If you refuse to fight evil, eventually all you will have is evil.
After 50 years of liberal indoctrination through public schools and the media, I fear that there just aren’t enough of us left to reverse this spiral into communism. As an agnostic, by “us” I mean conservatives.
Nature abhors a vaccum.
The same is true spiritually.
The Holy Spirit in believers is the only thing that brings salt, which prevents corruption, and light to this fallen world.
We have a promise from God that the gates of hell shall not prevail against us.
Perhaps it is time we started acting once again like we believe that promise.
No compromise with evil. No fear.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
— II Timothy 1;7
I don’t know how it got the name “The Benedict Option,” but it’s suicide. Obama (elected by Catholics) is allowing ISIS to stream into the U.S. We will see Catholics and other Christians getting their throats cut before Obama leaves office.
But the Catholic bishops in the U.S. have been murdering the Church for decades.
Joseph Bernardin probably did more to murder the Catholic Church in the U.S. than any other prelate. His “Seamless Garment” was the theory that pro-abortion politicians will govern with compassion, justice, and wisdom—and will give us peace. And that pro-life politicians want to kill the poor, serve the rich, and blow up the world. And almost all American bishops pushed this excrement on their priests and people.
The elections of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are the gifts Bernardin has given the United States.
Obama (once on the payroll of Bernardin) is allowing ISIS to stream across the border. ISIS will want to strike against Christians in the U.S. while they have an ally in the White House—that is, before January 20, 2017.
The last four (or so) Popes have sent the United States wave after wave of anti-American, anti-Catholic bishops, intent on destroying both the country and the Catholic Church. Then, surveying the wreckage, the same Popes have whined about the lack of orthodoxy in the hierarchy.
The Democrat party is a demonic cult that still has the loyalty of many, many American bishops, priests, and laity.
We should not disengage and hide our faith. But we should also recognize that we live in a age when the numbers of the reprobates are much larger than us. We must preach and teach the gospel, but know when to kick the sand of our sandals and move on to new house. The reprobates will not change so every extra minute we waste on them is time not being spent on those who can hear.
I'm reminded of complaints about Rev. D. James Kennedy's replacement, Tullian Tchividjian, at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. I believe the "Benedict Option" argument begins with the assumption that a large portion of Christians have ceased to be cultural conservatives because they've grown illiterate regarding their own faith. Thus, a renewed emphasis on teaching them the faith, so that they will embrace the application to the rest of life:
....The feud at Coral Ridge appears mostly to be a matter of style, not substance. Under the leadership of Kennedy, who died in 2007, the church was a forerunner to modern evangelical megachurches, a fiercely conservative voice on social issues including homosexuality and abortion, and a powerful political voice. Tchividjian, 37, took over earlier this year. While he has shown no sign of theological differences with Kennedy, he has rejected politics as the most important force for change, and his sermons have not focused on divisive issues.
-- from the thread Hundreds leave pioneering Fla. megachurch'Preachers these days are expected to major in “Christian moral renovation.” They are expected to provide a practical “to-do” list, rather than announce, “It is finished.” They are expected to do something other than, “more than”, placarding before their congregations eyes Christ’s finished work, preaching a full absolution solely on the basis of the complete righteousness of Another. The irony is, of course, that when preachers cave in to this pressure, moral renovation does not happen. To focus on how I’m doing more than on what Christ has done is Christian narcissism (an oxymoron if I ever heard one)–the poison of self-absorption which undermines the power of the gospel in our lives. Martin Luther noted that “the sin underneath all our sins is the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and that we must take matters into our own hands.”'
-- Tullian Tchividjian, from the thread God's Final Solution
From where I’m sitting, cultural conservatives, especially on gay marriage, have taken the form of fish and placed themselves conveniently in a barrel for the libs to slaughter.
Great news that they have just begun to fight! I was worried there for a minute.