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One of the main reasons countries in the Middle East have fought against any aid from America is because of their fear the aid will come at a cost. The cost being the spreading of Christianity. That charge is denied by the military leaders of this country, but those same leaders have used biblical terms to describe the war, making statements like this is our “army from god,” and saying that soldiers were “hunting people for Jesus.” This strategy of using the gun then the bible to conquer whole groups and races of people has been used by people of European descent for centuries. And is NOTHING NEW to people who have studied on their own and know World History!
When Columbus and his gang or rapists, pillagers, and plunders came to the new world, they killed and enslaved many of the people they initially came in contact with. Then they brought in the Catholic Bishops to “teach” the “pagans” that their language, religion, customs, and way of life, were against “god.” They were told that their conquers were there to “save them” and help them get to “heaven.” This is an one example of the gun then the bible being used to justify Manifest Destiny.
The bible was used by slave traders to justify conquering all of Africa. Slave ships had names like Jesus. At the Berlin Conference in 1884, Spain, Portugal, England, Germany, Italy, the United States, and France, to name a few, decided to carve up Africa for their own benefit. They also agreed not to fight one another over the natural riches that the continent has and to help each other conquer the people in Africa if needed. That meeting started the second assault on the continent that came on the heels of the African Slave trade. This assault began with the simultaneous violent raids on the continent. And after the “heathens” were beaten, raped, and/or killed into submission, religion was brought in. The bible was RE-WRITTEN and MIS-INTERPRETED to claim that Black skin was a curse and because of this, we were predestined to be slaves forever. Another example of the use of the gun and the bible to justify Manifest Destiny.
And now, there have been examples of the American Military using the bible to try and change the minds of Middle Easterners to leave Islam and join Christianity. Bibles were translated into Pashto and Dari, the two most spoken languages in Afghanistan. When the Muslim television station Al-Jazeera aired footage of these bibles, the Pentagon “confiscated” and “destroyed” them! In 2003-2004, some chaplains from America, attempted to distribute over 2 million bibles to the people of Iraq. This was in violation of the U.S. military Central Command’s General Order Number One forbidding active-duty troops from trying to convert people to any religion. Could the fact that evidence of the translated bibles have already been proven be one of the reasons most Middle Easterners don’t believe America when we claim to just want to help them and not change their way of life?
While America claims to have a clear separation between “church and state,” that is in fact a lie. The bible has been used, and continues to be used, to justify BIGOTRY and Military invasions. That the “sleep sheep” in America refuse to see it doesn’t mean it’s not true. And as long as some Americans defend our actions on “religious grounds,” we as a country shouldn’t be surprised that people are willing to blow themselves up, or fly planes into our National Monuments, to stop us from taking over their countries!
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