The church should have fought back. I live near Baltimore. There were a handful that refused to cave in. They received some sternly worded letters and nothing else, yet the vast majority, including mine were too worried about their 501C3 status (One of the elders at my church told me that to my face, thereby losing my respect permanently)
Eric Metaxis wrote an incredible book entitled Letter to the American Church in which he compares the American church in the current culture to the Church in Germany as they capitulated to the Nazi’s as Hitler was coming to power.
In general, the church is managed by weak men who are more interested in playing church than being the Church.
“...managed by weak men...”
The government has been methodically re-arranging the way the citizens think in the US for many years.
Methodically is defined as arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order. And that order is many times not anywhere near what the founders wanted or the country has morphed into. Uncle Sugar is expecting kumbaya and they are getting people shot, stabbed, robbed, beaten, raped, and run over. Taught them a lot didn’t they?
When you take animals and change their purpose to them in life, they either rebel or die. Take a fish out of water, put black bears in the Sahara. Neither can live in that atmosphere which is why there are no bears in Africa and few fish on dry land. If you take man, who is also an animal, and take away his/her possibility of improvement or even staying the same, and they will fight you or lay down and slowly die. This is what we have today. So the government perpetrates it, and no improvement is noted. Man has been tamed or invited to die. That is what man believes. Stupid, ain’t it?
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