Ephesians 6:12
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual forces of wickedness in high places."
There is not a Christian unacquainted with the fact that to be a Christian is to be involved in a war. Jesus tells us that the heavens suffer violence and the violent take it by force and this means that we are to contend mightily in the struggle of good and evil and this is accomplished in many ways. But many Christians still imagine this war to be an event far off from us rather than a desperate battle we are amidst of. They also don't see what's happening in our culture and politics as part of this war. But what's happening in politics and culture is at the very heart of it.I'll get right to my point in stating my unequivocal belief that the American Left is animated by the demonic realm and can aptly demonstrate a correlation between Democrat party policies and the erosion of our moral culture. Let me give a few examples:
The Welfare State has discouraged dependence on family and community and replaced the father with a check. This has had a disasterously disproportionate affect on the black family in particular. Drug and alcohol use have increased because of foodstamps in that people have disposable income that would be spent on necessities were those necessities not paid for by taxpayers. Irresponsibility and immorality are separated from their natural consequences by the artificial crutch of other people's hard earned money. The welfare state is a Democrat Party hallmark.
Birth control has become a hot issue because what was before expected to be paid for by the people using it is now being subsidized by taxpayers and it's the Democrats pushing this. Birth control separates sex from it's child producing purpose and allows sex to devolve into a hedonistic pursuit of pleasure. This has greatly increased homosexuality, infidelity, prostitution, unwedded shack-ups, casual hookups, and many other forms of deviant behavior.
Abortion on demand is also championed by the Democrat party, the party who having succeeded in forcing taxpayers to pay for birth control, is now working to undo the law preventing taxpayer monies from funding abortion. The 40 million plus lives snuffed out is a holocaust unrivaled in all of human history, a loss so staggering that it's a wonder that God's hand of vengeance is yet still stayed. Satan has not only enshrined abortion as a Supreme Court diktat, but has even convinced Christians who should know better to oppose any change in the law even if they concede abortion to be abhorrent.
The Anti-gun agenda though not seen by many as a religious issue, it pertains directly to the liberty God wills his people to have. In Nehemiah, the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem was accomplished as the workers kept weapons in ready reach to fend off invaders. Jews similarly armed themselves to stave off a slaughter in the days of Queen Esther. The oppression Satan wishes to subdue people with is only made possible when people are disarmed and dispirited. It's small wonder that Democrats hate private gun ownership. Their lord hates it too.
Same Sex Marriage is also being heavily pushed by the Left. Because marriage is a God ordained institution between a man and a woman, it makes superb sense that Satan would wish to pervert and undermine it by all means possible, first through rampant divorce so that there are few paragons of what God intended marriage to be, and then by changing the very definition of marriage.
Hostility to Religious practice has been pushed by the Democrat party, particularly through their ally, the godless, communist ACLU who files suit against every cross, Ten Commandment's display, and Nativity scene they can. Christmas trees irritate them and so does the mention of God on our currency and the Pledge of Allegience. And prayer in school is anathema to them because it angers their father, the devil.
And of course I could wax loquacious with further examples. I'm not saying that Republicans are the servants of God, because they certainly have their own problems, chief of which is cowardice. But they do tend to stem the tide by promoting lower taxes, personal responsibility, moral standards, and political liberty. We need to wake up to the fact that the spiritual war described astutely in the Bible is revealed in our newspapers, our cable news, and in our culture. We need to be stout to the task of fighting it.