However, the Scriptures are also clear that as believers, we need to expose the unrighteous deeds of the wicked (Eph 5:11-13). Such is the case with those who blast religious people, especially those people who dislike Christians without any reason whatsoever. Worse yet, they make grandiose, but empty rhetoric against those they disagree without offering anything in its place. Those that peddle this type of inflammatory language are not capable of working for cooperation or reconciliation, but only want their own view of reality.
This month starts a series exposing the latest attacks against the clear teachings of Scripture. "Beware the Jabberwocky" is an expose and warning against those who would do us harm in our military. Written by John J Madison, it addresses some needed things against this new foe which would leave us to the fiat and foibles of human reason, instead of the Word of God.
BEWARE THE JABBERWOCKY, MY SON
by John J Madison.
Lewis
Carroll of Victorian England was a satirist.
When rules of conformity for meter and rhythm were at an all-time high
for poetry, he wrote a nonsensical poem about an imaginary animal called the
Jabberwocky. The poem which was
originally used to mock his peers ended up being a huge hit. The “Anti” poem became “The” poem. To Carroll’s cynical amusement, everyone who
was somebody tried his hand at what the nonsensical jargon meant. For the time being, the culture that had
brought the world Dickens and D.H. Lawrence spent their time and energy in a
meaningless pursuit of nonsense. Unfortunately for us in the present, we are
now at the same place dealing with a new old
fad called “Atheism.” Atheists prefer
(and condescendingly so) to be known today as Freethinkers or Brights. The Holy Scriptures rather bluntly call them “fools”
(Psalm 14) for they intentionally suppress indisputable evidence (Romans
1:18-22) placed within them (they might as well deny their own existence).
Christians need
to confidently respond to the nothingness
of atheism. Sensing blood from a shark
feeding frenzy of judicial fiat, atheists are spewing out their poison against
our society’s institutions on an altar of human reason. By using hateful speech, legal threats, and
bullying tactics, atheists are making some serious inroads. Carroll’s poem is a satire that is not
supposed to make any sense, so also this human belief system (atheism) has
nothing to offer a culture and society: NOTHING.
Our
Country’s Founders in the Declaration of Independence openly attested to the role
of Divine Providence in the birth of the United States. They subsequently and wisely included in the
Constitution a Bill of Rights to protect among other freedoms, Freedom of
Speech and Freedom of Religion. The
Government shall not prohibit the free
exercise of Religion. Our Founders recognized
the wholesome value of Religious Faith in the new Nation. John Adams said, “our Constitution was made
only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the
government of any other.” James Madison
agreed, “the belief in a God All Powerful, wise and good, is essential to the
moral order of the world and to the happiness of man.” Our religious freedom (not religious
tolerance) was one of the “certain unalienable rights” endowed to us by our
Creator.
Atheism is characterized
not by defining what it can do for the people of the United States (its
benefits), but it exists rather to attack the perceived excesses of the religious…
and in so doing seeks to characterize these religious excesses as the norm. It is a logical fallacy to believe that one
bad apple makes the whole bushel bad. However, there
appears to be a hidden agenda for something far more sinister.
One of the biggest proponents of the newest
form of tolerated hate speech is
found in the leader of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). Mikey Weinstein’s tirade against Christian Military
Chaplains reveals that the MRFF is a misnomer, for in practice; the MRFF is
really the Military Freedom from Religion Foundation. Note a quote from one of his recent diatribes
about a proposed congressional prayer amendment included in the National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):
“Section
530 of the NDAA promises to hand over a colossal government-issued blank check
to those within the United States military who seek to exploit and misuse their
rank and uniform for their own parochial and brazenly unconstitutional
Christian supremacist purposes. Section 530 would allow every bigoted
slimeball within the American armed forces – the homophobes, Islamophobes, anti-Semites,
misogynists, anti-Constitutionalists, fundamentalist/dominionist Christians,
and/or all of the above – to be given absolute free rein to slither out of their stinking closets of
putrid prejudice and spout their twisted, Christian-jihad poison.” (from: http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/press-releases/2013/Rodda-Weinstein_TO_6-19-13.html)
Mikey Weinstein is free under our Constitution to believe whatever he
desires, and to publish and practice his beliefs. A good number of “Christians” have died to
safeguard his freedoms. But, come
on…really?…“bigoted slimeball,…slither…stinking
closets… purtrid … Christian-jihad poison?” His animosity toward Christians is evident! His foundational belief seems not to be his
“love” of the Constitution. Is this
someone one that an Air Force Lieutenant General should take seriously,
especially in seeking his counsel in the areas of Religious Diversity and Tolerance? Beware the Jabberwock, my son! This is a path that makes no sense.
In Weinstein’s writings he uses the seemingly innocuous rubric that
there should not be any government religion at all. History and precedence are all moot points. He shuts down his opposition by masterfully
using the “Heckler’s Veto,” that is, he gets the government to give a heckler in the audience veto
power over a speaker’s content, context, and viewpoint (because it might offend
him). This deceptive ploy has been
declared unconstitutional in our courts.
Furthermore,
the virulence of his vindictive writings expose and betray a hidden hatred of
anything he disagrees with. Worse yet,
he bases it on a common modern ignorance of the history and making of the
Constitution and the belief system of the people behind it. He makes the logical fallacy of not truly
knowing American history and using reductionist (life is just economic, social
and political) and revisionist history to turn it into his own personal
invective against religion (read Christianity).
Beware! This is the kind of philosophy that would
destroy all of our cherished freedoms because these people believe they are the
true intellectuals and self-proclaimed demi-gods who feel compelled to protect
humankinds’ freedoms. History has proven
repeatedly that Atheism and Gnosticism lead to anarchy and a true reign of
terror because they think they are the only “rational ones” who know what is
best for all. Once in power, they become
autocrats and suppress everyone else. They
do not tolerate other views and subject people to all aspects of their own
personal whims based on “rationalism.” Might
makes right! Need examples, France in
the late 1700s and more recently, the Soviet Union, where the STATE was
supreme. Our Constitution and nation must
become a godless entity. How we quickly
forget the lessons of history, the lessons of what godless government bring. Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools…Beware the Jabberwocky, my
son.
Next month: Beware the Jabberwocky, My Son: Part Two-
“Exposing the Agenda of Atheism”
