RETURN OF THE RELIGIOUS WAR
It Appears The World Is Heading Toward Its Next Crusade
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The decline of communism has brought back religion with a vengeance. Here are a few examples:
> Islamist religious terror and aggressive Islamism within the Middle East, Eurasia, Pakistan and Southeast Asia.
> The rapid expansion of Roman Catholicism in competition with the Eastern Orthodox religions in the former Soviet satellite nations.
> The ongoing debate between the Anglican and Catholic churches about papal primacy.
> The pope’s front-line efforts to bring the church’s Protestant daughters and wayward Orthodox bedfellows back to the fold, his insistent efforts to have his religion written into the European Constitution, and his call for a new Catholic world order modeled on a united federal Europe.
> Britain’s efforts to divorce the crown from direct control of Westminster Abbey.
> Priestly abuse of minors.
> The furor created by Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ.
> The U.S. Supreme Court hearing a case on removing "under God" from the nation’s Pledge of Allegiance.
> The adoption of religion as the vehicle for perverse causes such as homosexual rights, and the rise of the Christian right in North America in reaction to that cause.
Truly, religion dominates our headlines!
In these times, many significant political issues exhibit religious overtones. It seems religion is more often intent in wreaking vengeance rather than seeking peace. The wars of religion have shown that the attempt to impose one’s own religion as the only true one upon the rest of the world is as futile as it is costly.
Consider the Muslim headscarf controversy in France. This legislation--supposedly aimed at preventing discrimination based on religion--effectively disenfranchises Jews from wearing yarmulkes and Christians from wearing large crosses. It had the Sikhs worried about their turbans and others, for whom the beard is a badge of religion, worried about retention of their whiskers! Far from calming a volatile situation, the French legislation may well create even worse social tension than existed before its enactment.
All that is historically basic to Western democracy is founded in that which claims belief in the God of Israel, the God of the book we call the Holy Bible--the most translated and widely published of all books in the history of man. The religions of Rome and of Mecca and Medina know this. Is it any wonder then that they perceive the hegemony of the U.S. and its English-speaking allies as a crusade to conquer the world with White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism? This simply puts the U.S. and its allies on a direct course to a clash of religiously based civilizations of a different order, particularly in the Middle East and Europe.
People define themselves in terms of civilizations rooted in religion. Increasingly isolated and hated, an Anglo-American civilization struggles to maintain global peace along the lines of fracture that are increasingly separating and alienating civilizations across these religious divides. Cast in the light of history, these emerging civilizational divisions of seismic proportions are destined to consummate in history’s most devastating racially and religiously inspired holocaust!
> Islamist religious terror and aggressive Islamism within the Middle East, Eurasia, Pakistan and Southeast Asia.
> The rapid expansion of Roman Catholicism in competition with the Eastern Orthodox religions in the former Soviet satellite nations.
> The ongoing debate between the Anglican and Catholic churches about papal primacy.
> The pope’s front-line efforts to bring the church’s Protestant daughters and wayward Orthodox bedfellows back to the fold, his insistent efforts to have his religion written into the European Constitution, and his call for a new Catholic world order modeled on a united federal Europe.
> Britain’s efforts to divorce the crown from direct control of Westminster Abbey.
> Priestly abuse of minors.
> The furor created by Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ.
> The U.S. Supreme Court hearing a case on removing "under God" from the nation’s Pledge of Allegiance.
> The adoption of religion as the vehicle for perverse causes such as homosexual rights, and the rise of the Christian right in North America in reaction to that cause.
Truly, religion dominates our headlines!
In these times, many significant political issues exhibit religious overtones. It seems religion is more often intent in wreaking vengeance rather than seeking peace. The wars of religion have shown that the attempt to impose one’s own religion as the only true one upon the rest of the world is as futile as it is costly.
Consider the Muslim headscarf controversy in France. This legislation--supposedly aimed at preventing discrimination based on religion--effectively disenfranchises Jews from wearing yarmulkes and Christians from wearing large crosses. It had the Sikhs worried about their turbans and others, for whom the beard is a badge of religion, worried about retention of their whiskers! Far from calming a volatile situation, the French legislation may well create even worse social tension than existed before its enactment.
All that is historically basic to Western democracy is founded in that which claims belief in the God of Israel, the God of the book we call the Holy Bible--the most translated and widely published of all books in the history of man. The religions of Rome and of Mecca and Medina know this. Is it any wonder then that they perceive the hegemony of the U.S. and its English-speaking allies as a crusade to conquer the world with White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism? This simply puts the U.S. and its allies on a direct course to a clash of religiously based civilizations of a different order, particularly in the Middle East and Europe.
People define themselves in terms of civilizations rooted in religion. Increasingly isolated and hated, an Anglo-American civilization struggles to maintain global peace along the lines of fracture that are increasingly separating and alienating civilizations across these religious divides. Cast in the light of history, these emerging civilizational divisions of seismic proportions are destined to consummate in history’s most devastating racially and religiously inspired holocaust!