"Donald Trump seems ever more confident about deploying the immense military power at his disposal and the moral and legal questions keep coming." Edward Stourton, BBC Radio 4, 'Sunday' 18 Jan 2026
"The capture of the Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro, the attacks on alleged drug-running boats off the Venezuelan coast, the threats to strike the regime in Iran, the determination to take Greenland even though it is the territory of a fellow NATO member, the musings about invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act so that active-service troops can be deployed on the streets of Minneapolis - all of these things raise profound legal and moral questions. Edward Stourton speaks to the Catholic archbishop Timothy Broglio who leads the United States Archdiocese for the Military Services. "Sales of the Bible have rocketed according to data from Britain's biggest Christian publisher, SPCK. For most of the 2010s they ran at a reasonably steady rate - between two and a half and three million a year - but they began to take off in 2021, and last year they hit over six million three hundred thousand. This comes amid claims of a religious revival being led by younger people."
The large majority of evangelical and other Right-wing MAGA Christians voted for Donald Trump in 2024, it seems from a report I heard on Radio 4. Earlier that year, in a Stourton interview with Dr Michael Youssef, a prominent American evangelical, we heard Youssef say that he would never have Trump as a Sunday School teacher but would vote for him in November 2024 because of his strict, unyielding stand on abortion.
In other words for this evangelical, the killing of the unborn is a worse crime than killing the born. Hence, we even had the survivors of Trump's recent attack on a Venezuelan alleged drug-running boat all being killed, too. Dear Pastor Michael unashamedly puts killing the unborn of greater importance than killing the born when Donald says that is necessary! Emperor Donald trumps the commands of God, "Do not kill/murder." Since the conversion of Emperor Constantine every empire has excused the slaughter of humans when the Emperor says so. Pastor Michael says that's OK because it is in line with Paul's Romans 13 v 6 ("the authorities are ministers of God"). However, it is over-ruled by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ which must always have priority when there is a clash.
For the last 1700 years, Christians have been subsumed, been bought off, by every empire on earth. The Christians have betrayed their Saviour, Lord and Master. Except the Quakers, the Mennonites and the Amish. The JWs, too!
For the American and British evangelical and Messianic Bible believing Christians, allegiance to wonderful Emperor Trump and awe-inspiring, forever President Bibi, comes before their Lord and Saviour.
For the last 1700 years, the Judeo-Christian world of Europe and Russia/Ukraine must have the worst track record of coercion, force, violence and slaughter out of all the world faiths we humans have embraced in our history.
The third branch of the Children of Abraham, the Muslims, cannot come near to the appalling record of 'man's' inhumanity to 'man' when it comes to the People of the Bible from their first entry into the Promised Land of other tribes. 1948 was the second, I believe.
Total annihilation of the Gazans, following the example of what the Israelites did to the people of Jericho and the Amalekites, was only saved by friend Donald. Even so, the killing continues, but at a slower pace, in Gaza and the West Bank.
The evangelicals and Jews who elected Trump, now have aggression towards Greenland, in addition to the Palestinians (quite apart from the Lebanese and Iranians) on their conscience.
Something is very amiss in today's churches and synagogues.
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