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How Would
Jesus Kill Hugo Chavez?
by Edgar J. Steele

September 10,
2006

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"God told me to strike at al
Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I
did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle
East."
--- George W. Bush, 43rd US
President and self-professed Christian, to Palestinian PM Abu Mazen, during a
meeting in Aqaba, Jordan (early 2003)

"We should
invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to
Christianity."
--- Ann Coulter, pundit and self-professed
Christian, This
Is War (NRO, 9/13/01)

Occasionally, I speak of my brother, the
Southern Baptist.  He's a good sport and never has complained.  We are
a study in contrasts, he and I; each trying to sway the other to his own point
of view.  I'm going to win.  You see, I have God on my
side.

Regularly, I receive inquiries from others
as to my personal religious beliefs.  Always, I have kept my beliefs to
myself.  Until now.  Even so, regular followers of my musings,
particularly those who have read my book, Defensive Racism, will find no
real surprises here today.

For those who routinely delete anything
they receive that smacks of religion, be reassured that, while today's piece is
about religion, at least in part, it is not religious.  In
fact, you might find it of especial interest because I expect to anger a great
many so-called Christians.

I was raised around Seventh-Day
Adventists.  I attended church, Sabbath (not "Sunday") School and summer
camps.  My cousins all were pretty devout.  In my immediate family,
only my mother ever was devout in the classical sense, though, later in life, my
oldest brother fell under the spell of Southern Baptists.

It could be
worse.   After all, my brother could have become a snake handler
like Bush's last Attorney General, John Ashcroft.  Worse, he could have
become whatever it is that enables our current Attorney General, Alberto
Gonzales, offspring of illegal
immigrants, somehow to find support in the U.S. Constitution for torture,
not to mention anything else that George Bush wants done, most notably the illegal wiretapping of American
citizens.

A Spiritual Awakening
... of sorts

The Adventists running the church to which
I was taken as a youngster so loved to dwell upon scaring their children witless
with the specter of Hell that they managed to scare religion right out of me at
a very early age.  Even at that age, I could reason well enough to
know that there was something fishy about a universe so obviously
perverted.  After all, I hadn't yet had a chance to do anything
wrong.  Why, I hadn't even begun to think of becoming a
lawyer.  Call my realization an epiphany - in every sense of the
word, both secular and religious.

Though I didn't know it at the time, I was
like the little boy who replied, when asked just what he was so hard at work
drawing: "God."  Told that nobody knew what God looked like, the
little guy redoubled his effort and muttered, "They will in a
minute."  Seriously.  I could have taught the adults in that
church a thing or two, even then.  Instead, church thereafter became a
strictly social thing for me.  Until it wasn't - about when my hormones
kicked in - which is when I stopped going.

It took another thirteen years or so for me
to become spiritually curious again, when I undertook a Masters Degree program
in "Mysticism and Comparative Religion."  Ultimately, I quit that course of
study when I realized that, rather than becoming enlightened, I merely
was learning about enlightenment and, in the process, adopting the
limitations that religious figures down throughout history had imposed upon
themselves.  Letting them stand on my shoulders, so to speak.
The real meaning of life began to dawn on me.

Revealed: The Meaning of
Life

Ever since, I have been on an individual
spiritual quest that I expect to endure for the rest of my life.  I have
settled into a benign tolerance of all different religious points of view that
do not attempt to harm me or mine.  Because politics and philosophy merely
are reflections of that of which religion speaks, my tolerance has extended well
afield in those areas, as well.  Am I "religious?"  Dunno.
You be the judge:

I believe in God, just not the sort
normally depicted.  Of course, God is right in there with me on this
because, even in the Bible, He says that we "cannot look upon" Him, a euphemism
for our being fundamentally incapable of comprehending much of anything about
God.

I believe in an afterlife, just not the
sort normally depicted.  Eternity quite simply is not the same as
"non-time," which is the best way in which I have thought to express it.

I have a clear concept of Hell, just not
the sort normally depicted:  An eternity (see above) of regret (in
contemplation of the harm that I have caused, in other words).

Suffice to say that I am spiritual, more
than most, but really clear that the point of life is to ... live, quite
simply.  All is grist for the mill.  Do no harm to others is my
foremost precept.  Look upon your life as a portrait that you paint,
with each day a fresh brush stroke, is another.  I could go on at book
length and may actually do that someday, but I have other things to write -
first and foremost, today's column.

My brother, the Southern Baptist, recently
sent me the following email:

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Here is part of an email I received recently:

Goodbye
CITGO~  and
KANGAROO

Cindy
& Chavez

Venezuela
Dictator Vows To Bring Down U.S.
Government

Venezuela
government is sole owner of Citgo gasoline company

Venezuela
Dictator Hugo Chavez has vowed to bring down the U.S.
government. Chavez, president of Venezuela, told a TV audience  : "Enough of imperialist aggression; we must tell the world: down
with the U.S.
empire. We have to bury imperialism this century." The guest on his television
program, beamed across Venezuela,
was Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar activist. Chavez recently had as his guest
Harry Belafonte, who called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the
world." Chavez is pushing a socialist revolution and has a close alliance with
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Regardless of your feelings about the war in
Iraq, the
issue here is that we have a socialist dictator vowing to
bring down the government of the U.S. And he
is using our money to achieve his goal!
The Venezuela
government, run by dictator Chavez, is the sole owner of Citgo  gas
company. Sales of products at Citgo stations send money back to Chavez to help
him in his vow to bring down our government.

Take Action

Please decide that you will not be shopping
at Citgo AND Kangaroo stations. Why should U.S.
citizens who love freedom be financing a dictator who has vowed to take down our
government?

Very
important. Please forward this to your friends and family. Most of them don't
know that Citgo is owned by the Venezuela
government.

YOU
CAN VERIFY THIS ON THE CITGO WEB PAGE.
http://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO.jsp

---------------------------------------------------------------

Selective Disinformation
and Selective Boycotts

Now, I happen to know that, for years, Jews
have mounted worldwide
Internet campaigns of disinformation and blatant falsification in order to
foster support for their causes, particularly Israel, and to vilify those whom
they perceive to be their enemies, including myself.  After sending my
brother the reply that I reproduce in full below, I checked around on this Citgo
story and learned that even Snopes, the "Urban Legend" debunking web site,
equivocates about it and stops just short of calling it true.  That is
because the story's thrust quite simply isn't true.  Chavez, though
quoted out of context correctly, merely is reacting to what America has done to
him and his country.  And who wouldn't?   Nor does Citgo's
web site confirm anything except that it is Venezuelan owned, contrary to the
impression given by the email I received from my brother.

Yet, now we are supposed to boycott Citgo,
thereby disadvantaging far more Americans in its employ than in Chavez'
employ.

Here's the real irony of the
Citgo boycott campaign:  America outlaws boycotting the products of only
one country in the world - Israel.  And that law is enforced,
as Cook Composites and Polymers Company recently found out.  Cook was fined
$6,000 merely for responding "to a request from a customer in Bahrain...stating
that the goods being shipped were not of Israeli origin and did not contain
Israeli materials."  (North Kansas City company
settles charge related to boycott of
Israel, Kansas City Star, June 25, 2003)

Our Initial
Exchange

Here is the initial reply I made to my
brother's forwarded email, which encouraged me to boycott Citgo:
"You're not going to like this, but I wish there were Citgo stations around
here for us to patronize..."

My brother answered with:  "Well,
Ed, I'm not surprised at your reaction.  Like it or not, this nation is
still your nation.  Its military forces are protecting your property and
your family.  I certainly don't like a lot of what our government is doing,
but I will support it, because the alternative is not a pleasant one for
me."  See?  I told you he was a good sport, with all that the term
implies:  fundamentally, quite a good person and the first to admit that he
is flawed.

What began as a two-paragraph rebuttal
turned into today's column.  I have elected to reproduce my full response
to my brother the Southern Baptist because it almost immediately became apparent
to me that I actually was writing for your benefit, gentle reader... and
needed to add only this preface.

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My Considered
Response

Consider me your loyal opponent.

While I disapprove of our (not
just your) international policy being dictated by apocalyptic,
end-times thinking, I still respect religions...all religions...with the
possible exception of Judaism, which arguably is a form of atheism (human
secularism) and certainly of racial supremacy (Jewish, of course).
Anti-Jew?  No.  Anti-Judaism?
Yes, when its objectives and precepts are imposed upon the
rest of us.  Anti-Semitic?  Whatever that means...frankly, I don't
care, which is why I like to respond to such charges with, "That's MR.
Anti-Semite to you!"
I object
to the current grip that fundamentalist/dispensationalists have upon
American foreign policy through Bush and Cheney.  Bush, who actually thinks
that God talks directly to him, clearly is mad.  If God were to talk to
anybody  it
sure wouldn't be a guy responsible for so much bloodshed!  Repeatedly, over
the years, I have argued against Bush's election
and reelection and for his
impeachment.

I protest fundamentalist support of foreign
war on the one hand and outright condemn its hypocrisy for ignoring the
teachings of Christ regarding how one's fellow man is to be treated.  I
know that I thereby attack the very core of your religious beliefs, but where
your religious beliefs impact my safety, my financial situation and my
children's future, then I have a stake in just how your beliefs get
applied.

The Fundamental
Hypocrisy of Fundamentalist Dispensationalism

Quite aside from my belief that, regardless
of one's religious disposition, a life led approximately according to
the teachings of Jesus Christ is a life lived best, my denunciation
of fundamentalist/dispensationalist, war-mongering hypocrisy is a form
of prosyletizing right back at fundamentalists, in an attempt to sway their
objectives.  I merely point out how they violate everything that
Christ preached and all that for which He both stood and died.

I fail to understand how those who
reject Christ's peacemaking precepts expect somehow to slip into Heaven as
a result of the mystical "salvation" granted by His symbolic
death.  Doesn't Christianity teach that salvation is granted
only to those who accept Jesus Christ as his or her personal savior and
follow His teachings?  How does killing Arabs in any way fit into that
fundamental requirement?  How is merely standing by and allowing Arabs to
be killed with your tax dollars any better?  How is cheering on
Middle-Eastern internecine warfare, as encouraged and funded by America between
Iraq and Iran a few years ago, any better?
I absolutely object to non-defensive violence being done in my name
and with my tax money.  I have a fundamental right to do that, a right for
the exercise of which Bush now labels me as being supportive
of terrorism, in an attempt to shut down those who speak out as do
I.  How does supporting Bush in quelling dissent such as mine square with
Jesus Christ's teachings about the pursuit of righteousness, even unto one's own
death?

By the way, Hugo Chavez is anything but a
"dictator," having twice been democratically elected by his people to the
Presidency of Venezuela, the last time overwhelmingly so and currently enjoying
an approval rating from his people well above 80%.  We - the United
States, via our CIA - forcibly removed
him from office in 2002 after his last election and installed our
own puppet.  The Venezuelan people rose up en masse and revolted,
forcing Chavez' resumption of his Presidency and thwarting more than one attempt
by us - again via the CIA - to assassinate Chavez.

Fundamentalist/dispensationalist Pat
Robertson last year publicly demanded that the US
assassinate Chavez !  I have trouble imagining Jesus Christ making such
a demand.  The man who overturned the moneychanger tables in the temple
would do something like that Himself, in any event, rather than calling for
others to do it for Him.

How Would Jesus Kill
Hugo Chavez?

Let's see now ... I wonder - just how
would Jesus kill Hugo Chavez?  Shotgun?  Bazooka?
F16?  Cruise missile?  Atom bomb?  Or do you suppose that he
might opt for something more personal, something like the traditional
dagger, perhaps?  Or would he call down natural disasters, plagues and
famines for Venezuela, as did Moses upon Egypt's Pharoah -
something quite like the droughts and weather disasters now
befalling America, perhaps?  Or do you suppose that Robertson, et al.,
just might not be speaking for God?

Do you suppose, perhaps, that God really
did mean it when He said:  "Thou shalt not kill?"

Do you suppose that Jesus Christ really
meant what He preached during the Sermon on the Mount?

Bush - not Chavez - the
Real Dictator

Contrast Chavez' election with
the fact that it now has been proven, irrevocably and well beyond a reasonable
doubt, that Bush literally stole both the 2000
election and the 2004
election with fraud and payoffs.  By way of explanation, Major
General William Boykin flatly stated:
"George Bush was not elected by
a majority of the voters in the United States.  He was appointed by God."

Also, consider that Bush, with
an  approval rating
of 33%  (
last year's was 34%), still insists upon doing whatever he
wishes (actually, what he is told to do by the CFR) and otherwise acts every
bit the part of "dictator," classically defined as one who wields absolute
power.  Bush considers himself above
the law on all things, by his own admission, therefore he is a
dictator, though he might sophomorically refer to himself as "the
decider."

Now, honestly, as between Chavez and
Bush, who is the democratically-elected leader and who is the
dictator?

Our Real Danger: the
Threat from Within

Since you bring it up, my family and
property would not now be in peril from without, but for the imperialism of
America, not to mention the hubristic and hegemonic demands of Judaism.
American fundamentalists are only too eager to carry Israel's water
because their leadership (Hagee, Falwell, Robertson, et al.) has
been bought
and paid for by Israel to  support Israel's bloodthirst.
Why?  Because that support neatly dovetails into the Biblically-described
Apocalypse and thereby supposedly hastens the Second Coming.   Did you
know that Israel gave
Falwell a Lear Jet?   You blindly follow them and thereby work against
the plainly-stated will of God regarding peace and not killing.  The Word
as delivered by Jesus Christ is even less forgiving.

Do you suppose that Hagee, Falwell and
Robertson never read Christ's Sermon on the Mount?  Clearly,
Christ stated that their sort will be cast aside on Judgment Day:
"Not every one that saith unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.  Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name?  And in thy name have cast out devils?  And in
thy name done many wonderful works?'  And then will I profess unto them, 'I
never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
(Matthew 7:21-23)

In fact, aside from the American Jews who
have threatened my wife and each of my
children and who
threaten me
almost daily, the only real danger currently presented to my family and
my property seems to be from my own government.  The
fact that 9/11 was an inside job now has gone mainstream, as pointed out by a
British newspaper a few days ago:  "Around 75 top professors and
leading scientists believe the attacks were puppeteered by war mongers in the
White House to justify the invasion and the occupation of oil-rich Arab
countries."  (
"Fury as academics claim 9/11 was 'inside job,'"  London Daily
Mail, 9/6/06)  And recall what the Feds did to members of Randy
Weaver's family, who lived just up the road from me, on Ruby Ridge, not to
mention the travesty that took place in Waco, Texas.

Here's the Real 9/11
Conspiracy!

Shortly after
9/11 took place, Bush
himself stated: "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories
concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to
shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the
guilty."  I agree, although you have to ask just why Bush felt
compelled to make such an odd statement at a time when virtually all of America
was pulling together against those he claimed were responsible.

While today I think Bush is guilty as sin
for the World Trade Center tragedy, it long has been well proven that Cheney
was involved.  Let us not allow Bush, Cheney and company now to delude
us into thinking, via their "outrageous conspiracy theories" and
"malicious lies," that it was Arabs with boxcutters and almost no
flight training (many of whom still
are alive, incidentally) who hijacked those jetliners.  Never
should we allow the finger of blame to point away from Bush, Cheney and their
fellow criminals.

Never forget that the ongoing inquiry into
9/11 is a murder investigation - a cold-blooded and heartless
murder of 3,000 of our fellow countrymen, committed by those
in the highest levels of our own government!   Their blood
calls out to us from the pavement of New York City, where we helplessly watched
so many throw themselves to their deaths from on high.  We cannot - we
must not - disgrace their memory by failing to bring their real
murderers to justice.

When Claiming to Know
Means You Really Don't Know

Why do fundamentalist/dispensationalists
applaud the current Middle-Eastern genocide, quite aside from the issue of God's
prohibition against murder?  Do they really believe that they thereby can
hasten the "end time?"  If true, then they should be fearful, not joyful,
concerning its imminence.  I do recall the Bible saying that "No
man shall know" the time of Christ's second coming (John 7:1), so it seems
to me to be singularly presumptuous of them not only to think that they know
when, but also to believe that they actually can make it happen
sooner.

I also seem to recall the Bible saying that the masses will be deceived by a
false Messiah and that a great many self-professed Christians will fall under
his spell, "led astray" by "their shepherds."  Look around yourself.
I'm in the minority on this Middle-Eastern issue, not you.  No, the Messiah
is not yet come (if ever He will come, that is), but a great many
fundamentalists certainly are being prepositioned to follow the AntiChrist, if I
read the Bible correctly.

And fundamentalists certainly seem to
me to be supporting some singularly un-Christ-like behavior.  For
another example, Christ preached, during His Sermon on the Mount:
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of
God."  (Matthew 5:9)   Certainly, our current government and
its ardent supporters are a great many things, but "peacemaker" is
not among them.  Supporting Israeli genocide and advocating the
assassination of foreign leaders runs directly counter to the concept of
peacemaker.  That is more than apparent, isn't it?

A Special Place in Hell

Recall what Christ ultimately has in mind for those who work against
the will of God, yet point to their own righteousness and good works, just as I
quoted above.  Personally, I believe that, if there really is a Hell, then
there is an especially horrible part of it reserved for the likes of Hagee,
Robertson and Falwell.  Particularly so, if Hell is anything like I believe
it to be (that "eternity of regret" I mentioned earlier).

Now, I don't want to go all weak-kneed on
you with this, but I and others like myself, including members of my own family,
suffer mightily for our beliefs and for speaking out in support of that
which we know in our hearts to be right.  I like to think that we were
spoken of by Christ during His Sermon on the Mount when He said, "Blessed
are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven."  (Matthew 5:10)

Am I My Brother's Keeper?

There is room in my world for you and your
beliefs.  The problem is that there seems no room in your world for me and
mine because your faith demands that war be made in my name and that
others' blood be splashed upon my hands.  Quite literally, your world is
about to demand that my son go and kill others in our name.  That I
cannot allow.

Therefore, I must do all that I can
to stop what now is taking place.

I must speak out like this.

I must throw fundamentalist
preachments back at you.

Oddly enough, I must attempt to convert you
to the very Christianity that you profess, yet which to my eye you reject.

I am, after all, my brother's keeper.

My name is Edgar J. Steele.  Thanks
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