Posted on 10/21/2011 9:07:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
The clearest answer comes from a statement reputedly made by President Harry Truman during his 1948 Presidential election campaign.
One of his supporters yelled out to him, “Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” Truman responded, “I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell.”
That is precisely the reason why there is a war on Christians waged by members of the secular media.
Christians speak the truth about God’s best for humanity as it applies to morality, laws and governing principles, but the secular media views these truths as Hell. Truth always feels like Hell to those who reject, deny, or hate the truth.
When Bible-believing Christians share that there is only one true God who is lovingly inviting people to believe in Him and receive His redemption, or face His coming judgment, that is Hell to those who view themselves as their own gods—masters of their own fates. Many of these self-made gods control our media.
As gods, they want no competition. They reject the truth that God is God alone and that He will hold them accountable for mocking Him and His followers. Thus, the truth is Hell to them, even before they get there. They express their hatred for God’s truth by heaping venom on anyone who declares God’s truth.
Bible-believing Christians proclaim the truth about the biblical principles that guided this nation’s founders. But those who are rewriting American history to fit their desire for self-worship want to silence them. Thus, whenever a Christian lovingly and thoughtfully points them to the truth of history, they hound them down, accusing them of “racism,” “hate speech,” and “bigotry.” Why?
Because truth to them is Hell, so they want to muzzle Christians and their message.
When Bible-believing Christians declare that there are moral absolutes that all men must live by, and that when these moral absolutes are tampered with curses and not blessings will follow...it really angers them. It sets their teeth on edge.
To them these truths are Hell, so they respond by likening Christians to the Taliban and the Jihadis…can you imagine?
The Christians who founded the hospital movement.
The Christians who founded the library movement.
The Christians who founded the orphanage movement.
The Christians who founded education.
The Christians who have and continue to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and care for the needy.
The Christians who sacrificed and continue to sacrifice in following the role model of their Savior who gave His all on a cross to save them. How can they say that Christians are likened to the Taliban?
The Taliban who shoot women in the head at close range in soccer stadiums.
The Taliban who bury people alive for their sins and misdemeanors.
The Taliban who stone women to death for mere accusations.
If I were a rich man, I would offer these self-worshipping gods of the secular media a six month trip to Afghanistan or Iran. If they ever returned from such a trip, they would be changed men and women.
My concern is that the very truth that can set them free is the truth they attack. I know why they attack it—because it feels like Hell to them. It is condemning. However, my heart is not to condemn them, but to pray to God to open their blind eyes, just like He opened mine, so that they may see the truth before it is too late for them.
Simple, we “stink”.
2 Cor 2:15-16
15 For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?
I don’t know, ‘cause they’re secular?
We are ultimately immune to collectivist control. Christianity must be destroyed before Socialists can rule the world.
ABC (anyone but Christians).
Matt 10:22-24 (NASB)
"You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. But whenever they persecute you in one city, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes. A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master."
But, he goes on to say (Matt 10:25-28):
"It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household! Therefore do not fear them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops. Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” Mark 13:13
[John 15] “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me."
Jesus knew all about it...
John 15:18-25 (ESV)
18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
“Great minds” and all that...ya beat me by 20 seconds. :)
Read all about it in Romans 1 beginning with verse 18. Explains it all.....
‘Cuz they don’t want to follow the rules themselves.
I was watching a NatGeo program yesterday called “When rome Ruled”. One of the segments dealt with how a small group of dissidents (the Christians) were able to take over far stronger enemies and transform Rome. Basically, the program said it was because “Christians took better care of their children” so they increased in number, etc., etc.
I guess that means that the Christians did not kill or “expose” unwanted children (which was just about all of them.) And thye raised those children in the Christian faith, thereby increasing their numbers.
IMO they hate the Christians because of the Free Will nature of Faith.
If you think about the stories you see or read in the media, it mostly is relating to some War, rebellion, victims of various institutions. criminals are Victims of society.(poverty,edu etc)
No one is EVER held responsible for their own actions.
Even the Greek Riots. The “victims” are the rioters. WHY
because they will have to survive by working, not from some Gov. handout. The Socialist dream is dying just like the Communist dream. Both anti-God.
What could be worse than to tell people that THEY are reaponsible for their own fate. Anti-Christian!!!
Big government is the god of liberalism.
>> “Why Do the Members of the Secular Media Hate Bible-believing Christians?” <<
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Because they are working for their Father, the Devil.
Here’s a note of encouragement:
At my church, there are more than 50 homeschooling families and over 300 children.
Perhaps they don’t think Bible believers are right, and they don’t like being preached to by them, for that very reason?
simple.
If the bible is true, they are going to hell. They don’t want to hear that, so shoot the messenger.
You may be right. However, I’m sure they don’t believe that the Koran believers are right, but they don’t excoriate them in the same fashion as Christians.
yes as do many liberals and some Rinos.
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