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I am reading his book, Two Swords of Christ, right now. Fascinating. The author does an excellent job of taking the reader back to the 1100’s of the Hospitaliers, The Nights Templar and the infidel Moslems. Total flip side of “turn the other cheek”.
Perhaps the powers that shouldn’t be are aware of the potential threat a powerful backlash of militant Christians to their plans and are hell bent on infiltration of the church idea to discredit, shame and harass anyone supporting it.
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They have no idea, Christian values archetypical for Western civilisation. In another analogical sense of the two swords, the globalists have awoken the swords metaphysically The Christian and Western values.
King James Bible translation: ] (Luke 22 KJV)
Christ instructing his followers said to them, “But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.”
That teaching implies an opposite meaning of most churchgoers in modern times, but for the hundreds, or thousands of his followers in those times it meant the opposite. Christ was telling them to go out into the world and teach other people the true way to everlasting life, and to also be aware that there are dark forces that will use brutal force in order to prevent these teachings from being heard. So, take proper precautions in order to defend yourselves and stay alive.
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Precisely, there is the recognition that what was being taught to be disseminated was radical and subversive to temporal power.
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The other incident in the New Testament that is often mentioned - particularly in some of the early fathers - is that with the Roman solider, where Christ commends his faith and sends him on his way, WITHOUT telling him to abandon his military service…
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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral, because anger is directed toward the good of justice; if one can live amid injustice without anger, they are both immoral and unjust. Thomas Aquinas
Had Christendom forsaken it sword, instead of crusading to protect Christians and push back on an aggressive tyrannical ideology in 1096, there would likely be no Europe East or West and could easily have prevented the establishment of the USA to the point that would likely be few or no Christians at this time and the renaissance and the Enlightenment periods might not have occurred. One may argued that the latter might not have been a bad thing but that is a separate issue.
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Yes, and the West as always forgets that the bulwark against invasion of Eastern Europe for centuries was the Byzantine Roman Empire, which, in its litanies during the liturgy (mass) always prayed for its “Christ-loving emperor and our Christ-loving armies…”
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And ofcourse…
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Gloria in unum diem… 
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Yes, the West always forgets these things.
But why?
Why has it been like that for hundreds of years, and is it still like that,even today?
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