Ezekiel & Christian Nationalism

I dont expect rave reviews from this post, but I have to voice my thoughts as a citizen and follower of Christ.

In my fifty plus years of reading the scriptures, I do not recall such pain and negative emotions as with this read through Ezekiel. Chapter Seven gives me pause, given the obvious contrast between the God Ezekiel describes, given the life of Jesus, whom I believe truly reflects the nature of God. Religion had done a number on Isreal and perhaps now on America.

If not, even more concern arises for where we are headed as a nation if God "decides" to move in a way Ezekiel suggests as possible.

The Old Testament prophets wrote both in rebellion to what Judaism had become, while intermittently calling for a long promised Messiah. The beauty of these writings is found less in the rants of impending doom, and moreso the accurate description of means by which that Messiah would suffer at the hands of the religious.

The threats made public of late toward Iran might also produce similar probabilities in America.

Our history, at least in my lifetime has never accomodated such careless arrogance, even in wartime, though the divisive nature of the Vietnam conflict came close.

Such false wisdom likely assures a reciprocity of hatred and threat, which if ever adequately weaponized could do great damage to our country. 9/11 would then seem minimal, even a prophrtic precursor of the present intent by those most inoculated with religious hatred and revenge.

I'm hoping the same "virus" has not infected a majority population in our nation, the timing almost ironic given this most memorable anniversary of our freedom.

Just as Ezekiel warned a wayward Isreal, the arrogant boasting among Christian nationalists surely does not represent the Christ, nor bode well for our future as a nation, should similar judgement be called for.