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European Anti American Rage - Why Now |
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Written by Rev Michael Bresciani
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
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Word Count: 1478 In a recent edition of Pat Robertson’s CBN news programs a commentator said
that “people of Europe hate Americans not for what they do, but for what they
are.” It is not the war in Iraq or the perceived spread of American imperialism
as much as their perception of what we are collectively and individually.
Europeans see us as flitting, glittered and mindless cronies of media
distractions. They think we live in an alternate universe called the
Hollywoodsphere and our view of the real world is stunted by our own
preoccupation with everything ersatz. A growing number of American statesmen,
scholars, clergy and concerned citizens are joining Europeans in this
assessment. Warnings seem to be falling on deaf ears and the term “dead heads”
is no longer just a term used to describe a band of groupies who follow the
Grateful Dead.
The CBN commentator added that Europeans think our deep religious convictions
are proof that we are “stupid.” We are perceived as anti evolutionists ding
dongs that only hinder the advancement of civilization and the rise of man. This
in turn also deepens the rift between American Christians. Along with increasing
pressure from academia the European view of us has altered the thinking of some
believers who cannot appropriate or adjust to the heightened disdain.
Some Christians who feel they look “stupid” have moved over to the center in an
attempt to please both camps and calm their own doubts. Theistic Evolution or
the idea that God used evolution to bring us all about is the compromise. This
folly has gotten some of them even more disdain because now they have people in
both camps that disdain them. The creationist feel betrayed and the
evolutionists are suspicious of the middle of the road crowd. Jesus Christ was
the first to warn believers of the mistake of trying to straddle both sides of
the fence.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or
hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue
thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:15-16. To many believers in the U.S. these
words are more than a lesson in single mindedness but they are actually part of
the prophetically promised apostasy of the church that will come as the last
days unfold. Lines are being drawn and the heat of the times doesn’t request
that we make a choice; it forces us to make one.
To Europeans we appear to be a people involved in a controversy about nothing.
They have long since given up any illusions about the authority of the Bible and
they’re proud of it. Subjectively it is hard to gage just how close Americans
are to Europeans but we are surely a close second in the eyes of many of our own
clergy and eschatologists.
The country that seems to lead the pack in anti American sentiment is Belgium.
Some Europeans fear that Belgium may be going too hard and fast even for them.
The “Belgianization of Europe” is an often heard and hotly debated phrase.
In The American Spectator, January 6, 2006, reviewer John O’Sullivan said “in
the last few years Belgian politicians have passed a law empowering them to
arrest anyone for crimes committed anywhere, threatened to put Israel's prime
minister, Ariel Sharon, under its provisions, generously amended the legislation
slightly when Donald Rumsfeld said that NATO would have to move from Brussels if
it remained on the books, and in general thrown about the weight of a much
larger nation. Exactly how did the home of moules-frites and child rape acquire
notions of such undeserved grandeur? Will this extraordinary non-nation prove to
be the model for a united Europe? And how should the U.S. and its closest allies
react to this possibility?”
It is no small coincidence to believers that the European Parliaments main
offices are in East Brussels. To millions of believers who see Europe as the
seat of the “Antichrist” it is there they first expect to see the “man of sin”
emerge as the final ruler both of Europe and the entire world.
In a giant show of defiance, the European Parliament building called the Louise
Weiss Building has been constructed to look like Brueghel’s famous painting of
the ancient Tower of Babel. Posters of the building seen around Europe and in
the building itself are labeled with the words “Europe: many tongues, one
voice.” Most stunning of all is that on the poster a construction crane appears
to indicate that the tower is being rebuilt. Move over Nimrod. It is all too
apropos that a country that exhibits this kind of twisted defiance towards God
should lead the pack in demonstrating anti American feelings.
Little in human nature has changed over the centuries and picking out an
imaginary common enemy is still the quickest way to throw everyone into the same
seething pot. Hitler taught Germany to see the Jews as their biggest problem.
Europe has America to blame for their troubles and the whole worlds instability.
Blame is a unifying factor but it only works for a little while.
Pamela Meister, American Thinker June 19, 2007 said; “Anti-Americanism may be
the glue that holds the EU together in its infancy. That glue, however, is a
toxic substance. Like the schoolyard bully who seeks to make himself feel better
by putting others down, Europeans continue to sneer at and heap scorn on the
descendants of their own outcasts, who fled across the Atlantic in the hopes of
a better life. They accuse the United States of imperialism and greed in the
shadows of their own collapsed empires and struggling economies. The chattering
classes demand an end to American world dominance. Thus the question begs to be
asked: if America withdraws from the world stage, who will fill the void?”
America filled the void for Europe after Hitler ravaged the continent but there
is no nation that can hold a candle to America in existence in these times. To
those who study and understand Biblical prophecy, there doesn’t need to be. It
is God, at the return of the Lord Jesus Christ that will fill the void. In fact
it will be the end of all government by man including democracies. People who
hold this belief are generally thought to be on the fringes of society.
Although only anecdotal proof is available, it still provides the most
consistent testimony of the truth of the gospel message known in a modern and
convulsing world. The proof is that the people, who know Christ will return,
never lose hope and refuse to blame others to assuage their own fears. They are,
however, not the slightest bit naïve. They know the world will get progressively
worse. They have both the distinction and privilege to know why it will get
worse and the final outcome of it all. They are, as is often said, “people who
have gone to the back of the book and read the last chapter.”
In general there are two pervasive views concerning how the present anti
American sentiments of Europe will play out. While it is far too soon to say
with any certainty and both views are conjectural in nature they are similarly
worth noting.
The first view is that the dreaded “False Prophet” who aids the Antichrist in
every way will emerge from America thus calming anti Americanism in Europe. The
other view is that Europe may become our enemy and actually take part in an
invasion of America along with other non European nations.
Since both of these views are now only speculative it does well to keep them in
the background until the picture becomes clearer. It is not the nature of
America’s judgment that many believers are concerned about but it is the
severity of that judgment. Liberalism both in American politics and the church
is on the rise and many of its proposals and its proponents are affecting things
that strain all credulity and common sense. It is this willful giving up to the
flimsy tenants of modernism that will be in equal and direct proportion to our
judgment.
No fanfare or special interpretation is needed to understand the Lord’s warning
that “… unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required” Luke 12:48
America will have a great deal more to account for than almost any other nation
in history. The least of her troubles will be the anti American sentiments of
Europe.
Rev Bresciani is the author of two books. He also is a columnist for several
online sites and magazines. His articles are read throughout the world. For more
articles and news from around the globe visit "The Website for Insight"
http://www.americanprophet.org
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