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"Phobic" means fear. If you fear Islam, socialism, or anyother human instittion then you are a little weak in your faith. Nowhere in the Gospel are we commanded to be against anything or phobic of something. We are commanded to preach the Gospel. There is no gospel of bombs & bullets calling for us to bomb anybody into submission. There is no Gospel message calling for us to sick our government upon unbelievers or other religions. To do so shows little faith. God does not need any nation and its massive arsenal of wonder weapons to protect the Gospel. Quite to the contrary, God allows arrogant nation to rise up and challenges them to try to destroy his word. He then stikes dpwn these arrogant superpowers, eithe by allowing tem to collapse from within ala Romans:1, 18-36. Or he strikes them down with weaker nations who, by any and all practical military doctrine, should never had a chance to win. The so called "Church" here in America does not have a very good record. The divorce rate, abortion rate, teen pregnancy rate, drug abuse rate, and just about all of the other vices of the world are little if any different than within the fold of our Churches as they are among unbelievers. As such, we are in no position to talk about how "Good we are" and "How evil they are". The Gospel itself does not allow for it. A Christian is noting more than one convicted criminal on death row showing another how to apply for a pardon.
I have to disgaree with some parts of this, especially the "be against anything" part. Jesus did condemn things all the time, and did point out the shortcomings of people and nations. He made it very clear in many passages.See, what people do as a nation, and what people do as a religion are seperate things, and in this country, there is a seperation of church and state. The core of the debate here is, some people believe the seperation of those elements make things worse instead of better. Proponents of seperation argue seperation leaves religion out, and proponents believe seperation of church and state avoid things like this. One little problem. Where is the line drawn?