Ruth said:
Hi all, just read this, I do not think I am in agreement, would like your thoughts. Should Christians practice civil obedience over issues such as gay marriage, Obamas both control mandate?
I believe scripture teaches to submit to authority unless they call us to deny Christ. What unbelievers do is not my business, as far as birth control, nowhere in scripture does it say you can not practice this, and as far as your taxes paying for sinful things, well that already happens, and Jesus teaches pay your taxes.
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Leaders at this week's National Religious Broadcasters conference warned Christians may soon be forced to practice civil disobedience.
Southern Baptist leader Richard Land and NRB board member Janet Parshall cited same-sex marriage and President Obama's birth control mandate as the reason why.
Land said those issues are non-negotiable, even at the cost of paying fines and going to jail.
Parshall said today's Christians may have to decide whether to "bow our knee" to government or to God.
First let's get one thing horribly clear. The United States as a democratic nation formally ended over a decade ago; Oct. 26, 2001 to be precise.* The constitution now lies on the rubbish heap of history. Gone!
"Gone like a freight train, gone like yesterday
Gone like a soldier in the civil war, bang bang
Gone like a '59 Cadillac
Like all the good things that ain't never comin' back."
- Scotty McCreery GONE
The days when Federal leadership considered action or inaction in the best interests of the country are over!
Congressional stagnation and grid lock are the rule of the day when it comes to matters of social interest, but when militarism and the special interests of the financial cartel and mega industries are concerned all bills are rubber stamped into law often without even being read by our legislators or reviewed by committee.
The president now rules by executive edict and has assumed the power to kill anyone abroad or at home without due process of law.
The Federal court system
consistently rules against constitutional principles as advanced by our founding fathers and
against Christian principles of morality and decency.
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power"
-Benito Mussolini
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
- John Adams
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
-Carl Sagan
Moral issues are peripheral to religion. Morality as always is defined by the culture. Remember that everything the Nazis did was moral and legal. In America, murdering babies has been legal for a long time. Gay marriage and the gay lifestyle are now moral mainstream activities. All religions, including murderous Islam, are considered to be tolerant except Christianity, which is actually the most tolerant of them all. America is drenched in sin and debauchery!
The benchmark for the Christian religion is now our corrupt American culture, not God or the Bible! Christian evangelism, public demonstrations of Christian faith, prayer both public and private and even home Bible studies are either illegal or will soon be declared to be illegal in most places in the United States. The culture of American morality is antithetical to Christian principles.
Is your allegiance to God or to the politically correct American culture?
The question is now serious, being considered as to whether civil disobedience can be condoned in America. Does the reader need an example to decide whether it is or is not? Consider the life and work of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. a man who exercised considerable civil disobedience during his life. If he were alive today I have no doubt that he would be in the forefront of leadership against the policies of the Federal government.
"There is nothing that expressed massive civil disobedience any more than the Boston Tea Party, and yet we give this to our young people and our students as a part of the great tradition of our nation. So I think we are in good company when we break unjust laws, and I think those who are wiling to do it and accept the penalty are those who are part of the saving of the nation. To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
TO IGNORE EVIL IS TO BECOME AN ACCOMPLICE TO IT.
"The individual who disobeys unjust law, whose conscience tells him it is unjust and who is willing to accept the penalty by staying in jail until that law is altered, is expressing at the moment the very highest respect for the law."
- Rev. King
Christians in America have arrived at the point in history when they must choose whether they will accede to the demands of an unjust government or whether they will disobey it. Such disobedience never goes unpunished by man, never goes unrewarded by God.
"The benchmark of a civilized society is the quality of its justice."
- Law & Order TV series
I love my country, but I fear that as long as I am a Christian my government will hate me.
but that's just me, hollering from the choir loft...
(*) Oct. 26, 2001 was the date the Patriot Act was signed into law by President GW Bush. The act of congress effectively ended constitutional law in America.
