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        Christian Zionist's End Times: Election Reveals Cracks In Logic 
 By Charles E. Carlson
 
 ccun.org, November 12, 2008
 The 2008 election demonstrated the single mindedness of the 
		Christian-Zionist voting block; this time in a losing effort.  They 
		were the biggest group of supporters for John McCain, who received over 
		62 million votes.  The Pew Research Center estimated in advance 
		that some 26 million 'white evangelicals,' members of Judeo-Christian 
		Churches, like the one to which Sarah Palin belongs, would vote. They 
		did!
  When the smoke cleared we are told about 73% 
		of the "evangelicals/born again" voted for McCain and 26% for Obama.  
		All other religious groups divided more evenly except Jews and Muslims. 
		 Surprisingly 78% of Jewish voters picked Obama; "other faiths" 
		including Muslim, went 73% for Obama.  Thus Christian Zionists 
		voted 180 degrees from the ethnic group they claim love to the most, and 
		the one they love to fear.
 Most "Born Again Christians" as the 
		Pew Exit Poll identifies them, qualify as Christian Zionists by We Hold 
		These Truth's test, but they would prefer to be called, evangelicals, 
		dispensationalists, Judeo-Christians, or even "the Christian Right."  
		Unfortunately, their unity of purpose is confused and is not centered on 
		Jesus' words; Jesus has to defer to the needs and desires of Israel.
		Because they enthrone Israel, 
		Judeo-Christians have an endemic capacity to be misled on political 
		issues, including war.
 
 For instance they 
		oppose abortion of unborn children, but never discuss or observe the 
		violent killing of Arab children in a war zone, nor do they object to 
		Israel's massive state sponsored abortion program.  We have clearly 
		explained their logic in a new DVD called The Roots of Christian 
		Zionism.
 
 In spite of the 'Obama landslide' it should not 
		be forgotten that Christian Zionists are not going away but appear that 
		both their numbers and their leadership are fraying and beginning to 
		flake off.  However, they remain the largest and most powerful 
		single voting faction, and the most easily manipulated one.
 
 Obviously this was not a normal election, with the biggest percentage 
		turnout since 1908 when people dearly cared about their vote, some paid 
		to vote and some ride horses for miles to the polls.  Many we know 
		who are trying to follow Christ's words for peace, were horrified by the 
		war-committed McCain, but also did not trust Barack Obama to be free of 
		the Neo-Conservative political influence.
 
 We think evangelicals 
		want to be the first to share Jesus' values of loving your brother and 
		not killing his children.  They did until they were shaped by 
		Oxford University's Scofield Reference Bible, and influence by world 
		Zionist lobbies, such as AIPAC and Unity Coalition for Israel.  
		They voted for McCain/Palin for religious reasons, as did 82% that voted 
		for G. W. Bush four years ago.
 
 Judeo-Christians may have been 
		the only group in America to take seriously the rumors that Obama is a 
		Muslim.  Churches organized pre-election prayer sessions fearfully 
		asking God to deliver America from Obama; some referred to him as 
		'anti-Christ."  Now deceased Jerry Falwell's Liberty University 
		gave its 10,000 students election-day off to work the polls for McCain/Palin.
 
 Obviously, Jewish voters thought otherwise since nearly 80% of 
		them voting, voted for Obama, according to the Pew Foundation's exit 
		poll.  It seems 26 million Judeo-Christians are out of touch with 
		the 2 million Jewish voters.  Perhaps, the latter are not as 
		anxious for Armageddon!
 
 World Zionism and its Neo-Con 
		think-tanks have switched tactics of promoting fear of terrorism, as 
		with Day 9/11, to a new paradigm... fear and distrust of all Muslims, 
		including the neighbor and his children.  Christian Zionists are 
		the most susceptible to this phobia, perhaps thinking McCain would 
		protect them from the 1.5% or less, Muslim neighbors.
 
 Tough guy, 
		anti-Arab talk has become acceptable among Judeo-Christians, as we have 
		learned from our many contacts with them, and is epidemic on national 
		network talk radio.  Comments like 'Nuke-em all' or 'Turn it to 
		Glass' or worse, are commonplace.  Film editor Tom Compton quips 
		that his fellow churchmen are 'my bloodthirsty brothers in Christ.'
 
 The new Obama Administration will be under huge pressure from those who 
		financed it to make only a show of downsizing the Iraq War.  
		Neo-Conservatives who wrote The Project for the New American Century, 
		calling for war in Iraq, and international banking interests will 
		pressure Obama to continue and even escalate warring sanctions and 
		occupations of Islamic states. He has already opined that he favors 
		staying in Afghanistan, and Iraq will likely be stretched out.
 
 Those Obama is considering for his key appointments seem to 
		indicate the Jewish voters knew what they were doing when they voted for 
		him, and Muslims may have been grasping at straws.  Both these are 
		small groups compared to the many millions of Christian Zionists who 
		voted against Obama in fear.
 
 Christian Zionist leaders and 
		neo-conservative think-tanks have spewed "islamophobia" on 
		'conservative' talk radio, and internet sites that cater 
		to born-again listeners.  Some radio celebrities could be arrested 
		for their inflammatory words, had hate crimes legislation not been 
		repeatedly rejected by Congress.
 
 We are lost to the tragedy of 
		our warring past made manifest.  If you doubt that our past has 
		caught up with us, look at the stock market...down about a trillion 
		dollars in value the first two days after the Obama miracle.
 
 No 
		matter what Obama's intent, we must not forget that he is a politician.  
		And whatever is inside him will be pressed hard to be sublimated to the 
		Neo-Cons. A key was his choice of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is a 
		Zionist to the core.
 
 The Judeo-Christians remain the only 
		political faction driven directly by religious beliefs that war and the 
		support of the state of Israel is right, that distrust, even hatred, of 
		Israel's perceived enemy Islam, is a necessity and prophetic. They 
		ignore and refuse to discuss this question: Does killing of Arabs stand 
		in the way of one's hope for Heaven?   Well meaning Christian 
		Zionists will change when they recognize that anti-Islam, or anti any 
		race, excludes following Christ, and is murder.
 
 Laymen 
		members need to walk out of Zionist churches in mass.  Those who 
		teach an anti-scriptural, false faith will then collapse of their own 
		error.  Americans can only then reclaim their heritage of a moral, 
		Christian influenced government.  We think this is already well in 
		motion.
 
 The error of well-meaning members can be corrected with 
		patience and logic by challenging the religious beliefs of Judeo 
		Christians head on.  The apostle Paul spoke of "reproving them" in 
		his letter to the Ephesians.  We must not do less.
 
 If we 
		are to recover our influence over our own government we need help, and 
		to whom shall we turn?  The answer remains in the moral 
		church-going millions.  Mainline and orthodox churches are usually not 
		Judeo-Christians, and there are about 150,000 such traditional church 
		congregations, but they have been asleep at the switch.  With their 
		renewed help we could empirically re-educate many of the 70 
		million influenced by Christian Zionism.  Together, as we should 
		be, we could actually influence what our government does.
 
 Strong evidence of 'confrontation' is in the air from mainline churches 
		(traditional Protestant and Catholic) and we will do what we can to 
		encourage it.  We have called this The Great Turning in the Age of 
		Serial Wars.
 
 Let us look to a future where the swing vote 
		is not from a group with apocalyptic dreams of yet another war to usher 
		in mystic Armageddon.  Come, be a part of it!
 
 Voting 
		Religiously By Pew Research:  http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1022/exit-poll-analysis-religion
 
		http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=2670 
 
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