✝️ Covenants of Cruelty: When Faith Is Used to Justify Ethnic Cleansing By Terry Bourn

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
— Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 5:9

There’s a dangerous lie spreading through pulpits, political campaigns, and media empires:
That what’s happening to Palestinians in Gaza and brown immigrants at the U.S. border is part of some divine covenant.
That this violence isn’t evil—it’s God’s will.

It’s the lie at the heart of Christian nationalism and Christian dominionism.
And if we don’t name it, it will keep devouring lives—while calling itself righteous.

🕍 The Myth of the Covenant

Christian dominionists teach that both the U.S. and Israel are “covenant nations”—modern-day successors to ancient Israel, chosen by God to lead the world under “biblical principles.” This isn’t metaphor—they mean it literally.

In their worldview:

America is “ordained” to be a Christian theocracy.
Israel is fulfilling biblical prophecy by dominating Palestine.
Immigrants, Muslims, progressives, LGBTQ+ people—they’re all obstacles to God’s plan.

Under this twisted theology, human rights become negotiable, and violence becomes holy.

🇮🇱 Gaza: A Holy War, Not a Humanitarian Crisis

When Israeli bombs flatten apartment buildings, kill children, and cut off water and electricity, dominionist leaders don’t call it genocide.
They call it God’s justice.

Why? Because they believe Israel must be “protected at all costs”—not for the sake of Jews, but to hasten the return of Jesus.

These are the same pastors who claim criticizing Israeli policy is “antisemitic,” even while they preach that Jews must convert or be destroyed at the end of days.
It’s not solidarity—it’s apocalyptic weaponization.

🇺🇸 America: A Borderline Crusade

The same theology is at play in the U.S., where Christian nationalists:

Call migrants “invaders”
Separate children from their families
Militarize the border in the name of “sovereignty”
Push to deport entire communities of brown people

They say this isn’t racism.
They say it’s obedience to God.
They claim God “gave” America to white Christians, and anyone who doesn’t fit that mold is a trespasser, not a neighbor.

But this isn’t Christianity—it’s colonialism with a cross.

✝️ Jesus Would Flip Their Temples

Let’s be clear:

Jesus was a brown-skinned Jew who lived under imperial occupation.
He spent his life healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and defending the oppressed.
He blessed the peacemakers and condemned those who used religion for control.
He didn’t deport foreigners—he made them family.

The idea that Jesus would cheer on the bombing of civilians or the detention of migrant children is not just wrong—it’s blasphemy.

⚠️ The Political Machine Behind It

Christian nationalism is not just a fringe theology—it’s a political project.

It’s in our courts.
It’s in our school boards.
It’s in presidential campaigns.
It’s on cable news every night.

It relies on biblical illiteracy and white fear to spread.
It wraps empire in Scripture and calls it salvation.

🛑 Enough.

It’s time to call this what it is:

Not Christianity—but domination.
Not prophecy—but propaganda.
Not God’s covenant—but cruelty justified by false theology.

We are watching, in real time, as faith is hijacked to justify war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
Whether it’s Gaza or the Rio Grande, the victims look the same, and so does the lie.

And if we claim to follow Jesus, we cannot look away.

✊ Speak. Write. Resist.
Because the Gospel was never meant to serve the powerful—it was meant to liberate the oppressed