Why We Can't Bow to the New Established Religion

Christian Headlines ^ | April 13, 2015 | Eric Metaxas

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It's almost become a part of the weekly news cycle: American citizens publicly tarred and feathered for professing their sincerely held religious beliefs.

Just this month, we watched a family-owned pizzeria close its doors after its owners received hate mail and death threats from around the country. Their offense? Giving the wrong answer to a question about whether they'd cater a gay wedding. Keep in mind that the restaurant had never actually turned down a gay customer. They were hammered for holding the wrong beliefs about a hypothetical scenario!

Major corporations are getting into the bullying act, as well. At least two state governments have now backed down or modified religious freedom legislation in response to pressure from companies like WalMart and Salesforce. Keep that in mind next time you think about shopping at WalMart.

And this culture-wide search-and-destroy mission is only accelerating. As Princeton's Robby George writes in First Things, activists for the new sexual orthodoxy are “giddy with success and urged on by a compliant and even gleeful media.”

The message is clear: not only should Christians remain silent about gay marriage if we know what's good for us, but we must be made to agree with and even celebrate what Scripture calls sin. As Ana Marie Cox recently said of Christians on MSNBC, “you're going to have to force [them] to do things they don't want to do.”

But gay columnist Frank Bruni recently took it to the next level in the New York Times, writing that it's time Christians get with the program and “take homosexuality off the sin list.” The lived experience of same-sex couples ought to trump what he calls the “scattered passages of ancient texts” condemning his lifestyle. Wow.

As for freedom of religion, Bruni suggests a new definition: “freeing . . . religious people from prejudices that they . . . can indeed jettison, much as they’ve jettisoned other aspects of their faith’s history, rightly bowing to the enlightenments of modernity.”

Yes, he actually wrote “rightly bowing.”

I'm reminded of a scene from C. S. Lewis' “The Last Battle,” in which Shift the Ape explains to the poor creatures of Narnia why they're being shipped off to the Calormene salt mines.

“You think freedom means doing what you like,” says Shift. “Well, you’re wrong. That isn’t true freedom. True freedom means doing what I tell you.”

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But gay columnist Frank Bruni recently took it to the next level in the New York Times, writing that it's time Christians get with the program and “take homosexuality off the sin list.” The lived experience of same-sex couples ought to trump what he calls the “scattered passages of ancient texts” condemning his lifestyle.

One only needs read a few sociological studies on homosexual behavior to understand why homosexuality is typically considered a sin.

I remember spending time in the high school library back in the 1970s, reading studies on homosexual behavior. There is nothing normal about it. For the most part, these are not people whose sexual attraction happens to be to people of their own gender, but who are otherwise living normal lives. In many cases, everything about their life style is aberrant.

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Rush’s Undeniable Truth number 5. Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force. Corollary, no one ever put their name to a piece of paper agreeing to lose. Application to current situation? As we have not reached a position requiring force to defend ourselves, in the immortal words of Claire Wolfe, “It is too early to start shooting the bastards.” The libtards are just smart enough to realize that if things did get that far they would lose big and fast so they dance as close to that edge as they can. They realize they are playing with fire but, hey, no risk no reward, right? In this they betray another reality they try to deny. Capitalism is no “economic system” but rather a law of nature. They are trying to sell a snake oil potion of Socialist Utopia to folks they know to be rubes all the while clawing for raw power tooth and nail for themselves.

Why we allow them to act unfettered in our society is a bit beyond me and why we would ever let our representatives refer to them as “my friend across the aisle” is revealing of just how clueless many actually are, I suppose.