Q. Your last post was a non-response. What is the Christian
position in response to ISIS?
A. There isn't one. At least not a geo-political response.
Looking for a Christian solution to the Middle Eastern
situation is like saying...
The remnants of the Achaemenids are rising up and resisting
Alexander the Great's installed governments across Central Asia. What's the
Jewish or Christian response?
Well, there isn't one. It's Babylon v. Babylon and little
more than that. Who is right and who is wrong? It's all kind of absurd.
Alexander stole his empire from the Achaemenids. They stole
it from the Babylonians and many others. It never ends. The game goes on and
on. Which thief and murderer is right and has the true claim? The very notion
is ridiculous.
There is no honour among thieves.
Our message to ISIS, America, Iraq and all the rest...
Repent or you shall all likewise perish.
As far as the situation goes.... As I said I fully expect
the USA to act. Of course they will. The ISIS gang makes Al Qaeda look like
pansies.
But for every solution they will create more problems.
The empowerment of the Kurds will further destabilize the
region. The already tense relationship with Turkey will possibly be put under
greater stress. Kurdish independence will send shockwaves across the region.
Will it happen? It just might.
Obama said in his 10 September speech that they want to help
the Christians and other minorities in Iraq... Yezidis etc...
Really?
First of all these Christian groups are ethnic Christians,
not Christians by any Biblical definition. They are basically Nestorian,
Orthodox and Catholic groups none of which follow Scripture or possess anything
remotely resembling the New Testament Gospel.
That said I don't want to see anyone hurt or killed. I don't
call them brethren. I call them human beings.
Obama will 'help' them in Iraq but at the same time the USA
is going to stir the pot in Syria and help the 'Moderate' Sunni rebel groups
against Assad and ISIS.
But the Christians and other minorities in Syria all support
Assad. They don't feel like Obama is helping them at all.
The Shiites, Druze, Syriac Christians and Alawites all
support Assad and don't want to see moderate Sunnis or ISIS take over.
The breakup of Syria will generate further regional chaos.
It will spread in Iraq (as it already has), into Turkey, Lebanon and possible
extend to Iran and Jordan.
We could also talk about how these events are affecting
Chechnya etc... but that's for another time.
Again, these people (the US and other powers) go in and bomb
and create the chaos. And then when the chaos reaches critical mass... everyone
is supposed to feel morally bound and obligated to intervene?
Speaking pragmatically it would be one thing if they wanted
to just destroy ISIS but Obama made it clear they want to help the rebels
against Assad as well.
I realize of course that to defeat ISIS in Syria is
impossible to do apart from the greater context of the Syrian Civil War.
But will the solution be better than the problem?
Time will tell won't it?
There is no solution to any of this. Empires are tragic. The
only greater tragedy is their breakup. This is worsened by the breakup being
facilitated by outside powers that do not understand the region.
Look at the breakup of the British Empire in Africa and on
the Indian Subcontinent. We're still dealing with it.
Let Babylon USA go and bomb. That's what it seems to do
best.
As Christians we denounce the whole project... meaning the
United States of America, with all its hypocrisies and lies. Physically
speaking there have been a handful of other powers more destructive than the
USA. Spiritually speaking, I cannot think of any. Only the British Empire comes
close.
And yet at the moment we can be thankful that we live in the
American lie instead of the ISIS lie. That's really about what it comes down
to.
This notion... Mohler and others propagate.... that this is
somehow our 'stewardship'... to 'police' the world and lead (meaning bomb)...
is just theological nonsense. These constructs are all derived from
Constantinian assumptions and are in fact heretical. These theological
abominations are what make America (as they understand it) a Satanic Empire.
