King James,
I not only don't expect the world to like me, but I don't want them to. If they do, I'm definately not handling my spiritual life well.
I do not believe in trying to legislate Christianity. Obviously you can't. However - I do believe that Christians must stand up for Christian values before Christianity becomes as illegal here as it is in China.
We keep "moving back the line."
When I was young - you didn't just have a morning prayer - you prayed as a community and as a nation, and you did it without shame. You did it with respect. Men removed their hats, and people bowed their heads. You prayed before any school assembly, every PTA meeting, every athletic event, every parade.
Then someone said, "That isn't fair to Jews, Hindus, Muslims." Well, excuse me, but we used to call ourselves a Christian nation, and despite the horrible condition we are in, the majority of Americans profess to be Christian. I don't go to Saudie Arabia or Israel and ask them to change their religious habits to suit me. Why must I change mine to suit heathens?
And how is it justified as a Christian to do so? Wasn't the main focus of Daniel's story the fact that he did NOT give into public pressure to hide his faith?
But, people said, "Well, I wouldn't want my child praying to someone else's God. Mandatory prayer is wrong." So they eliminated prayer in school.
I remember when that passed folks. It was hard to miss. The woman behind it all was also suing my church for having a parking lot.
Well, next thing we knew, she was suing my sister's school. One of the teacher's would show up at 7:00 a.m. every day to meet with students who wanted to attend a bible study class. She sued and said it wasn't right for tax dollars to let that happen.
People said, "Well, you know, she has a point."
For a few years I actually had to listen to misinterpretations of that nonsense to: "You can't carry a bible to school," and "You can't say the pledge because it mentions God."
Fortunately the courts over turned that nonsense.
Then I heard a young man, invited to pray at a ball game. He was told, "Pray, but don't mention Christ." He prayed to Christ. They kicked him out.
So now we've gone from, "Don't force people to pray to your, God," to "Pray to a nameless, God."
Where were the Christians when this was happening?
You can have astrology clubs, but not bible studies. You can have Gay Pride, but not "Campus Crusade for Christ."
The University Vice President at a State owned school allowed all student organizations to use the Student Affairs website. Two weeks later a ruling came down, "No Christian organizations should be listed." They didn't remove the "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Group," but they sure removed the "Baptist Student Mission." And Christians did nothing.
When I was a child, children were a blessed event. Abortions were not something that we "accepted" as a birth control method for careless women.
They told us, "We just want to save lives by stopping back-alley abortions. Abortions won't increase, they'll just be legislated."
Now, even people claiming to be Christian are having them done.
They came to us and said, "We don't want to "encourage" or "recruit" for homosexuality, we just want to stop blatant persecution." Now a gay individual is protected as a miniority class, ergo, they have more rights than a white heterosexual male.
They came to us and said, "Censorship is wrong," and "poronography will only affect those who already seek it out." Now we have porn piped into homes via the television and the internet.
When I was young, no one would have dared form a group that publically advocated the rights of adult men to have sex with young males, but there was a group that was actually advocating on the internet and in the courts.
When I was young, if the press had reported that the President of the United States had taken advantage of a girl's infactuation, violtaed the laws against sexual harrassment, and violated his marriage vows with a Presidential Intern in the White House itself - the country would NOT have said, "Oh, well, men do that, its none of our business." Some people actually want to re-elect him!
And now they are coming to us and saying, "You don't have the right to display the articles of your faith in your community buildings, even if your community is predominately Christian," and we're still going, "Oh, well, gee, that's okay. We're just giving them an inch." The mile will be that churches can't display signs, or that they are zoned out of cities.
When I was a child, I could safely walk from my home to my grandparents home five blocks away without fear. Child predators were rare, and neighbors cared. Last night I came home to a news announcement that a twice-convicted-pedophile had been arrested on my block when he approached a young boy and tried to lure him into his truck. The boy's father saw it, got there in time, and had the man, who had knives in the truck - arrested. I live in a "good" neighborhood, people. I live in the area "everyone wants to move into." But this happened on my block! And I guarantee you, that there are groups out there saying, "there is nothing wrong with what he did." Or "If the boy went it would be consentual."
This country is going to hell - and I mean that quite literally, and we Christians are apparently condoning it because according to the Census, we are the majority in this country.
By the time my son is grown, I expect that he will have to hide in someone else's in the dark of night, and read the bible by candlelight in order to avoid being put into a concentration camp like citizens of China do because Christians always say, "Its just a little thing."
