Letter: God would not side with perpetrators of violence

Editor,

Colin Donoghue's column for the Daily Lobo, "Jesus was no Republican" is laudable and significant in many ways.

The fact that it takes a non-Christian to unveil the truth of Christianity buried under the moral, social and physical rubble of a belligerent society that deems itself Christian not only unmasks the hypocrisy of a government that has perverted a pacifist religion into a warfare ideology, it admonishes Christian believers to take an explicit and visible stance against the current perversion of their religion.

Appeasing kindness was not the trademark of Jesus Christ. His honesty came in the uncompromising courage toward truth to the point of death.

That God should favor America over other nations is highly questionable, since we know that God shows no partiality, and we know that as long as liars, torturers and murderers define the image of a nation like the United States, God would rather appear as anti-American, to side with the victims of imperialism than side with the perpetrators of violence.

Any Christian confession that fails to point out such unequivocal impartiality, an impartiality that is unquestionably partial to the victims of injustice, betrays the religion they pretend to represent.

Joachim Oberst

UNM staff