Posted on 06/20/2016 5:23:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the aftermath of the Orlando massacre, leftist voices are not only blaming conservative Christians for the tragedy, they are now calling on Christians to renounce their sacred beliefs and historic convictions, as if holding to a biblical definition of marriage leads to mass murder.
This is not only ridiculous and reprehensible. It is also logically absurd.
Consider these alternative scenarios.
Let’s say that for years, gay activists vilified conservative Christians in the ugliest ways, not only calling us bigots and hypocrites and equating us with Hitler, the Nazis, the Taliban, and ISIS, but also saying that we deserve to die, sending us death threats, posting death wishes on social media, and holding up posters at rallies with lines like, “Throw them to the lions!” (For the record, this is not hypothetical. I can document every word of this in sickening detail.)
Then, one Sunday morning, a radical Muslim of Iraqi descent barges into a church service and kills 49 worshipers, injuring 53 others before he is killed.
Are the gay activists to blame or is the radical Muslim to blame?
Obviously, the radical Muslim.
Are the gay activists complicit?
Of course not, despite their hatred and animosity.
What if conservative Christians turned to gay activists and said, “Can’t you see the damage your words have done? Can’t you see that your death threats helped produce this toxic, murderous environment? It’s time that you renounce your homosexuality!”
What would the reaction be from the gay community? One can only imagine.
Now let’s change the scenario a little.
This time, it’s outspoken atheists who have been vilifying conservative Christians, mocking their intelligence, belittling their God, scorning their Scriptures, and even claiming that is it child abuse for Christian parents to be able to teach the tenets of their faith to their own children. (This, of course, has been happening for years as well.)
After years of abusive atheistic comments, the radical Muslim barges into that Sunday church service and carries out his massacre.
Are the atheists to blame? Are they complicit in the attack? Do they bear some of the responsibility?
Of course not.
And could conservative Christians turn around and say to them, “Look at the damage you’ve done. It’s time you renounce your atheism and embrace Christianity”?
Obviously not.
Yet gay activists and their allies on the left are not only blaming Christians for the Orlando tragedy, they are telling us it’s time to change our beliefs. How utterly and completely absurd.
The fact is, my parallel scenarios were not even true parallels, since conservative Christians have not been engaging in hate speech against gays and lesbians. (Note to the LGBT community: Just because you call something hateful doesn’t make it hateful.)
We have not been calling for their murder (God forbid!), and even the miniscule, fringe minority, of professing Christians who call for the death penalty for practicing homosexuals do not call for their murder. (Note also that, as Christians, we oppose adultery, fornication, polygamy, and polyamory, but we don’t hate adulterers, fornicators, polygamists, or polyamorists, nor do we call for their death.)
We have simply said that God designed men for women and women for men, that children deserve a mother and father, that homosexual practice is sinful, that a teenage boy shouldn’t be playing on the girls’ sports teams and sharing their locker rooms and shower stalls, and that a biological male is not a woman.
There is no hatred in these positions, no vilification of fellow-human beings, no calls for violence, no death threats or death wishes. Instead, there is a proclamation that all of us have sinned against God, that all of us are fallen and flawed to the very core of our beings, that all of us deserve death, and that, through Jesus, God wants to have mercy on all.
In a million years, no one could draw a logical or moral line between this message and the cold-blooded murder of gays and lesbians. Not in a million years.
What has happened is that Christians have pushed back against laws that we feel are unjust or unhelpful, especially laws that endanger our most fundamental national freedoms or that could potentially endanger our children.
In response, leftist activists have called us haters and bigots and worse. But that is simply their perception. (I have documented this as well, demonstrating how gay websites have bashed Christian rallies and put ugly words on the mouths of the speakers, whereas in reality not a single speaker engaged in anything resembling hate speech.)
So, we simply stand up for marriage and family and for freedoms of religion, conscience, and speech in response to a radical LGBT agenda to reshape our nation, and our opponents attack us in the most vile and even hysterical tone, equating us with ISIS and the like.
In other words, the so-called toxic environment which conservative Christians have allegedly created is largely the product of the interpretation put on our words by gay activists and their allies.
The toxicity is not coming from us, and we bear no more responsibility for the actions of a Muslim terrorist in Orlando than we bear for a Muslim terrorist in Falluja.
But there’s one more thing that needs to be addressed.
Followers of Jesus do not pick and choose what we believe. As Augustine once commented, “If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
It’s not up to us to reinterpret a biblical truth because society doesn’t like it or because it’s considered out of fashion. It’s not up to us to tell the Creator what’s best for His creation or tell the Ruler of the universe how things on earth should go, nor is it our job to lecture the Judge of the world about justice.
And when it comes to homosexual practice, despite many attempts to rewrite the Bible, the verdict remains the same: 1) there is not a single positive reference to homosexual practice in the Bible; 2) every scriptural reference to homosexual practice is decidedly negative (in the strongest of terms); 3) marriage is established as the lifelong union of one man and woman; 4) forgiveness and mercy are offered to all, homosexual and heterosexual alike.
Jonah Goldberg recently asked, “Why Can’t the Left Distinguish Conservative Christians from Islamic Terrorists?”
In my opinion, the answer is willful ignorance.
The leftists have embraced lies about conservative Christians for many years now and they are simply building on the foundation of those lies. Believers in Jesus (and other conservatives) better prepare well for the coming storm.
:: This is not only ridiculous and reprehensible. It is also logically absurd. ::
Webster’s Dictionary definition of the modern Dhimmi-cratic Party.
It’s time to stop caring what the mentally insane and unstable think and take our nation back.
Insane. A muslim democrat murders 49 people, injures 53 more...and somehow it is the fault of conservative Christians? That notion would be knee-slapping funny if they weren’t serious about it.
All the hoopla about transgender and homosexual rights is mostly a distraction because those deviancies really only directly affect a small percentage of people. It is all part of the push to elevate self-gratification above self-discipline and self-sacrifice so that people do not have the moral strength to commit to lasting traditional marriage.
Make divorce seem normal and make it easy to obtain. Make self-gratification paramount and soon most of the population will be raised as fatherless, feral thugs, thus ensuring social chaos and that the people clamor for more government to replace the lack of strong, moral families. Big government is not the solution to the problem -- big government is the problem.
Their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Colleen Hufford was decapitated by a Muslim convert in Moore, Oklahoma. Lets not forget her or the stupid excuse of workplace violence!
I am actually picking-up here on a split between leaders of gay activist groups and their rank-and-file members, who are arming up and seem more genuinely concerned about becoming the next jihad victim.
“4) forgiveness and mercy are offered to all, homosexual and heterosexual alike.”
Christian have largely failed because of their efforts to remain politically correct and still profess to uphold The Word. Of course forgiveness and mercy are offered to all. The thing our cowardice and fear of the mob prevents us from doing is to tell the truth about what one must do to obtain that mercy. We have to accept the gift of forgiveness through Christ and make an effort to live accordingly; which homosexuals especially are unwilling to do. It is Christians who are misleading them into thinking that the Mercy of The Almighty is for all, regardless of what they do. The key is repentance and, as Jesus said “Go, and sin no more”, not “Go and sin some more. It’s okay.”
If forgiveness and salvation were automatic we’d all still be in the Garden and Jesus would never have had to die. Disobedience is death eternal and it’s time Christians started telling the truth instead of cowering in fear of a tyrannical government. Of course, it will be labeled hate speech, just like professing Christian beliefs to a Muslim is considered “hate” and worthy of a beheading. We’re to preach The Word in its entirety. Remember what it says will happen to those who leave things out or add things.
Leftists can’t blame muzzies because they are bringing millions of muzzies in to replace us and become the biggest voting and donating block.
But as a Christian we need to keep in mind:
Acts 5:41 So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His[a] name.
We just have to keep it "In His Name" and not in the name of gun rights or Red White and Blue or some other erroneous testimony.
Boston Marathon...
It is perfectly logical for the times we are in...looking for sanity where there is none is a real waste of time. Looking for a moral compass in evil is even worse.
Ding,ding, ding we have a thread winnah!
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