Many conservative Christians believe that the United States is God’s nation—not for historical reasons, such as Israel, but because God has chosen America to conquer the forces of heathen liberalism in the world. But they only believe that this is the case if the Republican Party is ruling it. It is their hope—and for some of them, their goal—that America become a Christian nation ruled by Christian force.
Perhaps if these people would read their Bibles they might see a parallel from the ancient world that would frighten them. The ancient nation of Judah was ruled by kings and priests who used force to impose religion on their nation. This ancient religious dictatorship ran the nation of Judah into the ground. There was only one way out of the religious stranglehold: conquest. They were conquered by a pagan empire (Babylon).
If the religious conservatives attain the religious dictatorship that some of them seek, there will, once again, probably be only one way out. It is not hard to guess what will happen. Religious conservatives gleefully rack up more debt whenever they see a chance to start another war. They use “fiscal responsibility” as a campaign phrase but have never honored it. China has the largest reserves of cash, and America has the largest debt. This is the proverbial “handwriting on the wall,” which is another reference to an Old Testament story, in which a hand wrote Babylon’s fate on a wall, and immediately thereafter Persia conquered Babylon. This time, however, it is not words but numbers on the wall.
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