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That’s what the other side is trying to do ... destroy is as an organized force!
What I’ve thought about this legislation, all along, is that it’s the “gay issue” that brought it out ... BUT ... it’s not JUST about gays, but preventing Christian business owners from being forced into do several things that they consider to be VIOLATIONS of deeply-held religious convictions!
I posted elsewhere ...
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To me, this kind of legislation seems to have a lot more to do with OTHER THINGS, other than gays. It seems that the “gay issue” is driving the discussion, but to me, that “gay issue” seems to be a minor point, as compared to ALL of what legislation guaranteeing “Christian Conscience” in business is about.
Unless I’m mistaken about what this kind of bill means, I see this bill as preserving the “conscience” of a Christian owner of a business from serving or doing business with a person who violates that “religious conscience” by who they are or what they represent or what they stand for. SO, in that sense, it is NOT TARGETED at gays, but all sorts of other things that would violate the “Christian’s conscience”!
A sampling of some other things I can think of, in which one would DENY SERVICE to people, would be a group coming in for Pizza who supports ABORTION! That would really violate a Christian’s conscience.
Or, if a Mormon church group came in and had an “after church Pizza gathering” some Sunday afternoon. I would DENY THEM SERVICE as they are one of the largest CULT GROUPS in America ... and as far as I’m concerned Mormons shouldn’t get service from ANY CHRISTIAN BUSINESS WHATSOEVER, ANYWHERE!!
If Mitt Romney were to come in to that Pizza place he SHOULD BE DENIED SERVICE because of clearly being a Mormon!
I would DENY SERVICE to GLENN BECK, too, for his Mormonism!
SO ... it doesn’t appear to be a “gay issue” but a VERY REAL “Religious Conscience” issue and opens the door to CHRISTIAN BUSINESS to serving Christians and not VIOLATING their religious conscience!
We seem to know exactly how we are being overtaken by all those warring against America. What is missing from the equation is a leader to war right back.
For every given isn’t there a reverse energy? Where is it and who the hell in charge of executing it?
Where is our DeGaulle?
This may well be the most important piece Daniel has ever written. The proof - it is without graphics. It needs none. It delves into our hearts with penetrating truths we must acknowledge.He has given us the way forward. We WILL survive.
The left does not have an authentic culture. Its counter-culture culture is a machine of destruction, a clumsily slapped-together assemblage of tools for cracking open, destroying and dominating people. A collection of lies and excuses, smears and bad habits, laced over with cultural appropriation and the fetisihization of the minority 'Other' as its sole source of spirituality. It has no tradition. It has no heritage. It has no culture. It's a virus, not an organism. It is utterly worthless and, like a virus, will not survive the destruction of its host.
But we will survive because our lives are the revolution and we cannot all be killed, smashed and beaten down.
We will survive and the left will be footnoted in the history of worthless evil empires as a particularly disgusting skid mark.
Thanks for posting, it adds some perspective to all of the madness.
Wow... What a profound piece of writing....
Hard to even comment there is so much meat to chew on...
Best written analysis of the situation and call to action I have ever seen.
Sign me up as a “cultural warrior”. Must be getting old. Been in this fight since 1965 but this time it is for the very soul and existence of our beloved America.
Take no prisoners. Show no mercy. Out-think them. Out-plan them. Ridicule them. Show them up with facts and humor. Do a “reverse Alinsky” on them.
“No rest, no mercy, no nothing” for the Left except defeat and destruction!
I like it when a plan comes together.
Thank you Daniel. Your plan may well get us out of the “lion’s den”.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
The leaders of the Democrat Party, with the exception of their puppet President, are getting old and wrinkled.
What is perceived to be the predecessor “culture” conversely was also a made-up set of values imposed by socialists of a different stripe.
Look into the background and implementation of the “Hays Code” which controlled content of motion pictures for a generation. It was enforced under FDR.
Look into the connections, placements and real-life actions of Frank Stanton who ran programming of CBS-TV, including connections with the CIA and propaganda operatives from the Third Reich who were brought over here just after WWII in Operation Paperclip.
The large print and TV media in the US was largely a closed shop in the 1950’s until the late 1960’s, so much so that no one actively reported the shenanigans of LBJ and his administration adequately when it would have made a real difference.
The legacy of LBJ is one we’re still living with, now over 50 years after the facts.
We are not planning a revolution. Our lives are the revolution.
Beautifully put.
Actually, no...all wars are not culture wars.
Wars are leadership wars.
If a leader can mobilize his followers to wage war (by whatever means)...there will be war.
That said, culture is one of the tools a leader might use...but not the only tool.
Greenfield, being a secular Jew (I presume), has lost sight of the spiritual aspect of war...and attributes this war to culture, not religion.
It is not a cultural war...it is a war between deities...between Right and wrong, Truth and lies.
This is one of the best articles I’ve ever read, deftly pointing out how Satan plans to defeat us and how ultimately powerless he is.
My God is bigger than theirs. And we win in the end. But it’s still war and many are going to get hurt before it’s over.
This is a great analysis but really... if we are at the end of the Age God’s Word tells us the “left” - Satan’s followers, are going to have their “day” their “moment in the sun” but that’s all it will be - a moment. The coming (and present) persecution will help to refine the Body of Christ. Persecution brings things into sharper focus. It reveals how precious Christ is and how dim the things of this world are. “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time...” I John 2. Our current president has many of the traits the man of lawlessness will demonstrate at the end of the age. I’m not saying Obama’s the antichrist, but he is definitely a “type” of him.
And let us not forget II Cor. 10:3 - 6
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.”
True believers will not compromise. They will suffer loss at the hands of this world system that attempts to squeeze them into its mold. In the short run, it may look like defeat - but when Christ returns he will set things right and reward those faithful to him. “...be faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life.” Rev. 2:10
God is judging America. It’s why the “left” is winning. If you don’t know this you have little real discernment. America had the Light and rejected it. We’re past the turning around point. Yes, the worst could be postponed for a short time but it will still come. 50+ million babies aborted and counting. Every church in America should have marched on Washington, D.C., camped out around the Supreme Court building and not left until Roe vs Wade was reversed - jobs or no jobs, house or no house, business or no business. It was that type of issue - but that didn’t happen. Those that knew better didn’t count the cost and now here we are. The cost will be much higher now. True believers will pay it. Pretenders won’t. It’s time to separate the sheep from the goats. It’s time to glorify God by what’s coming ahead so that the world will see there are those that love Christ more than their own life. “...and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea and unto the utter most parts of the world.”
...”We no longer have a culture. We have a counterculture that occasionally masquerades as the culture”...
And unfortunately it’s in charge currently.
He laid it out very clearly - the problem is, he is correct when he says that the Left will also aim to reduce our will to fight back effectively. The farther we let them go, the less likely we will be able to organize a workable opposition.
This is a brilliant , brilliant piece.
Just...wow!