Posted on 07/19/2014 4:26:54 PM PDT by WXRGina
From behind a smoking sniper rifle high atop his ivory tower peers the secular-”progressive.” He surveys his many victims, strewn across the American landscape below and mockingly sneers, “War on Christianity? What war on Christianity?”
He then resumes shooting, all the while insisting that those uncooperative Christians who scatter for cover behind the word of God and the U.S. Constitution somehow suffer from a “persecution complex” (the baker, the photographer, the florist, the innkeeper, the Christian school administrator, etc.).
Though there are many, it is plain for all to see that abortion and “sexual liberation” remain the two principal theaters in the ongoing culture war battlefront.
To fully advance the causes of radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, unfettered sexual license, “gay marriage” and the like, the pagan left must do away with religious free exercise altogether. Under the guise of “anti-discrimination,” Christians today face discrimination at unprecedented levels.
Let’s see if we can make this abundantly clear. Christians, true Christians – regenerate, Bible-believing Christians who strive their level best to maintain fidelity to the word of God and honor His commands – will not, indeed cannot, participate in, approve of, facilitate or encourage certain behaviors deemed by the Holy Scriptures to be immoral or sinful.
This is both our constitutionally affirmed human right and our Christian duty.
It is not done from hate. It is not done from bigotry. It is done neither from a position of superiority nor a desire to “impose our beliefs” upon others.
It is done from both obedience to Christ and compassion for our fellow fallen who yet wallow in folly.
Central to Christianity, and clearly delineated throughout both the Old and New Testaments, is the unambiguous and timeless proposition that any sexual practice outside the bonds of true man-woman marriage constitutes sexual immorality and results in separation from God. This, of course, includes sexual acting out between members of the same sex, whether or not such acting out is tied to the novel notion of so-called “same-sex marriage.”
Likewise central to Christianity is the relatively easy-to-understand concept that a Christ follower must neither take the life of a pre-born child nor aid and abet, in any way, the taking of such life.
It is not so much that Christians wish, willy-nilly, to call abortion, homosexual behavior, fornication, adultery, bestiality, incest or any other disordered sexual proclivity “sinful.” It is, rather, that we must. For the true Christian, God’s objective truths will always trump man’s subjective desires.
Newton’s Third Law states: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
For every law, regulation, activist court ruling or presidential edict that demands Christians violate their sincerely held religious beliefs and adopt a postmodern, moral relativist way of life, there increases, in exact proportion, the likelihood of widespread civil disobedience – disobedience of the sort we haven’t seen since the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and ’60s.
Indeed, if, in the spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we, his fellow Christian travelers, must again face the water hoses, then face them we shall.
As the recent Hobby Lobby decision reaffirmed, the government cannot legislate away religious free exercise. Where your desire, intense though it may be, for me to employ you despite your antagonistic values system, pay for your abortion, or host, photograph or otherwise bake a rainbow cake for your faux “wedding,” comes into conflict with my absolute right to religious liberty, the result is a forgone conclusion.
I win, you lose.
We have seen and will continue to see an exponential increase in Christian business owners refusing to violate God’s commands by complying with unconstitutional, immoral and unjust government dictates.
For 2,000 years, whenever such conflicts have arisen, Christians have placed the laws of God above the laws of man.
What makes you think we’re about to change now?
As many in the early church refused to bow a knee to Caesar in worship, so, too, will many modern Christians refuse, under any circumstances, to obey any law that presumes to make sin obligatory.
If the ancient church, through the power of the Holy Spirit, was able to face the lions in hopeful anticipation of joining Jesus, then we, too, under the same Spirit, will face anything today’s pagan left can threaten.
In the ongoing culture war, it seems there are no rules of engagement. The secular left will accept nothing short of unconditional surrender. That is to say, the pagans demand that we Christians abandon the biblical worldview altogether, and adopt their own.
This will never happen.
Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared, “One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
In 2012, after the Obama administration unilaterally issued its now gutted HHS contraception/abortion mandate, Catholic priests from across the nation, to their great credit, read from the pulpit a letter that contained the following declaration: “We cannot – we will not – comply with this unjust law.”
As our secularist government increasingly imposes similar laws, so, too, increases the certitude of civil disobedience.
While there are those who will give way out of fear, weakness or a desire to conform to the world, there are many others who will not. Christians must peacefully come together, lock arms and redouble our resistance to evil.
Even when that evil is adorned with the presidential seal and signature.
I’m prepared to shoot
Disobedience to outrageously unjust and unconstitutional laws is an essential ingredient in our road back to freedom and the Constitutional rule of law.
>>Christians must peacefully come together, lock arms and redouble our resistance to evil. Even when that evil is adorned with the presidential seal and signature.
ESPECIALLY when it has the presidential seal. Just refuse to play the game.
I’m in. John 8:32. When will that tipping point come? I do not know, but when it comes my guess is Christians will rise up and the government will back down. I pray I am right.
CWII Ping — Good article, it kinda has a “don’t snap, rebound” feel to it, but we all know that there are people who will snap.
Well Yashua was pretty PO’s when he went into His Father’s house and ran off those folks ....
I doubt it.
Bump
True. Too many Christians have bought the lying image that the Left itself have created of who and what Jesus is.
They expect His followers to be walking carpets, when they had the liberty bequeathed to them from more devout Christians who were not squeamish to shed blood in defense of liberties and rights they knew came from Christ for His church to grow unmolested by potentates of men.
I now understand how a people will willingly walk themselves into boxcars for camps, even when the truth of what is going to happen to them is staring and screaming at them in the face.
They refuse to believe it - and hold onto a lie.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
You doubt what? That there are Christians who will never bow to the dictates of "The Beast"? If that's it, you're sadly mistaken.
Wrong.
As our Founders themselves understood - you CAN NOT APPEASE TYRANNY BY CIVIL MEANS.
PERIOD.
I agree with massive civil disobedience, this federal Beast has no legitimate authority over us any longer. All it has is the end of a gun to impose itself by force - the very definition of tyranny.
But understand, refusal to comply with tyranny and dictates of the tyrant will be met with brutality to put it down in the harshest measures possible. To create a climate of fear and force submission out of fear.
When they come for you - if you are righteous and will stand on principle - you will resist with every an all measures at your disposal.
Such is our heritage.
And The Lord blessed it and allowed us to become the most prosperous and powerful nation on earth because we were willing to die and do all that was necessary to secure that liberty In Him, no matter the personal cost.
Sadly - we are no longer such a people.
Instead we hear that we should light candles, hold hands and pray while compromising our faith in the name of 'love' and 'compassion'.
There is nothing compassionate about denying the Lord and His Commandments in the false name of love.
Amen to that.
Eden Foods, an organic food producer(and I would of thought to be an obozo supporter), is fighting against the birth control mandate as did Hobby lobby).
Maybe time for a “buycott”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3182534/posts
“Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby ruling, Eden Foods CEO Michael Potter has revived a March 2013 case to nix coverage of all birth control from his employees’ healthcare plans. In turn, many shoppers have soured on the organic food giant and are boycotting its products.”
Thanks for the ping.
There will be no boxcars.
Instead the marofascist oligarchy will use big yellow school buses. The sheeple will compliantly board them just as their government teachers trained them to do.
Wrong. Even the Apostles carried swords into dangerous areas. NOWHERE in Gods word does it tell us just to lay down and die when people attack us. We are supposed to be Christians Soldiers. Sometimes thats with the word, and sometimes it's with a weapon..
I suppose I could quote “resist not the evildoer” and other similar commands of Jesus, but apparently you think that those passages are not applicable.
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