Posted on 10/16/2003 7:34:12 AM PDT by Gargantua
Time To Engage God's (America's) Enemies
It has been said that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing. It's time for Christians to pull our heads out of the sand and take a stand.
One man in California has the Supreme Court of this land now reviewing whether the phrase "under God" should be removed from our Pledge of Allegiance. The Chief Justice of State of Alabama cannot have a display of the Ten Commandments on courthouse property, despite that they are commonly acknowledged to be the basis for all of Western Law. A high school in Louisiana is being sued by the ACLU for saying prayers before football games.
The Liberal Secular Extremists cite the mythical "wall of separation" clause... which appears nowhere in our Constitution.
This is a war, and it is a war to remove every mention of God from every corner of American public life. The goal here is not to enforce our Founders' intent in having written the Constitution, rather it is to eradicate the single source of goodness, truth, and justice (and all of our Constitutionally listed rights...!) the world has in its possession... the Holy Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
If indeed our Rights as enumerated in our Constitution are inalienable—that is, cannot be taken from us—because, as our founders wrote, they are granted to us by God the Creator Himself, what praytell becomes of those "Rights" once God is forbidden His rightful place... or even any place... in our society or Government?
If the Christians in America, a nation founded by Christians upon the solid rock of the Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, do not fight back with everything God has blessed us with, then we are giving victory to an evil which intends to consume us. We are allowing the immoral to dictate the terms to the moral, and that is then game, set, and match.
There is far more at stake here than whether Washington was a Deist, or whether one sentence from Jefferson's letter to some guy in Connecticut should be used to supersede and reinterpret our entire Constitution. These are not valid arguments, and The Library of Congress has extensive documentation available online which dispels any such deceit.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html
For this war to have gotten to the advanced stage where it now sits on our doorstep and snarls at us like the Hounds of Hell unleashed is the fault not of the minions of Satan who merely do the bidding of their vile master, rather it is the fault of every Christian in this once God-fearing nation who has sat idly by and hoped it would go away.
It is not going to go away. It is coming for us... in our homes, our schools, our places of work and our places of worship. It is time to take a stand and speak the Truth. Then speak It again. And again.
Inasmuch as this conflict, for the time being, remains a war of ideas and ideology, it is still possible to fight it just by speaking out, by letting the Holy Spirit within us move our hearts and tongues to take a vocal and unrelenting stand for what is right.
Whether our discourse in this matter offends some Muslims or Krishnas is not at issue. It is, in fact, a non-issue, and has no place in our deliberations. It is a diversion concocted by those who hate God.
The only issue here is whether our discourse offends God. We can pray that it lifts Him up in praise and glorifies Him, for that in the only way that we will succeed in our quest.
We must raise an outcry that reaches not only to the ACLU, not only to our schools, not only to the courts, not only to the Congress of the United States...
...but one which reaches straight to Heaven, for it is there, and there alone, where all hope for mankind—and America—lies.
May God give us His will, the strength to fight this good fight.
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Most Americans now think for themselves.
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1) One cannot pledge allegiance to the country without pledging allegiance to the Christian God.
2) The Christian religion cannot survive unless it is propped up by the government.
I don't agree. I just don't see how a "pledge" written by a Socialist is so desperately crucial to the survival of the nation or the Christian religion.
Yes, before anybody starts ranting, those are not direct quotes from the article. But if there are better explanations as to why this issue is so titanic I would be interested in hearing them.
One pledges allegiance with their heart.
This editorial is about much more than that. Read it again, more slowly if necessary.
What wonderful news! That's what this article is asking them to do, as well as imploring the Christians on FreeRepublic to make it known that they are willing to stand up for what they believe in.
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Which, by the way, happens to be the thrust of this post.
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That's a terrible indictment of Christians and belittles their intellect.
I stand with you. But the battle is much bigger and deeper than the "under God" issue. It is a battle of worldviews - secular humanism vs. Christianity. Only one can dominate society.
Francis Schaeffer in "Christian Manifesto" says that Civil Disobedience is called for when governments or courts make bad laws. We should DISOBEY them just as the abolitionists did, just as Roy Moore did! It is time to DEFY the evil rulings of bad judges. What are they going to do if millions of people defy their rulings? NOTHING they can do but watch it happen.
Why didn't that doctor defy that judge who ordered the feeding tube removed from Terry Schiavo? I would have! That doctor is no better than the Nazis who "were just following orders." I don't follow bad orders - I don't care who issues them. I answer to God, not men. When men believe they are God, they have forfeited their authority, as God ordains all leaders to do good. When they stop doing good, they have forfeited their authority. That is what the American Revolution was all about ultimately, wasn't it?
Your response makes the same mistake of focusing on but one of the peripheral examples given to illustrate the thrust of this post, while ignoring completely the point.
Let me repeat the point, lest it get lost in the shuffle.
Our Rights as enumerated in our Constitution are inalienable—that is, cannot be taken from us—-because, as our founders wrote, they are granted to us by God the Creator Himself.
What, praytell, becomes of those "Rights" once God is forbidden His rightful place... or even any place... in our society or Government?
This is the actual question most forcefully raised by the editorial I wrote and posted here.
A furtherance of that same thought-line is: Are you willing to give up your God-given, Constitutionally-protected rights just because, as our Founders wrote, God the Creator gave them to you?
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Our Rights as enumerated in our Constitution are inalienable—-that is, cannot be taken from us—-because, as our founders wrote, they are granted to us by God the Creator Himself.
What, praytell, becomes of those "Rights" once God is forbidden His rightful place... or even any place... in our society or Government?
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