Are Christians Outcasts in the United States?

Christians and moralists in the United States have been far too tolerant and silent for far too long. Now we are outcasts in our own Country--even though our Country was founded upon principles that are the very tenets of our faith in God. As we attempt to restore our Country to its former moral stature, those with whom we have been tolerant will not be tolerant in return. I predict that Christians will experience persecution like never before seen here in the United States, as the powers of darkness seek to retain control.

Rather than evangelizing unbelievers for the past several decades, those unbelievers demanded tolerance (and we complied). We told them they could believe whatever they wanted, just so long as they didn't force it on anyone else. Well guess what? They're not going to return the favor with us. If the Christians, tea partiers and others dissatisfied with the current direction of our government do not find a way to unite themselves in order to reclaim our Country...we are sunk!

Now is NOT the time to divide over theological and worship differences. Now IS the time to unite around the U.S. Constitution, read it, memorize it, read it in conjunction with the Federalist Papers. We must know our Constitution and the Federalist Papers so well that we know when someone is quoting it correctly...or not. And, we must know them well enough to be able to tell when the U.S. Supreme Court lays a big egg (like Roe v. Wade).  The time for doctrinal isolation and purity is in the private worship sector. By all means, worship God in the manner you see fit in your church or house of worship. However, you must come to terms with those who worship differently than you in order to save our nation from it's public woes.

Do NOT interpret any of the above to mean that I think abortion is a "right," "personal decision," or "states' rights" issue. I believe our founding documents clearly uphold the value of life, even pre-born life. It is always interesting to me that those who push abortion as a legal right are always those who have already been born.

Abortion is one social issue upon which all Christian faiths ought to agree; an issue upon which all moral people ought to agree. Yet, ironically, abortion is the one issue that divides the supposedly conservative Republican Party, even though their platform is a pro-life platform.  Until Christians and all moral people can come to terms on the issue of abortion, we will never see our Country restored to constitutional rule.

America's democratic republic [IMHO we are a Constitutional Republic] came about because, by God's providence, people who were highly influential American leaders at the time followed the discipline of faith and reason to conclusions about justice that recognized the right of the people to govern themselves. What leaders will do so now? Whoever they are, they represent the leaders the Tea Party movement needs to lift up as its representatives if, as its name implies, it is to be a faithful reiteration of the fabled spirit of 1776.  Where will they be found?  One thing is certain: not among those touted by the "Great Mentioners" in the puppet media, or in any way served up by the "God is unmentionable" crowd in control of the present party system. ~Dr. Alan Keyes, Which is Really the Third Party?, Sat. 17 April 2010.

Let's make God publicly mentionable again, and not just as a curse word. The atheists among us have just as much right NOT to listen as we do to speak. Speaking about your faith is NOT hate speech. Speaking about the consequences of Heaven and Hell is NOT hate speech. Condemning the act of homosexuality is NOT hate speech. What first brought the Pilgrims to the New World was the desire to be free to worship God in the manner they thought best represented the example of worship followed by the early church. Now, some 230+ years later, God is the great unmentionable in both major parties.

Those two parties, Democrats and Republicans, have surreptitiously enacted election laws at all levels of government which virtually assure that no candidate outside those two parties will ever be able to campaign for elected office.  What's worse, they have convinced the supposedly conservative party (Republicans) that if the conservatives don't vote for the GOP candidate, no matter how bad a choice he/she may be, that it will guarantee a Democrat win. If you repeat a lie enough times it becomes the truth, right?  And, so the people are so afraid of "splitting the conservative vote" they won't vote for the best candidate if they don't believe that candidate can win. It has become the total opposite of what our revered Founders intended.

It is time for all sects of the Christian faith to rise up in support of the U.S. Constitution, and for the morality that it espouses.  It is time for all sects of the Christian faith to let go of the lie that a woman has the right to choose between herself and her baby--who advocates for the baby?  The woman has a voice, but her pre-born offspring does not.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.  Please don't stay on the couch.  Please get involved, and please don't trust either of the two major parties to tell you the truth about their candidate.  They're not in it for the good of the Country.  They're in it for the power high it gives them--why else would politicians (and parties) spend millions of dollars campaigning for a Congressional seat that pays only $174,000 per year?  Folks, when are you going to realize that we are being screwed by BOTH parties?

Ambassador Alan Keyes...

I don't know how many of you are regular readers of former Ambassador Alan Keyes, but he is always "spot on" when it comes to moral, spiritual and Constitutional issues. Among other things, Dr. Keyes writes a blog at http://www.loyaltoliberty.com/.

Loyal to Liberty's latest post (if it isn't the latest, then seek it out) "Fifth Column Conservatives" is an intriguing piece. Dr. Keyes begins by defining the term fifth column: "Webster's online dictionary defines the phrase "fifth column" as "a group of secret sympathizers of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or in national borders." Keyes continues:

This phrase has been much on my mind of late as I consider the bloodless coup d'état that is currently underway in the United States. In speech and deed the Obama faction has displayed its intention to overthrow the Constitution of the United States.

My intent in quoting from this article is to make you curious enough to go and read it for yourself. You won't be sorry. Later in the article, Keyes identifies those he believes are fifth column conservatives:

As it turns out the greatest threat to the effort to dispel complacency before it's too late doesn't come from the Obama faction. They have moved with alacrity to implement their agenda. Like a brake impaired double truck trailer hurtling down a steep incline, their excessive speed stirs up a gust hefty enough to shake the unwary from their stupor, provided no one explains it away as a harmless passing breeze. But some folks stamped with a phony imprimatur of "conservatism" are doing just that. At first people like this resisted the idea that we should call Obama a socialist, as I did during my campaign against him in Illinois in 2004. Now they themselves admit his socialism, but claim that it's a benign variety, well known in Western Europe to have caused no more than a mild epidemic of productivity-stifling bureaucracy, with no jackboots in sight. The smug epithets and ridicule once reserved for anyone who wouldn't call a socialist a "liberal" is now heaped upon anyone who calls Obamacytes by their right names. They are advocates of cult-of-personality fueled submission to pervasive government control (complete with Hitler Jugend style reeducation of the young as uniformed "mandatory volunteers" programmed for loyal subservience to "the leaders" will). But the Devil take anyone who identifies them by the labels historically associated with the strikingly similar Nazi, Fascist, Stalin- and Maoist models of totalitarian socialism that wrecked havoc in the twentieth century.

Again and again Dr. Keyes correctly analyzes and labels the problem. I, as reckless as I am, would have went one step further to say that "centrists," "moderates," and "middle-of-the-roaders" are the largest group of "fifth column conservatives" that I know. They cringe whenever political policy moves off center in either direction. They despise what they consider "far right republicans," as well as "far left liberals." They want to be comfortable, but not too passionate. The problem with people who spend all their time in the middle of the road is that they get hit by traffic from both directions. Moreover, "moderate republicans" are really anathema to the the Grand Old Party, as they retain only the fiscal principles and none of the social and moral principles.

No doubt I'll be soundly corrected for saying so, but I believe moderate republicans bare a lion's share of guilt for why the country has shifted so far to the left as to allow an enemy like Barack Hussein Obama to be elected president. They do not see the need to oppose abortion, nor do they see the need to return to the moral values of our founding fathers. As I said before, all moderates, regardless of party, who stand in the middle politically are going to be hit with traffic from both directions. Their wishy-washy "let's just get along" views are worthless in the fight to secure our country and our Constitution, and are worthless against the far-left liberals fight to socialize our country.

I can hear them all whining even now..."can't we all just get along?"