September 4, 2017 @ 7:30 AM
Shortly before his death in 2008, Paul Weyrich, who not only cofounded the Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell, but also coined the name "Moral Majority," wrote a letter to Christian conservatives. It was one of the most honest evaluations of the sad and sorrow state of present-day America that I have ever read. In the letter, Weyrich admitted that there was no moral majority in America, a fact indubitably proven by the American people's election and reelection of Bill Clinton to the White House. Weyrich then when on to assert that the culture war was over and that we had lost, which he claimed to be proven by the fact that our society had become a cesspool into which we were sinking deeper and deeper. In conclusion, Weyrich called for Christians to separate themselves from present-day American society, in order to protect themselves, especially their children, from its moral pollution.
Unlike the late Paul Weyrich, most of America's modern-day evangelicals have their heads in the sand. They refuse to open their eyes and honestly look around at the obvious sea change that has occurred in our country over the last few decades. Today's evangelicals still believe there is a moral majority in America and that most Americans are God-fearing people. Therefore, they conclude that turning America around is a simple matter of electing the right candidates to political office who will point us back in the right direction, which is the direction desired by America's moral majority.
Consider with me some disconcerting and undeniable facts that definitely debunk the fanciful notion of pie in the sky evangelicals about present-day America. First, in the last three presidential elections, the majority of American voters voted for the progressive candidates—Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—advocating the most radical socialist agenda. Second, as is undeniably proven by today's Republican controlled Congress, the majority of elected Republican representatives are moderates, without a conservative bone in their body. Third, if you use the truly conservative Freedom Caucus to determine the percentage of true conservatives among today's elected Republican representatives you will find, much to your chagrin, that true conservatives make up no more than 12% of the GOP. Finally, if you separate genuine Christians from the 12% of true conservatives, you'll eventually get down to the minuscule amount of true Christians in today's America.
The pie in the sky perspective of present-day America by today's pixie dust pitching evangelicals is a crock. To believe that our unchristian country can be restored to the greatness it once enjoyed as a Christian nation by electing Donald Trump rather than Hillary Clinton to the White House and Republicans rather than Democrats to Congress is a preposterous proposition. The problem in today's America is found in the hearts of the American people, not in the halls of Congress. Therefore, our problem is politically unsolvable. The only hope of making any difference in our God-forsaking country today is for our country's Christian minority to stop trying to clean up the dirty pond of American society and to go back to fishing in it. We need to abandon the futile exercise of political activism in today's corrupt political system and start faithfully preaching the uncompromised Gospel of Jesus Christ, no matter how much we'll be persecuted in today's post-Christian America.