To the Editor:
Our country is being transformed contrary to what our founding fathers envisioned and repeatedly warned us about. We are now being governed by leftist radical revolutionaries who align themselves with Karl Marx rather than James Madison. The corruption in D.C. is very abundant with extortions, bribes, pay-offs and sweetheart deals with money used from the stimulus slush fund. They will stop at nothing and when they get control of health and energy, they will be able to micro-manage and control every aspect of your life.
Farewell to the land of the free. Their completed transformation will be an authoritarian type of government which has a history throughout the world of being hostile to Christianity. So why does the church remain silent? What is the purpose of the church? Hs the church become nothing more than a country club for Christmas? Churches were able to maintain their political activity until 1954 when Senator Lyndon Johnson engineered a change in the tax code that removed the tax-exempt status from groups who support candidates for office. Since then churches have backed away from involvement in political and even social issues and today many pastors refuse to get involved in any kind of political activity. This move was a backdoor attempt to silence free speech and for the statist it has worked beautifully.
In colonial America, it was the churches that became the primary source to stir the fires of liberty, telling the colonists the government was usurping their God-given rights and violating the laws of God. The founding fathers were convinced it was their sacred duty to start a revolution to uphold the law of God against the unjust and oppressive laws of men and the fight for political liberty and freedom was seen as a sacred cause because civil liberty was an inalienable right according to God’s natural law.
The New England ministers were very decisive in rallying the moral support for the war against England. They pressed their congregations to overthrow King George because they believed that rebellion to tyrants was obedience to God. From many pulpits, ministers recruited troops and strengthened them in battle with patriotic sermons. In 1775, the Lutheran Pastor, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, preached a sermon on Ecclesiates 3:1-8 and in the message he declared, “there is a time to fight.” He then threw off his clerical robe to reveal the uniform of a Revolutionary army officer. Ministers turned the colonial resistance into a righteous cause and served at every level in the conflict.
On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry spoke to arouse the Second Virginian Convention to arms against the tyranny of Great Britain. “Give me liberty or give me death.” We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming upon us.
Ted Turner once said that Christians today are weak individuals that use their church as a crutch. I have thought of his statement over the years and now tend to believe there may be some truth in it.
We now have another storm coming upon us and congregations need to be informed. This is not an issue of political parties; it is about protecting and preserving our Constitution, liberty (including religious liberty) and institutions and traditions which have made this country great. Where are the onward Christian soldiers? Where are the church buses at the freedom tea parties?
If there was an argument for the defense of evolution, it would be the absence of spine found in today’s Christian.
William Martin
Malvern, OH
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