When he recently explained to snooty, liberal San Franciscons that religion’s popularity in small town America is attributable to small town residents’ bitterness over closed factories and outsourced jobs, Barack Obama was drawing a natural conclusion from his personal experience. Not that his privileged life has been altered by troubles in the textile industry or blue-collar jobs being shipped overseas by white-collar executives, but that his personal religious faith is deeply rooted in bitterness.

The invective venom spewed from his pastor’s pulpit is all the proof needed to prove how much bitterness fuels the fire of Obama’s faith. His church’s amen corner is filled with fervent congregants enraged over perceived institutional racism in these “United States of White America.” Indeed, Obama’s church—Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ—is so angry at America that it vows no allegiance to her, but a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” which it calls “our native land, the mother continent, [and] the cradle of civilization.”

In light of his personal religious experience, it is easy to see how Barack Obama would mistakenly attribute all religion to fury felt over social injustices perceived to have been personally suffered by religious people. To be perfectly honest, modern-day religion is becoming all the rage. Many people are turning to religion simply because they’re ticked off. Take Islam—the world’s fastest growing religion—for example; its phenomenal growth is largely attributable to the fact that it provides the outraged with an outlet to exact vengeance upon their perceived oppressors. This accounts for the perpetration of widespread terrorist acts by today’s practitioners of “the Religion of the Sword.”

According to the Bible, “that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan,” who has already been “cast out” of “the third heaven,” will be “cast down” from the atmospheric heavens to “the earth” at the end of time (see: 2 Corinthians 12:2; Luke 10:18; Ephesians 2:2 and Revelation 12:9-10). Thus, the Scripture exclaims, “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth…for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Revelation 12:12). Truly, our times, like none before them, have been strewn with the seeds of satanically inspired ire.

A sure sign that we are living in the end times is the rage that distinguishes our present-day from all previous days. Never before has the world been so filled with wrath. Not only religionists but activists of all sorts are extraordinarily enraged. Whether we’re talking about evolutionists or environmentalists, feminists or gays, pacifists or secularists, civil libertarians or multiculturalists; we’re talking about people who are so livid that they’re literally beside themselves.

Of all things targeted by our present-day’s unprecedented indignation, none are more so than Christian Fundamentalism; that is, Christians who adhere to the fundamental doctrines of the historic Christian faith. Both enraged ecumenists and angry activists direct the brunt of their vitriol toward Christians who refuse to conform to today’s political correctness by conceding or compromising the cardinal tenets of orthodox Christianity. Nowadays, more than ever before, Bible-believing Christians are seen as the scourge of the earth and the biggest obstacle to the dawning of a New Age and the desired New World Order.

The world’s growing animus toward Christ and His church is evidenced by modern-society’s attempt to censor the church from speaking the name of Jesus outside of its sanctuaries. The mere mention of the Savior’s name outside of church services or Christians’ private residences is being increasingly frowned upon or forbidden altogether. For instance, you’re more likely to hear the name of Jesus spoken in today’s third world countries than you are in America’s public schools.

This rising “spirit of antichrist” should come as no surprise to contemporary Christians; after all, the church has contended with it since Pentecost and the Bible predicts its cresting and breaking over the entire planet at the end of time in a wave of persecution such as the church has never seen nor suffered before (1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 7). When it finally reaches its climatic crescendo, God is foreseen through the divinely inspired eyes of the Psalmist to be laughing from heaven and holding “in derision” all “the nations” who have raged “against [Him] and against His anointed” (Psalm 2:1-12). Consequently, the Psalmist admonishes us to receive Christ—“to kiss the Son”—before Christ returns to pour out “His wrath” upon all who have raged against Him!

As a Christian, I am taught that “the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God” (James 1:20). No one going around enraged is rendering service to God. God’s work is redemptive not revengeful and God’s servants are tender-hearted not ticked-off. Contrary to popular opinion, it is a genuine love for others, not a loathing of others, which motivates the church to proclaim an uncompromised Gospel in today’s politically correct world. Believing that Christ is humanity’s only hope, Christians are not only under a divine mandate to witness for Christ in this world (Matthew 28:18-20), but also constrained to do so by the love of their Savior (2 Corinthians 5:14) and their genuine concern for the souls of others.

While you may not like what Christians have to say about the seriousness of your sin, the certainty of God’s judgment and your only hope of heaven (Jesus Christ), please remember that we say it under divine compulsion and out of a genuine concern for your soul. We’re not mad at you, but want you to know that God is mad about you, so much so that He gave His Son for your salvation on the Cross of Calvary almost two thousand years ago. Although many will continue to be incensed by us and the world’s ire will continue rising against us until it reaches its biblically predicted end time apex, we’ll continue to preach Christ and Him crucified out of our burden for a world that is boiling with rage against us.