... Go directly to hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

Jim Wallis is interesting. Today, he alleges that almost all Christians in the world disagree with US policy, particularly the Iraq war:

Outside the borders of the United States of America, a vast, vast majority of the world's people are steadfastly against the American war in Iraq.... Even reduce that number to only evangelical Christians worldwide and you are still left with an overwhelming majority of born-again, Bible-believing Christians who are against American policy in Iraq and, indeed, the entire Middle East region.

What's his source? I'd love to see that survey. He seems to think that the "leaders" who work with World Vision (an organization which has been drifting steadily leftward over the years) must represent the countries from which they originate.

And even if he's right: is truth determined by a majority vote?

So if the international body of Christ generally doesn't support America's war in Iraq, or U.S. foreign policy generally, what do some American Christians know that the rest of the global Christian community doesn't?

We know that if the US leaves, many more would be killed. We also know that time and time again, rather than serving as true peacekeepers, the UN has fled at the first sign of real conflict or danger. Handing Iraq over the UN or a similar multinational group would be no worse than leaving abruptly. And "regional negotiations" simply don't stop al Qaeda from blowing people up.

It would be quite nice if Jim Wallis would address these arguments, rather than pretend they don't exist, as he does in the paragraph above.

Instead, he implies the only possible explanation for people disagreeing with him is simply that they don't love God nearly as much as he does:

Personally, to be frank, I think it is because far too many American Christians are simply Americans first and Christians second... Many American Christians are simply more loyal to a version of American nationalism than they are to the body of Christ.

Right. It's our blind patriotism jingoism American imperialism which causes us to argue our soldiers should continue to die, at great cost to us, to try to improve the situation in Iraq and save Iraqi lives. That's the only possible explanation Jim can come up with.

A number of his commenters are even more amusing. It turns out Christians who disagree with Jim's stance on the war are probably going to hell:

It's about time, actually long overdue & past time, that Jim Wallis himself voice his disgust over the Ultra-cons & Neo-Cons that clog this outlet.... When will a filter dismiss these without taking up space or some editorial oversight eliminate them otherwise? .... There will be many confused christians in Hell & rightly so: may their dysfunction to there with them.

Salvation isn't based on faith in God. It's based on not being a "Neo-Con". That's not a far cry from what Wallis alleged, actually.