Twenty-First Century Pro-War Republican Presidents Cratering Evangelical Churches - Baldwin

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.  

Genesis 6:11, 13 (KJV)

(Note: This column was written before the results of the mid-term elections were known.)

The Creator-God who destroyed the Noahic antediluvian world made it clear that the primary reason for the colossal destruction of the universal flood on the earth was due to the gravest abomination that the nations of men can commit—the national sin most odious to God, the corrupt wickedness most hated by God: violence, the excessive, pervasive murder of our fellow human beings, the unrestrained immoral wars of aggression......

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/11/chuck-baldwin/twenty-first-century-pro-war-republican-presidents-cratering-evangelical-churches/ 

...The glaring evidence of this exodus tsunami from evangelical/Protestant churches shows that the exodus began in earnest at the advent of this century. That is a fact. It began under the two presidential administrations of G.W. Bush. It began when Bush led evangelical Christians into an illicit love affair with WAR.

While Barack Obama and Joe Biden did nothing to reverse America’s bloodlust (especially Biden, who led America into a genocidal partnership with the most demonic, bloodthirsty, murderous man in the 21st century, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu), neither of these men had endeared themselves to evangelical Christians. In truth, the wars of Obama and Biden were the one thing that evangelicals actually liked about these two Democrats.

Enter Donald Trump.

Trump will go down in history as the greatest warmonger of the early 21st century. He will also go down in history as the U.S. president most controlled by a foreign government (Israel).

But the greatest disaster of Donald Trump is that he drug the vast majority of evangelicals (approximately 80% of them) into the hell of war with him. He turned peacemakers into warmongers.

Obviously, a tectonic shift of this nature doesn’t happen overnight or even in twenty-six years. It has been germinating since, well, since 1948, when the State of Zionist Israel came into existence. And, actually, it began in 1909 when Cyrus Scofield published the Zionist-inspired and Zionist-financed Scofield Reference Bible. But it took the advent of the Zionist state in 1948 to bring Scofieldism to cult status, especially after 1967 and the Israeli war of aggression against its Arab neighbors that historians call The Six-Day War.

Israel’s victory in that war cemented its “chosen people” status in the hearts and minds of evangelicals. And even Israel’s attempted sinking of the USS Liberty, killing 34 U.S. Sailors and Marines and wounding 70% of the ship’s crew, would not be enough to awaken evangelicals to the demonic nature of the Zionist state.

Therefore, by the time G.W. Bush came along, evangelicals were already Christian Zionists. But Bush made them Christian Zionist warmongers. And now Donald Trump has turned Christian Zionist warmongers into Christian Zionist Nationalist warmongers. And uber warmongers, at that.

Christian Zionist White Nationalist Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wears his warmongering soul in Crusader tattoos all over his body for all to see. That Trump would pick such a warmongering bigot as America’s Secretary of Defense is a visible testament to the warmongering heart of Donald Trump.

And, of course, Trump’s continuance of the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine and his partnership of the genocides in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, and his wars of aggression against Yemen and Iran have proven to the entire world that he is a demonic, Zionist-controlled warmonger of the highest (or lowest, depending on how you use the term) order.

Let me be clear. The problem is not that Bush and Trump were warmongers. Many U.S. presidents in both parties throughout the 20th century were warmongers. The problem is that Bush and especially Trump wrapped themselves in the Christian flag and had the almost universal support of evangelical Christians.

THAT’S the problem!

Even nominal Christians and people of no faith looked to Jesus’ teachings of love, joy and peace as a beacon of hope. Most people in evangelical churches didn’t begin life in a Christian home (many did, of course). Most of them came to Christ during a time of personal crisis or grief or disorientation. Most men must come to the end of themselves in order to find Christ. The point is, when that moment came, they were ready to accept Christ for themselves, because in their subconscious, they believed that the message of Christ was a loving, hopeful message.

Bush and especially Trump turned Christ’s message of love, joy and peace into a message of bombs, hate and death. And people by the millions have been walking away from the evangelical/Zionist version of Christianity ever since.

If the report above is accurate and 100,000 evangelical churches close during the next decade, that will equate to almost one-third of all the evangelical churches in the country. ONE-THIRD!

How far will this go before evangelicals fall out of love with WAR? The answer to that question will determine how soon evangelicalism falls back in favor with peace-loving people (which most people by nature are), churched and unchurched.

The Damascus Affair and the Awakening of American Jewry – The Occidental Observer

 On February 1840, a dark shadow fell over Damascus. On February 5, Father Thomas, a Capuchin friar who had lived in the city for decades, vanished with his Muslim servant, Ibrahim Amara, after visiting the Jewish quarter. Accusers claimed that Jews had murdered both men for ritual purposes. French consul Ulysse de Ratti-Menton backed the charge, and Sherif Pasha, the Egyptian governor of Damascus, ordered the arrests. Authorities detained a Jewish barber, who named seven prominent men under torture, and then arrested those men too.

Interrogators tortured the prisoners. At least two of them died in custody, and Rabbi Moses Abulafia converted to Islam to escape the torment. Officials also seized 63 Jewish boys and held them as hostages to pressure their parents into confessing. The scandal quickly drew in the European powers, whose attention was occupied by the Oriental Crisis of 1840. Muhammad Ali, the ruler of Egypt, had rebelled against his nominal sovereign, the Ottoman Sultan. France backed Muhammad Ali, while Britain and Austria worked to preserve Ottoman power.

News of the Damascus accusations crossed the Atlantic slowly and reached the United States in the summer of 1840. American Jewry then numbered no more than 15,000 people, with no national organization and no recognized leader to speak for it. Yet the reports from Syria sparked the first organized protest by American Jews on behalf of their embattled brethren abroad. Meetings and petitions spread through synagogues in New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, and Cincinnati, and the organizers lobbied President Martin Van Buren to intervene

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2026/11/10/the-damascus-affair-and-the-awakening-of-american-jewry/ 

 The Damascus Affair exposes a brutal reality. Jewish power is not an accident of history but the product of persistent agitation. The gravest error made by the early architects of this Republic was the granting of civic breathing room to an organized minority with a biological predilection for racial solidarity and often working against the interests of the state-building majority. They mistook tolerance for harmony and failed to see that they were nurturing the very hands that would one day tighten around the throat of the nation.

Sadly, Western nations are currently reaping the harvest of that misplaced benevolence.

The Christian Antigenealogical Experiment, by Laurent Guyénot - The Unz Review

 Sometimes - and quite often - the comments are more edifying than the article itself......

Full text:

https://www.unz.com/article/the-christian-antigenealogical-experiment/ 

Lewis Garr says:

November 7, 2026 at 8:27 am GMT • 3.4 days ago   ↑

our ideas of democracy (Greek demokratia) and republic (Latin res publica) are part of our Greco-Roman heritage rather than originating in Christianity.

You bet they’re not Christian.

Democracy is a divisive tool, whereas Christianity is a unifying force.

https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2026/10/30/a-house-divided-cannot-stand-applies-to-politics-as-well/

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A_Hand_Hidden says:

November 8, 2026 at 4:32 pm GMT • 2.0 days ago • 200 Words   ↑

@Lewis Garr

Democracy is a divisive tool, whereas Christianity is a unifying force.

Say, are there not 25,000+ splinter-cells of Christianity in the West, alone? And do not Christian groups split all the time over this or that policy difference, multiplying like mushrooms after a warm Spring rain?

And sadly, without the unifying force of Catholicism to genocide entire peoples, butcher entire cities, and Crusade there’s no way to keep the Believers on the same reservation now, is there? Every time you hear some churchie complain, in their vast ignorance about their own history and faith, always recall the Massacre at Béziers, where the Pope’s forces murdered every living thing, every child even and called themselves Holy.

And that wily Pope figured out an easy way to separate the True Believers from those naughty Cathars – kill everyone. There’s even a quote used to this day: “Kill them all! God will know his own.” When you don’t have time to torture, you gotta just murder everyone.

Another excellent black pill is learning why the greatest Christian city ever built, that shining stalwart buttress against Muslim power projection into Christian Europe, Constantinople, was sacked and irretrievably weakened by the Fourth Crusade. It wasn’t an accident nor an issue of pay; it was intentional and planned by someone whose title begins with a “P” and rhymes with “cope” although it’s claimed he’s innocent. Heard some claim him innocent as many as three times.

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Lewis Garr says:

November 10, 2026 at 7:35 am GMT • 10.0 hours ago • 500 Words   ↑

@A_Hand_Hidden

You’ve made my point for me, and then tripped over it.

Yes — Christianity splinters. Constantly. That’s what happens when a faith is built on a text every believer is free to read and argue with, and when its founder explicitly told his followers to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to put away the sword. A religion that can’t split is one that has a single throat to choke — and you’ve just spent three paragraphs describing what happened when yours had one.

https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/jesus-and-the-sword/

Now, about your examples. You cite Béziers and the Fourth Crusade as though they’re the skeleton in Christianity’s closet. They’re the skeleton in Rome’s closet — and the Eastern Orthodox, who watched Constantinople burn, have been pointing that out for eight centuries. The crusaders who sacked the greatest Christian city in the world did so against the explicit command of a pope who excommunicated them for it. Innocent III, by the way — the same pope whose legate reportedly gave the “kill them all” order at Béziers. You’ve managed to cite the same man as both the architect of Catholic unity and the man whose subordinates disobeyed him into catastrophe. That’s not an argument against Protestant fragmentation; that’s an argument against centralized authority, which is the Protestant position.

As for “kill them all, God will know his own” — the phrase is reported by a Cistercian chronicler decades after the fact, attributed to a legate, and contested by historians to this day. But grant it entirely. What does it prove? That a medieval army conducting a siege committed a massacre in an age when every army conducting a siege committed massacres — including the Cathars’ own allies, including the Ottomans, including everyone. You’re not describing Christianity. You’re describing the 13th century and pinning it on the one institution you dislike.

And here’s the part you skipped: the Cathars were exterminated by the centralized authority. The Waldensians were persecuted by it. The Protestants were massacred by it. The people who broke from Rome did so in large part because of exactly the butchery you’re describing. So when you sneer that Protestantism lacks “the unifying force of Catholicism to genocide entire peoples” — congratulations, you’ve identified the feature, not the bug. The “splintering” you mock is what happens when people decide the alternative is being on the receiving end of the next Béziers.

You wanted a black pill. Here’s one: every institution that ever held a monopoly on salvation — Catholic, Orthodox, Calvinist, or secular — has eventually used it to justify a sword. The reason the West has 25,000 denominations is that we kept deciding that was better than the alternative. You call it mushrooms after a warm rain. I call it a firewall.

And besides — all of this assumes the men doing the deciding were deciding what Christianity is. A pope can excommunicate a crusade, a legate can order a city put to the sword, a council can anathematize a rival, and none of it settles the question. What man decides Christianity should be has never been the same thing as what it is. That’s precisely why the splintering is tolerable: the men who claim the authority to define it keep being wrong, and the thing itself keeps outliving them.

The Migration Game and the Streets of Europe - LewRockwell

 By Claudio Grass

Forum Geopolitica

November 10, 2026

A new undercover documentary has just been released that strips away the carefully maintained illusions surrounding Europe’s migration crisis. Produced by the investigative outfit Muckraker and titled “Replacing Europe”, the film follows the West African route from the smuggling hubs of Mauritania, through the Canary Islands and mainland Spain, across the French border, and onward toward the Channel to reach the UK. What it actually shows are not scenes of a humanitarian emergency, wartime chaos or active and urgent threats, but it instead documents a carefully managed pipeline, sustained by taxpayer money, NGOs, international organizations and governments that publicly claim to be trying to stop the flow while quietly doing everything they can to ensure it continues.

The film’s most striking admissions come directly from people inside the system. A worker for the UN’s International Organisation for Migration states on camera that Spain deliberately allows the boats to keep arriving because the European Union funding that follows is too lucrative to miss out on. A major Catholic NGO, ACCEM, which received roughly €225 million in 2024, the overwhelming majority from the Spanish state, is shown organizing the transfer of arrivals from the islands to the mainland, housing them and providing monthly allowances. Activists paint literal trails of footsteps on pavements to guide migrants to evade Spanish police and find their way into France. Publicly funded shelters then process them onward with minimal documentation. The overall picture is one of institutional incentives that reward volume rather than control....

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/11/no_author/the-migration-game-and-the-streets-of-europe/ 

...Europe is not experiencing a series of isolated cost-of-living protests that happen to benefit certain political parties. It is experiencing the predictable consequences of a long-running policy of demographic change conducted without democratic consent and by force. Not only is there no regret, shame or guilt shown by those who did this, there is actual glee. We are seeing the Old World die in front of our eyes, and it is not a death inflicted by some foreign hand, it is by suicide.

This article was originally published at Forum Geopolitica.

How Hospitals Turned on Their Patients During COVID - LewRockwell

 

A Senate hearing exposed what was done to the unvaccinated inside America’s hospitals—and why the system drives out the doctors patients most need.

By A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine

November 10, 2026

The ruling elite typically aims to accumulate an immense amount of wealth, which often can only be obtained by extracting it from a large number of people, hence requiring each of those people sacrifices their quality of life to meet the elite’s needs. An excellent meme, in turn, synopsizes the challenge ruling elites seeking this excessive wealth and power have faced throughout history:

Since it is not economically feasible to directly force an entire population into submission (e.g., the estimates I’ve found put 3-5% of the population as the maximum number of soldiers a society can afford to support), a variety of other tactics have been reused throughout history to keep the population compliant. These include:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/11/no_author/how-hospitals-turned-on-their-patients-during-covid-2/ 

Waiting for Shenzhen; or For a Land Invasion of Iran? - LewRockwell

 It’s as ominous at is sounds. Talk about a choice road towards a new world war. Will Shenzhen be able to prevent it? Don’t hold your breath.

SHANGHAI – After spending 95 minutes on the phone with Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and number two of the Iranian government, three days later President Putin sent his private plane to Tehran to bring Rezaee and a small Iranian delegation to Moscow for a face-to-face meeting at the Kremlin.

The meeting leasted near 3 and half hours. And crucially, Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was in the room, via encrypted phone.
 

The end game is that Moscow now ranks its strategic partnership with Tehran at the level of its strategic partnership with Beijing, its highest. Significant technology assistance and transfer is under way. Russia has already delivered 12 advanced attack helicopters; a wide range of offensive and defensive equipment; and increased targeting capability, via satellite and fiber-optic drone technology.

That means in practice that Tehran is even more prepared than before to absorb a US and/or death cult attack and to answer it with overwhelming force. Russian engineers from NPO Mashinostroyenia were already helping Tehran to develop a ramjet engine for supersonic cruise-missiles; and there has been an order for 90 launchers for Iran’s Mi-28NE helicopters, routinely photographed at Mehrabad domestic airport since the start of the year.

Translation: any Epstein Syndicate strike plan now runs into an Iran that Moscow weaponizes the way it weaponizes its closest partner. Moreover, the IRGC has de facto lifted its self-imposed 1,200-mile missile-range limit and is building extra underground production and storage sites. Iran’s army spokesman confirms Iran’s forces are “stronger” than when the war began on February 28.

CENTCOM meanwhile is striking still below the level of a certified campaign, against an Iran now better equipped to answer.

Escalation ladder logic though remains in effect. Task Force Iron Gate is the new gimmick – to stop “prohibited” goods (as ruled by the Empire of Piracy) moving overland and across the Caspian, reducing options for both Russia and China.

The heart of the matter is that while the discombobulated Trump administration is picking up the pieces after the Blue-nami midterms, the next two weeks or so might feature some measure of diplomacy, before the Sociopath-in-Chief decides on how to launch a military attack on Iran....

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/11/no_author/waiting-for-shenzhen-or-for-a-land-invasion-of-iran/ 

Could Venezuela Become the Pillar of the New Petrodollar?

 Obviously, this is not to say the Democrats have better policies. On the contrary, they’re pretty much infested with neoliberal extremism, making them far more damaging to American society, especially in the long term.

However, voters effectively wanted to punish Trump and it could be argued they voted against the GOP, not necessarily for the DNC. His unpopularity was well known to virtually everyone, as his public approval hovered around 35% for months, particularly after he attacked Iran earlier this year. As someone who spent decades in the media, it’s virtually impossible Trump didn’t know about the consequences of his decision to escalate in the Middle East. He’s not the most sophisticated of people (mildly speaking), but he certainly doesn’t lack the intelligence to understand this.

This begs the question – why did the US do it? Why go into a war that’s effectively lost before it began? It could be argued that Trump was emboldened by the kidnapping of Maduro, which resulted in the fall of Venezuela.....

https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/could-venezuela-become-pillar-new-petrodollar?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1910355&post_id=224166329&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

..Why is this so important for America? Well, the pillar of its power in the world is certainly the petrodollar.

As long as most countries use it for the vast majority of transactions, the US can keep printing money into oblivion and use it to conduct aggression against the world. The main counter came when BRICS and SCO gave sovereign nations an alternative – national-currency payments in international trade. Realizing that the petrodollar would eventually be replaced by other currencies (particularly the Chinese yuan), the US decided to act in the only way it knows – war, death and destruction. Namely, Washington DC knew that attacking Iran would cause retaliation and disrupt global oil supplies. Coupled with NATO attacks on Russia, this effectively leaves the US and its vassals and satellite states as the only “stable” source for oil exports.

Venezuela is instrumental in this strategy, as it’s far easier for the Pentagon to control what happens in South America than in the Middle East.

No power in the Western Hemisphere can match the US, leaving the petrodollar “untouchable” (for now, at least). It remains to be seen whether this will work in the long term, but it seems that the Trump administration doesn’t care if it loses the midterms as long as it can keep America’s power. The destabilization of the Middle East, Europe and the post-Soviet space remains a priority of US foreign policy, as it disrupts energy supplies from Washington DC’s rivals.

This leaves BRICS and SCO as the only alternatives offering peace and stability.

Meanwhile, NATO will remain the Pentagon’s tool for pushing the geopolitics of controlled chaos.