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Steve Bannon: ‘China,
Persia, and Turkey’ Forming ‘New Axis’ That’s ‘Confronting the Christian West’
"Christian West"?
Where in God's name do you get that, Mr. Bannon?
It's nonsense, to say nothing of exhibiting rather extreme
prejudice.
You also leave out Russia, a country working closely with at
least two of the states you include as being in your “axis,” and a country
which likely better qualifies as "Christian," if we must use that
term, than the United States or Western Europe.
Russia is building a very large number of new churches, some
big ones. Russians want what they were deprived of for so many years under the
Soviets.
In the US, churches have been dying for years. There are
lots of derelict ones. This is even more true in Britain.
All over the advanced West, Christianity is in decline.
Polls of people's beliefs and statistics on church attendance show growth in
non-belief and secularism.
I don't know what Mr. Bannon thinks he's doing here but he
seems to promote a "Crusader" attitude.
Anyway, when it comes to world affairs, religion is best
left out altogether. Including it inevitably brings more violence.
Look what the Neocon movement in the US has achieved in the
Mideast. About two million deaths, millions more made refugees (which the US
ignores), plus whole well-ordered societies like Libya left in chaos.
And all that in support of a rather theocratic state called
Israel. Beliefs there are pretty secular too with many unbelievers, but the
place nevertheless is run by and for only one religious group.
