| This Christmas has been much
different than all of the others that I can remember in my lifetime
because there has been such a coordinated effort to remove the
significance of Christ from the holidays.
The ACLU has been very successful at creating
fear in the hearts of Americans by suing or threatening to sue
anyone who dares be bold enough to display anything of a Christian
nature. They have been doing it all year long, but Christmas
gives them many more targets.
The recent incident that took place in Mustang,
OK is an example of that. They removed the nativity scene on
the advice of lawyers who said that they might get sued. No
one, apparently, had actually threatened to sue them. They were
just afraid someone would.
This evening as I was driving home from work,
I heard Paul Harvey’s Rest of the Story. The story today was
about how Genghis Khan managed to conquer much of the known
world at the time.
Khan sent the word ahead to the city that he
was approaching that the city could surrender and be given a
quick, merciful death, or they could resist and experience a
terrible death.
As he approached the city, from many miles away,
his troops pounded on huge drums. These drums were designed
to be heard from extreme distances, and struck terror into the
hearts of the citizens, so much so that they would often surrender
when their own army outnumbered Khan’s by many times. Khan,
according to Harvey, was the original terrorist.
The irony of Khan’s success is that he could
have been relegated to historical irrelevancy if one of his
first victims had taken him on and defeated him.
I have said a number of times in my past columns
that secularists intend to drive Christians behind their own
four walls. Their newest tactic is to say that any mention of
Christ is “offensive”.
Given that trend, I can imagine the day that
I will take set of drawings for a church in for a building permit,
and have them rejected because its design would be offensive.
Could that day come, that the exterior of a church building
won’t be allowed to display a cross, stained glasswork, or even
the name of Christ?
That day could come, that is, it could come
if we allow it.
Christians need to be bolder about their faith
now, and they need to be willing to take the same position that
our founding fathers took to insure the freedom of the company.
Many of our founding fathers lost everything they had because
they committed their lives and their fortunes to that freedom.
We are now at that same crossroads, one in which
we may have to be willing to give up a great deal of ourselves
in order to insure the future of Christianity in this country.
The question is, how many of us are willing
to do so? Apparently, more and more are.
The Christian Examiner on the Web has given
a few examples.
A New York city school has allowed a Hanukkah
menorah and an Islamic star and crescent to be displayed at
their schools, but not a nativity scene. One mother has sued
the school with the help of the Thomas More Law Center.
In New York city, a woman was fined for having
a sign that said “Jesus is Alive” in her yard. She sued, claiming
the city’s sign ordinance was unconstitutional. She won.
In Monett, Missouri, two women are circulating
a petition to allow religious symbols to be displayed in the
city’s “Festival of Lights”. The Chamber of Commerce, who hosts
the display, is afraid of being sued if they do. Perhaps now
they are afraid they will be sued if they don’t.
And in Mustang, OK, the school who removed the
nativity scene is feeling the wrath of many parents.
The point is, Christians have tremendous political
and economic power in this nation. We can easily overwhelm the
ACLU and others like them if we are willing to sacrifice to
do so. Those who are trying to destroy Christianity in this
nation are a minority, much like Genghis Khan’s army, who was
always imminently defeatable.
Much of the high ground has already been surrendered,
but the recent elections and the boldness of a few will undoubtedly
encourage others to be more active in their resistance.
In the meantime, this Christmas and beyond,
it is important for Christians to do everything possible to
make our light shine. In the darkness that is secularism, that
light will offer the hope of Christ to America and the world
again.
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