Among the many “accomplishments” of the decade-long NATO occupation, the US State Department is confirming that Afghanistan no longer has even a single Christian church, with the last one believed destroyed in March of 2010. The report also warns that the Karzai government is getting worse, not better, in its treatment of religious minorities.
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I have to be a cruel here and shout out, "So ******* what?!"
And I say this because of the flag-waving "Christian" churches here in America who have yet to take a moral stand against this brute Uncle Sam and His ever-increasing path of mayhem and destruction. These "Christian" churches with American flags at the altar and the "Support the Troops" banners on the outside walls. These in their deliberate blindness to State evil may as well have razed these churches to the ground with their own hands.
When will the damage be irreparable? The day surely cannot be far off.
Ain't all that crap taking a stand?
Add the elimination of Christianity as another item of that fabled "collateral" and purely unitentional damage. Dis-love of the Lord God of ISAF is, in fact, rather another demonstration of the evil held in the hearts of unkilled Afghans.
"So ****** what? Is one of ther major problems with America to-day. It's all in the attitude.
If you're attending a flag-waving church, with bunting on the altar and 'support our troops' banners, maybe it's time for YOU to take a stand.
Namely somewhere else, where 'Render unto Caesar' is less important than, 'Love God and your neighbor as yourself".
We went a long way toward destroying Christianity in Iraq as well. Sad since the ancestors of the so-called Christians that started and support the Imperial wars were worshiping trees when Iraqis were worshiping Christ.
I went to church several times in Kabul during the time of the Taliban. The Taliban invited me back in early 200 to Afghanistan to take photographs. I had a friend who was the guy who defused and disarmed really big bombs when they were found by demining teams, and he would always take me to church on Sundays when I was in town. The Taliban closed the schools run by foreign embassies, but they allowed may Christian service groups to stay on and provided a safe environment in which they could operate.
According to UN publications the percentage of girls in Afghan schools reached what was then an all time high under the Taliban. Many people who knew a lot about Afghanistan stayed on for a while under the US occupation, in case they could help the Afghans, but soon it was clear that the last thing any of those people wanted to know was about Afghan history and culture. I have had calls from both Israel and New York in the last year asking to use photographs from Afghanistan for publications about the once-thriving Jewish community in Herat. The Afghans would urge Christians and Jews to pray with them when a bus stopped out in the middle of the desert at nightfall or when a foreign stranger was in a shop when the call to prayer was heard, in the days before these wars created ex-nihlo by the two greats sects of Enlightenment religion: the Communists and the Capitalistst. I knew hard-nosed Jewish and Christian carpet dealers who went along to prayers on such occasions, because they had learned to respect the Afghans and were flattered to be asked. Everywhere it is the aim of the Western nations to destroy religion, because in doing so they weaken the people, making them easier to rule. Remember the Buddhist monks burning themselves in Saigon?
Outside the "crusader fortresses" at Kandahar, Bagram and numerous other places, where the 'warrior ethos' does its public relations 'relying on the blood o' the Lamb''? Jesus lives with ISAF.
Is that, then, any wonder?