United states are expected to be  unstoppable agents of good for their people.  Having people unite around a cause is guaranteed to bring success. All the united republics, states and kingdoms, all the religious affiliations and sects, are struggling with societal failures and insurmountable crises.  We are beginning to question the honesty of people who declare themselves to be united.

Recognizing unity

What are the signs of a united people? Can unity be forged without conflict, oppression and exploitation? Can states like Nigeria ever be strong again? One would have thought that out of the forced unity of earthquake and disease that some semblance of solidarity might have emerged in Haiti. It seems like a together-bee is the last thing on the human agenda when Israel, forced to face the truth of its crimes against humanity, calls revenge massacres of Palestinian people a war. We have seen how well wars-to-end-all-wars end. We are not going to be fooled again by armed patriots and nationalists. The terror of marauding gangs in Israel or Haiti should not impress anyone. 

The smoke screens of unity

The religious undercurrent in American and Canadian politics is a disease with which we are familiar from our casual reading of Scripture. A united people are not constantly at war with insiders and outsiders. Homicides are a poor way to preserve liberty and livelihoods. Israel destroyed herself and so will all the united kingdoms, republics and federations.

We will definitely not allow ourselves to follow duct taped religion posing as God’s government.  We dismiss them out of hand.  Now, whether or not the churches and the powers that be succeed in putting on a show of success and near miraculous ingenuity we are convinced that they all crash on the rocks of human frailty. We will never again fall for superior commerce, bigotry, racism, domination of one’s neighbours and tyranny disguised as emergent democracy. Democracy running emergency powers is autocracy, dictatorship and misery for the masses. We refuse to be led by anyone not completely committed to Christ and human life.