Over 63 million babies dead, oceans of red ink and endless stretches of red tape, homosexuals praying at Inauguration, and befuddled men under the spell of the biological disfigurement of transgenderism being paraded around as healthy and normal by the Biden Administration; all bespeak one thing: judgment is upon us.
If there is to be a spiritual resurrection of America, Evangelical and Pro-life Catholic Christians have no other choice than to engage the secular culture there where competition for ideological supremacy and control is fiercest: in the public square. Such involvement entails attendance at school board meetings, county commissions, and city council meetings, all as part and parcel of Civics 101. This must be augmented by grassroots, precinct-level organizing, for the days of hiding the Light under the bushel behind the four walls of the church building have come to their inevitable end.
Big Tech and Big Media discrimination, censorship, and manipulation of the culture must be stopped, along with the indoctrination and ruination of America’s youth. As long as salacious types like Howard Stern and Miley Cyrus instruct America’s youth on behavior, with Ellen DeGeneres and the Kardashians earmarking ideology and principles, “having an ‘R’ behind one’s name,” to quote Mark Steyn, “isn’t going to make much difference.”
Rather than politics, this is about two distinct religions vying for absolute control of the public square. The stakes are every bit as ominously high as when Winston Churchill defied Nazi fascism some 80 years ago.
A striking example occurred last week when the United Methodist Church - America’s third-largest religious body with over 6.2 million members - lost the second and seventh largest congregations by attendance in the Greater Houston area. Both quit United Methodism over the 2019 ‘Traditional Plan’, a document that bans same-sex marriage and mandates that all pastors be celibate and monogamous if married.2
Luckily for Methodists, the first step in solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
Not to be outdone, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church voted to embrace radical transgender ideology “in all forms” available to children “at all ages.” This so-called gender-affirming ‘care’ is shoved down the nation’s throat by the Biden administration. “The LGBTQ-etc. movement is a cultural tsunami. Activists tolerate no dissent - to the point that even fervent gay rights supporters such as the gay journalist Andrew Sullivan and the socially liberal Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling have been subjected to vicious criticism and professional canceling for daring to question transgender orthodoxy.”3
If the origin of America’s moral collapse needs further explanation, a good place to start is Matthew 5:13-16. “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its taste [purpose], how can it be made salty? It is no longer good for anything, but to be thrown out and walked on by people [when the walkways are wet and slippery].
“You are the light of [Christ to] the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good deeds and moral excellence, and [recognize and honor and] glorify your Father who is in heaven.”
Regarding American Christendom’s surrender of the public square and culture, the chickens have come home to roost. “The restraining and preserving influences are gone, and then nothing remains to stay corruption or hinder the outworking of Satan’s plans. The order is ever the same; the one who has no fear of God before his eyes, has no genuine respect for the rights of his neighbor.”4
Nevertheless, all things considered, we praise His name because Gideons and Rahabs are beginning to stand.
David Lane
American Renewal Project
1. youtu.be/WkJ4aj5V0mc
2. www.wsj.com/articles/a-messy-methodist-schism-united-global-church-sex-general-conference-florida-africa-2024-tradition-11660855107
3. www.theepochtimes.com/episcopal-church-endorses-gender-affirming-care-in-children_4673864.html
4 A.W. Pink, Gleanings in Genesis
