Pastor Jeffress: Harvey Weinstein Scandal The ‘Natural Result’ Of Removing Prayer From School

Last week, President Trump took to his Twitter account to promote a new book by Robert Jeffress.

Jeffress hosted Fox News personality Sean Hannity at his church’s Sunday service, where he also gave a sermon denouncing the Supreme Court decisions that have allowed for abortion and disallowed government-sponsored prayer in schools, which he said will eventually cause the country’s “implosion.”

Jeffress even linked the 1962 Engle v. Vitale decision on school-sponsored prayer to the numerous allegations of sexual assault against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, saying that what Weinstein is alleged to have done was the “natural result” of the nation having “untethered itself from the absolute truths of God’s word” when “secularists” removed state-sponsored prayer from schools.

At one point, Jeffress directly addressed Hannity in the audience to marvel at how long liberals took to get “in a dither” about Weinstein.

Elsewhere in the sermon, Jeffress slammed gay marriage as “counterfeit marriage,” implied again that terrorism might be God’s judgment for abortion, and rejoiced that his sermons had convinced a man to leave the “homosexual lifestyle,” which he said was evidence that “we love homosexuals.”

More important than "disallowing prayer" has been the whole idea of disallowing acknowledgement of what America's Founders and Framers of its Constitution referred to as "the Supreme Being," (Declaration of Independence) or "Governor of the Universe" (James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance)

The Declaration's acknowledgement of other manifestations of God included references to "the Supreme Judge of the World," "Creator," and "Divine Providence"--a term denoting a continuing role of oversight.

When students are taught to obey rules or laws, without any underlying causative authority for those laws, then one would expect to get confusion and lack of understanding for what is called "the rule of law."

As Washington acknowledged in his Farewell Address:

" Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the Oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure — reason & experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
"'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of Free Government. Who that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric."

What happened was after the Moral Majority and its great success, for some reason many churches turned their backs on taking such stands. Christians were exhorted and sometimes falsely excoriated for being hateful. For example, many held strong stands against the practice of homosexuality until many in the church began to accuse others of being haters and warning that we should show love, which of course we should, but the inference was that Christians were being harsh and not like Jesus.

Many began to turn on those who opposed abortion calling on those who opposed to “tone it down”.

I believe many Christians were bludgeoned into a passive submission to be accepting and loving which was euphemistic for standing down and being passive in the face of sin. Many Christians got the message delivered from the many pulpits. Unwittingly combined with the work of the Left, Christians were shamed into thinking that they were, in fact, guilty of hating others when in fact they were just standing firm against the tenants of sin.

And here we (the church) is today completely flaccid and without any voice. Filled with fear that they will be accused and shamed for speaking out against the sins which have now absolutely consumed our culture.

Yesterday we were the guardians at the gate, then we were cowed into submission, in large part, due to many Christian leaders following the Moral Majority activism. And now? As a result of our complete pacifism we are awash in lasciviousness. Our daughters are sexualized beyond belief. Many celebrities owe most of their fame to doing an ongoing public strip tease to hold the public’s interest.

The festering cesspool of Hollywood seems to have been lanced, but we now realize that the what has been happening in Hollywood metastasized into our every day culture long ago.

So yeah, we were more robust at one time and there was divine success that went with it. Sadly, we were shamed by many in the pulpit to stand down and assimilate into the culture in order to save it. We assimilated all right, and we were completely co-opted by it as well. Now any who dare stand against it (Judge Moore, for example) are ridiculed as being absolute kooks who should be nowhere near the public square.

Unless something changes, our trajectory is not encouraging.

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