In every war, good people fight on the losing side. Whether by surrender or by crushing defeat without surrender, those on the losing side suffer all the consequences that apply to the vanquished.

Not every German was a Nazi. I think it's safe to say that not all Germans who were Nazis were heart-felt believers in Nazi policy, especially the policy of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem." Nevertheless, by and large, all Germans who were citizens of the Third Reich collectively suffered the consequences of being on the losing side of World War II. Their cities were collectively bombed. That generation was forever humiliated as a collective people by the barbarity of the Holocaust committed in their own backyard by their fellow countrymen, their friends, their family members, and neighbors.

Christianity can also be said to be in a war, a spiritual war. Yet, many Christians are affiliated with institutional church organizations that inadequately teach Israel's positive, active, and ongoing role in God's biblical plan of redemption. As global events intensify in accordance with biblical prophecy, many members of churches holding to overly liberal theological views are entirely unaware of Israel’s positive strategic role in the past, present, and future of God's overall plan for mankind.

Why is this so important?  For one thing, because it's separation from our biblical roots that will cause our society to fail in its rightful and biblical support of Israel and, in turn, fail to defeat the Islamic jihadists who intend to destroy both Israel and our way of life. Even more dire, from an eternal perspective, is the critical problem that conceptual separation from the biblical roots of Christianity puts Christians in an awkward position with the God of Israel, who’s plan for His people is indeed to save them based on the irrefutable eternal fact that He loves them.

It is the organizations and bureaucracies within Christendom that hold to liberal (read: diluted) and postmodern (read: nebulous) theologies that are a real ally in the war against global Islamic jihad—on the side of the jihadists. As columnist Frank Pastore has put it: “Their [liberal Christianity’s] unwillingness to distinguish truth from error, right from wrong, and good from evil leave them intellectually immobilized to resist the encroachment of false teaching and heresy, and incapable of knowing the good guys from the bad guys in the war for the free world.”

As a result, the liberal church's overly-tolerant, often supportive attitude toward radical Islamic initiatives in the Middle East (which leads to appeasement and emboldening of the enemy’s zeal to destroy everything not committed to belief in Allah and sharia law), can be interpreted, at least in a pragmatic sense, as morally equivalent to the German church’s silence toward the Third Reich—both moral failures of catastrophic magnitude.

Just as the failure to understand the Scriptures from a theological perspective that acknowledges and understands the Jewish roots of the Christian faith contributed to institutional Christendom's utter moral failure during the Holocaust, the current failure to understand the Scriptures from that same perspective leads to institutional Christianity's misguided antagonism and indifference toward Israel today in the face of the greatest threat to the Jewish people since the rise of the Third Reich.

If you are affiliated with one of those mainline church denominations that entertain thoughts of divesting, or actually divests from Israel (Prebyterian USA), or if you've been taught that “the church” is the “New Israel,” or if you are a member of a Christian organization that is any way inordinately politically aligned with the Arab/Palestinian/PLO/PA jihadist cause (especially while simultaneously harboring anti-Zionist/anti-Semitic thoughts toward Israel in your heart), I write in good faith directly to you as an individual.

This aspect of Christianity's two-thousand year old identity crisis places you in a very dangerous spiritual landscape, positioned all too close to harm’s way in light of God’s rapidly unfolding plan to rescue His people, Israel, while destroying their enemies in the process.

Can liberal institutional Christianity today be rightfully compared to liberal institutional Christianity in Germany as the darkness of the Third Reich moved onto the world stage?

Something to think about as the warm and inviting pull of liberal Christian political correctness tickles your ear...

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