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Why American Christians should oppose Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief

We all have a conscience and have free will to choose what our conscience leads us to do. However, the most important source for our decisions comes from The Holy Spirit in us Who directs us in what we do that is for right and wrong decision making. I encourage everyone to read this thoroughly and pray for The Holy Spirit to guide your conscience in whether this Nominees should have our support to lead a very important position in the US that impacts everyone. Please read complete article and the sources for information given are highlighted in blue if you want details of the information provided


For decades, I traveled and volunteered in India freely, distributing food, clothing, and other vital supplies as part of charity work sponsored by my church in Tennessee. When I returned in October 2019, I expected the visit to be no different. But immediately upon my arrival, my documents were confiscated and I was imprisoned for 6 days in a dark cell. For the next 7 months, I was prevented from leaving India. My crime? Being Christian.

Held on spurious charges, the real reason I was targeted was because I like countless other Christians throughout India who have been arrested, imprisoned, and even killed for their beliefs and practiced a faith deemed anathema by India’s ruling Hindu nationalist political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Under the leadership of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, India has bulldozed churches, passed laws to criminalize conversion to Christianity, imprisoned pastors, and helped inflame anti-Christian atrocities in Manipur, all in pursuit of rendering India a pure Hindu nation. One BJP official told my lawyer that the party was going to stop American Christians from coming here.

Considering the harm I suffered in India, it came as quite a shock to see an American politician with deep ties to Modi and the Hindu nationalist movement nominated as Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard. As Christians, we have a responsibility to denounce her appointment to this important position with all our strength.

Over the course of Gabbard’s career, she has partnered with the overseas wing of the BJP, worked to shield Modi and his party from criticism of his abominable human rights record, and relied on the financial support of domestic groups tied to Indian paramilitaries who persecute Christians. These ties, disturbing enough in themselves, ought to be totally discredited when it comes to a person charged with overseeing the CIA and FBI. These agencies are tasked with protecting Americans from foreign threats and the Modi regime, to put it lightly, is a major threat to Americans.


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I have my own questions. Pastor Nerren, I can't substantiate the charges you level at Ms Gabbard but I would like some answers to me own questions about you. You went to a conference in an anti-Christian country carrying $40,000 cash. I understand the money was for charitable work, but did it not occur to you that carrying a very large sum of cash and apparently not declaring it makes you look suspicious? I know that if I had entered the United States carrying such a sum of money, I would likely have been detained too. By carrying cash instead of using bank transfers were you trying to circumvent the laws of their country?

It seems to me that once charges that she was tied to Russia and Syria were defeated (she even sued one outlet) that now her enemies have come up with the fact that she is supposedly anti-Christian because she has met with the prime minister of India, just as she met with the head of Russia and with the former head of Syria. Meeting people does not mean that you ascribe to their beliefs. But it is a necessary part of dealing with them. And even trying to change things. Anyway, I think hope we are seeing at the moment is all part the Democrat effort to defeat one of President Trump's cabinet picks. If they can defeat one, they have a leg in the door to defeat others.
 
I have my own questions. Pastor Nerren, I can't substantiate the charges you level at Ms Gabbard but I would like some answers to me own questions about you. You went to a conference in an anti-Christian country carrying $40,000 cash. I understand the money was for charitable work, but did it not occur to you that carrying a very large sum of cash and apparently not declaring it makes you look suspicious? I know that if I had entered the United States carrying such a sum of money, I would likely have been detained too. By carrying cash instead of using bank transfers were you trying to circumvent the laws of their country?

It seems to me that once charges that she was tied to Russia and Syria were defeated (she even sued one outlet) that now her enemies have come up with the fact that she is supposedly anti-Christian because she has met with the prime minister of India, just as she met with the head of Russia and with the former head of Syria. Meeting people does not mean that you ascribe to their beliefs. But it is a necessary part of dealing with them. And even trying to change things. Anyway, I think hope we are seeing at the moment is all part the Democrat effort to defeat one of President Trump's cabinet picks. If they can defeat one, they have a leg in the door to defeat others.
Good points.
 
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