Christians Who Despise the Golden Rule

America's hands are deeply stained by innocent blood-shedding in war. Our country has adopted immoral methods of warfare that kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people, facts widely ignored.

Christians have not stood up for righteousness in these matters. Rather, too often we have encouraged innocent blood-shedding in a misguided patriotism.

Thousands are being murdered by drone attacks that cannot distinguish between combatants and the innocent.

Shedding innocent blood gives us an advantage that we are loathe to surrender when pragmatism trumps morality.

In Ezra's day, the old men mourned when they recalled the glory of Solomon's temple compared to the puny new structure.

So too Christians ought to mourn when we see the glory of our nation overthrown by raw power and brute force, a false and evil glory that most cheer today.

Our nation was to have a tiny government, limited, humble, principled, and modest. Yet those who advocate a restoration of that glory are mocked and derided as fools.

Last week, a largely "Christian" audience in South Carolina booed the words of Jesus and the Golden Rule, when it was suggested that America ought to treat other nations as it wished to be treated.

Christians have minimized the vulgar desecration of dead bodies by American soldiers, and blamed radical Islam for helpless people trying to defend their homes and their families from aggression.

In short, many American Christians hate the Golden Rule.

When the Glory of Christ was revealed, the people preferred the faded glory of their broken down religion instead. They mocked His Glory as the Lamb of sacrifice.

But Christ's Glory shall prevail!