Well, what do you know. The Wall Street corruption traces back to
McCain. This is what I have been saying that he is all a part of the
corruption. Oh, for a while he sounded like he was going to be tough on
the crooks but is either insincere or a hypocrite, or both. One thing
right that McCain said was that Christopher Cox, former republican
congressman and Bush appointee, should be fired. They are all a part of
the good old boys network. Even Savage mentioned about them going back
to Skull & Bones. I was surprised at that comment because I thought that
was too conspiratorial for the likes of him. I hear some say that we
should fire all of congress. Well, I sure would like to know how in the
world you do that. What I do know is that we can start by voting the
right president in. If the american people are too incompetent for just
that simple task then how are they going to deal with the whole of
congress? So either we will have a dictatorship or there will be a civil
war if people are truly fed up. Like I heard Savage say last night that
revolutions don’t happen until people get hungry. So things will have to
get to the point of waiting in bread lines or worse before they really
do anything. The only good thing about this is that maybe the illegals
won’t want to get over here so bad when they see how screwed up we are
becoming. I also heard that the FBI was investigating 4 of these firms.
If they are sincere, and not just doing this for show, then there is
hope for justice. I heard that there are 26 executives in this bailout
mess. Man, this makes you think what in the world is going on. It is one
thing for just one or a few, but when a whole bunch of them collapse at
the same time, something must be up. I heard that these sneaks became
banks overnight so they could dip in the federal reserve. Can you
believe the nerve of that Hank Paulson that wouldn’t settle for a
little,but the whole amount, and then threaten that this affects the
american people, which I do not believe? He is just covering his rear.

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Once again, “pro-life” Christians are doing back flips to try and justify
their compromise of the life issue by trying to convince everyone (including
themselves) that John McCain is truly pro-life. However, these same people
know in their hearts that John McCain shares no fidelity to the life issue
in any significant or meaningful way. Like many in the Republican Party,
McCain’s commitment to life is about as deep as a mud puddle.

Dare I remind everyone that the “pro-life” GOP controlled the entire federal
government from 2000 to 2006 and nothing was done to overturn Roe v. Wade or
end legal abortion-on-demand? When George W. Bush took the oath of office in
January of 2001, over one million innocent unborn babies were being murdered
in the wombs of their mothers every year via legal abortions in this
country. And when George W. Bush leaves office in January of 2009, over one
million innocent unborn babies would still be murdered in the wombs of their
mothers every year via legal abortions in this country. Eight years of a
“pro-life” President and six years of the “pro-life” GOP in charge of the
entire federal government and not one unborn baby’s life has been saved. Roe
v. Wade is still the law of the land, and abortion-on-demand is still legal
in America.

Had John McCain and his fellow Republicans truly wanted to end legal
abortion, they could have passed Congressman Ron Paul’s Sanctity of Life
Act. Year after year, Dr. Paul introduced this bill, and year after year, it
sat and collected dust in the document room on Capitol Hill.

What would Congressman Paul’s bill do? It would do two things: 1) It would
define life as beginning at conception and, thus, declare the personhood of
every pre-born child. 2) Under Article. III. Section. 2. of the U.S.
Constitution, it would remove abortion from the jurisdiction of the Court.
In practical terms, Dr. Paul’s bill would overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal
abortion-on-demand. So, where was John McCain? Why did he not support Ron
Paul’s bill and introduce a companion bill in the U.S. Senate?

How can John McCain, and his fellow Republicans in Washington, D.C., look
pro-life Christians and conservatives in the eye in 2008 and expect that we
take them seriously when they say that they are “pro-life”? If the GOP had
truly wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal abortion-on-demand, they
could have already done it. They controlled the White House, the U.S.
Senate, and the House of Representatives for six long years, for goodness
sake. The reason they did not do it is because they did not want to do it.
They merely want to use “pro-life” rhetoric as a campaign tool to dupe
gullible Christian voters every election year. And the disgusting thing
about it is–it works.

The vast majority of notable “pro-life” leaders in the country are now
trumpeting the candidacy of John McCain. And the best challenge they can
come up with is “McCain better not pick a ‘pro-choice’ Vice President.” Oh,
shut up (to quote Jay Leno)!

John McCain openly embraces embryonic stem cell research. In 2000, he boldly
said he did not favor the overturn of Roe v. Wade. John McCain was a member
of the infamous “Gang of 14″ senators from both parties whose purpose was to
oppose pro-life, strict constructionist judges.

Speaking of judges, John McCain voted for the pro-abortion justice, Stephen
Breyer, and the radical, pro-abortion, ACLU attorney, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
So much for the argument that we need John McCain for the sake of appointing
conservative justices to the Supreme Court. For that matter, Republican
appointments dominated the Court that gave us Roe v. Wade and the one that
later gave us Doe v. Bolton. Proving, once again, that the Republican Party,
as a whole, has no real commitment to the life issue.

John McCain also gave us McCain-Feingold. This is the law that keeps
pro-life or pro-Second Amendment organizations from broadcasting ads that
mention a candidate by name 30 days before a primary election or 60 days
before a general election.  This proves that John McCain believes neither in
the right to life nor the right to keep and bear arms. (This is one reason
why the Gun Owners of America gives McCain a grade of F.)

In a debate with George W. Bush in May of 2000, John McCain attacked Bush’s
support for the pro-life plank in the Republican Party. Still today, John
McCain believes that babies who are conceived via rape or incest should be
murdered. I remind readers, however, that there are no “exceptions” in the
womb, only babies.

If all of the above is not enough, as a senator, John McCain has repeatedly
voted to fund pro-abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood with federal
tax dollars. In fact, McCain has voted to use federal tax dollars to support
abortion providers at home and overseas. Yes, this “pro-life” senator (along
with “pro-life” President, George W. Bush) has significantly increased
federal spending for abortion providers to levels eclipsing even the
appropriations authorized by President Bill Clinton and his fellow
Democrats.

John McCain also supports the United Nations, which not only works to strip
the United States of its independence and sovereignty, and banish our right
to keep and bear arms, but is also the most radical, pro-abortion
organization in the entire world. More babies have been aborted around the
world under the auspices of the U.N. than any other single entity.

Tell me again, Mr. Christian Leader, how “pro-life” John McCain is. What a
joke!  (c) Chuck Baldwin chuck@chuckbaldwinlive.com

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This is the kind of stuff I have been saying. It was Albert Einstein
that said insanity is when you do the same thing over and over again,
expecting different results. Hypocrites say to just pray. Well if they
believe in the power of prayer then it shouldn’t matter to them who to
vote for, but they still stick by McCain, proving their own hypocrisy.
They cannot answer why their prayers only work for one party and not
another. They are proven wrong in even that assumption. What good did
their prayers do for Bush? Absolutely nothing! He continued on with his
corruptioin and is ever so much continuing on with it now. That proves
what liars all these religious frauds are. I will not even give them the
dignity of the title “christian” because they do not follow Christ, but
only follow Satan. The likes of TBN are dedicated to Satan and are
promoting his kingdom and they are reserved for the blackest darkness as
mentioned in 2Peter 2:17.  Those who are affiliated with them had better
separate from them or they will end up being judged along with them for
partaking in their wickedness. I believe they may be the great whore of
Revelation. They seem to deceive more than the catholic church itself.
Of course they promote that heresy too. It is evident who all the lost
are by who they choose to listen to. If they are sold on imposters like
Rush and are endorsing McCain, then they do not know the Lord Jesus
because those who they listen to are not his. They listen to the voice
of a stranger. Christ’s sheep knows his voice. They know his word. Those
who do not know his word are not his sheep. Anyone who would support an
antichrist like McCain prove they are of the same spirit. We know that
republicans are lying imposters because when they were all in power in
the majority they did nothing to stop abortion but instead promoted more
funding for it. Even a fool can understand that you do not fund
something you are against. All republicans are ever as much guilty of
murder as the democrats. We have satanic televangelists promoting
pro-abortion candidate John McCain. All such are damned to hell for the
hellish imposters that they are. They will receive no mercy. Those who
choose to follow all these liars will share in the same fate. God is
against all you wicked imposters and your time is coming! Col.2:8 says,
“Let no one take you captive by hollow and deceptive philosophy, which
depends on human tradition and principles of this world rather than on
Christ.” This two party political sham is a good example of worthless
human tradition. There is no Christ in the repubican party than there is
in the democrat party. The are both hollow and deceptive. Gal.1:10 Paul
makes clear that a servant of Christ is not pleasing to man. Isn’t that
what most preachers these days are, servants of man, not of God? God
commands us through his word that we are not to conform to this world.
Those who are so willing to ignore and forsake scripture do so at your
own eternal jeopardy. I would not give anything to be in the place of
all these worthless compromising cowards. Those who forsake the truth
will receive no mercy because they know better but still rebel against
God and all wisdom. God is willing to forgive all those who will put all
the foolishness of these lies behind them. I was once a fool of the
republican party but God has woken me up to all the lies and hypocrisy.
I realized that most republicans didn’t even claim to be christians.
Those who pretend such are delusional and not connected to the real
world. I pray that all who read this and Chuck’s messages will have
their eyes open too.

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I realize that is extremely difficult for some people to think outside the box. The vast majority of people are prone to be followers, to “go with the flow,” to follow the path of least resistance. This appears to be the nature of human nature.

Therefore, I think I understand the reasoning of many who are so reluctant to step outside the two major parties and vote for a third party candidate. I seem to recall that I, too, was just as hesitant (though not for nearly as long as some people) as they are.

We have all heard it before: He doesn’t stand a chance; it’s a wasted vote; we must work within the party to make it better, etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

Now, I will be the first to admit that the deck is stacked against an independent candidate succeeding at any political level. The two dominant parties do not like competition. And they have made it EXTREMELY DIFFICULT for third parties to have a fighting chance to prevail. My brief experience in third parties convinces me that the old state parties of Eastern Europe had nothing on America’s two major parties, when it comes to dominating and controlling elections.

The media, too, is a co-opted and controlled environment. They refuse to cover minor parties and then attempt to justify their manipulation by saying something along the lines of, “We won’t let you participate until you reach ‘X’ percentage points.” But, of course, their refusal to give an independent candidate any time to present his or her views directly contributes to the lack of percentage points.

I believe that any candidate who has obtained ballot access in enough states to theoretically obtain sufficient electoral votes to win the election (an arduous and expensive process all by itself) should automatically be included in any and all debates and should be given an equal opportunity to present his or her views to the public. Anything less than this is deliberate manipulation of the election. And that is exactly what the two major parties and their collaborators in the mainstream media are doing.

That aside, one would think that sooner or later the American people would wake up to what is happening right in front of their eyes. One would think that they would realize that no matter which party wins the White House or wins control of Congress, most things stay pretty much the same.

All this talk of “conservatism” or “liberalism” is–for the most part–nothing more than campaign rhetoric. It means absolutely nothing. No matter which party wins, the federal government continues to get bigger and more intrusive. American manufacturing jobs and industries continue to be outsourced overseas. Our military personnel continue to be used as the personal militia for the United Nations. Our borders remain open to illegal immigration. The creation of a North American Union marches forward. Construction for the NAFTA superhighway continues unabated. The tactics of the IRS get more and more egregious. Americans continue to work harder and longer for less return, while politicians and CEOs of multinational corporations get richer and more powerful.

It just does not matter one whit which major party “wins.” The American people, freedom, limited government, and the U.S. Constitution lose! One would think that at some point the American people would say “That’s enough” and stop drinking the Kool-Aid from these two major parties. And if there was ever a year when the time appears right for such a revolution, one would think this would be the year.

Look at the three leading candidates: they are three peas in a pod. There is no substantive difference between them. Neither Obama, Clinton, nor McCain have any desire to stop illegal immigration. On this issue, there is no difference between McCain and the Democrats. None. John McCain even voted to grant Social Security benefits to illegal aliens. He joined with Senator Ted Kennedy to provide amnesty to illegal aliens.

Take the war in Iraq. The only candidate among the top three who even hints at bringing our troops home is Obama. And if anyone believes that he is serious about it, I have a bridge I would like to sell you. Neither of the two major parties has any interest in bringing our troops home. No matter which party wins the White House, our troops will continue to be used for U.N. missions all over the world. We will continue to stick our nose wherever it does not belong. We will continue our utopian plans of nation-building, empire-building and international meddling.

No matter which of the two major parties captures the White House, the C.F.R. will dominate the President’s cabinet appointees. Good grief! John McCain, himself, is a member of the C.F.R. Even in the area of federal judges, John McCain was one of the original “Gang of 14″ Republicans who joined liberal Democrats in opposing the selection of strict constructionist judges to the federal bench. Anyone who believes that McCain will appoint someone such as Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia is living in a fantasy world.

Regarding the Second Amendment, Gun Owners of America rates John McCain with an F-. It doesn’t get any worse than that, folks. On gun issues, John McCain is not the “lesser of two evils.” Not in any manner, shape, or form.

Just recently, McCain committed himself to supporting the U.N.-sponsored global warming treaty. As with so many of McCain’s policies, this one is right out of the Democratic playbook.

Regarding the loss of America’s sovereignty and the merger of the U.S. into a regional or hemispheric government entity, noted columnist Cliff Kincaid writes, “McCain’s strange rhetoric about ‘North, Central, and South American life’ reflects a view that nation-states are disappearing and being replaced by regional alliances and institutions. He referred to ‘the powerful collective voice of the European Union,’ as if the U.S. response would have to be submersion of our voice in a larger hemispheric entity. But McCain seems to be calling for something beyond even a North American Union (NAU) of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. He talked about ‘creating the new international institutions necessary to advance the peace and freedoms we cherish,’ as if they would be built on top of the EU and the NAU.

“Earlier, McCain had declared, ‘With globalization, our hemisphere has grown closer, more integrated, and more interdependent. Latin America today is increasingly vital to the fortunes of the United States. Americans north and south share a common geography and a common destiny.’ But why should trade with America’s neighbors necessarily lead to a ‘common destiny?’ This implies a political merger of the U.S. with other countries.”

Does that sound like John McCain is the “lesser of two evils” to you? Have you heard Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama talk like this? Again, in regard to the loss of America’s sovereignty and independence, there is no “lesser of two evils” between the major parties.

Can conservatives, Christians, and constitutionalists really go to the polls this November and vote for someone such as John McCain? Do they really not see what John McCain would do to this country? Do they really believe that Clinton or Obama would be any worse? If they do, they are living in a fantasy world.

Take the issue of abortion. John McCain has made a career out of opposing pro-life candidates and causes. Just recently, Jill Stanek wrote a revealing column regarding the duplicity of John McCain’s position on the life issue.

See Stanek’s column at
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64177

McCain has steadfastly opposed the Republican Party’s pro-life plank. He has even stated his opposition to overturning Roe v. Wade. He said, “But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support the repeal of Roe v. Wade . . . .”

How long will conservatives, Christians, and lovers of liberty continue to blindly follow these two parties? Can they not see that our constitutional republic and our liberty is hanging by a thread? Do they not realize that Democrats and Republicans alike are willful participants in the destruction of our way of life?

Ladies and gentlemen, please wake up! Get your heads out of the sand! Our country is imploding and we keep electing and re-electing the same scoundrels who are culpable. The media provides them cover. Many of our pastors and Christian leaders provide them cover as well. But it is the people of this country–you and me–who have the power to actually do something about it.

How about this year–just this once–let’s think for ourselves? Let’s vote our principles. Let’s forget what the pundits and experts say. Let’s quit allowing the radio and TV talking heads to tell us who to vote for. And let’s not be afraid to vote outside the two major parties. No, check that. Let’s make a commitment to vote outside the two major parties.

The two major parties have had 150 years to improve our country, to make our country a better place in which to live. What have they done with all this power and opportunity? They have brought us to the edge of destruction.

I believe it was Albert Einstein who said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Americans have been electing Republicans and Democrats over and over again, and we have been getting the same result. Let’s try something different this year. What do you say?

(c) Chuck Baldwin chuck@chuckbaldwinlive.com

Hypocrites have nothing better to do than an all out assault on Jeremiah
Wright. I guess these fools think that makes them look good. This idiot
Schenck wants his questions answered? I have written this hypocrite
several times with no reply. All these lobby groups, even these
religious ones, do not represent the people, only their own interests.
If they were legit than this fool would answer my questions. This proves
that none of these imposters care about anything but their own agenda.
Hell was made for scum like this. I bet this character didn’t even
attempt to be civil towards Wright. They all will reap what they sow.
Besides, if you know where a person stands on the issues what is the
point of trying to stir things up? Man, you talk about your godless
strife sowers. God is getting all these hypocrites on the record and
they will not escape wrath! All these neocons are a bunch of racists
that attack anyone that is black, not just leftist liberals, but even in
their own party like Alan Keyes. All their hatred will damn them to
hell. Praise God that He will not allow these neocon idolaters, strife
sowing, godless, hateful racists into His kingdom!

Your missionary to Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, Rob Schenck, reporting:

Today I respectfully challenged Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s long-time pastor, in a face-to-face encounter at the National Press Club here in Washington, DC. I was there as a guest for this special breakfast forum.

The setting was extremely controlled, and no one was allowed to speak directly to Rev. Wright. Still, as an answer to prayer, I was ushered up beyond the rope line where we spoke personally. I also had the chance to discuss the concerns posed by Rev. Wright’s remarks with Greta Van Susteren of On the Record.

Following his carefully scripted speech, Rev. Wright did take questions posed by the moderator (whom he treated very shabbily), including one I submitted. But it was the up-close and personal exchange I had with him that was most telling.

Rev. Wright did nothing to bring the reconciliation that he and Sen. Obama both say they are working toward. In fact, Rev. Wright did far more to alienate people today than to reconcile them.

Please watch and/or read my postings about Rev. Wright at www.faithandaction.org.

Thank you for your prayers and interest! I’ll keep you informed.

Rev. Rob Schenck

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Michael Savage, in his folly of thinking that we actually liberated
Iraq, has said that they are the most ungrateful people that they are
not willing to repay our help with their oil. So you see, even those who
are ignorant as to what all is really going on recognize what a crock
this war is. Only a complete moron and fool would say everything is
going alright. Only a bloodthirsty lunatic wants 100 years of war. The
reason why I do not respect our military is that a lot of them go along
with this corruption with no conscience at all. Even after the horrors
they faced and the benefits they are being cheated of still support this
scam. So I will not even pretend that our military is virtuous or
righteous. They are willing accomplices to Bush’s evil. This will be
more than evident when martial law comes into effect. If they are
willing to do evil there then they are willing to do evil here and turn
their weapons against us. I thought it was interesting as I am reading
through Peretti’s book “MONSTER” mentions corporate corruption and even
the CARLISLE group (page 199), which you have probably heard has close
ties with Bush. They are involved in that Bear Sterns bail-out scandal.
There is no denying Bush’s affiliation with that corrupt Enron company.
Bush is tied in with the very people neocons condemn, like Al Gore. This
proves that the neocons are the biggest bunch of lying hypocrites to
walk the face of the earth. In my opinion they would outdo the pharisees
of Jesus time by comparison by the level of their hypocrisy. These lying
fools condemn Obama by his affiliation with his pastor but yet will not
condemn Bush for all his affiliations (SKULL & BONES, the terrorist
saudi family, funding palestinians against Israel, Al Gore, John Kerry,
Bill Clinton, and the list goes on). The neocons are the fools with
planks in their eyes trying to pull the spect out of Obama’s eyes. The
biggest joke yet is that there is not a world of difference between
these candidates, but pretend like there is. Again, I think it boils
down to race. That and this godless obsession (idolatry) of the failed
republican party that is ever bit as corrupt, if not more so, than the
democrat party. It is the republicans that has usurped our constitution
faster than any liberal. At least democrats have opposition, republicans
don’t. Also if the democrats were any better wouldn’t they do something
about the republican corruption? This proves that both are the same.
Hillary has even talked about continuing this war. What do liberals have
to say about that? Still think they are any different?

This is a great one too. The devotion to Bush above Christ is proof of
an apostate church. The churches have effectively brainwashed most
everyone to be bushians than christians. This is so evident. It is not
just that of mere silence about Bush’s evil but they go into a demonic
frenzy whenever anyone dare speak the truth about Bush’s evil. This
overeaction and overprotectiveness over such a corrupt figure is obvious
wicked fruit in that they condone and are at one with this evil. These
hypocrites only defense is to “just pray.” Would these hypocrites say
“just pray” during Hitler’s holocaust? Well I am convinced if Hitler was
a republican I would say YES. These hypocrites would pass the buck and
blame the democrats for it. I had a little hope for Michael Savage but
probably knew it would be too good to be true about him coming around to
the truth. Lately he has been having guests on his show praising Bush
and McCain and he is calling McCain a war hero, which is an absolute
lie. Savage is such a hypocrite. He talks against dopers while he even
admits his own drunkeness. What is the difference? They are both
substance abuse. I am going to have to forget talk radio altogether
because it is all crap. While even that COAST TO COAST is interesting at
times it gets too much. I really get sick of it when they get someone on
there that claims to be a christian but yet discredits most of the
bible’s teachings. I can understand why there is coming a day of wrath
from God. My spirit is full of holy fury when I hear all this blasphemy.

www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin407.htm

I can’t believe that even Charlie Daniels is speaking out about apostasy
in America. Usually these entertainers are sold out to the neocon
system.

www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox-2003-091903.htm

WOW! This article pulls no punches. You may want this for your blog. But
I warn you that you will no doubt get hateful neocon responses over
this. This is on the level of Jeremiah Wright without the hypocrisy. You
may even get death threats from these murderous neocons. I am finally
glad to come across some really hard hitting stuff like this. This even
goes a bit further than me, saying to not even pray for America.

www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/pray_not.htm

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Chuck really nails it about the hypocritical church leadership. Those
quotes from Daniel Webster are very insightful. You know those quotes of
his are almost identical to what Osama Bin Laden said to hs own
followers that they don’t have to do much terrorizing because we will be
done in by our own leaders. Either he is very perceptive of our
situation or he has cut a deal with our leaders. I remember hearing some
that have said they had seen Bin Laden over here before 9/11, like in
Vegas. I think he is aligned with Bush and that is why nothing is ever
done about him. They are probably the best of buddies. Anyone has to be
a total fool and complete moron to still believe in this war when it has
been nothing but nonsense and gets worse all the time. Anyone that wants
to serve under a fool is a bigger fool than he. 

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America’s most celebrated jurist, Daniel Webster (himself a dedicated Christian man), said, “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.” Obviously, Christian men down through our history have personally and collectively shown themselves more than willing to “guard and defend” our liberties. From Bunker Hill to the Alamo, Christian men stood tall in the defense of America’s freedom. So, it is more than a little disconcerting to realize that there is a sizeable percentage of today’s Christians who seem completely unwilling to “guard and defend” liberty in these United States of America.

Oh, I know that almost all of our pastors and church leaders will laud and honor a young Christian man’s decision to join our armed forces and go overseas to fight enemies abroad. But when it comes to opposing those within our own country who seek to dismantle constitutional government or the principles of liberty, their support for resistance turns to apathy and indifference. (The reason for this couldn’t be because they simply don’t want to do the hard work, could it? Please tell me it ain’t so!)

I have even had Christians tell me that we should not oppose any attempts to resist draconian developments within our country, because doing so would actually be resisting God. The reasoning goes something like this: “The Bible says things will get worse and worse. Therefore, all this ‘bad’ stuff happening is God’s will, and if we try to prevent it, we are fighting against God’s will.” I know it sounds incredible, but we might be shocked as to the number of professing Christians that actually subscribe to such nonsense.

Isn’t it interesting, however, that these same Christians did not believe we were fighting against God’s will when we sent hundreds of thousands of U.S. military forces (many of them Christians) to fight and destroy the evil regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq? If things are supposed to get worse and worse and we would be opposing God’s will by resisting, why should we interfere in Iraq? Why should we send troops to Afghanistan, if we are not to resist evil?

And, of course, the bigger question is, If it is right to resist evil in a foreign country half way around the world, why is it not right to resist evil in our own country?

Furthermore, the same Christians that tell us we should not oppose any evil being perpetrated by those within our own government will scream about the importance of going to the polls in November and defeating the “evil” Democrats. But why? If Christians are not to resist evil, because the Bible says things will get worse and worse, why should we worry about who wins an election? In fact, it would seem that the best thing we could do would be to identify the absolute worst, most evil candidate we could find and vote for him (or her). After all, if God intends for things to get worse and worse, why don’t we help Him out by assisting the efforts of evil people?

I wonder if Christians actually think about what they are saying?

When Jesus said, “resist not evil,” (Matt. 5:39) did He mean that we should not oppose a would-be rapist or murderer? Did He mean we should not oppose those who would destroy our homes or country? I know a few honest pacifists. However, this is not the belief system of most Christians. Most Christians believe in lawful self-defense (including this writer).

The fact is, if it is right to oppose evil in Iraq (and I am among those who question the constitutional right and authority of the war in Iraq), it is right to oppose evil in America. If we Christians are willing to send our fellow believers to fight and die in opposition to tyranny half way around the world, it is right that we should be willing to fight and even die in opposition to tyranny right here at home. It is absolute lunacy for Christians to flippantly dismiss their moral, spiritual, and civil obligation to resist the tyrannical tendencies of corrupt political powers in these United States.

Christians are plainly commanded to resist the Evil One (James 4:7; 1 Peter 5:9). When Abraham’s nephew, Lot, was taken captive by an alien army, did Abraham say, “Things are going to get worse and worse and there is nothing we can do about it”? Or did he gather his own army and attack the invaders and deliver his nephew (see Genesis chapter 14)?

During the dark days of Israel’s captivities, did not God raise up deliverers to stand against the evildoers? When David saw Goliath, did he say, “Things are supposed to get worse and worse”? Or did he gather his sling and stones and march out to face the pagan?

The history of the early church in New Testament times is one continuous example of resistance to tyrannical authority. The apostles repeatedly refused to submit to the dictates and demands of both Jewish and Roman authorities. Every apostle, save John, was killed for resisting carnal authority.

Throughout church history, martyrdom was common. Some such as Huss and Tyndale died passively at the hands of various religious and political elements, while others such as Zwingli died on the battlefield resisting corrupt and tyrannical governments.

The fact is, for more than two thousand years of Church history–from John the Baptist to John Witherspoon–Christians have repeatedly and consistently resisted evil authorities. How dare pastors and Christians now say that we should not resist the evil, tyrannical tendencies of powerful politicos? How dare they suggest that it is “God’s will” that we allow evil to triumph in our land?

Worse still is the apathy and indifference that many Christians display toward the great freedoms and liberties into which they have been born as Americans. We enjoy these great liberties, because our forebears (many of them Christians) were willing to fight and die to bequeath them to us. We do not enjoy the rights and freedoms enumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights and announced in the Declaration of Independence by chance or luck. These freedoms were secured by the blood, sweat, and tears of brave Americans who chose to fight evil in our own country.

America has enjoyed the blessings of liberty, because, as Webster said, our fathers and grandfathers were willing to “guard and defend” it. Will this be the generation that refuses to “guard and defend” liberty? Will this be the generation that permits the evil machinations of powerful, but corrupt, authorities to steal liberty from our posterity?

There is another statement by Daniel Webster that today’s Christians need to take to heart: “There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.”

Should Webster’s warning come true for America, it will be because our pastors and Christian leaders refused to “guard and defend” liberty in our own land. Should this happen, our tombstone will read, “Here lies the United States of America: killed by the apathy and indifference of its pastors and churches.”

(c) Chuck Baldwin