Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Faith Under Fire

 


Over the past couple of decades, Americans have watched their individual and religious freedoms slowly eroding and being taken away to be replaced by governmental mandates and tyrannical legislation. People of faith have paid a heavy and high price for their position and convictions regarding their faith.  The teacher in New Jersey suspended for giving a student a Bible; a football coach in Washington state placed on leave for saying a prayer on the field at the end of a game; the fire chief in Atlanta fired for self-publishing a book defending Christian moral teaching; the Marine court-martialed for pasting a Bible verse above her desk; and there are numerous other examples of the new intolerance.

 

Anti-Christian activists hurl smears like “bigot” and “hater” at Americans who hold traditional beliefs about marriage and accuse anti-abortion Christians of waging a supposed “war on women.” The situation we are currently facing reminds me of the frog that is placed in a cold pot of water.  When the water slowly heats up, the frog gets so adjusted to the environment that he   doesn’t even realize that he is being boiled alive! 

 

Traditional American Christians have long been on the losing end of a culture-war beginning with school prayer, and now including same-sex marriage and other moral and biblical issues. Recent events, including the Supreme Court decision overruling Texas’ restrictions on abortion clinics and the mandate that employers provide access to contraception, have added to the sense that religious expression is under attack.

 

This new vigorous secularism has catapulted mockery of Christianity and other forms of religious traditionalism into the mainstream and set a new low for what counts as civil criticism of people’s most-cherished beliefs. In some precincts, the “faith of our fathers” is controversial as never before.

 

And finally what has been dubbed as the “cancel culture” which began with vandalism of the statues of notable historical figures has spread to the erasing of anything and anybody who dares to speak out against the insanity all around us. And that includes pastors who declare the truth of God’s Word against sin, wickedness, and perversion prevalent in this evil generation!

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