Posted on 03/28/2024 9:07:17 PM PDT by chickenlips
The following essay is adapted from the author’s new book, Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come.
It’s hard to survey the state of our country and not conclude that something is very wrong in America. I don’t just mean with our economy or the border or rampant crime in our cities, but with our basic grasp on reality itself.
Our cultural and political elite now insist that men can become women, and vice versa, and that even children can consent to what they euphemistically call “gender-affirming care.” In a perfect inversion of reason and common sense, some Democratic lawmakers now want laws on the books forcing parents to affirm their child’s “gender identity” on the pain of having the child taken from them by the state for abuse.
Abortion, which was once reluctantly defended only on the basis that it should be “safe, legal, and rare,” is now championed as a positive good, even at later stages of pregnancy. Abortion advocates now insist the only difference between an unborn child with rights and one without them is the mother’s desire, or not, to carry the pregnancy to term.
But even less contentious issues are now up for grabs, like mass rape. After Hamas terrorists filmed themselves raping and murdering Israeli women on Oct. 7, boasting about their savagery to a watching world, vast swaths of the America left still cannot bring themselves to condemn Hamas. The same progressive college students who insist that the mere presence of a conservative speaker on campus makes them “unsafe” are unable to condemn one of the worst instances of mass rape in modern history. Some even declare openly that they stand in solidarity with the Hamas rapists.
What is happening? Put bluntly, America is becoming pagan. SNIP>>>
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
If you want a summary it's that paganism is here and it's going to get brutal and there isn't a political solution. Christians will be facing the same threats and ideologies the early church faced and they need to be prepared. It is our calling to resist this evil even as we cannot eradicate it. This will require the true saving faith in Christ that brings us hope and perseverence.
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I have been watching( on facebook reals) s move of GOD on Chicago.
A big move of GOD.
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America is supposed to transform to the Second Beast of Revelations, compelling the world to fall in line and serve the First Beast.
Our consolation is that time will be short and the Second Coming is t the end.
Anyone remember Miss Cleo?
That’s rediculous. The UN or EU are the two entities that most resemble the beast.
Did the UN or EU come in Christlike?
It is an excellent piece.
However, I would remove the “As We Know It” from the headline and end the headline at “Country”.
No, If GOD is judging America, I think it is because we allowed marxism (the demonic prince over America) to get this far.
I agree with you that Socialism, in all its forms, is the power of the AntiChrist. It’s substitute Christianity, which is the intent of most socialists.
They want a good world, but a world without God.
How does he know? Why would he encourage hopelessness and despair? To despair is to turn your back on God.
There is a political solution, but it would take a Christian nationalist dictatorship, a Charlemagne. It would still be the end of America.
I believe we are always in God’s judgement. It’s called consequences. If we do small wrongs, we will get small judgements. We only get devastated when we persist to that point.
God’s final judgement on the earth is only because we persisted to the point where there is no ability to repent of wrongs.
I think, if you heard the whole message, he’s also saying that we must turn to God because we are at the end of our rope.
I think a Charlemagne is just what America needs, or a Francisco Franco and Augusto Pinochet.
Socialism is not of God at all, that’s why it fails miserably every single time it’s implemented.
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