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!