My SONG INTERPLAYS with SECTIONS of INSPIRING MINISTRY of USA-LEBANESE PASTOR: J.D. FARAG from HAWAII CALVARY CHAPEL. In these particular words is INSPIRATION that can be found in a VARIETY of CHURCHES, HINDU TEMPLES, SIKH GURDWARAS, MOSQUES plus ALEVI and ZOROASTRIAN PRAYER HOUSES... However, like the MAJORITY of RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS PASTOR FARAG, who has SUNNI MUSLIM RELATIVES, lists many NEGATIVE COMMENTARIES on IRAN and SHIA MUSLIMS plus ALLEGIANCES with ZIONISM and ISRAEL without any REFERENCE to ISRAEL'S PALESTINIAN ATROCITIES, LAND THEFT and ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS ... So PASTOR FARAG immediately DEPARTS from the EXAMPLE of JESUS CHRIST and becomes an IRRELEVANCE that BELIEVERS, THE POOR and, most importantly, THE YOUTH....TURN AWAY FROM THE CHURCH.
I was MOVED to COMPOSE 'THE DEATH OF THE PEACE CHURCH' in part by DISCUSSION of THE CHURCH 'STANDING AGAINST THE POOR' and 'STANDING WITH THE CORPORATE ELITE' on 'THE SUICIDE OF THE LIBERAL CHURCH' with CHRIS HEDGES [02.02.16] on 'DAYS OF REVOLT': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1DC... The OTHER MOTIVATION is the SIMILAR 'STAND AGAINST THE POOR' of our LOCAL QUAKER MEETING which is DISAPPOINTING with ELDERS WORKING TOP DOWN DRACONIAN 'QUIETISM' UNDERMINING GEORGE FOX'S DOCTRINES and REFUSING BOTTOM UP DEMOCRACY to 'STAND WITH THE OPPRESSED' with a RESULT, like AMERICAN LIBERAL CHURCHES, of DRIVING YOUTH and CONGREGATION AWAY hastening the COLLAPSE of the PEACE CHURCH.
WHAT MUST THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH DO TO REVIVE?
THE CHURCH CULT OF CAPITALISM
WESTERN SECULARISM of the 20th CENTURY seems one REASON. GOVERNMENTS have FOCUSED upon 'THE INDIVIDUAL' and SECULAR LIFE at the EXPENSE of PERSONAL FAITH. Combine this with the LOSS of COMMUNITY of the LOST CHURCH, then the IMPOSITION of CULT OF CAPITALISM, as DEFINED by RUSSELL BRAND on THE TREWS: 'IS CAPITALISM A RELIGION?':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2TBSW2TB... Thus we have a SPIRITLESS and COMMUNITY-LESS person of 'INDIVIDUAL' who is then MOVED to SHOP when UNHAPPY, or EAT when LONELY, or SELL ONLINE when ANXIOUS about LIFE...Instead of GOING TO CHURCH or PRAYING...
YOUTH, MODERN WORLD and THE CHURCH
YOUTH HINDUISM, SIKHISM and ISLAM are THRIVING in CONTEMPORARY FAITH and LIVING COMMUNITY.
YOUTH JUDAISM is also ESTABLISHING itself as SEPARATE from ZIONISM and ISRAEL, as DOCUMENTARIES like on JEWISH YOUTH in 'THE PAIN INSIDE': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOoW9...
YOUNG CHRISTIAN PEOPLE KNOW much about the WORLD due to INTERNET. A lot of EDUCATION focuses on EQUALITY in a GLOBALISED WORLD. Much of BRITISH EMPIRE, SPANISH EMPIRE, OTTOMAN EMPIRE, SLAVERY, SEXISM, USA GENOCIDE, WHITE SUPREMACY, ISRAEL HISTORIES are being TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME, overturning PREVIOUS DISINFORMATION... THE CHURCH DENOMINATIONS are CLASHING or SUFFERING SEVERE 'COGNITIVE DISSONANCE' with the NEW WORLD EQUALITY and TELLING THE TRUTH... Thus THE YOUTH DEPART from THE CHURCHES FOREVER...
The QUAKER MOVEMENT, started by GEORGE FOX [1624-1691] is a PEACE CHURCH which is MEANT to be STANDING WITH THE POOR and is RESPONSIBLE for BOYCOTT DIVESTMENT and SANCTIONS [BDS] of ISRAEL. However, QUAKER MEETINGS have gone into 'QUIETISM' for DECADES and the ELDERS TOP DOWN DRACONIAN ARCHAIC APPROACH clashes with the YOUTH NEED for SOCIAL ACTION to 'STAND WITH THE POOR'. ELDERS seem to prefer the 'GRANNIES JUMBLE SALE' APPROACH... QUAKERS UK has declined from 60,000 to less than 4000 as YOUTH SHUN THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS for 'FAILING TO CARRY THE CROSS'...
USA EVANGELICAL CHURCHES often PREACH HATE, RACE HATE, GAY HATE, ABORTION HATE, MUSLIM HATE, XENOPHOBIA, PATRIARCHY... Again, which CLASHES with the GLOBALISED YOUTH who, again TURN AWAY from THE CHURCH.
CALVINISM has been INDICATED as the ORIGINS of WHITE SUPREMACY and INDIGENOUS GENOCIDE in USA, SOUTH AFRICA and ISRAEL in ROXANNE-DUNBARR ORTIZ' best selling book, 'AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES' http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-P... The REALITY of USA GENOCIDE that is 'DONE IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST' is not something EASY to SELL to the YOUTH or THE MODERN EDUCATED WORLD...
The CATHOLIC CHURCH is trying to EVOLVE itself and the new POPE is getting some IMPRESSIVE REVIEWS as a 'DYNAMIC CENTRALIST' on MEDIA REVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgAny... However, the CATHOLIC CHURCH has a BLOODY HISTORY with the SPANISH and EUROPEANS that is DISTASTEFUL for YOUTH and THE POOR. CATHOLICISM in IRELAND especially, the IMPRISONING of YOUNG 'FALLEN WOMEN' in LAUNDRIES up to 1996 shown in 'THE MAGDALENE SISTERS': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQWer... PATRIARCHY of the CATHOLIC CHURCH are a PROBLEM plus the CAPITALISM and PROPERTY OWNERSHIP of THE VATICAN are not in SPIRIT OF CHRIST.
CHRISTIANITY must FOLLOW CHRIST and STAND WITH THE POOR even if RISKING LIFE and STATUS
