Posted on 04/01/2015 11:21:26 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Hatred of the Gospel is boiling over into the vilification of Christians. State violence won't be far behind, history teaches.
The full force of the federal, state and local governments will soon be turned against defenders of biblical Christianity. Will we resist or collaborate?
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:
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.
.....Or could this further divide the nation again to the point of a possible second civil war?
Even without these religious freedom laws; we should have the right to discriminate against any deviant lifestyle. Don't people non-violently discriminate against pansexuallity, polyamory, bestiality, pedophilia, etc.? Non-violent discrimination against deviant lifestyles is a good thing!
Nobody is born being homosexual; it has never been scientifically proven. In fact, just the opposite is true – IT IS A CHOICE! We have not only lost this premise, now people believe the premise that bisexuality is OK. Soon, we will lose the premise on polysexuallity, polyamory, bestiality, pedophilia, etc.
Frankly, IMO, we started to lose the premise that discrimination against indecent behavior was good when Americans began to accept sexuality outside the bond of a monogamous heterosexual marriage between one man and one woman for life.
Western Civilization and its institutions and peoples seem unable to fight. Thus, Christians will go under.
There seems to be no interest in direct action. The Chik Fil A day is the only thing in recent memory that actually mobilized us.
Boycotts are called for, and I suppose some folks do withhold their patronage of odious businesses. If there is any net effect from it, it is not apparent.
The writer mentions non-violent civil disobedience and Operation Rescue. That failed, at least in part, because of the cowardice of religious leaders who denounced the tactic. (I personally heard this from Charles Stanley’s pulpit in Atlanta.)
The sheep are indeed scattered, without shepherds.
I live inside the beltway of washington dc where a good percentage of evangelicals sitting in the pews work for the feds —a huge percentage of whom think that persecution of Christians is only 2-3 generations off.
Homosexuality is usually defendded in the context of an alternate biological sexuality or that it has a genetic component. This is an attractive argument for both its advocates and critics, the latter of whom rationalize that it must be genetic as no one would voluntarily engage in homosexual acts. Truth is no one knows.... just as no one can validate the notion of a “G-d” gene that makes for belief or disbelief as the case may be.
The thing he fails to recognize is that if we do see it get to this point, people will be getting shot and blown up, and it will not only be Christians, you can be sure of that.
It’s already here.
I would say, and this is my own personal opinion, that the pilot who crashed Germanwings airplane into the mountain did out of gay rage to get back at heterosexuals.
It was gay terrorist that happened last week.
But the preponderance of evidence shows that it is a chosen lifestyle; just as there is a preponderance of evidence that alcoholism is a choice, though know one knows for sure on this either.
I’m tired of vacilation to the godless sodomites and their god denying democrat (in name only) party supporters who’ve through the guileful use of “political correctness” have declared war particularly on Christianity as well most religions.
We need crusaders for conservativism not capitulators.
That does not, however, determine our behavior.
A person with a genetic sensitivity to alcohol can still choose not to drink alcohol or become an alcoholic. A person with an inborn irascible temperament can still learn anger management and control outbreaks of wrath. A man erotically attracted to children can refuse to act on that attraction.
It's the behavior, the conduct, that concerns us. Every person, without exception, has to tamp down some of their inborn drives in order to live justly and peaceably with other people.
If I gave in to my deep-seated inclinations and impulses, there would be a great many more incendiary events across the USA!
Well, I for one am glad to see that more and more conservatives are waking up to what this is all about.
It’s not about tolerance, equality, or coexisting.
It’s about criminalization and extermination.
At the rate things have been going I think 2-3 generation is too optimistic. More likely 10-15 years in some areas of the country, maybe sooner.
I agree. Every Christian person should have this article in their hand. The end is fast approaching when the persecution we all fear will explode because the hate of the haters will never be satisfied. I recommend watching “Killing Jesus,” on FOX this weekend. I have seen it and it is such a reminder of what has happened to Christians from the very start. Powerful homosexuals like the CEO of Apple have the money to buy Indiana and Arkansas, so in this world, they have power. However, God is alive and all of us will die and after that, judgment will come. Hopefully, we are making the right choices during our brief journey here.
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I got no Parish, but we’ll for damned sure not be having faggotry around here.
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