Empire building is fiction says Take A Stand!

Take A Stand Ministries mightily says “In an interview discussing their 2009 book, Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile, Bell and co-author Don Golden say that the Church in America is in exile today. Bell and Golden say that by participating in our culture (they call America an “empire”) and by supporting our government/military system and by using oil, we are “oppressors” and create suffering for others.” TSM strategically & mightily disarms Bell mightily be stating “They conveniently ignore the fact that America, in particular the Christians in her, have done more to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ than any other nation in history – hands down! But in emergent/leftist thought, anything smelling like capitalism must be shunned (except for enjoying the many benefits life in the USA offers). This is nothing less than 1960’s, counter-culture, hippie liberalism now being referred to as “Evangelical Christianity!” Take that Rob Bell!

Why would Rob Bell even suggest such an afront to OUR patriotism, nationalism and not turn a blind eye like a good true Christian?

We know that empires intervene, control, use power to coerce & bully smaller nations (this is fair if you are a US Citizen). We know the USA would never do that, but rather spends all its military budget spreading the ‘gospel.’…which every other countries wants too!

But what kind of gospel does the USA spread?

The true gospel of capitalism (covetousness/greed), freedom (if you accept being invaded, shot, or bombed into submission as freedom) and democracy (which is freely enforced once it is imposed) Its great too that the media conglomerates that are owned by defence contractors tells us that other countries either really want this ‘gospel’ so bad that they are willing to be bombed and shot at, or pesky and annoying and ignorant villagers fight back (how dare they!!!) They simply need to be educated that they are getting the ‘gospel.’

Here is Eric Barger’s Take A Stand’s example of non-empire-building-non-oppressive-military manoeuvres of friendlyness that apparently don’t cause oppression or suffering:

Argentina 1890

Chile 1891

Haiti 1891

Hawaii 1893 (?)

Nicaragua 1894

China 1894-95

Korea 1894-96

Panama 1895

Nicaragua 1896

China 1898-1900

Philippines 1898-1910 (?)

Cuba 1898-1902 (?)

Puerto Rico 1898 (?)

Guam 1898 (?)

Nicaragua 1898

Samoa 1899-(?)

Panama 1901-114

Honduras 1903

Dominican Republic 1903-04

Korea 1904-05

Cuba 1906-09

Nicaragua 1907

Honduras 1911

China 1911-41

Cuba 1912

Panam 1912

Honduras1912

Nicaragua 1912-33

Mexico 1913

Haiti  1914-34

Dominican Republic 1916-24

Cuba 1917-33

Panama 1918-20

Hondurus 1919

Yugoslavia 1919

Guatemala 1920

Turkey 1922

China 1922-27

Honduras 1924-25

Panama 1925

China 1927-34

El Salvador 1932

Iran 1946

Yugoslavia 1946

Uruguay 1947

Greece 1947-49

Phillipines 1984-54

Puerto Rico 1950

Korea 1951-53

Iran 1953

Vietnam 1954

Guatemala 1954

Egypt 1956

Lebanon 1958

Vietnam 1960-75

Cuba 1961

Iraq 1963

Panama 1964

Indonesia 1965

Dominican Republic 1965-66

Guatemala 1966-67

Cambodia 1969-75

Oman 1970

Laos 1971-73

Chile 1973

Cambodia 1975

Angola 1976-92

Libua 1981

El Salvador 1981-82

Nicaragua 1981-90

Lebanon 1982-84

Grenada 1983-84

Honduras 1983-89

Iran 1986

Iran 1987-88

Libya 1989

Panama 1989

Liberal 1990

Iraq 1991-2003

Somolia 1992-94

Yugoslavia 1992-94

Bosnia 1993 (?)

Hait 1994

Sudan 1998

Afghanistan 1998

Iraq 1998

Yugoslavia 1999

Macedonia 2001

Afghanistan 2001

Yemen 2002

Philippines 2002

Columbia 2003

Iraq 2003

Haiti 2004-05

Pakistan 2005

Somalia 2006

Syria 2008

Yemen 2009

Remember, these were non-oppressive. These nations probably wanted undesirables killed, their leaders assassinated , their resources plundered, their governments sent into chaos because they too wanted freedom (at the end of a barrel) or badly needed to have a dictator propped up to run their country. Thank goodness we have ONE shining beacon of capitalism, freedom and democracy to lead the nations!

Truthslayer…proudly supporting empires and their freedom loving spirit!