Why Gaza Exposes the Rotten Fruit of Conservative Christianity
The sick and twisted nails in the coffin keep coming.
I no longer require confirmation to validate my departure from evangelical Christianity. Nor have I ever needed a justification for my reluctance to support conservative politics. But, the final blows keep coming, each one revealing this belief system for exactly what it is: a dying ideology that has no place in a just, equal, and compassionate future.
It is clear that in conservative Christianity, only some people matter. Only some people are worthy of life. We hear grand speeches about saving the unborn by the same people making the most evil statements about Gaza.
During an interview on The Ingraham Angle, Ohio's Republican Representative Max Miller said “We’re going to turn that into a parking lot,” referring to Gaza, while criticizing and mocking Democrat Representative Rashida Talib’s Palestinian flag outside her office.
During a speech on the House floor, Florida's Republican Representative Brian Mast compared Palestinian civilians to Nazi civilians, adding “There is not this far stretch to say there are very few innocent Palestinian civilians.”
On Fox News', Hannity, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said that Israel should “level the place”. “We’re in a religious war here. I am with Israel,” Graham said. “Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourself. Level the place.”
Last week, Michigan Republican Congressman and former Baptist pastor Tim Walberg said during a town hall in Dundee, Michigan that “We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid,” according to the recording. “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”
Reading these comments should hurt our hearts. They should make us feel something heavy in our spirits. Over 33,000 innocent civilians including almost 14,000 children have already died at the hands of unspeakable violence in a neighboring land where Jesus preached the words, “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.”
These aren’t comments from godly men. These comments are the rotten fruit that yields from Christian Zionism. The comments are sick and twisted nails in the coffin of an ideology that the world needs to abandon to die like a fruitless fig tree.
I condemn it.
Waiting on the world to do the same.
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