That God is
now the
prime target
for every
form of
man's
mockery,
scorn and
contempt is
undeniable.
It used to
be that
Christians
and the
Bible were
the only
visible
objects of
disdain with
any reviling
for God
Himself
being
cautiously
harbored
deep in the
rancid
confines of
human
hearts. But,
since the
ridicule of
His people
and His word
has not
drawn
lightening
strikes the
God-rejecters
have become
much bolder.
Like noisy,
irritating
Chihuahuas
whose
courage is
in direct
proportion
to the
length of
the big
dog's chain,
they now
have no
inhibitions
about
publicly
blaspheming
God
personally.
They are
from all
segments of
society;
even from
those we
have
historically
thought to
be above
such
behavior.
Insolent
man sees
God's
patient love
for all
humanity as
proof that
He is really
a
cream-puff,
impotent
deity with a
lot of bark,
but no bite.
They err
greatly.
They choose
to ignore
the fact
that the God
who
presently
endures
their
incessant
yapping is
the same God
that turned
Korah and
250 of his
consorts
into
fertilizer,
and the
sodomites of
Abram's day
into ash.
The lesson
is that
God's love
and patience
do not
nullify His
judgment.
The pouring
out of God's
wrath upon a
vile and
depraved
world is
just as much
a part of
His
character as
was His
judgment
upon Jesus
who carried
the sin of
all humanity
on the
cross.
What are
modern
reprobates
doing?
Exactly what
prophecy
said they
would be
doing (2
Timothy
3:8). In
truth, their
words and
conduct are
limited only
by their
perverted
imaginations.
They feel
free to spew
forth their
curses at
any time
using any
opportunity
that
presents
itself.
Consider Dan
Savage, for
example.
Savage
is not only
anti-God,
anti-Bible
and
anti-Christian,
but is among
the most
vulgar,
caustic and
militant
homosexuals
in today's
news.
Nothing is
too sacred
for his
hate-mongering
attacks.
And, the
colleges,
etc., who
invite him
to their
campuses are
unapologetic.
Colleges
like
Elmhurst.
At
this year's
National
High School
Journalism
Conference
he became
hostile
toward
Christians,
the Bible
and God
according to
Todd
Starnes, an
internet
blogger.
Using
vulgarity
and sexual
innuendo in
an
Anti-Bullying
speech he
suddenly
launched a
vicious
attack upon
God and His
people. Some
students
walked out
as he
heckled them
while others
cheered him
on. Knowing
he was
successful
in his
effort his
"apology"
was
sarcastic,
and the
sponsoring
Journalism
Education
Association
and National
Scholastic
Press
Association
offered no
apologies to
the
Christians.
Savage and
Terry Miller
were
President
Obama's
guests at
the 2011
LGBT Pride
Month
reception at
the White
House.
Imagine
that.
Sometimes
the enemies
of God are
less
militant, at
least
openly. So,
instead of a
full frontal
assault they
hide behind
what
judicial
activists
claim to be
the law of
the land,
and from
there they
launch their
assaults
against God.
Specifically,
they shield
their real
motives
behind the
much
misunderstood
"separation
of church
and state"
mantra.
The
truth is,
the phrase
"separation
of church
and state"
is not in
the U.S.
Constitution.
Rather, the
First
Amendment
says,
"Congress
shall make
no law
respecting
an
establishment
of religion,
or
prohibiting
the free
exercise
thereof."
Nobody in
their right
mind would
want
America's
government
to be of a
religious
nature. The
mood of 1787
America is
very clear.
That is,
remembering
King George
III and the
state-sponsored
Church of
England, the
Framers
blocked,
with the
First
Amendment,
any new
government
from forming
a national
church. But,
the
inference of
the
amendment is
also very
clear. That
is, it keeps
the
government
out of the
church
(establishment),
but it does
not prevent
the church
from having
an impact on
the
government
(free
exercise) as
was clearly
born out in
America's
early
history.
Still,
current
resistance
goes on with
the
Constitution
and the
Framer's
intent being
regularly
ignored when
expedient.
For
seven years
Terry
Sartain has
been a
chaplain for
the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Police
Department
in North
Carolina.
Recently he
was told he
could no
longer "pray
in Jesus'
name" on
police
department
property
because the
department
did not want
to do
anything
that might
offend
someone.
Sartain
asked police
department
officials
whose name
would he be
allowed to
invoke. They
told him to
"pray a
secular
prayer". As
you well
know there
is no such
thing, but
that does
not matter.
Any kind of
idiotic
statement
rooted in
spiritual
ignorance
will do as
long as
Jesus is
kept out of
prayer on
public
property. Of
course, the
ACLU was
very
supportive
of the
decision.
In early
April of
this year
students at
the Stall
Brook
Elementary
School in
Bellingham,
MA were
prohibited
from singing
the word
"God" in the
Lee
Greenwood
song, "God
Bless the
USA". The
words "God
bless" were
replaced
with "We
love". After
parental
complaints,
the kids
were allowed
to sing or
to not sing
the words
"God bless".
Similar
prohibitions
have been
adopted in
many public
schools in
the last
number of
years so as
not to
offend
anyone, you
see.
A lot of
people are
angry and
tired of
"political
correctness",
and they
demand
logical
reasons for
official
decisions.
The reasons,
though, are
always
associated
in some way
with this
skewed view
of the First
Amendment.
However, I
think this
thing goes
much deeper
than a mere
civics
issue. When
we consider
that current
public
education
leadership
was trained
in college
to believe
John Dewey
(the
humanist)
was dead-on
correct with
his
philosophy
of
education,
that their
ancestors
crawled out
of a
slime-pit
somewhere
and lived
among tree
limbs before
becoming
humans, that
all conduct
is relative,
that there
are no
absolutes
and that God
is a
take-it-or-leave-it
concept,
then there
is no
question as
to why they
believe and
teach (with
exceptions,
of course)
the godless
agenda that
has
essentially
become the
core
curriculum
for modern
government
education.
In
2011 the
Billy Graham
Evangelistic
Association
held a "Rock
the Fort"
event on the
parade
ground at
Ft. Bragg,
NC. This
angered some
atheists in
the Army, so
they
organized
the "Rock
Beyond
Belief"
counter-event
in March of
2012. Sgt.
Justin
Griffith, US
Army, led
the effort.
Part of the
entertainment
provided was
the band
"Aiden"
which
produced a
video that
includes
images of
burning
church
buildings
and bloody
crosses. The
lyrics in
one of their
songs are,
"_ _ _ _
your God, _
_ _ _ your
faith in the
end. There's
no
religion."
Sgt.
Griffith
said that
song was not
performed at
Ft. Bragg,
but he
thought the
video of
burning
church
buildings
was fine. At
the
performance
a rapper
rapped
"creationism
is dead
wrong", and
one T-shirt
for sale
featured a
picture of
the Bible
with the
words, "Holy
C_ _ P".
Sgt.
Griffith's
atheist
counter-event
was billed
as a type of
"equal time"
program
whose
purpose was
to "send a
message".
But, that is
not really
the truth.
They did not
send a
message as
much as they
insulted God
and His
people. The
Christian
event
speakers in
2011 did not
harangue
atheists,
did not
feature the
burning of
buildings
where
atheists
gathered,
did not use
profanity
and did not
sell
T-shirts
that
highlighted
offensive
pictures.
The atheist
event, on
the other
hand, was
clearly an
overt attack
upon God,
Christians
and the
Bible.
If space
permitted
mention
could be
made of
those other
efforts of
the U.S.
military to
cleanse
itself of
religious
references,
as
Congressman
Randy Forbes
(R-VA)
describes
what is
happening.
He also
said, "It's
a very
dangerous
course to
take." You
bet it is!
And, for
veterans of
an earlier
day this is
almost too
much to
believe.
But, it is
happening.
And then
there was
President
Obama's 2011
Thanksgiving
speech where
he did not
even mention
God, but did
say
Americans
are "truly
lucky", that
he is
thankful
that some
Americans
took time
off to serve
in soup
kitchens and
that the
first
Thanksgiving
was a
"celebration
of
community".
Because God
is now out
of the
picture
nationally,
his
explanation
of
Thanksgiving
was very
inaccurate
and very
much unlike
Lincoln's
explanation.
In earlier
generations
American
History
students
learned that
Lincoln, in
1863, said
the holiday
was, "a day
of
Thanksgiving
and Praise
to our
beneficent
Father who
dwelleth in
the
Heavens."
In our
country's
present time
of terrible
despair and
fear of the
unknown
President
Obama, in
his 2011
Thanksgiving
Day speech,
did not
mention God
at all, but
did say he
was thankful
for all the
luck our
country has
had.
In
the winter
of 1777 --
1778 when
our country
was in a
time of
terrible
despair and
fear of the
unknown,
General
Washington
went alone
into the
woods to
pray.
Typhus,
dysentery,
starvation,
exposure and
depression
were rampant
in the
wretched
little
American
encampment
at Valley
Forge. Isaac
Potts
accidentally
came upon
the General,
and this is
what Potts
reported: "I
heard a
plaintive
sound as, of
a man at
prayer. I
tied my
horse to a
sapling and
went quietly
into the
woods and to
my
astonishment
I saw the
great George
Washington
on his knees
alone, with
his sword on
one side and
his cocked
hat on the
other. He
was at
Prayer to
the God of
the Armies,
beseeching
to interpose
with his
Divine aid,
as it was ye
Crisis, and
the cause of
the country,
of humanity
and of the
world."
So, why
might we
suppose
official
America is
growing in
her
abhorrence
of God? For
any number
of reasons,
actually.
Logically
the
colonists
should not
have beaten
the British,
but they
did. Why?
God's hand
was upon the
effort for
independence
from the
start at
least partly
because the
Founders
sought
liberty
based upon
the
God-ordained
right for
every man to
be free, a
right for
which they
were willing
to pledge
their lives,
their
fortunes and
their sacred
honor. Both
the
Declaration
of
Independence
and the U.S.
Constitution
were
obviously
not
indiscriminately
worded.
Their words
are unlike
any other
such
documents in
human
history, and
such
distinction
clearly
shows God's
fingerprint.
So, why is
America's
abhorrence
for God
growing? It
is a natural
consequence
of denying
God's hand
in her
history in
the face of
the obvious.
Another
reason is
America no
longer fears
God — fear
in the sense
of
respecting
His Person.
With the
introduction
of Humanism
into
classrooms
and the
introduction
of Higher
Biblical
Criticism
into
churches
also came
the
introduction
of an
alternative
to
Christianity.
With
godliness
ripped from
every seam
in the
social and
spiritual
fabric of
America,
people
defaulted to
hardened
consciences
and
hedonistic
lusts. Satan
put all his
evil effort
into
exploiting
this
compromise,
and he
succeeded.
The result
has been the
"who is God
that He
should be
relevant to
anything"
attitude.
America
has a
blatant
in-your-face
attitude
regarding
God's
standard of
living.
Immorality
is rampant
with the
illegitimate
birthrate at
41% as of
May, 2012
(Centers for
Disease
Control and
Prevention).
Shacking up
is no longer
aberrant.
Young men
and women,
even teens,
many of whom
claim to be
Christians,
think
nothing of
spending
weekends and
vacations
together.
Their
friends and
families
grin
sheepishly,
wave goodbye
and say, "Be
careful and
have a good
time." When
they return
home
everybody
smiles
warmly and
acts as if
everything
is OK
because "God
understands".
In the
context of
addictions
this is
called
"enabling",
and would
not go
unaddressed
by parents,
friends and
spiritual
leaders.
However,
when it
comes to the
context of
sexual
immorality
it is called
"being nice
and being
non-controversial".
It is true
that we
should not
stick our
noses into
other
people's
business.
Equally
true,
though, is
the ages old
adage that
we are our
brother's
keeper.
Spiritual
maturity
insures the
proper "how,
when and
where".
Blasphemous
tirades in
public are
now common
among both
regular and
high-profile
people.
Celebrities
from every
profession
no longer
think they
should
censor their
words, and
are thus
quite
comfortable
using
sewer-level
words and
terms in
everyday
speech. A
number of
them are
hard-core
activists,
and are
prone to
sudden and
vitriolic
outbursts
against God
and His
people while
excusing
their
behavior
with an
offhand "so
what".
Because they
would never
refer to the
pagan god
Allah in
such a
manner, they
clearly
display both
their
hypocrisy
and their
cowardice.
They
seem pleased
to be
labeled as
reprobates,
and get
great
pleasure
from the
shock effect
they produce
with their
words and
conduct. And
the more
impromptu
the outburst
the greater
the glory —
at least in
their minds.
In
short, many
people
simply
refuse to
honor God.
His words
are no
longer taken
seriously
and are thus
no longer
deserving of
obedience.
To them God,
if there
even is a
God, is not
exclusive.
He is seen
as only one
way among
many to
heaven, or
whatever
place
religious
people think
about going.
The idea is
you can take
your choice,
but do not
become very
excited
about any of
it because
He is
actually a
myth. Just
be cool, be
nice and
serve in a
soup kitchen
sometime.
That God
loves them
and desires
their
salvation is
a fact.
Equally
factual,
though, is
most of them
would laugh
and spew
forth
noxious
profanities
at such a
thought.
They do not
understand
that their
end will
come quickly
and
unexpectedly
as happened
with Sodom
on the last
night of its
decadent
existence.
It is clear
that, as a
nation,
America is
willing to
sacrifice
whatever it
takes in
order to not
bow before
God. But bow
she will,
like it or
not. Maybe
quite soon.