Eradicating Christianity in America, One Baby Step at a Time
The demons that use political correctness as their tool of
choice have turned a corner recently toward the eradication of Christianity in
American society.
Recently we’ve seen a Christian bakery put out
of business for declining to make a cake for a same-sex “marriage,” a
Christian photographer told that she must
photograph a same-sex ceremony and that compromise of her Christian values
is “the price of citizenship,” a bar owner fined
$400,000 for asking cross-dressing patrons to leave for creating trouble in
the bathrooms, and Christians
discriminated against by the city council of San Antonio, Texas if they
have ever expressed a belief in favor of traditional marriage.
All of these gross attacks on freedom of religion and freedom
of speech have gone on with barely a notice from the American people at
large. These events have put our country
squarely on the path of religious persecution, but for most people, it’s
business as usual.
And those haven’t been the only abuses. In California, public school students will
have transgendered
bathrooms, and New Jersey followed California in denying
children suffering with gender-identity disorder access to the treatment they
desperately need and that their parents desire for them. Then of course there’s the HHS mandate. I wish that exhausted the list of abuses…
The key to the demons’ success is not that all of these
things have happened, but more that very few people seem to know or care. People still get up and go to work. None of the country’s industries have shut
down, and no one has died.
Christians involved in the event industry have lost their
freedom, but most Christians don’t work in that industry. This week, only San Antonio codified
discrimination in an official city policy, but most people don’t live in San
Antonio.
These seem like baby steps that don’t affect the majority of
Christians, let alone the majority of Americans, so even those who have heard
of them (they have been shamefully underreported) simply breathe a sigh of
relief that they weren’t hit and go on with their lives.
It reminds me of the
quote regarding the Holocaust:
First they came for the gypsies,
And I didn’t say anything because I am not a gypsy,
Then they came for the Jews,
And I didn’t say anything because I am not a Jew,
Then they came for the Catholics,
And I didn’t say anything because I am not a Catholic,
Then they came for me,
And there was no one left to say anything.
The same tactic is being used. Little by little, Christians are told they
are free to hold whatever beliefs they want, but to practice them will cost
them the freedom to be in business or make a living. You can believe what you want, but not in
school. You have freedom of speech, but
that speech will cost you government contracts or even representation.
Little by little we are pushed into more of a cultural
ghetto. How will we respond? Many will simply lack the endurance and give
in (pray that we all have the strength to avoid that fate). Some will keep their religion in a closet out
of a genuine desire not to cause pain to others. (One of the most brilliant angles of this
whole attack is that it focuses on people with same-sex attraction. Because as Christians, we generally love and
respect these people, we have no desire to hurt them, and thus through a false compassion,
can be silenced by our own sensitive hearts.)
But others will persevere.
They will fight in court. They
will band together, as the Irish immigrants of the nineteenth century did, and
support each other. They will form charitable
associations; they will teach their children Truth; they will not sell their
consciences, for bribe or for threat.
Will that remnant save our culture? Maybe, maybe not. But they will win a crown in Heaven, and they
will save the souls of many others in the process.
