Posted on 10/26/2014 8:50:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
In case you didn’t know it, if you are a conservative Christian, you are just like Boko Haram and ISIS. At least, that’s what the secularists are saying. More absurd still, they actually believe this.
Of course, secularism has been waging war against religion for centuries, but more recently, in America and Europe, the rhetoric of secularism has become more extreme and shrill.
When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby, critics complained that the Court’s eminently reasonable decision was “anti-scientific.”
As noted by Jonathan Adler in the Washington Post, “The Daily Beast‘s Sally Kohn decried the Court’s reliance on ‘bunk science’ and The Nation‘s Reed Richardson claimed the Hobby Lobby majority’s opinion rested on ‘specious scientific claims.’ ’Alito and the four other conservative justices on the court were essentially overruling not just an Obamacare regulation, but science,’ reported Mother Jones, while another MoJo story ranked Hobby Lobby to be among the Supreme Court’s four ‘biggest science blunders.’ And over at The Incidental Economist, Austin Frakt simply declared ’The majority of the Supreme Court doesn’t get science.’”
Adler, hardly a flaming fundamentalist, refuted the claim.
But is anyone surprised that a faith-based challenge to Obamacare would be branded “anti-scientific”?
Shades of the Church’s historic suppression of intellectual progress!
Still, attacks like these are minor compared to secularism’s idea that all committed believers must be the same, be they Islamic extremists or evangelical Christians.
Earlier this year, “City councilors from Nanaimo, B.C. [Canada] voted . . . to ban a Christian leadership conference scheduled to be podcast at the city’s convention centre because one of the sponsors of the conference was U.S. restaurant chain Chick-fil-A. According to one councilor, the chain spreads ‘divisiveness, homophobia…[and] expressions of hate’ because of its CEO’s pro-marriage views.”
But it gets worse: “City councillors condemned the event as ‘hateful’, compared it to the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, and said the decision to ban the event from public property was no different than if they had voted to ban an organized crime ring, too.” (Ironically, the conference featured speakers like Laura Bush and Desmond Tutu, both of whom support same-sex “marriage.”)
There you have it. Chick-fil-A is no different than Islamic radicals who burn little boys alive and kidnap and rape young girls, not to mention being similar to an organized crime ring.
In the same spirit, radio host David Pakman stated that he saw no real difference between ISIS and what he called conservative, right-wing extremists (a definition that he would use to describe many evangelical Christians), a charge affirmed by his producer during the show as self-evident and irrefutable.
But of course! Bible believing Christians who affirm the sanctity of life and marriage are the same as monstrous brutes who behead the innocent in cold blood. Who can’t see this?
In case this isn’t clear enough for you, on October 14th, the Peter Tatchell Foundation, led by the UK gay activist of the same name, released its “Manifesto for Secularism – Against the Religious Right.”
Tatchell issued a “call on people everywhere to stand with us to establish an international front against the religious-Right and for secularism.”
And what exactly does Tatchell mean by “the religious-Right”? Specifically, “The Islamic State (formerly ISIS), the Saudi regime, Hindutva (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) in India, the Christian-Right in the U.S. and Europe, Bodu Bala Sena in Sri Lanka, Haredim in Israel, AQMI and MUJAO in Mali, Boko Haram in Nigeria, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria.”
Read that list again slowly.
Tatchell explicitly places conservative Christians in the US and Europe in the exact same category as the Taliban, ISIS, and Boko Haram, among others. (I’ll not comment here on his reference to ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, called Haredim.)
As the manifesto declares in its opening line, “The launch of the Manifesto for Secularism is a challenge to the global rise of the Religious Right and its menacing values, which threaten women, LGBTs, atheists, minority faiths, apostates and many others.”
Yes, dear believer, you are a menace, and war has been declared against you.
“We call on people everywhere,” the manifesto declares, “to stand with us to establish an international front against the religious-Right and for secularism.”
Among the manifesto’s demands, not all of which are outrageous, are the calls for the, “Separation of religion from public policy, including the educational system, health care and scientific research” and, “Abolition of religious laws in the family, civil and criminal codes.”
Make no mistake about it.
You have been marked, and you have been classified as a dangerous extremist capable of all kinds of nefarious acts.
And you have been forewarned.
When they start killing Christians and conservatives, will we fight back?
Some will and be branded terrorists by those that refuse to. Bet on it.
Those who fight with the sword will die by the sword and then there are those who go into slavery. We should be fighting Satan at all times, no?
Acquiescence is the sin. Being active is holy.
my ex called me a Christian taliban many years ago. he lives in New England.
My take is that the secularists are actually rooting for Boko Haram and ISIS.
The current political climate in the US with respect to Christians is treading dangerously to the political climate toward German Jews in the 1920’s and 1930’s. So while people piously proclaim “Never again!,” it’s happening right under their noses.
The Atheists and leftists are the ones who want to silence, enslave and kill us.
The same anti-Western liberal bigots who champion Islam and deny that Islamonazism is the actions of muslims (who are following the conquest decree of Mohammed) are quick to lump Christianity in with Islamic State et al.
Fundamentalist atheism. And they will convert by the sword if given the chance.
Depends, as it stands, signs are that even the government of the U.S. is decaying.
1) Can’t keep ebola out by simple innovations, or decisions.
2) Don’t make any attempts to monitor health of immigrants.
3) Are losing the war against ISIS by not being willing to fight with physical soldiers, just drones and planes.
4) Claim the economy is good when the overall Middle Class is fading out, and many of even the employed persons are hardly making the money that they need.
5) Security is shown to be repeatedly weak regarding TSA (A terrorist could get through, the real likely ones aren’t screened enough)
All of this goes to show is that while the campaign to destroy religion, especially true religion is underway, the government that supports the wickedness is on a path to eventually collapse. When that happens, anarchy will reign, and hopefully, you can find the right sides. But chances are, a lot of those who party and campaign against Christ will ultimately be the ones least prepared for the destruction, chances are, they will be holding a cocktail party when the fan gets hit.
I would even go so far as to warn about the possibility of nuclear war, because if the Russians and Chinese feel doomed or threatened enough, the other nuclear weapon armed nations will gang up on the U.S. and nuke it as a precaution, either the threat of attack, disease, or both.
It is a heresy of Christianity, wherein believers are assured that truth exists, while it cannot necessarily be known exhaustively the components of nature are real, and are worthy of study.
Christians believe Christ is the exhaustive - the complete - representation (for lack of a better word) of Truth, even unbelievers can take a leap of faith into investigating nature and arrive at a dependable knowledge.
A religion of 'no-religion' is still a religion, and this, so-called, "secularism" may be the most intolerant, least knowledgeable of them all.
The maddening part for many of us is knowing what little it takes to drive them off the field, how ridiculous it is that so many of us act (of do not act) upon "feelings" of intimidation, when the loudest of these people are the most weak-minded kinds of bullies.
They are not secular; they have a fundamentalist religion of Leftism.
They are not atheist; if they did not believe in God, they would not care so much. Notice, they do not care about Buddha or Allah.
The rational man must have truth as his god..
If it does not worship the truth and follow it as his god...
...he cannot claim to be a rational man
Fyi The Christian man knows God is living truth incarnate
My take is that they are either spectators or campers (those who watch the fight from a distance before delivering a hit) or they are appeasers, who would let the ISIS guys do the job, and then suck up to them to gain approval and support. In fact, there most likely are plenty of people in the Middle East right now who suck up to those in charge, but who would probably be openly agnostic or atheist in our society.
>>>My take is that the secularists are actually rooting for Boko Haram and ISIS.<<<
True. It’s in the spirit of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Both the western secularists and Islam believe that once American culture has been destroyed, then they can concentrate on the other. Until then, though, the United States stands between both of them.
If you say (and actually mean) that you see no difference between the Islamic groups and the Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist groups listed, hope that you never learn the difference on your own hide.
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