Pompeo should fill all Christians
with righteous indignation. His statements should fill us with dread.
Pompeo sadly displays signs of reprobation, of a conscience
that has been seared. He blindly serves the American Empire and is an apologist
for its crimes, for its thefts and murders and even worse he does these things
even while claiming to be a 'Christian' leader, serving in an especially corrupt
and morally offensive administration.
He has openly sought the overthrow of governments, promoted
war and lies with abandon. I tremble for Mike Pompeo and I likewise tremble for
the Church leaders who have given their sanction and blessing to his 'vocation'.
Does Pompeo seek the wisdom of God? It's found in the New
Testament, the collection of writings that provide an ethic that is antithetical
to the code Pompeo has chosen to live by. He is not only a fool but is
functionally an apostate.
Does he really believe that he's a force for good in the life
of human beings? Ask them. He is a force for wealth and power for a segment of
his constituents, for his political allies and for some of the Evangelicals who
praise him and the administration he serves. But for the rest of the world,
Pompeo represents a regime of terror, a rogue state deeply hypocritical and
dangerous, a system which perverts justice and manipulates circumstance to its
advantage and all too often to the great harm of others. But most of all, he is
clearly a pathological liar.
Sacralist theology as manifested in modern Dominionism has
generated a consequentialist ethic. The goal is power and thus behaviours that
normally would be considered unethical are given a pass, because they serve the
overall 'good' goal. In other words people like Pompeo live by a simple creed,
the end justifies the means. He's doing these otherwise evil things to build
the Kingdom of God.
But these are not in service of righteousness. These things
do not glorify God. A worshipper of mammon and all that it brings, Pompeo is a
force for destruction. As an instructor at West Point, as head of the CIA and
now the State Department, Pompeo has blood on his hands and he will answer for
it.
The open Bible on his desk will be his undoing. He is
literally heaping up judgment against himself and those that approve of his
evil.
His mind is neither humble nor renewed. He has confused
godliness with gain and has confused hubris with meekness. Worldliness has been
transformed into piety even as the love of money (the heart of what America is
and stands for) is made devotion. The wars and suffering it spawns are holy
exercises.
Woe to Pompeo and those like him who twist passages like the
Prodigal Son. These sections of Scripture which teach lessons regarding the
Gospel and the Kingdom are perverted by people like Pompeo (the Sunday School
teacher) and used to affirm worldly paradigms. They are de-covenantalised,
de-Scripturalised and turned into profane aphorisms.
The secular realm decries his religious partisanship. He is a
partisan but not for Christianity. Pompeo and his ilk serve another god and
another religion. In the end they represent merely another faction of the same
American idolatry that their secular cousins engage in. The difference is
theirs contains a gloss, it is dressed up to look like something else. But
scratch beneath the surface and it's just another Babel and destined to fall as
all Beast powers are wont to do. For Pompeo, serving America and serving Christ
are the same thing. To the secularists that's not America and to Christians,
that's not Christ... but an imposter, an antichrist wrapped in an American
flag.
While all should decry the immorality that dominates American
culture as expressed in children born out of wedlock and the like... True Christians
are just as grieved by the millions of people dead from America's wars and its
economic system which impoverishes nations, destroys societies and pillages the
world. It's not one viewpoint or the other. It's both, and both are immoral and
tragic.
Forcing people to pretend they're Christians may create an
illusion, a vapour that appears to be Christianity but in the end it is
revealed to have no substance. Perhaps for these folks, it's enough. Their
Christianity is in the end little more than a vapour so it shouldn't surprise
us that this is the best they can come up with.
Evangelicals rejoice when people in government pay them lip
service. They're fools. Pompeo is in reality a dangerous heretic, a sell-out
and a wolf in sheep's clothing. Except it's only the Evangelicals who see him
as a sheep. No one else in the world sees him that way. He is after all a
minion of Donald Trump.
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