They've hijacked the name of God, along with the US government. This essay will help us reclaim our spiritual power.

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Many progressives no longer believe in God. It doesn't matter. Creator is on the side of We the People, no matter what one's beliefs. Personally, I find it reassuring to know that we are the good guys and the Force is with us.

Why write an essay like this? Why is it important to point out that God is on OUR side? Several reasons:

Firstly, It's true. Whether one worships Creator by the name of Allah, Yahweh, Lord, Jah, Wakan Tanka, Brahma, elan vital, or whatever, Creator stands for certain values. Truth, love, justice, compassion, fairness, peace are some of the qualities ascribed by humans to the divine. These attributes abound among We the People. They are utterly missing from the Bush/Cheney gang, who lie continuously, promote hate, subvert the courts and the Justice Department, practice torture and murder, pick on the little guy, and love war.

We the People manifest the godly virtues, and God is on OUR side.

Secondly, the Bush/Cheney bunch falsely claim that God is on THEIR side. They use Jesus as a logo. This claim MUST be addressed and disproven, because it fools many "born-agains", who form the dwindling Bush/Cheney popular base. Bush/Cheney have bribed evangelical churches with "faith-based" illegal government grants, and the bought pastors lead their flocks astray. They tell their parishioners that Pat Robertson anointed Bush to lead America, and God told Bush to attack Iraq.

These and other such stories motivate a core group of Bible believers, who continue to support Bush/Cheney policies because they believe God put these men in power. Once the misled sheep are shown that God is on the side of We the People, not with the usurpers in the White House, they will withdraw their support from Bush/Cheney, who have already lost the support of most Americans. These evil men will be denounced as wolves in sheeps' clothing. Without the Christian veneer, Bush and Cheney will go down.

Here are some arguments to use with diehard Christian supporters of Bush/Cheney:

Bush's "anointed" leadership is destroying America's morals, liberty, economy, ecology, Constitution. What kind of leadership is that? What kind of God would place a destroyer in the White House? Satan, that's who.

Bush's "God-instructed" attack on Iraq is diabolical, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents, destroying the infrastructure. The purpose: to steal Iraq's oil. Would Jesus approve?

Jesus said to judge a tree (or Bush) by the fruits. The fruit of this Bush is a bankrupt economy, a shredded Constitution, a degeneration of public trust and decency, the loss of our country's good name, the degradation of our environment, a lowering of our standard of living- the list goes on and on .

Jesus' favorite epithet, when confronting the Pharisees, was "HYPOCRITES!" The hypocrisy of our Pharisees today is glaring- look at the spate of sex crimes among right wing Republicans who pander to the "moral majority". Look at the disregard for the lives of our soldiers and of the Iraqi people among those so concerned about prolonging the life of a brain-dead woman. Look at the widespread use of depleted uranium, which dramatically increases the rate of spontaneous abortions and malformed babies. What hypocrisy!

Bush/Cheney have borne rotten fruit. God is on OUR side.

Thirdly, We the People yearn for peace. War only benefits war profiteers. We the People, and our brothers and sisters around the world, suffer from war. We activists are peacemakers, we have built an international peace movement that turned out 20 million strong in January 2003, in an effort to prevent the invasion of Iraq. Bush/Cheney are warmongers, revelers in war, profiteers from war, instigators of war.

Peacemakers receive a special blessing in Matthew 5: 9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

 

The prophets gave us visions of peace. Across from the UN, the Isaiah wall reads "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Isaiah 2:3) When Jesus was born, the angels announced, "Peace on earth, good will toward men." One of the names of Jesus is Prince of Peace. Our Constitution is partially based on the Great Law of Peace, given to the Iroquois tribes by The Peacemaker, Degandawidah, who was an incarnation of the Jesus spirit.

God is on the side of peace, on the side of We the People.

Fourthly, our Constitution is a holy document, a revolutionary document, the first in modern history to give sovereignty to We the People. It is flawed in many ways, but as we have watched it being shredded by the Bush/Cheney hoodlums, we have come to appreciate it. We appreciate its safeguards of our liberty, its careful construction so as to prevent tyranny, its diffusion of power among the various levels of government- federal, state, local. Every officeholder, including Bush and Cheney and all members of Congress, have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

They have failed. Instead, they are stealing our precious sovereignty, our right to rule ourselves. Every member of Congress, except the 20 who have signed on to H. Res 333 to impeach Cheney, is an oath-breaker and a traitor. They are selling us, We the People, who elected them and paid for their campaigns and pay their salaries, they are selling us down the river. This is evil, this is not godly.

God is on OUR side, the side of We the People.

Fifthly, we are in a battle for the future of life on the planet. Bush/Cheney are trying to lead us to nuclear war and extinction of higher life forms. They are taking us on a suicidal, biocidal, ecocidal path.

The theology of the Bush/Cheney gang, cynically preached by false prophets like Pat Robertson, is the rapture cult, a heresy based on a mistranslation of the Bible by Scofield, Darby and others. The rapture cult has been widely popularized by Hal Lindsey, author of "The Late Great Planet Earth" and Tim LeHaye, author of the "Left Behind" series. Both LeHaye and Lindsey are part of the Bush/Cheney inner circle. The rapture cult beckons nuclear war, telling true believers that Jesus will beam them up to heaven on a mushroom cloud, leaving us naughty skeptics to perish on a radioactive planet. It allows true believers to deal with the anxiety about nuclear war that we all feel, in a comfortable, simplistic, selfish manner.

The God of the Bible, and of the Qu'ran, the Gitas, reggae songs,- the Creator- is clearly a God of life, not death. We are creatures of Creator, our breath is our spirit, and it comes from Creator. Our life force, our energy for sustaining and furthering life, our spirits, are buoyed up by understanding that we are working in harmony with the Giver of life. The Bible tells us to choose life:

Deut. 30:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

God is on the side of life, on the side of We the People and our children.

Lastly, spiritual power and energy flows to those who believe that God is on OUR side. This was exemplified in the 60's by the Civil Rights movement, led by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a powerful preacher of God's word. He inspired a generation of people, young and old, to brave the lynch mobs and the sheriffs of the segregated South. And won.

People put their lives on the line, and some were lost. Eventually Martin was killed, following in the footsteps of Jesus.

We need that spiritual power now, if We the People are to prevail. We must be willing to put our lives on the line, for the sake of our children and for all life. We must choose life, even at the cost of individual death.

God is on OUR side.

In the name of the Prince of Peace, Carol Wolman

Authors Website: http://www.paracove.com

Authors Bio:

Carol S. Wolman, MD is a psychiatrist in Northern California. A lifelong peace activist, she is helping to distribute a Peace Plan for the Holy Land- email her for a copy. She also a film producer with Paradise Cove Productions, currently producing HOTEL REFINEMENT- a feature film noir with a subtheme about torture, Guantanamo, and killing Arabs.