An article written by my church's Worship Leader, Lynne M.
This article, I suppose, should really be posted in the "Religion" forum, but since it involves an aspect of the "Liberal/Conservative" thing, I thought I'd post it here, in "Politics".
I brought this subject up a few weeks ago in my Sunday School class, which is instructed by our church's Worship Leader, Lynne. She is also the Pastor's wife, and is very passionate in her faith.
I liked what she had to say, and asked her to write it down and forward it to me for posting here. I'm waiting to hear back from her, and if she doesn't mind, any opposing views will be forwarded on to her, and I will then post her answers. So, you may have to wait a couple of days for the exchange. She's pretty tough, though, I do have to warn you.----RW
First we have to remember that Christians have only one enemy.
[12] For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Now, I'm not saying that liberals are demon possessed or even evil. But here's what happens. Liberals and especially extreme liberals tend to come down on the side of the argument that is against scripture. Many times Christian liberals can use scripture to explain their point of view, but usually they have to defend their arguments with phrases like "times have changed since then."
Since Liberals are already arguing for things that are against scripture, the Christian's enemy lies to them and tells them that Christians and Christianity is THEIR enemy. And unfortunately for Christianity, the lies are fed when extreme conservatives listen to the enemy and say unchristian things like "Take the homosexuals out and shoot them" or they throw blood on or try to kill abortionists.
You see Satan is really everyone's enemy. He can not tell the truth. It is impossible for him. Even if he manages to speak a word of truth, it is tainted with lies or twisted truth (take what he told Eve in the Garden of Eden for example). He lies to anyone who will believe him. Christians and non-Christians alike. And he will tell them exactly what they want to hear so that his cause benefits. He tells the extreme liberals that Christians are the enemy and at the same time he will tell extreme conservatives that homosexuals and abortionists should be shot. His goal is to divide and conquer.
Why is it that Christianity and Judaism are the only world religions under constant attack? Why does everyone leave Bhudists and Hindus alone? Why are Muslims only persecuted after they begin to persecute others? It's because Christianity and Judaism are the only religions that threaten to destroy the enemy. Christianity is the only religion by which a person can be delivered from Satan's hands and the Jewish nation has been declared God's chosen (although I have a feeling that there are as many "pew-sitting" Jews as there are "pew-sitting" Christians who are going to be surprised at the final judgement)
Satan is at war. He wants to take all the territory he possibly can. He doesn't want Christmas celebrated because someone might realize just why Christmas takes place and if Christmas IS celebrated, he'd really rather people worship Santa Claus on that day because that way they'll miss the message and he won't lose any ground. I'm sure that Good Friday and Easter really scare him, but fortunately for him, Christians would rather emphasize Christmas, and without the message of Easter, Christmas is relatively harmless.
One might think that Liberals hate Christians. Some probably do, but most don't. The problem is they are listening to lies of one who does. Satan hates it when a person discovers he or she is truly created in the image of God and begins to discover how precious they are in His eyes . . . so, he developed the lie of evolution. And if one discovers that all humans are created in the image of God they might value life more and might tell more people about Jesus, so he propogates the lies about abortion and women having the right to choose.
Truthfully, that sounds perfectly legitimate. Women should have the right to choose what they do with their body. I believe even God would agree with that. So Satan started with the lie that sex outside of marriage was permissable. He started centuries ago gradually allowing that lie to come to the forefront and over the last 30 years it has become truth. I mean how many people have even read Hebrews 13:4 . . . and the marriage bed kept pure . . . ? Even most church going people and very moral folks don't see anything wrong with premarital sex. So, once sex outside of (before and during) marriage became socially acceptable, the next logical step was what to do with the result of the the incident. Women do have the right to choose what to do with their body. However, they are making the choice late. To abort or not to abort IS NOT the question. To have sex or not to have sex . . . that's the question! Liberals will fight back with "what about those who've been violated through rape or molestation?" They'll even ask "what about the life of the mother or when the baby is found to have a terrible birth defect?" Yep, that's the lie . . . Satan loves to fight with the lie. The truth is the percentage of abortions due to rape, molestation, the health of the mother or birth defect is so low that at this point it's irrelevant in the argument. The lie is that human life is unimportant especially if it's unborn human life. Folks believe that lie and we have children being killed every minute. Liberals are against Christians because Satan hates new life. Jesus Christ creates new life and His enemy is only out to destroy it. John 10:10 says that the enemy comes "only to steal, kill and destroy" and he is succeeding every day because liberals are believing the lies.
No, liberals don't hate Christians. They aren't even out to get Christians. But there is one who does and is. And he spends all of his time lying to anyone who will listen. His lies are the most believable out there. But anytime you hear anything that doesn't jive with scripture, no matter how true, legitimate or even backed with scientific evidence it seems, you should stop and pray and really contemplate whether or not you should beleive it. And the next time you feel like someone is out to get you. . . . someone "else" probably is!