Glenn – No Beauty In The Beast – Israel Without Her Mascara

160TEN GOOD MENbefore them, have demonstrated by such to be completely unprepared for the war of the soul that isquickly approaching. A better-trained, more dedicated soldier of the faith would recognize that anyinformation given freely by the enemy could not be trusted, and that only a fool would accept it.Furthermore, if these apocalyptically minded Christians had done a more thorough reading of thewarnings that were issued to them by their commander-in-chief, they would have known better than tohave allowed themselves to be captured by the enemy in such a disgraceful manner.“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves...By theirfruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:15If ever there was an era in which the ugly fruits of false prophecy were on full display, then clearly nobetter example of this exists than in the poisonous doctrine of Christian Zionism that has so effectivelycaptured a large portion of the Christian world today. These ugly fruits are now openly visible in thepresent war going on in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as in the murder of the Palestinian peoples by thedevilish disciples of Marxist Zionism over the course of the last 80 years. And while there may be thosein the Christian world who have not greedily gulped down the maddening wine of Christian Zionism,nevertheless there are those who have sipped from that poisoned chalice, as evidenced in the mannerwith which they choose to deal with the question of Israel’s past, present, and future.With respect to the suffering of those peoples in the region who have witnessed first hand what is theApocalypse of Marxist Zionism, the callous unconcern for such suffering has become one of modern dayChristianity’s defining characteristics. By such behavior, today’s Christians have become the same priestand Levite in the parable who, after witnessing the plight of him who had been beaten and robbed,continued uninterrupted in their walk without the slightest trace of compassion or concern. In like manner,as the peoples of the Middle East have been beaten and robbed by the thuggery of Marxist Zionism, the“religious” members of the Christian community have barely glanced in their direction at what is thepitiable state of their fellow man. By such actions, modern day Christians who are party to this havedemonstrated what has become their contempt for the rules of justice and charity towards the least oftheir brethren in the Middle East. Again, the roots of this can be traced to the narcissism which afflictsmuch of Christianity today, exactly in the same way that it afflicted the priest and the Levite whose livesand interests were of such importance that not even coming to the aid of a dying man would divert ordistract them. Those individuals who would defend their complacency with the argument that theyhave not taken any sides with regards to the situation in the Middle East should realize that they aremerely suffering from a mild case of the same virus which has afflicted millions of others in a full blownway. And even though such individuals may not have been baptized into the idolatrous religion ofChristian Zionism, (as manifested in the master race ideology which is applied generously to theinhabitants of Israel by Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and the rest) nevertheless, when all is said and done,the real reason for their complacency is not pardonable by any means. The dirty little secret which muchof mainstream Christianity doesn’t want to face (nor wishes to have revealed) is that the reason for theirdeafening silence on the issue of how the peoples of the Middle East are suffering is not rooted in religiousor intellectual reservations that are the fruits of careful consideration. It is not rooted in the benign neglectthat many of its adherents would like to claim it is. Rather it is best understood as originating in the sameinstincts that gripped their forefathers 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem 33 AD, as they sat shivering andquivering behind locked doors. That instinct which afflicted the first Christians with the same sense ofspiritual paralysis that afflicts a good number of them today is simply (for lack of better phraseology) fearof the Jews.This fear is completely understandable, and only the truly blind or the truly dishonest would attempt to