They’ll marginalize us no matter what we do or say.
I say no to letting them control the narrative and rhetoric.
Appeasement doesn’t work. Let them paint us as nutcases. They will anyways. But people need to hear the truth and those who respond to it will be saved.
By not bringing Bible prophecy into it, you are playing right into their hands and denying people the option to make their own choices.
Don’t let them set the rules.
Leaving the Bible out of it didn’t work for the founders and it isnt going to work now. Keep telling truth. Like what happen when evil men rule. It is literally in there too.
They’re going to marginalize the two witnesses. Temporarily.
I actually appreciate people with strong religious beliefs - people who demand religious freedom protect all freedoms. Freedom is freedom.
On the secular side there are scientists who think they know everything too. That is dangerous because it is so untrue. There are many mysteries we can’t know.
I’m not religious, but I admire people who demand the right to believe what they believe and live their lives accordingly. Freedom of religion is a proxy for freedom of thought.
If two powerful “sides” (the religious and the secular) hold completely different beliefs about creation, afterlife and other “unknowables”, and if both sides will fight for the right to believe what they believe, then I feel safe that in the balance, my freedom will be protected too.
If one side gets too powerful, or one side gets too weak, we are finished.
That is why I actually want you to hold strong beliefs, and will even fight for your right to hold them, even if I don’t always share them.
My complaint with the people I call “bible thumpers” is not with what they believe or the fact that they are outspoken about it. My complaint is with the fact that, too often, they are not putting their best foot forward.
Bible quotes and prophecies alone can sound cultish and arrogant. If you just say “this is the truth and anyone who disagrees be damned” - that is no better than Al Gore claiming man-made climate change is “settled science”.
I’ve heard PLENTY of religious people make extremely compelling arguments and deeply profound ideas. I’m not suggesting they should stop - quite the contrary.
There is another type of religious expression that sounds smug and self-satisfied - full of bible quotes and sayings but devoid of reason - that’s what I’m objecting to because it sounds weak and vain.
“Appeasement doesn’t work. [snip] Don’t let them set the rules.”
Two truths!
All my life I’ve watched good people go along to get along. In other words, embracing evil thought and action. It has gotten us to this point.
Romans 1:18.