Interfaith Insurgency 3-14-10
A gauntlet has been thrown down. Christians are going to have to change their fundamental beliefs or they will risk becoming demonized as bigots and even categorized as criminals. If this sounds like hyperbole and the ravings of a conspiracy theorist, then you might just have missed what has happened to Christianity in America over the last twenty years. There is an insurrection at play in the churches of America, conducted by a movement as radical in nature as that of Che Guevara or Fidel Castro, and acting for the long term to fundamentally alter the basic foundation of Christianity and destroy any ability to resist the new order. This insurrection has three basic characteristics that enable its proponents to achieve devastating results with relative ease: compromise, coordination, and collaboration. The movement that is behind this abominable work is none other than the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) alliance.
Compromise
On its website (http://www.ifcmd.info/4.html), the Interfaith Fairness Coalition of Maryland has this as its purpose: “IFCMD exists to foster a welcoming embrace of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender people in both membership and all positions of leadership in religious life.” Its logo uses symbols from the following groups and explains each of them from a “this is yet just one more way of looking at things” kind of way: Atheism/Secular Humanism, Buddhism, Christianity, Druidism, Ecumenicon (a diversity movement), Islam, Judaism, Shamanism, Sufism, Tribalism, Unitarian-Universalism, Unity, and Wicca. The purpose of this is to show Christianity as just another facet of the same religious coin. Their website’s caption on Christianity is:
Christianity – The cross of wood, a symbol of sacrifice where the Divine meets the human life in its place of deepest need is pictured here without adornment. In Christ there is no male nor female, bond nor free, all are one. (http://www.ifcmd.info/4.html)
It is through this Unity movement redefinition of Christianity that the GLBT proponents hope to destroy the Christian’s individual resolve to stand against what is blatant immorality. And it is apparently succeeding. An advertisement in the Baltimore, MD periodical b free daily was titled “Maryland Religious Leaders Support Marriage Equality,” with the names of ninety-seven religious leaders from “Baptist, Buddhist, Catholic, Episcopal, Interfaith, Jewish Conservative, Jewish Reconstructionist, Jewish Reform, Lutheran, Metropolitan Community Church, Methodist, Presbyterian, Reformed Church of America, Unitarian Universalist, United Church of Christ and Unity Fellowship Church” organizations. This makes it sound like almost every church in Maryland is on board. Except, if you research the names and listed organizations, you find that there are many from the same organization (and even from the same congregation) and that some are from churches formed explicitly for the GLBT community! The list includes Wicca and Pagan “ministers” as well as a few atheists and “spiritual scientists.” Their ad stated the following about the rights of churches:
We affirm that the state should not require any religious group to officiate at, or bless, same-gender marriages. However, the state also should not favor the convictions of one religious group over another by denying individuals their fundamental civil right to marry whom they love. (www.equalitymaryland.org)
Marrying whomever you love is a fundamental civil right! Wait until the pederasts and bestiality advocates find out about this – of course, they already have and are waiting their turn in line. And if you think this country will respect your beliefs over the defined fundamental civil rights of another, you haven’t been paying attention. Federal judges do whatever they want (just ask former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore).
Coordination
This insurrection has been coordinated for the past forty years at least. Look at what has happened in America to the sanctity of human life! Mothers can kill their unborn children at will, with the only debate being if tax payers have to fund it: their right to kill the children is judicially unassailable. Terrorists (you know, the fun-loving guys that bomb civilians and laugh about it afterwards) are given the rights of American citizens and are afforded comforts and access to our legal system; nothing is given concerning the victims of those attacks except the knowledge that we will be kind and considerate to the people who killed them. Child molesters are protected within the penal system (some are denied prison and are instead forced into probation because they are too weak to protect themselves). We prosecute law enforcement officials and debate whether or not the death penalty is constitutional. Church groups protest and picket in an effort to eliminate capital punishment. And the rights given to all American citizens is deemed insufficient for those who are alternatively lifestyled; the GLBT types are evidently in need of special rights and privileges not afforded to the rest of us. That’s why killing a heterosexual male is (possibly) murder, but killing a homosexual male is a hate crime: it is somehow worse. This is not by accident, but rather the same people and the same groups tend to support the same things. And all of them are unbiblical.
Collaboration
Finally, this insurrection is propelled along by the willing collaboration of Christians who are either too ignorant of the Bible to disagree or are too weak to stand against it. For some reason, Christians seem to need people to think of them as tolerant and open-minded. We are supposed to be neither! We should stand against whatever is wrong and we should accept only the truth. And until we take our stand this way, we will be the willing accomplices of the insurrection against the King of this land: the God of the Bible! So I will leave you with the words of Joshua son of Nun: “But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15 NIV)
-Charles Peterson