Posted on 12/08/2002 12:01:30 PM PST by CdNR
If I may be so bold as to promote one of my own pieces here, go to my "Open Letter to William 'Hootie' Johnson" and see why I am convinced this issue has become such a big deal.
More importantly, I urge those in agreement with what I've written to find ways, both on our own, and together, to take Hootie Johnson's example and DUPLICATE it in our own lives. The enemy realizes that this is a potential momentum-stopper for them and momentum-builder for us, so let us not blow this opportunity! Let's not just sit around rooting for Hootie, and allow ourselves to be dispirited in the event that he is overcome....
If Hootie gives in, it will be the "Gelding" of America!
i kid you not.
and this is what we're battling?
There is no chance in hell we can win the culture war unless and until we appreciate several basic facts, one of which is that the P.C. minions are waging a war of extermination against Christian common sense. Our response MUST be proportionate to both the depth of their evil intent and the extensiveness of their existing influence....
For many of us, however, the evil forces are already too overwhelming to engage the enemy directly, as Hootie is able to do -- in which case, it is time to let go of the illusions that we live in a "free" and "Christian" country and instead go ahead and take on the mindset of those unfortunate folk who suffered under such regimes as Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. It is time to think in terms of underground means of resistance. Look around you: just how different is the current American political and moral culture from those dreadful historical precedents?
I do not mean to sound defeatist, but rather realistic. Concerned conservatives still try to hang their hopes on political leaders, activism, and large-scale mass-media campaigns, but considering just the last ten years of American cultural history -- even despite the accessibility as never before of outlets for disseminating our message like talk radio and the Internet -- what is there left to conserve? I dare ask everyone to consider that perhaps we have a better chance to have an impact if we save our energy by concentrating on those who naturally fall within our individual personal spheres of influence, particularly if we don't quite have the resources and leverage of an Augusta National.
Yet, most critical of all, we cannot begin to hope for such positive impact until each one of us gets our CONSCIENCES in order. Are we living according to the laws of God and nature, and whenever we fail in this regard, do we make use of the means God gave us to remedy ourselves? The loss of freedom, surely, is an evil. The loss of our souls, on the other hand, is immeasurably worse.
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