Short thread but cuts directly to the bone. Looking at what it took to get rid of slavery, I can’t fathom what it will take to get rid of liberal progressive socialism.
It’s going to take the mercy and grace of God, and a whole different set of leaders.
Slavery had gotten deeply enmeshed with the religious life of the country, with excuses for it being proffered from within churches which were in a position to know better because they actually had a sense of Christ. The sad past of Southern Baptists in this wise is no secret. And there was other wink and nod coming from the North.
God therefore brought great chastisement upon the land in mutual war and it did end up in the repudiation of slavery. This was not even the Old Testament biblical sense of slavery, this was chattel slavery that worked even to future generations of the enslaved peoples.
Can the churches of America, those who still have a sense of the Lord and aren’t utter shams, release the idea that the government is their Caretaker? I hope that can happen without the need of a chastising war, though in a sense another kind of war is already happening, the war of American balkanization and insanity.
A return to God could yet do it, and do it in the kindliness of God. It happened to Ninevah when Jonah preached. Will new Jonahs appear and will the ears of the ignorant of America be inclined to listen to them by the power of God? I pray so. Otherwise there is much trouble ahead.