Why are liberals so
afraid of Jesus?
Why do they tremble in the face of His ideals for
mankind?
Because He demands accountability of you and me -- and them.
He offers absolutes.
In their rebellion, they do not
want ANY rules, and especially do not want His rules. They do not want a God
who tells them there are rights and wrongs that do not change according to
human whim. They mock the idea of "natural law" -- that God has ordained how
some things should be. They want false gods who allow them to do whatever they
want and who promise them mystical power and pleasure.
Even so, Jesus
Christ laid down His life for them. He loves them. He expects us to love them,
too. He gave up everything to deliver them from the nasty surprise Satan is
quietly preparing for them. It is our job to make sure they hear the Gospel --
changing the hardened hearts of these liberal social reformers is a worthy goal
for every believer.
The Struggle for the Hearts of Minds of Mankind
The
"world" is unrelenting in its hostility to
Christians and determined to wipe out every divine principle for which
Christianity stands.
We see "religious cleansing" occurring
everywhere: Religious people, and Christians in particular, face open
discrimination against their religious beliefs and expression in public
schools. Children, teachers and parents are chastised for religious utterances
despite the First Amendment's guarantee of a citizen's
right to free speech and the
right to freely exercise his or her religion. In addition, many government
agencies today, including the courts, have not only undermined the family but
have endorsed programs and policies antagonistic to the traditional family
unit. It seeks to supplant creationism with evolution. It denies the sacredness
of human life by abortion. It achieves the breakdown of the family unit by
divorce for any reason. The purity of the
marriage relationship is denied by pre-marital sex. Homosexuality and
lesbianism are looked on as acceptable alternative lifestyles. God's chain of
command in the home and in the church is ridiculed by militant feminism. Church
and state are so separated as to ban the mention of God and Christ from public
life entirely. Obscenity, pornography, nakedness, filth, and violence are
treated with amiable tolerance.
While our children are being taught to respect homosexuality as
"simply being different," and to never think of it as wrong or unnatural, they
are also taught to despise anyone who disagrees. Those of us who refuse to
embrace these perverted life-styles are labeled as homophobic, old-fashioned
and intolerant bigots. "Hate crime" and "human rights" laws have nothing to do
with hate and human rights; they have everything to do with how the partisans
of putrid political agendas can use the force of the state to break people and
institutions that get in their way.
Cyber Patrol, one of the
world´s largest Internet software programs for blocking pornography and
objectionable material, now bars access to the
American Family Association
WebSite, claiming that AFA´s opposition to the homosexual movement is
"intolerant." The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which
promotes "transgenderism," is a charter member of Cyber Patrol´s
oversight committee.
There is a deliberate, calculated effort to isolate Christians
from the rest of the culture by spreading fear and distrust.
Those protesting the loudest against "intolerance" and "bigotry"
are usually the first ones to practice such when it comes to pro-family
Christians.
In some cases these distortions reflect a genuine
misunderstanding of who we are and a reliance on a crass stereotype that has
been perpetuated in academia and Hollywood. For example, when was the last time
you saw a TV show or movie that portrayed Christians as anything other than
greedy, unlikeable hypocrites or mealy-mouthed, incompetent "nerds?"
In either event, the result is that Christians are depersonalized.
Depersonalization makes it easier for people to accept negative stereotypes,
pigeonholed, and, in the extreme, tolerate abuse and persecution of the people
who have been depersonalized. Historical precedent for this can be found in
Nero's treatment of Christians, racism in all forms, and Hitler's treatment of
the Jews. Dictators, tyrants, and other opponents of the truth don't want
churches and Christians to interfere.
"Churchmen dabbling in politics should take note that their only task is to prepare for the world hereafter." - Joseph Goebbels
In Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda
stigmatized the Jews until they were anathema in the eyes of the general
public.
Then, when public opinion was properly conditioned, the
Jews were herded into ghettos and later into concentration camps, where they
were eventually destroyed. The same thing is happening to Christians in America
today. The source of the disinformation is not the White House - at least not
officially, not yet. But Christians are being boxed into a cultural ghetto in
the eyes of the American public just as surely as Jews were boxed into a
physical ghetto in Nazi Germany. Almost by a process of osmosis, over the
recent years an anti-Christian mindset has developed in the academics and the
media, and is now spreading to the general public. Christians, who used to be
acknowledged as the wholesome core of American cultural stability, are now
denigrated as dangerous and somehow subversive. (Pat
Robertson, "The 'Ghettoizing' of the Gospel," Christian American, January
1993.)
Hitler and his satanic-led associates carefully prepared
the minds of the murderers in Germany. He had pumped them up into believing
they were a superior race akin to gods. Their victims were said to be members
of a lower race, deserving of their fate. What the murderers were doing was not
evil but necessary and good. Perhaps even holy.
If the Nazi
overloards could easily convince these men to willingly commit such unspeakable
atrocities, how much more effective will a future Antichrist be in convincing
his New Age "Soldiers of Darkness" to perpetuate equally evil acts? His
adversaries, Biblical Christians, are racially inferior, ignorant,
unsophisticated, and dangerous to world peace and unity. They are "evil."
Worse, the Christians are a threat and an obstacle to the New Age Kingdom.
HATE CRIMES IN WACO
The revelations in the media about
the governments attack on Branch Davidians in Waco Texas is not news to myself
and many others. We have been saying all along that the federal government
overstepped reasonable bounds when they launched an all out attack on the
Branch Davidian compound resulting in the killing of eighty-six men, women and
children.
What motivated the government to launch the attack in the
first place? At the time, they said it was because of reports of child abuse.
When that contention was disproved, they said it was because the Davidians were
amassing illegal guns. Even that accusation was never proved. I would suggest
they stormed the compound because they clearly had serious political and
philosophical differences with David Koresh and his followers. As the events
played out over the following weeks, the government brought to bear its full
psychological and military weapons in a futile attempt to gain Koresh's
surrender. Ultimately the decision was made by someone in the government (and
Janet Reno took responsibility for it) to force the situation with an FBI led
assault using grenade launchers that ended in the firey deaths of most of the
occupants. If that is not a hate crime, I wonder what is?
It is becoming
painstakingly clear that liberals in our government are attempting to persuade
the American people that any action that conflicts with their socialist
policies will be labeled a "hate crime" and punishable by the federal
government. All the while, they promote the very "hate" they say they are
combating. Are they being successful? Well, after the shootings at Columbine
High in Colorado where 13 students were killed, there was a huge public outcry
that something be done... but when 24 children were murdered in Waco, there was
hardly a whimper from the public. Why is that?
Hate Crimes legislation would criminalize thoughts rather than
actions. Wherever people cross the line from thought or speech to violent
action, they should be prosecuted and the courts have traditionally only
stepped in when someone did cross that line. Today, however, they are trying to
move that line to encompass your feelings, thoughts and beliefs.
This
philosophy is straight out of George Orwell's 1984. The "Thought Police" are
going to determine what is in your head and heart. If you fail the test your
crime becomes a "hate crime".
