Why We Can't Bow to the New Established Religion

Christian Headlines ^ | April 13, 2015 | Eric Metaxas

[xzins]

It's almost become a part of the weekly news cycle: American citizens publicly tarred and feathered for professing their sincerely held religious beliefs.

Just this month, we watched a family-owned pizzeria close its doors after its owners received hate mail and death threats from around the country. Their offense? Giving the wrong answer to a question about whether they'd cater a gay wedding. Keep in mind that the restaurant had never actually turned down a gay customer. They were hammered for holding the wrong beliefs about a hypothetical scenario!

Major corporations are getting into the bullying act, as well. At least two state governments have now backed down or modified religious freedom legislation in response to pressure from companies like WalMart and Salesforce. Keep that in mind next time you think about shopping at WalMart.

And this culture-wide search-and-destroy mission is only accelerating. As Princeton's Robby George writes in First Things, activists for the new sexual orthodoxy are “giddy with success and urged on by a compliant and even gleeful media.”

The message is clear: not only should Christians remain silent about gay marriage if we know what's good for us, but we must be made to agree with and even celebrate what Scripture calls sin. As Ana Marie Cox recently said of Christians on MSNBC, “you're going to have to force [them] to do things they don't want to do.”

But gay columnist Frank Bruni recently took it to the next level in the New York Times, writing that it's time Christians get with the program and “take homosexuality off the sin list.” The lived experience of same-sex couples ought to trump what he calls the “scattered passages of ancient texts” condemning his lifestyle. Wow.

As for freedom of religion, Bruni suggests a new definition: “freeing . . . religious people from prejudices that they . . . can indeed jettison, much as they’ve jettisoned other aspects of their faith’s history, rightly bowing to the enlightenments of modernity.”

Yes, he actually wrote “rightly bowing.”

I'm reminded of a scene from C. S. Lewis' “The Last Battle,” in which Shift the Ape explains to the poor creatures of Narnia why they're being shipped off to the Calormene salt mines.

“You think freedom means doing what you like,” says Shift. “Well, you’re wrong. That isn’t true freedom. True freedom means doing what I tell you.”

[xzins]

We are in a window of time in which this can be changed if we stand, speak, fight.

It will eventually come to a time when we will war or die. Better to stand now.

[Sasparilla]

Did he mean bowing to or “bending over?”

[Jim Robinson]

Christians and Jews have been through this many times. The Lord’s Day will come.

[NorthMountain]

As for me and my House, we will serve THE LORD.

[omega4412]

Celebrate diversity: greed, gluttony, lust, envy, sloth, wrath, pride.

[kitkat]

“The Lord’s Day will come.”

The devil had populated the earth with anti-Christians. God has sent us to fight against the devil. You’re right, JR, the Lord’s Day WILL come.

[joshua c]

Christians should convert in mass to Islam.

What would the liberals do then?

[2nd Amendment]

It was so encouraging to see the moderator of this forum, Jim Robinson, come out and state his belief in the ultimate victory of our God over the insanity of our times. Now I feel guilty for getting sustenance off of this forum and not giving back for over 15 years. Sign me up for the next fundraiser. God Bless all of you “freepers”, one of the few bastions of orthodoxy in this increasingly evil world.

[Slyfox]

As Ana Marie Cox recently said of Christians on MSNBC Thomas Cromwell told Henry VIII, “you're going to have to force [them] to do things they don't want to do.”

Tens of thousands of Christians were executed because they would not believe what the king wanted them to believe.

[xzins]

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[AppyPappy]

1. There is no such thing as “gay marriage”. It’s same-sex marriage.
2. Same-sex marriage is a societal issue, not a religious one.
3. Christians can’t even agree on Communion, much less the ever-changing societal issues.

[2nd Amendment]

done!

[Psalm 73]

"It will eventually come to a time when we will war or die."

And having done all - STAND! (Ephesians 6:13)

[xzins]

Thanks 2nd Amendment. United We Stand!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****Their offense? Giving the wrong answer to a question about whether they’d cater a gay wedding.****

“..—.—...-.-MR AND MRS AMERICA, AND ALL SHIPS AT SEA! FLASH! PIZZA MAKER WHO DOES NOT CATER, WILL NOT CATER A GAY WEDDING! FLASH! TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS, TAR AND FEATHERS THE ORDER OF THE DAY!.-..-.-...

[xzins]

Thanks for the reminder, FRiend

1 Thessalonians 5: 1Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. 2For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. 3While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape.…

[kaehurowing]

Romans 1 is quite clear that approving of sexual sin and other depravity.is the same as committing it. Christians cannot have anything to do with homosexuality, and its most virulent manifestation, the claim that there can be such a thing as a homosexual “marriage.” That is a direct mockery of God.

[SoConPubbie]

We are in a window of time in which this can be changed if we stand, speak, fight.

It will eventually come to a time when we will war or die. Better to stand now.

Amen!

We, as Christians, had better start speaking up now, because if we don't, they will feel emboldened and if you speak up later, they will do all kinds of more evil things to us.

[pepsionice]

You might want to add one more item to your list....marriage existed before the Catholic Church...before Jesus...and probably before the Sumarians (5,000 years ago).