Recognizing The Real Spiritual Terrorist

While researching on "spiritual terrorism", I stumbled on the article by Lieutenant Colonel Greg E. Metzgar, of the US Army, entitled "fighting the war on Spiritual Terrorism", published on the website of the Officers’ Christian Fellowship. It made an interesting read and, frankly, deserves a response.
The tendency maybe for one to ask, "why bother?", especially in the light of Ephesians 6:12 which says, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places". Yet, in this changing times and growing disappointing `crookery’ among high profile religious leaders, the war on spiritual terrorism, must not just be fought like the war on terror, but `spiritual terrorism’ must be recognized as lethal and worthy of inclusion into the mainframe of, and to complement, available terror laws and boost the global war on terror.
Spiritual terrorism is not a joke but a bitter reality, which the world must recognise and confront. It is not the sort articulated by Lt. Col. Metzgar through such phrases as "irregular threat", a "fight between good and evil" or even "irregular enemy". These phrases readily guide the readers mind to the age old, generally known unseen one, whom Jesus thought about and whom Christians readily blame for every little mishap.
While we cannot discountenance the claim that Satan has, for centuries, owned the unseen hands readily blamed for orchestrating all mayhem in his continual attempt to drag as many souls as he possibly can to stay with him in hell, modern spiritual terrorism is being orchestrated by humans, among whom are Christian religious leaders, who have researched and acquired rare spiritual knowledge with which they have equipped themselves to display all kinds of power, in the name of miracle and healing and which they equally deploy at will against specified human targets. In this sense humans now use the devil rather than the devil using them. They no longer `let sleeping dogs lie’, but rather wake it and send it on a destructive mission.
Of course, this might not make sense to a casual reader, neither will it to anyone who has never experienced nor seen others experiencing modern human wickedness against fellow humans, by act of spiritual terrorism. Afterall, the United States really woke up against terrorism after the 9/11 2001 attacks. Before then, the war on terror had never been taken seriously while terrorists graduated from one level of crime to the other. In the United Kingdom, the war took a different dimension after the 7/7 2005 terror attacks on London. And even such term as `lyrical terrorism’ has recently been recognized. Given recent events, it seems that it will just be a matter of time before `spiritual terrorism’ receives the desired recognition and the laws on terror honed to include it. Yet in parts of the world that have never experienced the wickedness of terrorists, the war on terror is relatively unheard of.
But there is a striking similarity, between the `conventional terrorist’ and the `spiritual terrorist’. The conventional terrorist is heartless, brutish, wicked, devilish, selfish, destructive, and filled with hate for others, just as his spiritual terrorist counterpart. The only difference is that while the conventional terrorist uses physically observable devices or weapons to cause physically noticeable destructions, the spiritual terrorist uses physically unobservable weapons to cause physically observable colossal destructions.
Modern day spiritual terrorism has become pandemic, widely in use by pastors and religious leaders and I define it as "A planned dedicated grievous use of guided spiritual weapons and spells to dehumanise, deactivate, destroy or kill a person or group of persons, thereby not making the world a better place".
Usually, the aftermath of an attack is characterised by different scenarios: the conventional terrorist, if he survives the attack, runs for cover and goes straight into hiding, while the spiritual terrorist dresses up smartly and moves about in celebration, sometimes even mingling among sympathisers. This being due to the fact that the world has refused to acknowledge the enormous danger the spiritual terrorist portends for the present and for posterity – just as it did to the conventional terrorist up till and before 9/11.
Conventional terrorism is clear evidence of the modern day use of man to destroy man or society and their values by the wicked one known as Satan. On the other hand, spiritual terrorism is the use of Satan and satanic means by man to destroy man or society and its values.
People argue that Satan, the wicked one is responsible for both. However, when an Ordained Pastor, preacher of the Gospel, self-professed second in command to God and watched on TV by millions, deploys and sustains spiritual weapons against his congregation or a select few, can it be blamed on Satan using him and not him using Satan? For the reason why Christianity is the true religion and a religion of peace is that we, as Christians, are enjoined by what we read from the Holy Bible, to strive to follow the footsteps of Christ whose death on the cross of Calvary was for the salvation of our souls.
A Pastor who, having acquired enormous spiritual knowledge and, you could say became a Christian `superman’, experimented with and mastered the art of spiritual manoeuvrings, and then, openly claimed to be God’s No. 2. I have never read or heard any preacher claim or justify a claim that there is a second in command to God. As a committed Christian, I was baffled. For not even Jesus Christ claimed to be God’s No. 2. But despite nearly 15 years of blaring the gospel through hi-fi speakers in church and on TV, such wicked preachers only managed to oscillate due to deliberate misapplication of the gospel and the use of spells and spiritual knowledge to silence, subdue, expel and or kill members of their congregation at will. These types of individuals are the real spiritual terrorists and the world is replete with them.
At some point, some of their members and closest assistants would leave. At another a mass revolt by members of their congregation raise massive opposition against their and, given their natural prejudices, encourage them to move spiritually against them instantly. The result would be predictable, another downfall
As a military officer has a duty to use and deploy his weapons against enemy targets and, in so doing, adhering to strict rules of war, by never - no matter the level of provocation - turning his weapons against his country or compatriots, whom he had sworn to on Oath to defend and protect, so also does a Pastor or religious leader have the duty to preach the Gospel as Jesus thought us and never to use his spiritual knowledge as weapons against the very congregation he leads or against anyone for that matter. For otherwise, the essence of the message will be defeated.
How can a Pastor, recognized and honoured as an agent of positive change in the society be destroying the same society and spoiling the people, thereby, leaving the world a worse place? And at the same time, hopping around the world as a messenger of the Good News. How deceptive! What hypocrisy!
There are many such `men of God’ who continue to perpetrate overt evil and escaping punishment simply because, as Christians, we are eager to cite Ephesians 6:12 and avoid the necessity to urge our governments to have a closer look at their activities so as to widen and extend the laws on terror to include spiritual terrorism and bring abusers of spiritual knowledge to book.
It does seem to be about time something was done

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