Excellent thing to notice. It looks like there is a vacuum that Christ-true faith could fill, but doesn’t fill any more. So communism, advanced socialism, and more fills it.
If we’re lackadaisical about the Holy Spirit, we might more readily pardon those who in desperation opt for unholy spirits that superficially approximate Him.
Matt 10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.-
fuggedaboudit
It’s also important to note that churches have become nothing more than “social justice” centers.
We’ve become busy bee’s doing good “works”, everybody is quick to “do” something, to show others AND THEMSELVES, what good “christians” they are.
Society THINKS that’s what a good christian is supposed to be.
Christianity has become about ourselves.
What we think about us.
What we want other christians to think about us.
And how we want nonchristians to think about us.
TRUE Christianity is all about Christ.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Good News.
The good news that ALL have sinned and fall short of Gods glory, BUT Jesus Christ is the way for any and all to reach Gods glory.
We refuse to hurt peoples feelings with the word sin, but want to give them a cookie to feel better.
The world (U.S.) thinks christianity (churches) should be nothing more than Uncle Sugar’s, because we have allowed them to think that, or get the impression, that’s what christianity is. Whenever moral issues arise, we are in essence told to shut up and quit judging, you bad christian and give us what we want, because that is what good christians do.
Because we no longer live and teach the Word,
our actions through “social justice” alone, appear very similar to socialism.
It becomes very easy then for unlearned people to see “Jesus” as a hippy, or a socialist, or just a good teacher.
Our churches thus legitimize communism and socialism, by our actions.
Thus, for the politics of communism and socialism, there is NO NEED for the church or chrsitians, because the government then is doing what the good christians were doing, without that occasional blather about morality, sin and Jesus from the bad christians.