Pre-Tribulationist Pastors Aren’t Necessarily Good Political Theorists

 Pre-tribulationist pastors have a wrong eschatology that leads them toward an inherent pessimism concerning the fate of the world and of human destiny in the world. They have an incorrect interpretation of the Bible, and share that wrong interpretation with Muslims who got that from Mohammed the creator of Mohammadanism. Muslims and pre-trib Christian have a naïve and literalist understanding of the Revelation of John. Martin Luther said the book has a lot of straw in it, meaning that it wasn’t a simple recounting of the works of Jesus by a disciple or apostle. The book was written by a captive disciple who needed to guard his words carefully during a persecution by the Emperor Nero. The inverted numbers 666 referred to Nero for example, yet pre-tribbers miss that and the basic context of the tribulation occurring in the first century rather than sometime out in the future.

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 With the wrong belief that the world is soon to be destroyed by the war known as Armageddon important political issues like environmentalism and global warming seem of little consequence to pre-tribbers. Pre-trib political issues by pastors that simply aren’t political philosophers nor accurate theologians tend to support the concentration of wealth and destruction of the world ecosphere to natural resource predators and neither is a meaningful or good Christian value. Christian should tend to support egalitarianism economically and especially free health care for the poor. They should be concerned about the health of the environment for the people that need to live in it and are part of it and not help bring it to an end.

  U.S. politics should be about good ideas rather than cults of immoralists, wrong eschatologists, environmental predators and so on. The fundamental issues meaningful to all citizens are fairly easy to discern and they are perennial American values such as the pursuit of happiness, a good environment for everyone including wildlife, a healthy well-educated populace, national security and so forth. Political philosophy need adapt to the complexity of the modern world, political economy and demographics and should not be misunderstood as a battle between dysfunction 18^th and 19^th century economics of Adam Smith and Karl Marx that are a very shallow and obsolete way to view the world.

 The present national election of 2020 is a good example of what happens when candidates are selected not for the good ideas they have, but for the organizations or structures they rise in. Church pastors would better serve the public by innovating a priesthood of believers structure instead of profiting themselves and the comfortable and advocating for good ideas instead of siding with the least objectionable bottom feeders running for office. They should look for good ideas if they must enter the field of politics without much competence of understanding, and not promote simple the least hateable ideas presented. Creating new economic and ecclesiastical structural reforms requires much more than negativity and criticism of offensive political activity. One should not simple bunt every election the bad pitches of whoever is running for office.