Posted on 04/03/2015 5:37:17 AM PDT by Gamecock
If you have been following mass media over the past few days, you will have learned from an economist at the U.S. Department of Labor that defenders of religious freedom are “Nazis.” Take a moment to ponder that assertion. Roll it around in your head for a while. You’ll be hearing a lot more fighting words as we enter the next phase of Christian life in America.
Sample the hate that has been spewed at the state of Indiana in the past week, and faithful Christians in recent years, by gay activists and their allies. We are “bigots,” “Neanderthals” and “haters,” whose views must be ritually rejected by anyone hoping to keep a job in today’s America — even in a Catholic high school. Where will this end? Is there a logical stopping point for this aggression, where Christians are left in peace?
History teaches that mass vilification rarely stops short of spilling blood. The French Jacobins who spent the 1780s slandering the clergy in pornographic pamphlets went on in the 1790s to slaughter Christians by the hundreds of thousands. The Turks paved the way for killing a million Armenian Christians with a wave of propaganda. The Bolsheviks followed their “anti-God” crusade of the 1920s with starvation camps and firing squads. The Communist governments of Eastern Europe obeyed the same script, as scholar Anne Applebaum documents in her sobering study The Iron Curtain. The Hutu government of Rwanda prepared for its assault on the once-powerful Tutsis by incessantly describing them as “cockroaches” on radio broadcasts, which triggered a genocide.
If the media, the law and our elite institutions succeed in lumping Christian sexual morals in with white racism, how long will it be before believing Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox (and many religious minorities) find themselves labelled as members of “extremist sects,” no more to be trusted with the care of their own children than the Branch Davidians were?
Does that sound crazy to you? Then ask yourself why the German government, and the European Court of Human Rights, felt justified in seizing a Christian home-schooled student — with the apparent approval of the Obama administration. Think about the moral views you teach your own kids. Would your local education bureaucrats approve?
Perhaps Chicago’s cardinal, Francis George, wasn’t guilty of hyperbole when he said, “I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.”
Joining him would be many Christians who affirm the Gospel in its integrity — instead of the neutered version that’s now sweeping the denominations to swell the ranks of the persecutors. See the Episcopalians and Presbyterians who are now blessing same-sex marriages; see “Catholic” universities such as Marquette, which fired a professor for defending the Catholic Catechism on this subject, and bishops such as Paul Bootkowski of Metuchen, N.J., who backed up a Catholic school that suspended a Catholic teacher for her Facebook comments critical of gay activism. With shepherds like these, who really needs wolves?
From Libertarian to Totalitarian in Twenty Years
It’s stunning how quickly the demands of gay activists went from libertarian (“Don’t arrest us for sodomy”) to totalitarian (“Take part in our weddings or we’ll destroy your livelihoods.”)
But I am not surprised. I was in New York City when the radical gay activists of ACT UP targeted John Cardinal O’Connor for upholding biblical teaching on sexuality — even as he spent millions offering free care for indigent victims of AIDS. The “Stop the Church” demonstrations featured images of O’Connor in Nazi uniform, and culminated on Dec. 10, 1989, in an orchestrated attack on St. Patrick’s Cathedral during a Mass, where gay militants shouted down the celebrant, and demanded Holy Communion — only to throw it down and stomp on the body of Christ.
This bigoted attack on a religious service did not discredit ACT UP; indeed, you can now read an article celebrating it courtesy of the U.S. government-sponsored Radio Free Europe. Here’s a triumphalist video of the event, which includes appalling footage inside the cathedral: Link
If Indiana caves and guts its religious freedom law — as Gov. Mike Pence has already promised — it will prove an equal triumph for those who are so enraged at Christian teaching that they are willing to persecute Christians.
If these zealots succeed, they will tear up the civil peace in this country, forcing millions of Americans to choose between church and state. If laws or government policies beggar Christian businesses, close Christian colleges and schools and force faithful Christians into third-class citizenship — making us virtual dhimmis, like the Christian Copts in Egypt — what should we do? What should be our response now that we know what they want to do, and are overplaying their hand, but before they complete their coup d’etat?
We need to ask ourselves some brutal questions: How should the faithful in the U.S. military respond? What about those in the state and local police? City, state and federal employees? What about religious shareholders in corporations led by anti-Christians, such as Apple?
Should we engage in large-scale, non-violent civil disobedience, as black Americans once did in the face of Jim Crow laws? We have the numbers to bring this country to a sudden screeching halt, if we can stand up to the media’s blows and spitting. Those who resist these unjust laws will be treated with all the violence and contempt that was poured out on the pro-life Operation Rescue in the 1980s and ’90s. Local cops from West Hartford, Connecticut, to Los Angeles, California, brutalized teenagers, old women, even nuns and pregnant mothers.
But we need not act alone, like these isolated bakers and florists. The marriage deconstructionists can only succeed by dividing us, vilifying us and picking us off one at a time. This is the essence of their strategy — they’re now trying it with an entire state. Tim Cook (or Apple’s shareholders) would backpedal in an instant if he learned the hard way that he was insulting and infuriating 2/3rds of American states, and half the population.
The frog must jump out of the pan, before it boils.
We should not let the possibility or even the likelihood of “failure” make us timid. Witness is utterly different from propaganda, more fragile but far more enduring.
For centuries, the early Christians endured far worse than we might face, dying in the Colosseum to the taunts of jeering crowds — whose grandchildren would flee the moral chaos of collapsing Rome and flock to the underground churches. All the persecution that a government like China can deal its native Christians has not stopped the church from exploding there, and striking fear at the highest levels of a totalitarian government. The battered church in Poland led the movement that brought down the Iron Curtain, through sober, persistent resistance.
Perhaps the future we face is the one that Cardinal George envisioned. Speaking of a future bishop who would someday die a martyr, George predicted, “His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.” If we stand for eternity, then history is on our side.
As I posted elsewhere: We must pray that God raises up leader in this nation and around the world. We simply must beseech God that He would pour out His Spirit upon His faithful — NOW!
Right now there is absolutely no leadership, no voice anywhere, and Islam, the American Left, and the rest of Satan’s minions seem to have free roam of the planet right now.
It is time for true Christians to really and truly stop being half-hearted and get on your knees and pour out your heart to God for your spiritual growth and that He would pour out His Spirit upon you and fellow believers.
Please bring it, it would be good for the Church.
1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
How many folks out there are willing to drop their iPhone for an alternative?
Amen!
A slightly closer look at the alternatives will probably show that they and all fortune 500 companies are PC pro-gay.
The way this persecution gets really rolling is under the veil of denial that it’s happening -
denial by both the persecutors, who know that they’ll be stopped if exposed,
and by the persecuted, who don’t want to believe that it’s happening.
> How many folks out there are willing to drop their iPhone for an alternative?
Reading from an iPad ATM. I’ll get back to you on that...: )
Dead-enders...the militant, real-life walking dead of the population reduction crowd?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5wF-E9D8Y
Homosexual nazis.
I’m looking to replace my first smart phone, an apple iphone 4s. I’m looking at the samsung galaxy s5 vs. the LG G3. The 4s will be my first and last apple phone.
God is drawling the battle lines.
The days of easy living and comfort for Christians in America are over.
It’s time to choose sides.
The Christian church in America is going under ground.
Christians ? It’s times to trow away all of your Apple products and never buy another Apple product again.
Not only Apple products, but going to sports events, stop buying at Walmart, buying at anti Christian companies.
LG G3 is a great phone! Best of the 11 smartphones I have ever had.
On a side not, I would send smoke signals before I bought a Samsung. They screwed me over royally with their "it's the mirrors" HDTV. Most ever paid for a TV, most ever spent to keep it running. Most difficult parts to find to keep it running.
He's separating the sheep from the goats and the wheat from the chaff in preparation of judgment day.
The Antichrist ( and his ungodly activists), are gathering on the left (A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.) , and the righteous are gathering together on the other side (fish from the right side of the boat because the left side is barren).
Amen !
Even Walmart, run and operated by republican supporters, has finally caved to the sodomites. They carry books about homosexuality and recently a spokesman for them said how bad the Indiana law was. Sickening and pathetic. Sam Walton is rolling over in his grave. Ground control to Walmart, no matter what you do the democrat party will always hate you. No need to sell your soul to the devil for a buck. And speaking of republicans they are all caving to the sodomite nazis. Only Ted Cruz is not afraid to speak the truth. If you really want to get nauseated listen to Fox News talk about how “bad” homosexuals have been treated and hear loudmouth O’Reilly equate them with blacks and say special laws should be enacted to protect them from discrimination.
You're kidding me!? I'll have to look for some youtube vids of fox news on the subject.
If you really want to get nauseated listen to Fox News talk about how “bad” homosexuals have been treated and hear loudmouth O’Reilly equate them with blacks and say special laws should be enacted to protect them from discrimination.
I blew a gasket watching O’Reilly bemoaning the plight of the little dears...
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