I don’t get it! Where are the prophets? We’re living in a day and age where the Church should be speaking prophetically on a number of key issues of immediate, global importance and, unless my research is poor, I hear barely any Christian voices speaking AT ALL!
Case in point: the awful partnership between the US government and sundry American transnational corporations as they expoit emerging markets around the globe, under the wafer-thin guise of building “trade relations” with poor nations. Almost universally these corporations rape and pillage, with little or no concern for anything other than profits for their shareholders, while the US government is prepared to sacrifice the welfare of its middle and lower classes to keep these corporate interests diplomatically and militarily underwritten.
Another case in point: the “war” on Iraq (read: illegal assault). There never were any weapons of mass destruction. Does anyone really need that spelt out again?! The US is in it for the control of the global trade in oil. Does anyone really need that clarified any further?! And yet the Evangelical wing of the Church, as best I can see, is almost universal in failing to speak up about this unjust, wicked thing.
All I hear from those few who have really even thought about it, is that Saddam was a bad man. Well, so were the Hutus in Rwanda. So is the Kim family in North Korea. The US attack never had anything to do with Saddam’s moral standing! The world is full of blood-thirsty despots, but the US went after Iraq. Why? Think, Christians, THINK!
Surely the fact that the US has a newly formed and publicly articulated policy of preventive (not pre-emptive) war is worth close scrutiny and comment! This is a never-before-in-modern-history seen policy for the United States and one that beggars belief. Said Chomsky a few days ago:
The new doctrine was not one of preemptive war, which arguably falls within some stretching of the U.N. Charter, but rather of something that doesn’t even begin to have any grounds in international law, namely, preventive war. The doctrine, you recall, was that the United States would rule the world by force, and that if there is any challenge perceived to its domination, a challenge perceived in the distance, invented, imagined, whatever, then the U.S. will have the right to destroy that challenge before it becomes a threat. That’s preventive war, not preemptive war.
This is what the US can do as the new Imperial Superpower. And yet the great majority of Christians are silent because they are either totally ill-informed, or they are sedated by the conviction that a Christian President can be trusted.
Well, lets get one thing clear: we cannot judge a man’s eternal destiny, but we must be fruit inspectors! And the fruit of this present US President is rotten.
Wake up, Church!
Post a Comment