4 Reasons Why Wussy
Christians Are losing the Battle With Evil Big Government Goons
Written by Doug
Giles
Whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty
manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the
People may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new
Government; the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and
oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of
mankind. –Declaration of Rights, Maryland
Unlike America’s original
rebel Christians who dumped the Brits’ taxed tea into Boston Harbor and told
King George that he could kiss their King George, today’s evangelicals, I
believe—especially the dandy ministers who love to be loved—would have folded
like one-ply toilet paper before British oppression. We’re a timid tufted
titmouse compared to our rowdy founding forefathers.
Here are four reasons why I believe today’s evangelicals would have
melted like little bon-bons during the American Revolution:
1. Some dainty saints of today think
rebellion against tyrants is disobedience to God, when the converse is actually
true. Yep, these stooges of the machine believe that Yahweh wants
Christians to be the corralled cattle of corrupt politicians and policies.
Indeed, a lot of pop evangelicals have become nicer than God. Our current
craven “faithful” think it’s sinful to say bad stuff about bad elected
leadership. Many somehow think it’s righteous to go in an unrighteous national
direction. And we’ve got stacks of do-gooders who are turning the other cheek to
political abuse and generational theft so fast that they make Shakira look
arthritic.
2. A lot of evangelicals would
rather live as government slaves than live and die as free men. Some do
it out of sinful slothfulness, completely passive and thus complicit in the
face of evil. Others do so because they actually think Christ was a Communist and
that government theft and wealth redistribution somehow fulfill the Sermon on
the Mount. Duh!
3. Others, especially in the
ministry, won’t say squat about our political squalor because it’ll offend the
emotional members of their congregation and thereby jack with their weekly
offerings. Wow. Good luck at the judgment seat. I’ve been to many Tea
Parties up and down the east coast of Florida and have only run into a handful
of ministers. Where are you? Your absence and silence during America’s
demise is more obvious than Renee Zellweger’s recent nip/tuck. Hello, Judas.
4. Another thing that
irks me is this end-of-the-world Rapture mentality that, supposedly, all of
this bad stuff we’re currently fielding as a nation is God’s plan
for the ages and that there’s nothing we can do about it. I’m sure glad
our predecessors didn’t look at the gargantuan junk they were facing during
times of oppression and upheaval and say, “Oh, well. The Rapture must be right
around the corner.” No, what they did was think, work, pray and fight.
And guess what, end-of-the-world Christian? They yielded up this grand experiment in
self-governance, that’s what.
The Church needs the biblical rebel spirit of our founders injected
back into the evangelical mix instead of this squishy, pusillanimous, ignoble
and compliant crapola that’s currently cranking through our indolent pulpits
and pews. God help the Church to lose its cowardly, effeminate bent in these
critical days. Amen.
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