These are not “Christians”. If you accept them, don’t do it under the guise of religion. True Christianity is not compatible with ethnic cleansing, saber-rattling and spying on their countrymen.  If this is fundamentalist Christianity, in my mind, it is no better than radical Islam or the Jewish right-wingers that have taken over in Israel. Say what you may, but religion should have no place in politics. Two thousand years ago people were making laws in the name of Zeus and Hera. It’s no different today. You may say that I’m talking about mythology, but two thousand years ago this was the accepted religion in the Hellenistic World and they took it very seriously. You may think I’m being unkind, but if the world survives another two thousand years, the bible will be seen as what it really is, a collection of stories from the past that nobody really understands because of the many translations its been through, but everyone that preaches “the word of god” all believe that they have the “truth”. I really hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but the truth can mean different things to different people. What you see as the “truth” could be blasphemy to others.

So why do politicians feel they must wear their religion on their sleeve? As many people that might admire someone for their religious convictions, there are just as many that will see these beliefs as heresy. I guess when people are subject to the teachings of one sect (yes, sect) anyone that doesn’t believe in the same set of beliefs is considered “misguided”. What I have seen, especially in the South, is one of the first things that someone asks when introduced  is “What church do you attend?” Frankly, it is no ones business what church I go to, but here in the South it is a perfectly acceptable question.

When George W. Bush said that God talks to him and gives him guidance, I cringe. When people start claiming that they hear God taking to them there are two things that I think about. The first thought that comes to mind is that this person’s elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top. The second thought that comes to mind is that this person is full of shit. To invoke God into one’s decision making process is fine for ordinary people. I have met quite a few people that claim they have gotten their answers from God. I really don’t believe them; maybe it was through prayer and meditation the resolved a few issues, but frankly I really don’t believe that God talks to anyone. If God is all that people say he/she is, I don’t expect that he would have anything to do with Bush. George has committed just about all the major sins in “the book”. Another thing is that I don’t think that God would talk to Bush, even if he is the President, because if God were as powerful and wise as everyone says he/she is, I don’t think he would be impressed with his Presidential status. If his own countrymen despise him, I doubt God would want to talk to him.

Speaking about Christianity, aren’t Pastors and Ministers and other members of the pulpit supposed to speak up for morality? Do the so called “Christian Evangelists” care about the deaths of so many civilians in Iraq? Do they dismiss these deaths because the people who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the violence and anarchy and the ‘collateral damage” were Muslims? If God exists, do you think he gives a damn whether or not these humans aren’t Christians? I ask this question to people outside the Christian sphere of influence because Christians believe that unless you accept Jesus as your personal savior, you will not be saved. This is apparently good enough for the rest of the “civilized” world we live in because unless you accept Allah as the one true God and that Mohammed was his prophet, then you also can’t be saved. This I imagine is a kind of an authorization or Carte Blanche if you will, for sending people who don’t believe as you do to hell.

Religion is a great idea, so is communism, but when you put people into these two great ideas; the whole premise behind them falls apart. The reason that they don’t work is the other ingredient that is involved is money. I’m sure that the human race has figured out that dogma + people + money = Death and Suffering. (DPM=DS). This formula can be verified throughout history. The worst part of the formula is that even when people start out with ideals and morals, the combination of these three elements ultimately ends up in human disaster.

I have noticed in my 57 years on Earth that people need something or someone to believe in. Every culture that I have encountered has a need for this. When the World Trade Center came down, Americans were shaken to the core. It seemed that a terrorist attack upon our soil made them vulnerable. People demanded not so much for justice, but revenge. The official timeline and explanation of the attacks have made some people suspicious. The fact is that now, six years after the attacks, according to what poll you look at, 40% to 70% don’t believe the “official” version of what took place on 9/11. This is a hard pill for most Americans to swallow. The more that people study the events of that tragic day, the more they have doubts about who exactly was behind the attacks. I’m no psychologist, but this puts most Americans in what’s called a “double-bind” situation. If you don’t believe the “official” version of 9/11, you are labeled a conspiracy nut. However if you blindly accept the government’s take on what happened, even though you have your doubts about many parts of it, you will eventually hold all of that in and eventually it will come out in unhealthy ways; like frustration, anger and eventually rage. Sending the Armed Forces into a nation that was Muslim as were the hijackers, and killing people from the Middle East helped people cope, but now the cost of the war, coupled with the lies that were told to start the war, and the American soldiers that have been killed or horribly wounded, have now turned this situation into a double-edged sword for the government.

This article is about religion and I bring the war and the government into this because without the Christian right, George Bush and his administration could have never pulled off what they did. Without the church-going religious folks that make up much of middle America, Senators and Congressmen would have been calling for Bush’s head on a plate. The facts are that much of the United States Congress and in fact, all levels of the government as we know it today, are filled with God-fearing Christians.  The legislation that was enacted so that government could contribute to faith-based charities was the start of Bush’s plan to ingratiate his administration with the Christian right. Much is made of religion today because basically in effect, we are fighting two wars that have religion at the core of these conflicts. Politicians don’t come right out and say it, but the evidence is there.

We are waging a war against Islam with the support and backing of many Christian groups in this country. The government has portrayed Muslims as “Islamo-fascists” and “radical fundamentalists” that will stop at nothing until they achieve world domination. We make much about the al-Qaeda “cells” that are working with the “insurgents” in Iraq and you would expect that with all the publicity they receive that there must be tens of thousands in Iraq fighting tooth and nail against the American “liberators”. The fact is that there are probably only about 500 of them in Iraq. Al-Qaeda is lucky if it has ten thousand trained troops, if that. When you think of a nation as large and powerful as the United States spending almost 700 Billion dollars to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we still find our forces ‘bogged-down” the thought might occur to many that we are fighting not just al-Qaeda, but every Muslim that resents the occupation of these two countries.

We could have captured or killed Osama Bin Laden many times over. One report is that he was in a hospital in Pakistan the day before 9/11, being guarded by Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI. This is the same ISI that wired ten thousand dollars to Muhammad Atta on September 10, 2001. That week Rumsfeld and Senator Joe Biden met with the General that made it happen. This is a known fact and has been verified by countless sources, but the story has still not made it to the attention of the Mainstream Media. It is a fact that two of the largest defense contractors, G.E. and Westinghouse own 90% of the television stations. Does this have anything to do with it? The ownership of the print media by Murdock and Zell and a few others that support the far-right agenda is part and parcel of this refusal to air or print anything that contradicts the regime in Washington. Does the right of “freedom of the press” protect the people from censorship of the media by its owners? Where are our representatives in Washington and what are they doing about this massive problem? The sad fact is that once the media is ‘controlled”. The government and their corporate masters can effectively hide the truth from American citizens. The only way to find out what is happening in the world is to turn to the web for information. The facts are that most Americans don’t do this. They seem content to watch corporate controlled news outlets and they believe that they are getting unbiased news.

As long as the defense contractors and other entities are making huge profits from the wars we are involved in, there is no overwhelming need to stop these wars. The demonstrations throughout this nation in the last half of 2007 barely made a ripple in the MSM. The march on Washington had an estimated 100,000 people that attended. The media outlets chose to cover the pro-war segment of the demonstration. “The Gathering of Eagles” that had about 100 people.

We hear nothing about the catastrophic use of depleted uranium munitions. The UN has designated them “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and nations are forbidden to use them. The truth is that not only are we using them in Iraq and Afghanistan and turning these nations into radiological cesspits, but we are selling these weapons to our allies in 17 nations. We are poisoning these two nations we are fighting in. The half-life of these weapons which have vaporized and gotten into the land and water, has a half-life of 4.5 Billion years. These weapons will produce cancers and birth defects in these nations forever.  Not only have we contaminated Iraq and Afghanistan, but the weapons of mass-destruction that were destroyed in the First Gulf War and contaminated out troops so badly that 200,000 out of 600,000 that fought there are on VA medical disability. The VA doesn’t test for radiological contamination of soldiers and they are diagnosed with “mental problems” such as PTSD. The saddest part of all of this is that Don Rumsfeld sold these chemical and biological weapons to Saddam Hussein, an estimated 5 Billion dollars worth while he was CEO of the pharmaceutical company Searle between the years of 1985 to 1989.

So where are the “Christians” on all of this? Is it because the Christian doctrine calls on their members to have faith in the bible and the teachings of Jesus and his followers that they can transfer this “faith” from the church to the government? A woman told me the other night on my radio show that a Muslim woman told her that the goal of every Muslim is to make the world a Muslim world. Isn’t that the same agenda that the Christians have? We have seen the Christian Churches send missionaries to countless countries to “convert” the people that live there. Whether it was by the teaching of the bible, or by the business end of a sword or gun, they were converted. There is nothing that has been done in the name of Allah that hasn’t been done in the name of Christ. I find it ironic that one of the names given Jesus is “The Prince of Peace”.

This country hasn’t been this close to a theological dictatorship in its history. This nation, with all of its fundamental Christian influence in the highest reaches of the government, has never engaged in wholesale slaughter as it is right now. We are fighting wars with hired mercenaries that have no allegiance to uphold and protect the Constitution. They are paid six times more than American soldiers, and are accountable to no one except their corporate employers. These same companies have signed contracts in the U.S. to work in partnership with law enforcement agencies in the event of a “national emergency” declared by the President. What kind of “national emergency” would require the use of mercenaries on the streets of our cities and towns?

I know that you have heard much of what I’ve written about. If there are people reading this that question where I get my information, I’m afraid you are behind the eight-ball, so to speak. I wrote this out of frustration and desperation. If you believe that I’m correct in my assessment of what our country has done and where we are now, give this article to a friend or family member or both. We have an obligation to other Americans to share what we have learned in spite of the Mainstream Media. Most Americans are clueless to what is being done in our country’s name. Unless we make people aware of what is actually happening, our representative republic is headed towards the scrapheap of history. The American people need to be told what time it is and it’s time to wake up!

This is how I see it.