainline churches in the early 20th Century, offering a religion of selfishness and rapture watching, to one of that required but failed to demand service and dedication. The old church lacked sincerity; the new one offered sincere and loving self-service. But now mainline laymen have also been "Judaized" with outside church bible studies, and by bible guides and reference books bought in Judaized bible bookstores written by Timothy LaHaye and thousands of other commentators.

Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians, especially women, have been active in the popular Precepts Ministries, Bible Study
Fellowship, and Community Bible Study, all of which are proudly Judaized. Mainline churches even loan their facilities for their studies. This, we think, can be likened to the hens renting the coup to the foxes for night school. Commentaries published by Judaized Christian authors commonly find their way into traditional church members' homes.

One of the most damaging and successful was by Henrietta C. Mears, who died in 1963, who wrote: What the Bible is All About. It has sold over 4 million copies in numerous editions since 1953, and is graced by a forward by Billy Graham.   Mainline libraries and bookstores still sell reprint books of it. Mears says on page 40: "He (God) called a man named Abram to ...go to an unknown land where
God would make him the father of a mighty nation. This begins the story of God's chosen people, Israel."

In 1953, the traditional Christian view could have been, but was not, "This is the first prophesy of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord."
The tribe of Israelites had no longer existed when Mears wrote her book in 1953, but Israel had just come into existence in 1948. She
had to know she was ignoring what Christ said and imputing God's promise to a state that did not exist until 3000 odd years after
Abraham. Obviously, Henrietta Mears, like the "Left Behind" rapture fiction of Tim LaHaye, and Hal Lindsay, believed the now political
state was a prophecy fulfilled. This is what Judaized Christians believe as a cornerstone of their "faith."

Mears stretches the bible into preposterous fictions in her book, WHAT THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT, such as her chapter entitled, "Understanding Matthew," wherin on page 361 she wrote: "He (Jesus) foretold the coming of the world after his ascension until He comes back in glory to judge the nations as to their treatment of His brethren, the Jews (Matthew 25)."

Mears goes on to emphasize, lest anyone mistake her meaning, "It is the judgment of the gentile people concerning their attitude toward
God's people."

Thus, she makes Jesus to be a racist in total distortion of what He is reported to have said in this very chapter. Christ's words, in fact,
say nothing about the "Jews" or any race, but refer to the necessity of each follower to do onto the least of his "brethren" as if one is
doing the act to, or for, Christ Himself.   We are, as Christ says, to be judged worthy of "heaven" based upon these acts of kindness to the least of our brethren (all men, even including our enemies). This is also amplified in Jesus' story of the Good Samaritan. Our kindness is clearly not to be judged based upon what race the recipient belongs to.

Miss Mears uses almost the exact words found in the footnotes of the Scofield Reference Bible on page 1037, placed there in 1967, by Oxford University Press. , Oxford exceeded Miss Mears in brazen chutzpa by declaring "anti-Semitism" to be a "sin" in its page 19 footnote of the same edition, and then stated that nations will be punished for this sin. Oxford University Press is so secular it must not have know that nations do not sin, men do.

The blame for the Neo-Crusade and every bit of destruction in the Middle East should properly be placed on those leaders, be they the
Christian Right or the mainline Pastors and Priests who are required by their own faith to demand peace, and yet instead, accept, if not
openly campaign for, what they erroneously call "war." I am not the first one to notice this and write it down. F. Furman Kearney
explained it in his classic 1986 book, MIDDLE EAST CRISIS IN BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE, in which he used the scholars' term "pre-millennnialist," where we say Judaized Christian.

"Militant pre-millennialism and Zionism must bear the moral responsibility for recent bloodshed in the Middle East and for more
extensive bloodshed in World War III, if it comes as predicted by militant pre-millennialism." And, "Had the state of Israel not been established in 1947, the history of the Middle East for the last 35 years would be entirely different. We cannot, of course, know what history would have been. We can know, however, that bloodshed during the last 35 years has been caused by pre-millennial and Zionistic agitation that resulted in the creation of the state of Israel."

Kearley, who was a professor at Abilene Christian University, and head of its graduate studies program, also opined that the blame lies in Christians who "cannot pray for peace in the Mid-East" and who are blinded by the very prejudice that Jesus would denounce.   Dr. Kearley understood and wrote this clearly, five years before the first bombing of Iraq in 1990. Judaized-Christians were already enabling what he called "World War III" against Islam.

We agree with Dr. Kearley; it is the Judaized Christian churches in America who are primarily responsible for the systematic annihilation
of the people of Iraq, Gaza, and a dozen other past and pending sites. They are also responsible for the 1500 American lives lost, which only scratches the surface of the lives destroyed and scarred by those who forced them to perform extermination of others.

The mainline denomination leaders, who understand the heresy and say nothing, share the guilt. However, it is with the latter group that
reform may and can begin.   This time they must reform the Judaized. One could accurately reduce Judaized Christianity's dilemma to a
bumper sticker slogan that every mainline church needs to proclaim: "JESUS, NOT ISRAEL, IS THE FULFILLMENT OF BIBLE PROPHESY."

If the mainline churches would tell the truth about the corruption of Scriptures and were unafraid to discuss the baselessness of the
Judaized Christianity, they would start to win back the lost multitudes from the Judaized ranks. Some show signs of doing this.
The World Council of Churches, the Presbyterian Church USA, and the American Episcopal Church are among groups condemning, sanctioning, or devesting of companies who do war business with Israel.*

Judaized Christian churches are led to believe serial wars are in their best interest but they, too, will find themselves to be victims.
Some already are victims: How many of our dead military are no doubt from American Judaized churches, where not "serving" is thought of as un-patriotic, especially against Israel's percieved enemies. But the Neo-Crusade is also destructive to members who are balancing their beliefs against their children's lives.   Judaized Christian laymen should be and can be persuaded to abandon their support of the Neo-Crusade. They need to embrace peace as Jesus did. They soon will do so because they will learn it is not in their best material interest, and they are the spiritual victims.