Tides of Tyranny: The Left's Sustained Assault on Christianity

Tides of Tyranny: The Left's Sustained Assault on Christianity: In a short communiqué following the indiscriminate killing of Muslims in New Zealand, Hillary Clinton wrote that her heart broke for “th...

The Left's Sustained Assault on Christianity

In a short communiqué following the indiscriminate killing of Muslims in New Zealand, Hillary Clinton wrote that her heart broke for “the global Muslim community.” But in her following postings, not a word about Sri Lanka Christians or the global Christian community. Obama similarly wrote in his tweet about New Zealand that he was grieving with “the Muslim community” over the “horrible massacre in the Mosques.” But in his posting about Sri Lanka, there is no mention of Christians or churches.

Is it coincidental or is there an underlying reason why neither former President Obama and former Democrat Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton failed to mentioned Christians being martyred or churches being destroyed? Based on Obama and Hillary’s social media posts, there is room for supposition, inference and implication. The interpretation is that the Left has essentially prohibited mention of all the anti-Christian murders perpetrated by Muslims in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and of all the Muslim desecration of churches in Europe, Africa, Middle east and elsewhere.

When all is said and done, the left’s decree is that nothing negative or evil, no matter how true, may be said about Muslims or Islam and nothing positive, no matter how true, may be said of Christians or Christianity.

Clinton’s post-New Zealand social media post also included these words: “We must continue to fight the perpetuation and normalization of Islamophobia and racism in all its forms. White supremist terrorists must be condemned by leaders everywhere. Their murderous hatred must be stopped." To her credit Mrs. Clinton made sure to condemn Islamophobia, but she wrote not a word about the far more destructive and widespread hatred of Christians in the Muslim world. She calls on world leaders everywhere to condemn white supremacist terrorists, one of the smallest hate groups on the surface of the earth, but never calls on leaders everywhere to condemn Islamist terrorists, the largest hate group on Terra firma.

Does not the mentioned communications and social media posts tell us much about former President Obama and former Democrat Presidential Candidate Clinton?  By the same token, does not the written conveyance of the messages as it relates to acts of violence perpetrated by radical Islamic fundamentalists and a race supremacist tell us a lot about the left’s agenda and much more of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?

Indeed, one of the most befuddling aspects of liberalism is its habit of ignoring, denying, or tolerating atrocities done in the name of Islam, all the while eagerly pointing the finger at Christians and conservatives on the rare occasion that mass violence is carried out by an alleged member of that group. The stark contrast was especially on display when liberals did not hesitate to blame conservative Christians for a Planned Parenthood shooting but refused to make similar indictments of Islam after a terrorist attack in California.

As I have alluded to in past commentaries, many liberal politicians have become outright apologists for Islam. Has not Hillary Clinton called for people to stop using the term "radical Islam" because it is offensive to Muslims? Evidentially she does not want the word Islam attached to any act of terror. This is a woman so desperate to make rationalizations for the religion that when a Muslim kills 14 people, she insists he had nothing to do with himself killing 14 people. The people were killed not by a Muslim, but apparently by some ethereal, furtive, brown-skinned apparition. For his part, President Obama has in the past lectured Americans for their "less than loving" behavior towards Muslims. Does not Obama’s chastisement of Christians and Hillary Clinton’s defending Muslims following Islamic terrorist attacks speak volumes of their peremptory, philosophical, theological and sociopolitical inclinations?

Another American Icon Targeted and Cleansed

History has a way of repeating itself. When all reminders of a nation’s history are removed, they are bound to be forgotten, and a forgotten history among later generations, opens the doorway for repeated history. All the destruction of monuments in recent history, to include the here and now has been due to a minority of people disliking the facts behind these reminders. First it was Robert E. Lee, then Stonewall Jackson…The Confederate Flag…generic Confederate symbols. Now we are talking about Christopher Columbus, General Washington, …Thomas Jefferson…having their image and names cleansed from historical memorials.

The long arm of the Politically Correct Schutzstaffel (SS) has done it again. They have reached back into recent history, specifically the 1930’s and indicted, convicted, condemned, and removed a statue honoring the late singer Kate Smith. Smith, who popularized “God Bless America” and was a female forerunner in early television, recorded songs that today in hindsight are viewed as xenophobic. By whom, we can only imagine.

As for Kate Smith, when these PC masqueraders of indignity of the present, with respect to the past accomplish anything promoting America, as did this great singer, then we can talk. Am I implying to expurgate Ms. Smith is over the top and unjustified? Your damn right! When was the last time anyone from the rank and file of the Corps of the Politically Correct effectuated anything constructive to Make America Great? When was the last time any of these PC charlatans went to a combat zone to entertain our troops? Smith did. She donated her time to entertain troops during World War II. The PC crowd gives her no credit for that. Who’s next? Bob Hope!

Suggestion to those on the Left who embolden and use the PC righteous pawns, why not focus on efforts that will significantly help the underprivileged and marginalized. How about providing food for America's hungry, shelter for homeless vets, border security for those living on our Southern border? Meaningless imagery improves nothing. Does this not describe today’s Democrat?

Final comments follow: Can those who identify as liberal ideologues really think history can be re-written by removing statues, historical names from text books, or ignoring historicity?  "Any fool can criticize and complain, and most fools do."

Tides of Tyranny: Passion and Resurrection and Man’s Spiritual Deafn...

Tides of Tyranny: Passion and Resurrection and Man’s Spiritual Deafn...: Pilate thought that, by scourging Jesus, he would satisfy the mob and so be able to set Him free. This is how the weak always think: compr...

Passion and Resurrection and Man’s Spiritual Deafness

Pilate thought that, by scourging Jesus, he would satisfy the mob and so be able to set Him free. This is how the weak always think: compromise, give in to evil to appease it. However, this only makes things worse. Does this not say something about we as a nation/people sometimes deliberate and act in order to get a particular result? Those who would inflict the pain bound His hands and brought Him to the post amid flurry of fists, jostling, and braying gawkers. His docility, nobility of soul/spirit, and disinclination to defend Himself contrasted with the pitiless, pointless, and loathing of His adversaries. How foolish an illusion that by tying His hands He would be restrained! Could He not have commanded the fetters that bound Him, “unfasten” and they would fall to the ground? 

What is extraordinary is that Jesus gave Himself up to be publicly humiliated, spat upon, beaten and scourged with a leather-thonged whips whose ends contained pieces iron and bone chips. Picture if you will, His groans, His Body writhing in agony, His flesh torn by the flagellum. This was the flesh of the God-Man! He stood, full of dignity, humble and without complaint, conversing with the Eternal Father (first person of the Trinity) within Himself. 

Can you imagine at that moment what the Son of God was thinking? Do you suppose Jesus was thinking about the blessed civilization that would one day be built on the merits of His Passion? Regrettably, I believe, Jesus foresaw that at a certain moment in time Christian nations/peoples would turn against Him and would be converted to and dominated by secularists, globalists and anti-Christian socio-political entities? Because this world would deny a personal God, it would also deny man’s personhood and individuality. 

In this trodden anti-civilization, or as some might say, syndicalists, mankind would affirm total equality, thus succumbing to enslavement in the direction of a rebellious Globalist or New World Order type dystopian rule. This dystopia would deny property, and therefore justice; would deny the family, and therefore purity; would deny religion, and therefore all that is sacred; would deny tradition, and therefore history. By inverting all values, this anti-civilization would produce substantial chaos, eminent nihility in which the former-Christian peoples would expire. This anti-civilization is the absolutism of substance, of mechanism, of obscurity, and of apostacy/atheism.

Tides of Tyranny: Feminists Beware of Identity Ideology

Tides of Tyranny: Feminists Beware of Identity Ideology: Let me begin this commentary on a positive note. Fundamentally, I acknowledge feminists’ assessment that American society has in the ...

Feminists Beware of Identity Ideology

Let me begin this commentary on a positive note. Fundamentally, I acknowledge feminists’ assessment that American society has in the past operated essentially as a patriarchy in which men dominate and to an extent repress females. Taking it one step further, I find suppression of woman specifically abhorrent among those global cultures whose religious norms or code of behaviors place womenkind in subservient, docile, self-effacing and cowering roles. This being said, my perception of debates, exchange of views, general dialogs about women’s rights inevitably or out of political necessity turn into partisan diatribes. It seldom fails that these invectives often lead some to fall into the trap of defining women and women’s issues solely in terms of procreation.

More recently a newer threat to addressing women’s rightful needs has come to the national forefront via Mainstream Media outlets, social websites, discourse and treatise. Rather than just reducing women’s needs and priorities to issues pertaining to their biological and reproductive capabilities, this radical dogma now threatens to erase biological women from the dialog altogether. The rapidly changing and ever-expanding ideology of supposed gender identity threatens to undermine women’s pecuniary, communal, and political progress in revolutionary ways. How so? Is not the term gender identity now being propagated by many progressives, politicians, secularists, and LBGTQ community activists to express an individual’s self-perception as male, female, both, neither, or something along that line or shall we say, spectrum? Has not the word gender in legal documents historically been understood to mean genetic sex or XX/XY genotype?  In addition, have not laws and policies been implemented to achieve gender equality specifically for females regardless of age? This being as it is, policies that treat people based upon their gender identity undermine decades of efforts to remedy historical and societal inequalities that disproportionally affect women and girls by benefiting any male who self identifies as a woman is contentious, problematic, and questionable. Gender identity ideology, and the scheme it demands, pose threats to Women’s Rights.

Individuals who identify as transgender, or anything else should be treated with dignity and respect and are entitled to the same human rights and protections as anyone else. However, these human rights and legal protections such as the rights to life, expression, and assembly, and freedom from infliction of pain and inhumane treatment apply to all human beings by virtue of our humanity, not because of group identification in any class identity subset. 

When America and many other Western governments and Intergovernmental Organization bureaucrats assert special rights for particular favored identity groups through new readings of decrees, laws, and treaties, they undermine the universality of human rights and the legitimacy of the human rights movement.

We as U.S. citizens must insist that Federal and State bureaucracies to include the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches and various other entities stay within the Constitutional authority granted them to safeguard fundamental rights for all men, women, and children. If not, we can only imagine what’s next.  U.S., doctors giving 13-year-old girls mastectomies, throwing 14-year-old girls into menopause, and surgically castrating 16-year-old boys. I misspoke. It’s already happening.