In the seeds of every ideology is the "genetic" flaw that in time will be exposed. The ideology that drove imperialism, shunting true theology to the side and using it as a cloak, is the same ideology that drove neo-con and neo-lib nation-building and both have been shown to be dead ends. Colonize the world or "democratize" the world is the same ideology in different words. What it ends up being is colonize the world, import the world. We can be a shining city on the hill and draw world to the light by example or we can send our young men into the world to "make" them just like us. Choose wisely, one road takes everyone toward the Kingdom, the other road takes everyone to perdition. While the First World War is one example that is still playing out, there are other earlier examples in history that suggest the same choice.
In the seeds of every ideology is the "genetic" flaw that in time will be exposed. The ideology that drove imperialism, shunting true theology to the side and using it as a cloak, is the same ideology that drove neo-con and neo-lib nation-building and both have been shown to be dead ends. Colonize the world or "democratize" the world is the same ideology in different words. What it ends up being is colonize the world, import the world. We can be a shining city on the hill and draw world to the light by example or we can send our young men into the world to "make" them just like us. Choose wisely, one road takes everyone toward the Kingdom, the other road takes everyone to perdition. While the First World War is one example that is still playing out, there are other earlier examples in history that suggest the same choice.
It is the lesson of Hezekiah and the Babylonians. There are good and bad ways to engage the world.