After Andrew Brunson was released in the fall of 2018 and
repeatedly sat on the public stage with Trump and vocally supported his
Anti-Erdogan geopolitical posturing – is anyone surprised that Erdogan looks
askance at foreign evangelical leaders at work in his country?
Brunson made the case. He was not merely a missionary but a
surreptitious and subversive agent of American imperialism. I'm not suggesting
he held some kind of official position or was on the payroll but rather he
demonstrated that he would have been willing to pass on information to US
intelligence and (probably) would have been willing to undertake certain tasks
at the behest of US authorities particularly those affiliated with the GOP. By
sitting with Trump in the Oval Office – the president who had placed Turkey
under threat and sanction, Brunson demonstrated that as a missionary he was in
reality an agent of US imperialism.*
The US-backed (and likely orchestrated) coup attempt took
place under the Obama administration in 2016 but it was supported by
militarists within the American Establishment – an ideology that easily
transcends the superficial political spectrum.
I'm sorry to say it but Erdogan is rightly worried about
American Evangelicals in his country. This is not to say they're all involved
or would be. I can say that confidently. However, some represent a threat and
churches and their organisations prove a convenient way to funnel money into a
country that can then be used for subversive means.
It's shameful but these deceived deceivers are destroying the
testimony of the gospel as they preach a counterfeit kingdom that is very much
a part of this world and wed to its empires – pity that it isn't the Kingdom of
Christ.
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*There are outrageous claims made in Turkish media regarding
American and Western Evangelicals. I have first-hand knowledge of some of these
as a very good friend of mine (an American who was formerly in Turkey) was
actually mentioned in local newspaper posts as being a CIA agent and involved in
training terrorists etc... – an absurd claim but not uncommon.
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