Click on following links for earlier articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8.
To save time later, let’s get all of our excuses for Christianity’s lack of political influence out in the open here at the start. And then, let’s have a coordinated crying session, okay?
1. The mainstream media (newspapers, magazines and network television) is liberal and anti-Christian.
2. Hollywood is liberal and anti-Christian.
3. The Judicial System and most of the other federal departments are liberal and anti-Christian.
3. University professors are mostly liberal and anti-Christian.
4. America’s elementary, middle and high school systems are mostly liberal and anti-Christian.
If you have other excuses, tack them on; then let’s begin boohooing and lamenting the hopeless situation we Christians are in.
“Oh no! Waa! Waa! How can we Christians win? It’s too hard! The cards are stacked against us! Woe is us!”
Do you feel better? I hope so.
Now, let’s check out how successful political activism has been for us Evangelical Christians, using Moral Majority’s 1979 platform as a guide:
Abortion. 50,000,000 dead babies with more being murdered everyday.
Traditional Family Values. Still under attack and losing ground in state by state, lawsuit by lawsuit and legislature by legislature battles.
National Defense. Approximately 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001, and future 911’s are looming on the near horizon with little real security provided by our state and federal governments.
Israel. Support for Israel is at its lowest level since 1949.
Except for the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Evangelical Christianity’s political activism efforts have been a dismal failure. Of course, there have been a few scattered minor victories here and there, but not enough to stem the tide of our nation’s plunge into a godless abyss.
There will be those who will shout that we Christians just need to “keep on keeping on.” Spend more money backing Christian political activist organizations. Spend more money backing supposed Christian-leaning candidates. Spend more money providing media advertisements and voter information guides for our Christian political ideals. Organize more Christians for political activism. Preach more political activism messages in our churches.
More! More! More! More! More! Always more and more of the same-o, same-o.
But isn’t the definition of lunacy – “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?”
And after thirty years of political activism by us Evangelical Christians, shouldn’t we admit we’re doing something wrong? We have lost our way.
So, what must we do?
(Continued in Part 10)
Larry Who 
So true, Larry, and yet in some places in this country, God has his people who are willing to fight for his kingdom. It is just sad that most voices for Christ are now silent.
Marianne,
Thanks. You are exactly right.
I have always marveled how the Lord could ask some people to join something, like a church, and at the same time ask others to leave. It’s called walking with the Lord and not fearing man.
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Now I know this message is relevant for my country of birth and well as of my adoption. All those facts are very much in forces in these places. But sad to say, Poland is 98% Catholic and the rest is all other non-Catholic faiths put together. Any suggestions?
Blessings,
Gladwell
gladwell,
Thanks. Good points.
If I lived in Poland, I’d go after the Catholics. There will be a large percentage of strong believers in their midst. Just find a way to hook in with them without offending them.
For example, Arthur Blessett, the man who carried the cross through hundreds of countries, walked through Poland with thousands of Catholics following him. What he did was asked them if they would like to know Jesus better? Of course, they said “yes.” Then he led them in a sinner’s prayer.
[The bird-brained HELLywood shmucks affect even our Kansas birds – the HELLywoodized ones with their blaring boombox “mating calls” which scare our little feathered ones. So I am sharing this with all non-shmucks. Karl]
Our songbirds here in MitcHELL County, Kansas want
to give the following update on the insane boombox noise here:
“The noisiest kid over in the city of Beloink drives an older white sedan with license number 178-BJW. Our owner’s friends in Beloink have told the police about him several times, but it never dawns on the Keystone Kops there that they could use an unmarked car to verify the noise; the kids have cell phones and can warn their friends when they see a marked patrol car coming.
“And it never dawns on the anti-social psychopaths (who may be making up for the lack of noisy rattles in their infancy) that their unlawful noise may be harming a sick baby or someone whose night job forces him to sleep days – or even some veteran who can get “flashbacks” of battlefield cannon booms!
“It’s obvious that many Kansas kids are no longer Christians, or patriotic Americans, or even human because they have been slowly brainwashed and mentally enslaved by leftist, anti-family, perverted, unAmerican, Jesus-bashing, Marxist shlemiels and shmucks in HELLywood who exercise their first amendment rights by dangling every known vice before Kansas farm kids while secretly viewing them as red-state “hicks”! After America falls we’ll be able to blame the buyers of HELLywood’s videos and devil music as much as the HELLywood devils themselves!
“If you think such music doesn’t create devils, why do little piggy Beloinkers blast quiet neighborhoods even on Sunday mornings during church time? Do those paranoids really think everyone is out to get them and they have to have growling tailpipes for the same reason a dog growls? Since we don’t get to democratically vote whether we want to hear their music or any music, will those “dictators” be happy when God responds in kind by letting America be taken over by a big dictator who will likely ban all “dirty capitalist” noise! Until then, maybe a tornado – or even a nuclear war – will cover up at least some of the noise!
“Many other places (like Albuquerque and Reno) have huge fines for boombox noise and even impound offending cars! How can high-crime, gambling towns have better “Kansas values” than a north central Kansas town?
“Have the little piggies here heard of headphones? We don’t care if they’re smoking pot and fornicating in the middle of our road at 3 a.m. as long as they’re quiet! North Bell St. over in Beloink is the noisiest place in the county. Would the BELLies care if one of our friends is a veteran a block east of them who might go postal over the noise? As long as the cops do nothing about this, we songbirds will keep singing to the whole world about MitcHELL County!”
See what smart birds we have?
Karl (in Karl’s Kastle)
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