The Good Shepherd's Scared Sheep
31 May 2005
During a recent presentation on Islam—the Religion of the Sword—I contrasted a quote from our President praising Islam as “good and peaceful” with a quote from Islam’s founder, Mohammed, asserting that “a day of blood shed in the cause of Allah” and “a night spent in arms” is better “than two months of fasting or prayer.” My reason for sharing these contradictory quotes was to show how the truth about Islam is being sugarcoated and suppressed. One member of the congregation took exception to my use of President Bush’s comment, insisting that our President had to praise Islam in order to protect Muslim Americans from harassment and discrimination.
Although I wholeheartedly agree that President Bush should be as concerned about the safety of a Muslim American as he is about the safety of any other American, and that any maltreatment of a Muslim American should be condemned by us all, I disagree that our President is duty-bound by virtue of his office to praise every false religion practiced in our country, especially one that inspires terrorists with whom we are now engaged in mortal conflict for our nation’s very survival. President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt no obligation to praise Shintoism as a “good and peaceful” religion during our conflict with Japan in World War II. Why then should President George W. Bush feel obligated to praise Islam during our current war on terror against Islamic fascists and terrorists?
The ruse that negativity directed at something results in acts of violence against that something’s adherents is a means that is being masterfully employed by today’s politically-correct crowd to muzzle the church. For instance, if we preach, as First Baptist Church of Jacksonville’s pastor Jerry Vines did: “All religions are not the same. All religions are not equally true. There is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved except the name of Jesus.” we will be accused, as Vines was by Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News,” of “preaching hate” and “words of war” that pit “American against American.” If we teach that homosexuality is a sin, as the Bible says, we will be blamed for inciting acts of violence against gays and lesbians, as NBC’s Today Show’s Katie Couric insinuated following the 1998 murder of a young homosexual in Wyoming named Matthew Shepard. And if we take a stand against judicial despotism, as many Christians did recently on “Justice Sunday,” we will be accused of “harsh rhetoric” that encourages “those on the edge or on the fringe to exact revenge on a judge who displeases them,” as was recently alleged before a Congressional committee by Joan H. Lefkow, a Chicago judge whose husband and mother were tragically murdered by an out-of-work electrician whose decade-long malpractice suit she threw out of court.
Scared of being branded a “hatemonger” or a “homophobe,” and terrified at the prospect of being blamed for inciting violence against other religions, homosexuals, or judges, the timid little lambs of the Good Shepherd’s modern-day fold are being silenced by the intimidating tactics of today’s thought police. That all of this is nothing more than a satanically inspired ruse to squelch the preaching of the gospel and to keep the church quiet while secularists corrupt and profane our culture is easily proven by the fact that those preaching this politically-correct line never practice it themselves. For example, in a recent meeting of a congressional subcommittee, Congresswoman Maxine Waters accused “Pat Robertson and some [Christian] organizations” of being “involved with [and in] support of the Taliban before 9/11.” Waters went on to suggest that such “connections” still exist and that Christian groups today are still “supplying resources to the Taliban.”
If Congresswoman Waters had made her outlandish and unsubstantiated accusations against one of America’s Muslim leaders or organizations, the public outcry would have been deafening. She would have been roundly condemned for inciting violence against Muslim Americans by alleging that they were aiding and abetting our nation’s terrorist foes. However, the fact that her insane rant was directed at one of America’s Christian leaders and some of America’s Christian organizations meant that nary a peep of protest was ever heard from any quarter. If today’s politically-correct crowd really believes that negativity directed toward something invokes violence against it, then why has this belief not curtailed their fierce and fallacious attacks upon Christianity? Is it that they don’t believe what they espouse? Or worse yet, maybe they do!
Don Walton
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