Wagers of sin: We’ve got ‘em on the run and we are winning the war on Christians! Actually, I did not know we were waging a war on the God-jockeys until I received an e-mail from Rick Scarborough of a group called Vision America. These folks are so afraid of us lefties that they are holding a conference in the holy city of Washington, D.C., March 27-28.
Here’s what Scarborough gives as proof there’s a battle a-wagin’:
A war on Christians rages across the America. By attacking Christians, the left intends to destroy the remnants of Judeo-Christian morality.
Here’s what I mean by a war on Christians:
- Christmas symbols and greetings are purged
- A federal judge bans “One Nation Under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance recited by school children
- A Navy chaplain is told he can’t publicly pray in Jesus’ name
- Removal of Ten Commandments monuments
- Move to stifle religious expression at the Air Force Academy
- Christians arrested for peacefully praying at a “gay pride” rally in Philadelphia
- Federal appeals court says parental rights stop at the schoolhouse door
- Homosexual “marriage” established by judicial decree in Massachusetts
- Blasphemous “Da Vinci Code” movie comes out in May
- Churches are burned down in Alabama
So I’ve been invited to attend Vision America’s The War on Christians and the Values Voter in 2006 conference, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington. There, I’ll supposedly be given “the knowledge and strategies to fight back effectively.”
They’ve certainly lined up an impressive array of Christian soldiers and wingnuts for the conference, including Sen. Sam Brownback (R, Kansas), Sen. John Cornyn (R, Texas), Congressman Tom DeLay (R, Texas), Gary Bauer (failed 2000 presidential candidate and president of American Values), Alan Keyes (failed serial candidate), con-columnist Phyllis Schlafly, radio wingnut Janet Parshall, Christian activist and radio talker Janet Folger, rightwing radio talker William Greene, and TV preachers Ron Luce and Rod Parsley.
As if that lineup wasn’t enough, there are panels addressing different aspects of the war with titles that are just hilarious:
Christian Persecution: Reports from the Frontlines
The Gay Agenda: America Won’t Be Happy
The ACLU and Radical Secularism: Driving God From The Public Square
Hollywood: Christians Through A Distorted Lens
The Judiciary: Overruling God
The Media: Megaphone for Anti-Faith Values
Jews Confront The War on Christians and the Values Voter in 2006Taking Our Faith To The Ballot Box
The left intends to eliminate God-based morality from our government to achieve its goal of cultural Marxism in a secular state.
They get extra credit for cleverness. Anyway, it’s relatively inexpensive to go, and there’s actually a marriage benefit. Registration for individuals is $149; for married couples, $259; and for students (without meals), only $50.
If you go, tell me how it went. I’m curious about the War on Christians, but I don’t want to get too close and end up as collateral damage ….
- Topic: News & Comment
- Topics: Conservative Values
In hindsight, this was their predictable next move after winning the War on Christmas.
I offered to drive God from the public square the other day but He said He’d rather walk.
It is STILL impossible to disprove the non-existent, ergo, there is no way in heaven, hell, or here on poor old Earth that you or I, or anyone else, will ever convert the followers of “faith based whatever” to REASON.
It follows then, that your “war on Christians” is as UNWINABLE as Bush’s “WAR ON TERROR”{—-Both “wars” are being fought against INDEFINEABLE FOES…)
ROTSA RUK, ANY HOW!
As a Navy Chaplain and a former staff member of the Chaplain School I can say that no one is told they cannot pray in Jesus’ name. What they are told is that they need to find a balance between their own conscience, the requirements of their denomination, and the role of the chaplain to represent The Divine (that is, God) to a diverse audience. In many ways it is no different than being the prophetic voice to all of humanity in a tiny little microcosm. Many Chaplains do pray in Jesus’ name and simply face the responce that prophets have faced throughout all of history.
My Children still recite the whole pledge in public school in Chicago. What’s more, they do it in class and over the intercom. I think that court rulings aren’t able to be enforeced. (remember all those silly spitting on sidewalk laws that are still in effect?) My money is that we would be supprised and a lot less frustrated as Christians if we knew how many of these “war” items just were all talk. I bet most kids still say the whole pledge in school, one nation under God and all.
I listen to a Christian radio station over the lunch hour. They often have an organization called Alliance Defense Fund(?) who try and represent Christian people who are unfairly treated. It is not uncommon to hear about a child’s picture sensored from the class bulletin board because it contains a picture of Jesus, or child’s Bible being taken away because he/she is reading it at recess. These are actual cases. There is something to this ‘war on Christianity.
Oh my (god)! Here we go again, get out your helmets holy warriors…. time to persecute christians again!