Stop the Fear, Christian Men

 

There are a lot of Christians on my feed who are failing at very basic wisdom.

You don't just go to war because you hate the people that are on one side. You don't just go to war because an ally asks you too. You don't just go to war because you have always gone to war for that nation asking you to go to war. Nor to do you go to war because you are afraid that your large ally might not defend you in some hypothetical future you have convinced yourself is going to happen.

You go to war because you have to, or because it is just. Neither of those conditions is fulfilled in this conflict. It is not necessary, and our ally started it. More than that, you only go to war willingly if you believe you can win. Even Jesus counselled about this, though he did in the context of an illustration, still his words are relevant here,

"31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace" (Luke 14:31-32).

You need to make an accounting of what you have, what your capabilities are, what your enemies capabilities are, and whether or not you can actually go the distance. All of this needs to be accounted for before you even consider going to war. You don’t just go to war and then hope things will work out.

A country that cannot secure its own fuel supply cannot go to war. It is that simple. A country of less than 30 million would be foolish to go to war with a country of nearly 90 million. A country without aircraft carriers would be foolish to go to war when their largest ally has already had to withdraw two aircraft carriers because of danger (one retreated because of a reported mutiny that is being investigated). You certainly don't go to war with an entrenched enemy, that has had decades to prepare and believes that dying for their god is a reward.

I get it. You are emotional. You are fearful of a world where the US cannot protect us. You are propagandized to believe this war is designed to defeat an enemy you want defeated. But this is no excuse to throw wisdom out the window. Australia does not have the capacity for a major war. We might not even have fertilizer for our crops soon. Also, you don't go to war because of a fear of possible future event, that is actually evil. That is how the cowardly live, you should be ashamed to even think like that. Shame on you if you do.

We could spend every cent a war would cost on bolstering our economy and energy sector. If you say, but we get energy from that region? Well, then hot diggity brothers and sisters, now is our chance to stop buying energy that originally comes from the most unstable region in the world. We have the most stable country in the world, by a long shot. Now is our chance to become an energy superpower. And you want to take our tiny military to war against a country that is an armed mountain fortress that can project for hundreds of miles. That is dumb, plain dumb.

But the worst part of this is the fear from these people. "If we don't fight for America, they won't defend us in the future." It is shameful for Christians to act so fearful. SHAMEFUL.

Victory does not come from fighter jets or missiles, but from the Lord.