CNN Attacks Christian Poland (and we know why)

Failing CNN, not content with attacking the president of the United States with fake news stories while ignoring the Fast and Furious, illegal immigration, and Benghazi deaths caused by the Obama/Clinton regime, had to attack one of the greatest nations on earth; Christian, Catholic Poland.

During President Trump’s second overseas trip CNN published a series of articles critical of President Trump. One of the articles concluded that Poland was an oppressive regime.

CNN’s attack on Poland is not due to this so-called repression, which is false anyway, but because Poland was, and still is, one of the most conservative and one of the most Christian nations on Earth.

First the “repression.” This stems from the fight over government run media. Poland has both private and public media, as we have in America. The left wing, and government run, media has attacked traditional Polish institutions such as the Catholic Church and conservative thought without end. The current Polish government has said they have had enough of this and are aiming for more balanced state run media. CNN calls this repressive while never saying Poland was repressive under the state run media of recent that was much more liberal.

While there should not be state run large scale media, at all, in Poland or anywhere else, if it exists it should not attack the very institutions that make Poland great. And this is what CNN hates.

For over a thousand years Poland has been a heavily Christian nation. In 966 she embraced Christianity and in 1656, while under attack from Russian and Swedish armies, the Virgin Mary was named “Queen and Protector of Poland” in the Lwow Oath. Shortly thereafter, both armies were remarkably turned back.

Poland, with its beautiful plains and farms, continued as a middle ground for wars of aggression throughout Europe and was constantly divided up between other nations. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Soviet Russia all took their turn(s) in Poland. Still she, like Israel, rose again.

In 1966, Poland celebrated 1,000 years of Christianity, much to the dismay of the Communist authorities. In 1978 a Polish cardinal, Karol Wojtyla, was named as Pope John Paul II. He was the first non-Italian pope in 400 years and was named as such in the middle of the Soviet led communist regime in Poland.

In 1979, Poland began the fall of communism through the nine-day visit of John Paul II. Millions of Poles turned out to chant “We want God!” and the enthusiasm was greatest amongst the young people. Shortly thereafter, the Solidarity movement began to take shape. The Bulgarian secret service, likely influenced by the Soviet Union, tried to kill John Paul in 1981. He survived as did his faith partner, Ronald Reagan, who was also shot that year. Ten years after John Paul’s visit, the Iron Curtain fell and Poland once again rose. She was the first nation to cast off the shackles of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe. Poland’s resurrection continues.

Like the Brexit movement in Britain, and the Trump Revolution in America, Poland has not only had enough but has begun to actively fight back against the forces of darkness that would seek to take away what has made her great.

Poland has been one of the European countries that enthusiastically supports NATO and meets it military spending benchmarks.

The conservative government supports traditional morality and encourages the role of the Church in Polish society.

Young Polish Christians, like those who cheered John Paul the Great, are saying no to the Sharia law which is engulfing much of the rest of Europe.

These are the reasons that CNN hates Poland and there will be continued snubs of this great nation and people.

Poland need not worry. She has been around a lot longer than CNN. And the Christian Bible teaches that it is glorious to be persecuted for Jesus Christ. It also teaches that the last shall be first and the first shall be last. Poland, first to fight against the demonic Hitler, will be one of the last ones standing in the battle to save Western Civilization from Sharia law and its unwitting accomplice, leftist moral relativism.

In the fight against the enemies of Western Civilization, this beautiful Central and Eastern European nation will continue to be a beacon of eternal hope. Poland will never die.

First, let's we must put away this foolish nonsense, promoted by the movement which self-identifies as "progressive," and stirs emotions and conflicts which divide and distort the historical truths of America's founding and of the subsequent events which shaped a nation for all citizens whose desire is for liberty.

"Progressive" politicians and the media outlets they have captured, display their great ignorance of America's history, and overlook the written documents which refute their claims. Or, they are not ignorant, but merely deceivers whose lust for power motivates their behaviors.

Second, keep in mind that the man who is quoted in the excerpts below, a Black scholar and State Legislator, spoke these words less than 15 years following the great Civil War.

That distinguished Legislator and Bishop delivered the following opinions in an 1876 message of celebration of America's Declaration of Independence by an A. M. E. Bishop and Black Ohio State Legislator, Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett. (See below)

The following paragraph is excerpted from the CENTENNIAL Thanksgiving Sermon, DELIVERED BY REV. B. W. ARNETT, B. D., AT ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH, URBANA, OHIO 1876 - available in the "Library of Congress - Historical Collections" - "African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection," 1820-1920; American Memory, Washington, DC.

This historical treasure is one which should be prominent in our national discussions, especially now, when our philosophical foundations are being challenged by members of a cult-like movement who self-identify as "Progresssives," and when the views of a learned man like Dr. Arnett might shed light on centuries-old ideas about America's history. His theme: Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a Reproach to any People."

"Withdraw from Christendom the Bible, the Church with its sacraments and ministry, and Christian morality and hopes, and aspirations for time and eternity; repeal all the laws that are founded in the Christian Scriptures; remove the Christian humanities in the form of hospitals and asylums, and reformatories and institutions of mercy utterly unknown to unchristian countries; destroy the literature, the culture, the institutions of learning, the art, the refinement, the place of woman in her home and in society, which owe their origin and power to Christianity; blot out all faith in Divine Providence, love, and righteousness; turn back every believer in Christ to his former state; remove all thought or hope of the forgiveness of sins by a just but gracious God; erase the name of Christ from every register it sanctifies—in a word annihilate all the legitimate and logical effects of Christianity in Christendom—just accomplish in fact what multitudes of gifted and learned minds are wishing and trying to accomplish by their science, philosophy, and criticism, and what multitudes of the common people desire and seek, and not only would all progress toward and unto perfection cease, but not one of the shining lights of infidelity would shine much longer. Yes, the bitterest enemies of this holy and blessed religion, owe their ability to be enemies to its sacred revelations - to the inspiration and sublimity of that faith which reflects its glories on their hostile natures. They live in the strength of that which they would destroy. They are raised to their seats of opportunity and power by the grace of Him they would crucify afresh; and is it to be thought that they are stronger than that which gives them strength? Can it be supposed that a religion which civilizes and subdues, and elevates and blesses will succumb to the enmities it may arouse and quicken in its onward march? Are we to tremble for the ark of God when God is its upholder, and protector, and preserver?” - Dr. Benjaming W. Arnett, St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio, Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, November 1876

Dr. Arnett, an A.M.E. Minister and Ohio State Legislator, was invited to publish this remarkable sermon commemorating the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence by the following method:

To:

Rev. B. W. ARNETT, B. D.

Dear Pastor:

Will you please prepare your “Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon” for publication: together with whatever matter pertaining to the colored people of this city, you deem worth preserving.

We make this request of you, believing that the publication of such matter, will be of benefit to the present and succeeding generations.

Yours Respectfully,

J GAITER
J. DEMPCY
C. L, GANT
Trustees W. A. STILGASS, W. O. BOWLES

Urbana, O.

December 7th, 1876

J GAITER, J. DEMPCY, C. L, GANT

Trustees W. A. STILGASS, W. O. BOWLES

Yours is at hand, requesting me to prepare my "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" for publication. If you think that my words will be of any advantage to you, and those whom you have the honor of representing, I am willing to leave it to your judgement and will prepare my feeble effort for the press: hoping that, if there is nothing new in it, at least I may awaken some one to follow "the Moccasin tracks of Righteousness, and the Foot Prints of sin on the sands of time," and be better prepared for the duties they owe to themselves, their families, their country, and their God.

I am, yours,

BENJAMIN W. ARNETT

____________________

At another point in his long "Thanksgiving Sermon," Dr. Arnett made the following assertion about America and "wherein lies its greatness":

"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjaming W. Arnett, St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio, Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, November 1876

C. S. Lewis’s comments on what a sincerely believing society would look like are interesting. If I can further paraphrase, it couldn’t be pegged with either of the secular political terms “liberal” or “conservative” because its people’s lives would be caught up in God.

In particular, “Christian conservatism” itself as we know it today here would die and be born again.

What? Blasphemy, you say?

Well, we have every reason to believe it true. If the bible no longer is our crutch for our political druthers and rather is allowed to be the Word of our Master, our world view changes.

Me myself, although I might sound like one of the most faith filled people on FR, I am still a terrible, terrible doubter in light of what is possible with God. I wish my faith was so good that my most easy sin would be flushed away forever in God’s love. Right now I just bumble and stumble. But it’s good to know that one is a doubter, because then one can purposely pursue the things that increase faith, and accept them gladly when God brings them into one’s life. It’s the people who don’t know they are doubters who are in a worse situation.

So I don’t have a right to rail at anyone if they doubt what I say. I only ask them to allow God to help them, bit by bit, to convince them that it is true. “Have mercy on some who doubt.”

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