Seventy years ago, Japan launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and did what Japanese General Yamamoto feared would happen: They “awakened a sleeping giant!”
A study of WWII in the Pacific Theater reveals some interesting parallels between Japanese soldiers and Muslim terrorists in the protracted “War on Terrorism.” Some of these are:
1. The Japanese worshiped their emperor as god, rather than the Eternal God, our Lord Jesus Christ. Neither, do the Muslims worship Jesus as God.
2. The Japanese believed that if they died in service to their emperor god they were assured a place in heaven. Likewise, Muslims believe death in service to their god assures them a place in paradise.
3. To the Japanese, life was cheap, only those that served the emperor god were deserving of life and all others were destined for enslavement, torture, and death. The Muslim Jihad (or struggle) is war against non-believers in Mohammed’s mission. The ultimate goal being conversion to Islam, banishment, enslavement, or death, to those they call infidels.
4. Japan’s war of conquest was a religious war, spawned by belief that their emperor god had the divine right to rule the world, and thought by them, to be a right and justifiable expansion of the empire. Muslim terrorism is a religious war, thought by them, to be right and justifiable in expanding the rule of Islam around the world.
5. To their own, the Japanese were kind, peaceful, respectful and honorable, but all manner of lies and deception were acceptable when dealing with those that did not worship their god. Likewise, with Muslims, according to the Koran.
6. Japanese fanatics believed fate and their emperor god controlled their destiny. Muslims are also fatalists, believing all things occur according to the will of their god.
7. The Japanese believed in the use of force to accomplish their goals, and greater force was the only thing that deterred them. The Muslim Jihad is on the same path.
Ultimately, it took two atomic bombs in a show of force beyond anything ever before seen, to break the will of the Japanese people. Only the prospect of intense suffering in their homeland could destroy the delusional dream of heaven, as reward, for death in service to the emperor god.
Hopefully, the “Sleeping Giant” will again awaken. This time to realize that religion is always the same. It promises future reward for present human endeavor and requires tremendous power to free people from its clutches. Bullets and bombs may free nations, but the only power that can free individuals from religion, is the good news that Jesus died for your sins and rose from the grave. If Jesus did not die to pay for your sins, then you must pay your own penalty and if Jesus was not resurrected for your justification, then the torments of death are yours for eternity.
Jim
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