For gods and Country

During Hitler’s reign as chancellor of Germany he banned prayer in schools and forced church leadership to compromise and submit to him as their master, with an ultimate goal of making the church irrelevant and divided. Hitler’s Nazi government also reinterpreted the meaning of Christmas and Easter, eliminated Christmas plays from schools, and forbade nativity scenes. If this sounds familiar, it should, it’s happening in America and in our military. Liberal groups across America are waging war on Christianity in ways that are eerily similar to Nazi Germany. One question that needs to be asked is how did the church and its pastors respond to the Nazi regime? Essentially, two groups emerged, those who chose Hitler’s way of religion and those who stood upon God’s word and the cross. The majority of pastors played it safe and compromised their convictions about God’s word in order to please Hitler, while others such as Dietrich Bonheoffer and Martin Niemoller chose to stand with Christ despite the consequences. When I was reading about the tragedies of the German church I learned there was a man named Alfred Rosenberg who was to oversee the spiritual training of the Nazi party and his ultimate goal was to purge Jesus from the Nazi mind. Out of fear and compromise most pastors remained silent and even supported the genocide of the Jews.

What many are unaware of is how our military chaplain corps’ are becoming more and more like the Nazi military under its spiritual teacher Alfred Rosenberg. By the hand of Satan, US military leadership has slowly eroded the effects of Christianity and has systematically worked to force out qualified chaplains for those who are willing to compromise and do just about anything. In January 2014, the Commandant of the US Army Chaplain School stated that his “greatest concern was too many white evangelical chaplains.” The Chaplain Corps’ of our military branches operate under the banner of pluralism in its most extreme form. Even for chaplains from evangelical denominations, the temptation for compromise is before them every day, with officer evaluation reports and 20 year pensions which are often so financially enticing compromise becomes necessary to achieve their temporal goals and promotion. Are these chaplains dying to self so Christ can be glorified? Not a chance, because the focus is systematically shifted away from the Great Commission to work that is needed for promotion to the next rank. In fact the Army Chaplain Corps has become an environment of anything goes. While left wing groups seek to erode the moral fabric of our country and push God from government, military leadership is doing the same. At one time the motto was “For God and Country” and now it’s evolved into “for gods and country.” The almighty Cross of Jesus shares equality with the symbols from Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism, religions that either reject Jesus as Messiah, worship no God at all, worship false gods or for some millions of false gods. But this is what happens when relativism and liberalism reigns and permeates an organization. In Isaiah 45:12, God speaks powerfully and says “I made earth and created man on it.” He also said “turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other” (Isaiah 45:22). I pray you can see the destructive journey our military and nation face if we don’t turn back to God who has created us and seeks to save us through His Son’s spilt blood.