Open Letter to Fellow Christians
"If you are open to recognizing that the United States behaves much as other great powers have behaved, but you get your information through the standard American Channels, I dare you to expose yourself to the facts that have been suppressed by our newspapers and magazines. If you are one who wants to be a disciple of Jesus, you will have some hard thinking to do about what American Christians are called to be and to do at this historic moment."
-John B. Cobb Jr, coauthor of The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God
Never utter these words, "I do not know this, so therefore it is false." One must study to know, know to understand, and understand to fairly judge. I sincerely hope that you don't know what is going on in this country...because that would explain the eerie silence emanating from the Christian community. I can easily forgive you for not rising up to speak out against such grave threats if you haven't yet recognized them as such. I myself have just woken up from the fantasy of what I thought was America. I thought that America, the land that I loved was good...like Santa Clause.
I now know I live in a place whose government openly tortures people and justifies it. I live in a country that on the basis of outrageous lies is waging an illegal war with illegal weapons and with no end in sight. I live in a country that suppresses science which may prove to threaten the survival of the human race! I live in a country that glorifies greed, intolerance and ignorance through a culture reinforced through mass media. I live in a country that claims to be democratic yet repeatedly robs the citizens of their votes. No, this isn't a place I recognize, and the more I see it as it is, the more I know our country needs powerful voices to proclaim our Christian ideals....our ideals of love, compassion, honesty, and courage.
Relative silence in such immoral times is complicity to the crimes that are known yet unrepudiated. The pacifists of the world have historically allowed the evils of slavery, the holocaust, and segregation to continue unchallenged. Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it, yet the disastrous course of this regime makes silence unconscionable. We are in the midst of modern-day Muslim Holocaust with US playing the part of the Fourth Reich and only bloggers seem to have met the challenge, but will blogs prove victorious over such evil? Can we responsibly choose a less than ideal course of action?
May this letter serve as the religious community's notice that from now on, you must either stop being mistaken in believing our war is just and subsequently speak out against it, or cease being HONEST. If you bow down through your silence and let these atrocities continue unchecked, then what is the purpose of the Christian life? We cannot serve two masters. We cannot allow lies to flourish, while the truth is hidden under our breath. Can God feel welcome in places where truth is not?
"Those who do not stand up for something, will bow down to anything."
A truth of this nature and of this magnitude has the power to radically transform our wealthy, yet morally bankrupt society. The veil of lies that has darkened our once rational and collective consciousness is acting like a cancer growing untreated...invading once healthy parts of the body, until the entire body relinquishes in the struggle. Until you look deeply into the cells, it is impossible to decide which is healthy and which is malignant. The explanation, "I can't believe that!" just isn't good enough when so much is at stake.
"For whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -Arthur Conan Doyle
The Widows and families of the victims of September 11th, are begging Americans to stand with them in demanding a new investigation. We as Christians are told to defend the widows, yet too few among us has demanded a new investigation. If it weren't for the relentless efforts of the September Eleventh Widows, America would not even have the 9/11 Commission Report. This "conclusive investigation" failed to mention World Trade Center 7, and saw the source of funding into the 9/11 attacks "of little practical significance."
It is disturbing to me that the Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. Kean said, "FAA and NORAD officials advanced an account of 9/11 that was untrue...We, to this day, don't know why NORAD told us what they told us...It was just so far from the truth." Likewise, Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Homeland Security Advisory Council said, "We got started late; we had a very short time frame...we did not have enough money...We had a lot of people strongly opposed to what we did. We had a lot of trouble getting access to documents and to people.. .. So there were all kinds of reasons we thought we were set up to fail." For more opinions on this issue, look at www.patriotsquestion911.org.
Does this mean that 9/11's "conclusive investigation" failed? If September Eleventh has not been properly investigated, then how can we know how to proplerly respond to it? How can there be justice and peace without the truth? Christians seem to mistake the absence of conflict as peace. Peace is not be attained without boldly facing the lies which started the war! A lasting house of Peace can only be secured when it is built upon a foundation on the rock of truth. The truth may be scary, but the lack of it is much more treacherous.
As there is no room for lies in truth, there can be no faith with fear. The modern Christian seems a rugged conformist, yet how can one know how to honestly act if not be true to himself? If you judge something to be false then say so! Lies of omission and commission lead down the same road of destruction! Please do not erroneously believe because the truth is this bloody we can just bury it. NO. Because this truth is so bloody, we each have an obligation to expose it for what it is...a wake-up call for Christian patriots here at home. We can offer no support for our boys in harm"s way if we cannot even face the truth of why they are there. We are responsible for the deaths of American troops and innocent Iraqis alike if we fail to learn and spread the message of truth...the "good news" and the bad.
Instead of shouting the ever popular, "Free Darfur!" we should remove the log out of our own eyes and shout "Free Iraq!" to the real terrorists...which truth be told...is US! The United States of America is a terrorist nation, and through our Christian community"s silence, we are complicit in our own government's crimes.
Iraq didn't have Weapons of Mass Destruction, and yet...who did? Have you ever heard of depleted uranium warheads? Already, birth defects are so severe that new parents don't ask, "Is it a boy or a girl" instead they ask, "Is it normal?" In effect, this ancient place where Jesus walked will be uninhabitable...forever.
Dr. David Ray Griffin is right, "Religions of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your impotence!"
sherry clark was in the midst of starting a new real estate staging and auction house when she became aware of very disturbing things about her country...crimes against nature, crimes against humanity, and even that 9/11 was an inside job! Instead of launching her company, Help-U-Out, she thought her time would be better spent helping out her country instead. She has co-founded Columbus911truth.org and is a member of Columbus World Can't Wait (http://www.columbuswcw.org). she is the Ohio coordinator of MuJCA (the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 911 Truth) and founded http://www.WarOnWar.us . sherry hopes to end war for all time by exposing state sponsored terrorism like
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