Many years ago, you very kindly showed interest in why I had departed from the evangelical Christianity of my Westhill days. At that time I gave a very brief and, an extremely inadequate answer. What follows is a better explanation. But, again not everything!
Politics is about morality and leadership. Ecology trumps theology, as must morality, conscience and personal integrity rather than creeds and doctrine.
For me, heresy is when Christians get mixed up with arms production, with the armed forces and going to war at the behest of a Bush, a Blair/Brown or an equally demented Trump in this decade.
Heresy is when nature's laws are dismissed as being of little consequence when compared to the magisterial monument which is the Bible.
The Bible is put on a pedestal for instruction in how to live. No wonder, the believers have got mixed-up in coercion, force and violence and in control, domination and occupation of other peoples' lands. So ruling over others, without a by your leave - just imposition from beginning to end.
The Church gladly saw worldwide colonialism as a wonderful opportunity to save souls and extend the Kingdom of God for His glory. Never mind the million dead and the million forced out of their homes when the Jewel in the Crown, the mighty British Raj, came to an end in 1947.
The very next year saw the defeat of the British Empire as the three Jewish-Zionist terrorist gangs defeated the largest Empire the world has ever seen. One of them, Haganah, became the IDF!
Funded by America, the New State of Israel had its aggression rewarded in every subsequent war with ever more land conquered and occupied ever since.
This was a repeat of the colonial settler movement by mainly Bible-believing, God fearing, Christian Puritans of the 17th century who took over N America from the indigenous native Indians. That too saw decades of violence by the White man before gaining total and complete control for the last 250 years. Our total control over the last 78 years imposes American, British and Israeli ever so Righteous Way of the West on the land once known as Palestine.
95% of the followers of the Way of Jesus, for the first 300 years, had it dead right in understanding that total discipleship meant renouncing coercion, force and violence.
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