The Evangelical Gospel of Hiroshima

In March 2024, the Biden Administration hypocritically proposed a temporary dock off the Gaza coast which would be used to bring in humanitarian aid. It was an empty gesture given Biden's unswerving support for Israel's war of extermination and attempt to make Gaza uninhabitable.

But for the American Right even this ridiculous and largely meaningless attempt at putting a humanitarian gloss on American policy was too much and it fell under condemnation - generating numerous outrageous statements.

We had already heard some such as in February when Andy Ogles an Evangelical congressman from Tennessee suggested that the Palestinians should be wiped out - 'kill them all', he said, and then tried to temper this genocidal call by limiting his statement to Hamas.

Not to be outdone, another Evangelical, this time Senator Tim Walberg of Michigan suggested that instead of building a humanitarian dock the US should be working to make Gaza like Hiroshima and Nagasaki - a point more or less made in recent days by the always delightful Lindsey Graham.

Where's the outrage? I left the notes for this on the back-burner for the better part of two months. Has Walberg been held to account?

Would the Evangelical churches hold a politician-member to account if he publicly supported abortion? I think it would be the end of him.

It seems as if ethics are not the concern but rather politics and political angling.

What an indictment of the United Brethren, the church to which he belongs. How far has this denomination fallen! Birthed from Mennonite and Reformed roots, the faction has turned its back on all it once stood for. The congregations in my area are characterized by rock concert music and gala dinners for high school graduates joining the military.

The denomination is clearly best identified as Ichabod - and this is increasingly the story with modern Evangelicalism. It's a tale of rapidly spreading apostasy - typified by the kind of sick and twisted thinking exhibited by Walberg, a man who comes in the name of Christ and yet clearly does not know Him - a man who once was ordained and serving the Church and yet abandoned this for the cesspool of politics and the temptations of power.

Of course how many Evangelical churches now host gun-toting members on Sunday mornings? One just has to laugh when one hears figures like Albert Mohler speak of Evangelicalism's culture of life. What a farce.