The Christian view of human nature and of sin suggests that we are fallible creatures and thus not good at empire. We cannot be trusted with domination, becoming too easily corrupted by its power and too often succumbing to repression in defending it

This is Jim Wallis, from his book God’s Politics. Not only are human beings not good at Empire, the Church doesn’t exactly have a good record when they give it a crack (ie. The Crusades, various “conquests” giving God the credit (Columbus vs the Natives of the New World).

In fact, the Church is often instructed to resist empire altoghether, and instead, side with the victims of those empires (and their leaders who invoke The Almighty in their cause).