Posted on 06/27/2015 5:18:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Voting Republican and other failed culture war strategies are not going to save us now.
No, the sky is not falling not yet, anyway but with the Supreme Court ruling constitutionalizing same-sex marriage, the ground under our feet has shifted tectonically.
It is hard to overstate the significance of the Obergefell decision and the seriousness of the challenges it presents to orthodox Christians and other social conservatives. Voting Republican and other failed culture war strategies are not going to save us now.
Discerning the meaning of the present moment requires sobriety, precisely because its radicalism requires of conservatives a realistic sense of how weak our position is in post-Christian America...
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“Nothing I would love more than to cut the cities off for about a year or until they cry uncle.”
I would love that, too. I want pain. I want suffering. I want them to be HUNGRY and hurting and I want their heads on pikes!
But with a Midwestern Politeness to it, LOL!
Went for a job interview in the UK in the 90’s and on the CV mentioned that I was a member of a church ensemble. I was asked...”Oh, my. Are you one of ‘those’?”
Another interviewer for a different job asked me if I let “my husband rule me”. AND if I “planned to have kids”.
I agree with many here. It is time for parts of the country where conservatism is strong to secede from the USA. I’m all for it.
Tee-Hee! ;)
I think I need to buy me a semi tractor and just let it sit in my yard, LOL!
Think of all the kids we’ll save from Mooche’s Mandatory Lunches! We’ll be Heroes!
HEROES, I say! :)
You’re right!
They'd let the country fall to ruination. Eventually they'd be begging some foreign nation to save them before they all starved.
That’s weird, my FRiend.
One of the few times that I have to say it’s a coincidence because I seldom believe in them.
In the future I’ll remember the date as part of the destruction of our great nation.
Hmmmm, that really brings up all sorts of ideas about what to add into that batter!
+1
If you live in a mid atlantic state it probably does have large rural liberal areas but most of the country isnt that way.
“As for secession, I think the socialists are praying to their demigods that it happens. The reason why can be seen in looking at an electoral vote distribution. Losing a state like Texas just ensures that radical socialism wins at the presidential level...forever.”
First of all, Christian churches should cease to partner with civil society on marriage - they should no longer require a civil marriage license to perform a religious wedding. If the couple wishes to avail themselves of any civil benefits of marriage, they will be told they must comply with relevant civil law, but that is not the church’s business.
Ministers must distance themselves from cooperating with a satanic, secular regime.
And here is the supreme irony: for decades, liberal Christians have chastised regular Christians for their too-cozy relationship with “the American Way.” But now, it is LIBERAL Christians who want a cozy relationship with the NEW American Way.
The only way to convert them is to shove that right back in their smug faces. THEY are now the Americans who identify their Christianity with the values of secular America. I guarantee you, THAT will sting, because they are so used to imagining themselves as prophetic outsiders. .
I didn’t connect those dots, but you’re correct. The other states left behind would have a very stark choice: leave or accept the socialist yoke.
A complete redo of our government would be ideal. CWII will probably lead to that. Otherwise prepare for rhe Shemitah because it is coming.
Our country needs to humble itself and admit it is a concrete society, existing in space and time, finite like all societies are, and not “Liberty.” As a real society, not open-ended “Liberty,” it can do things like illegalizing communist parties to protect itself. It is no slave to anyone’s abstractions unto infinity.
So, Catholics then?
I meant to post it for you, but 2ndDivisionVet beat me to it. Dreher says exactly what I was thinking, and of course it applies to all serious Christians.
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Exiles or guerrillas?
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