Oh, the hysteria. The drama. The overwhelming glurge.
If they hate Jesus, they’ll hate you—and they certainly hate Jesus. I’m talking about the American Left and its unyielding war on Christianity.
And so is my good friend Matt Barber.
In his fiery new book, Hating Jesus: The American Left’s War on Christianity, Barber reveals how secular progressives are waging an unrelenting fight against Christianity in America. Perhaps more importantly, he explains how Christians can fight back.
“Just a few short decades ago, a church-going man who publicly supported the right to life, backed laws protecting marriage and spoke freely of Christ’s love for fallen man would be universally recognized as a fine and upstanding citizen,” says Barber, an associate dean with Liberty University School of Law and an attorney concentrating on constitutional law. “He would be welcomed anywhere, including at the highest levels of power. But things have changed. In today’s America, the ‘progressive’ left actively endeavors to destroy such a man.”
Well, no. Generally speaking, such fine, upstanding men of god do a fine job of destroying themselves.
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With great detail, Barber explains the Modern American leftist war strategy. It starts by vilifying Christians. They then begin scheming, quite often with success, to get Christians terminated from employment and forever marked with a scarlet “C” to inhibit any future prospects for employment.
We’ve seen this over and over. [What follows is a list of known bigots losing their positions, such as Gen. Jerry Boykin, who was fired, but rehired almost immediately.]
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Next, Barber says, the radical left simultaneously attacks the family and works to tear it apart, at once sending a warning shot over the bow of other Christians and pushing them to the fringes of society. The ultimate goal? Conform to their pagan demands or face incarceration.
“What’s worse is that progressivism has, like a deadly cancer, fully metastasized into what passes for the church in America,” Barber says. “There is a great falling away afoot, and apostasy reigns supreme.”
As Barber sees it, the secular left doesn’t merely have a disagreement with Christianity. He explains these are not people with whom one may reason, compromise or even disagree; they are dedicated to evil; and they demand nothing less than the abolition of the biblical worldview, and the destruction of Christ’s followers right along with it.
Holy fuck, I’m about to overdose on melodrama here. Secular and pagan are now the same thing? I’m secular, but not pagan. I have zero interest in making any theist conform to my demands, and even less interest in forming some sort of prison for those who don’t comply to whatever. That sounds more like a religious thing to do. As an atheist and a humanist, what I do want is for Christians to go about their lives as they wish, while keeping their religion the fuck out of everyone else’s lives. Simple enough. Stop trying to enforce religious law every 5 seconds, and withdraw your collective nose out of people’s genitals. Learn to mind your own damn business when it comes to private medical decisions. Realize that freedom of religion doesn’t mean Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. If you don’t like that horrible public education, send your kids to private school, or home school. Pray privately, as your own holy book tells you to do. Stop insisting on show prayer everywhere, all the time. It doesn’t impress anyone. Stop wailing over granting basic human rights to all people. No one is at your door with chaps, a whip, and the notorious Gay Agenda.
“Now is the time to fight back. If you are someone, Christian or not, who refuses to see Christianity wiped out—like it ever could be—and your children indoctrinated into pure evil, then sitting on the sidelines is no longer an option,” Barber says. “We live in dire times. But with Christ, it’s never too late to turn the tide!”
Emphasis mine. Right, so why the fucking hysteria? Why the overdose of drama? I can clue you in, Matt. It’s called loss of privilege. People get upset about that, which is perfectly normal. What you need to do is adjust, adapt. The world is moving on, whether you like it or not.
I’m believing for transforming revival that changes America from the inside out. Sure, there will always be a radical left, but when some of the proponents of a godless nation get radically saved and speak out about their passion for Jesus, the tide will begin to turn.
The devil knows his time is short. Let’s keep praying.
Oh, I’m sure that will work. Yes. Stay in your houses, and pray. 24 / 7. Show that Lucifer.
QFFT! This should be plastered everywhere.
Barber:
This description sounds like NONE of the atheists or humanists that I know. It sounds like projection of his feelings about atheists and humanists onto them. If he had his choice, he would wipe out all opposition to his theocratic worldview. He does not want to reason or compromise. He wants to impose his rules onto everyone or destroy them for not complying.
Johnson catman:
It’s certainly not me, fuck, I’m much too busy to be fully committed to evil.
When your only argument, claim, “evidence” is “magic sky faeries did it”, yes: That is not reasonable, there is no room for compromise there, and it is fecking disagreeable.
For the “evil” of not paying tithes to child rapists, for the “evil” of ignoring (and laughing at) the authoritarian interpretations of assorted texts loosely based on stone age-ish oral legends, for the evil of telling the magic sky faerie botherers to feck off, yes.
Keep insisting I follow your twisted bullshite, yes. Please note I am not insisting on anything, but do encourage a connection with reality, and a familiarity with evidence. And logic.
No, I am not a murderer. However, I know where there is a B Ark…
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Hating Jesus: The American Left’s War on Christianity
Because christians have, like, never killed eachother in vast masses over jesus. I hate to drop honesty but: catholics hate protestant jesus and vice-versa. And they disagree with muslims and jews about jesus, too. In fact, jesus is a symbol of hate for the religious.
I wish the left did have a war on christianity because then there’d be more people on the right side. And for what it’s worth I’m not at war with christianity: I’m at war with stupid ideas. Christianity just happens to be the godzilla of stupid ideas, but I’m also at war with homepathy and chupacabras, rape apologists, Bill Cosby and Michael Shermer, the KKK, racists, nazis, libertarian philosophy and Ayn Rand’s bad writing, if that makes the silly christians feel a bit less targeted.
Wow, after jamming it all into one awkward sentence, I now realize how hate-filled I am.
And I forgot to mention Israel, colonialists, and genociders. So much hate, to little time.
johnson catman @ 1:
Agreed! Well written, Caine!
Marcus:
Yeah, that’s me on the dedicated to evil business.
Jim, thanks!
Just a few decades ago such a man didn’t exist! “Protecting marriage” was invented 20 years ago (thank you, Bill Clinton), “right to life” was invented 40-50 years ago by US evangelists (though Catholics held that for longer) and never, ever, such a man would talk about “Christ’s love” -- the speech of them and their ilk has always been one of hate.
Like a mirror image of Marcus #7, come to think of it.
(Nothing against Marcus -- he’s on our side and that’s the only thing that really counts)
Yeah… The “scarlet C” gives it all away. Couldn’t even finish that book in highschool, kept making me feel ill or enraged at all the ridiculous crap. Also, wasn’t necessary for me to read at all. I had more than enough examples of that sort of christianity around me growing up.
The article, what I could wade through of it before abandoning it, mentioned mountains of society. So if I understand the dog whistles right that means Jennifer (author of the article) and Matt (author of the book) are christian dominionists?
lanir @ 12:
That’s an actual book? I had no idea.
As for the dominionist thing, I’m pretty sure Barber is, he’s as batshit as they come. The column was from Charisma News, which according to Wiki:
So, um, yes?
I think “the scarlet ‘C'” is supposed to be an indirect reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. In said novel, the letter which is all red-like is an ‘A’, for ‘Adulteress’. So, you know, scarlet ‘A’, scarlet ‘C’, it’s all the same thing, right?
Well, yes I get the bloody reference. It’s just that I wouldn’t put it past someone like Barber to pen a bad book called ‘The Scarlet C’ or some such.
*tries to twirl moustache evily, but the Redhead had me shave before shopping yesterday*
Yer not very good at this evil thing, are you? The last person who tried to suggest I might consider shaving has never been found. Even their records are non-existent, and the people who think they remember the fool have been committed. And I was trying to be nice…