Donald Trump likes to say he’s a Christian. I don’t know how much of a Christian he really is as I can’t see inside his head. All I can do is watch what he does and compare those actions to those of what I expect a good Christian would do.
To be blunt though, I don’t believe he really is a Christian, after all, he wouldn’t have acted the way he had in business, with workers, women, young girls, the population of the United States of America, his support base etc. if he really followed Christian principles.
And then there’s Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s Jewish. And if we’re asking about Donald Trump, who uses Christianity as some sort of facade, and his faith, then what about Benny? I don’t know enough about Judaism to measure his level of faith against his actions, but I suspect he’s more Jewish than Donald Trump is Christian.
And then there are the targets of this Judo-Christian war. The Muslims. Iran is the main focus of this war but the second front is The Lebanon. We have a supposedly secular country, the USA, aligning with a Jewish state to attack a Muslim state and take side swipes at another Muslim state. This smacks of a “holy war”.
The notion of America’s separation of church and state is broken because it’s leader’s self-professed “Christian values” seem at odds with the bible, and there were overt religious comments in talks to troops at the beginning of this forsaken war.
So rather than ask “what would Jesus do?” ask “what would the pagans do?” because those with a wider and more open mindset would have not gone in to this ridiculous conflict, not because it goes against “Christian values” or “Jewish values”, whatever they are, but, more importantly it goes against HUMAN values, even the values of nature, the world, the planet, and the delicate equilibrium we may have had prior to this “Operation Epic Fury” nonsense.
As a pagan myself, I don’t have any dogma or scripture to “follow”, only an inherent natural affinity with people and the planet. There is not only far too much human suffering, directly from the bombing of people primarily in Iran and Lebanon, but all the other Gulf states and even Israel itself.
And it’s not just the direct destruction of homes, shops, police stations, and other public infrastructure, but the collateral damage to neighbourhood cohesion, national psyche, and the world’s weariness of warfare. The global economy is only just feeling the initial tremors of this shock, as I suspect there is more to come. Even if Trump stops “his” war, will the Israelis continue theirs? Is this a land-grab in disguise? Is that their distraction whilst Trump’s is that you don’t mention the Epstein files?
But back to war, the new thing you’re supposed to be looking at, what will the region look like this time next year, in five years, ten years, a century? What about the rest of the world?
The mindset that “obliteration” of Iran’s high command will leave a power vacuum that ordinary Iranians will fill the void of is naive. Iran murdered thousands when they last started an uprising. And now, just because “the head of the snake” has been cut off, doesn’t mean it won’t grow a new one.
Ordinary Iranians have been shot at and murdered by their own religious state, and now another pair of religious states are raining down destruction upon them. Where do people turn to? Where is safe? What is best? Because the state of the nation now is dangerous, whichever way you look at it.
So stop all this monotheist chest-beating and think of the wider picture – how are people and the planet doing? Because all this “my god’s better than your god” rubbish is so tiring.