When hawks cry “Divine,” America pays the price
Sacred mandates for foreign crusades drain our real security—households and highways pay the tab
Now beating their battle drums, Washington’s war hawks currently posture as divine crusaders, insisting that America’s sacred mission is to shield the State of Israel lest “God may quit us.” They thunder on that America’s refusal to wipe out Iran—and its roughly 91 million people—is the equivalent to blasphemy.
But who truly shoulders the cost when they let slip the dogs of war to defend a state born in 1948, well after the biblical prophecies bolstering the bloodthirst of today’s Christian Zionists had already faded to footnotes?
This is a fight for survival, they insist. Yet this current fracas in the Middle East isn’t about defending holy writ—it is about preserving the wallets and lives of working-class patriots on the home front.
Dispensationalist theology is famous for cherry-picking scripture, claiming that the Bible earmarked modern Israel for divine favor, and that Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones and the miraculous births predicted by Isaiah foretold a sovereign Jewish state. But those chapters describe restoration centuries before the Church and Isaiah’s prophecy about the coming of John the Baptist and the virgin birth of Jesus Christ—not 20th-century geopolitics.
The State of Israel was proclaimed on May 14, 1948—just yesterday by prophetic standards. While age doesn’t disqualify prophecy, if sacred texts spoke so clearly of this nation-state, why did earlier political theologians spend their energies opposing European regimes rather than mapping out modern Zion?
Dispensationalism offers a systematic vision of biblical history, but it faces meaningful challenges from the ancient and traditional theological traditions. It erects literalist scaffolding where symbolism reigned, divorcing the Church from the Kingdom promised by Christ. It misreads sacred poetry as political warrants.
These attempts by end-times evangelicals to bind American policy with theological fantasy serves global financiers and neoconservative think tanks more than Main Street America.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church stands as the true Kingdom of Israel, founded by Jesus Christ, the Messiah, in spiritual continuity with Old Testament saints.
Its bishops succeed the apostles. Its sacraments echo Sinai. The mission of the Catholic Church surpasses land grants and political borders. To claim otherwise is to ignore two millennia of ecclesial tradition and reduce divine covenant to real-estate speculation.
What of the Jewish people of today? Genealogical studies confirm that many modern Jews trace mixed ancestries, not unbroken lines to first-century Judea, and—taken as a whole—are not a “scattered people returning to their ancestral land.” Furthermore, those who rejected Christ at Pentecost became, by definition, enemies of the true Israel.
Faith transcends genetics.
America’s alliances should rest on shared values, not on the grievances of fringe ideologues—whether messianic rabbis or dispensationalist “Christians” with their crystal charts and rapture timetables.
The State of Israel exists in large part to accommodate the ideological caprices of zealots and political insiders. It is a sovereign nation, yes—but one no more divine than any other republic born of revolution or realpolitik.
Nevertheless, Iran’s regime is malignant. The theocratic terror of the ayatollahs threatens millions. Yet, America has no business wading into sectarian strife halfway around the globe. For every son and daughter Uncle Sam deploys, it feeds the dogs of war at home, fracturing families and draining the work force even further.
Should those bugling for bombs to drop in Asia not heed the counsel of John Quincy Adams? For it was over two centuries ago that the Secretary of State and future president said of America’s role in the world that, “She goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.”
What, then, does America stand to gain in this latest escapade? Global prestige? Oil pipelines? Or the empty assurance that a supernatural guarantor will smile upon our ledgers?
This is not merely wrong, but dangerous. Remember the Cold War—when David Ben-Gurion’s new state balanced between superpowers while America paid homage to the promise of democracy, not dispensationalist dogma. That prudence earned the Marshall Plan, not wars of faith.
The reflexive pro-Israel crowd brands dissent as betrayal, yet true patriotism demands asking hard questions. Who are the economic patriots served by foreign bloodshed? Who profits when the American treasury writes blank checks to warmongers? Who suffers when American factories sit idle and our highways crumble under tax burdens for distant battlefields?
At hand is an existential choice: Bow to theological tribalism or defend the values that built Western civilization—family, faith, personal responsibility, respect for authority.
America first means America’s families, first. Let us reject the pious posturing of overseas secular crusades, raise our voices for the forgotten Americans, and close the ledger on messianic foreign policy.
President Trump must not unleash the dogs of war again for causes that endanger American liberty.
It is time to stand down the war cries, dismantle dispensationalist delusions, and rediscover moral clarity grounded in peace, not in adventurism.
The true Kingdom of God does not rest on sand. It endures in the Church that Christ bequeathed to us and in communities that honor tradition and uplift the common man.
Let us choose wisely—before the next howl of battle dims the lights of our own cities.