Many of my fellow Christians who are friends often tell me that Christianity is the religion of peace while Islam is not. Of course, such claims are made with a selective use of both history and the present. And so I thought that we could compare the religions of the countries involved with the Iran War to see which religion is the religion of peace.
We have 3 horse race here to determine the winner. We have Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Christianity will be represented by the U.S. Judaism will be represented by Israel. While Islam will be represented by Iran, Pakistan, and the Gulf Coast Countries. Answers to the following questions will determine the winner(s).
What is the religion of the country that is currently engaged in ethnic cleansing of indigenous people from the land that it is trying to annex?
What is the religion of the country that practices/sponsors a significant amount of terrorism?
What is the religion of the country that has provided the most help in getting the current ceasefire talks started?
What is the religion of the country or countries that did not retaliate after being attacked multiple times?
What is the religion of the country that threatened the Pope?
What is the religion of the country/countries that has/have caused thousands of deaths and over millions of displaced people in the recent war?
What is the religion of the nation that has broken multiple ceasefires?
What is the religion of the nation that has threatened a whole civilization?
What is the religion of the country/countries that has/have exercised the harshest suppression of its citizens?
Seeing that the answers to the questions are obvious, we will cut to the chase. In this 3 horse race, we have neither winners nor religions that even show. What we have is a religion that places. That religion is Islam. And so while many Americans brag about the Judeo-Christian values of America's founding, the current Iran War implies that such a boast is empty and should be a lament. And I am writing this as a religiously conservative Christian. I should add that though in this case, the nation that represents Christianity is hurting the reputation of Christianity, there are too many times where I have done the same with some of the decisions I have made.
Still, how the U.S. and Israel are representing their respective religions is going a long way to discredit those religions on a national level. In terms of Christianity, Christendom did much to discredit Christianity in the eyes of many. It did so much to contribute to the birth of Critical Theory and Post Modernism. Who knows what reactions that the current representatives of Judaism and Christianity, represented by Israel and the U.S. respectively in this article, will produce in the future, or perhaps the near future, will produce in different parts of the world including the in Israel and the U.S.?
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