In America of the 2020s, Christians are increasingly treated as enemies of the state.
This from frontpagemag.com.
In Nashville this week, six pro-life activists were convicted in federal court of conspiracy to violate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act when they peacefully prayed and sang at the entrance to an abortion clinic in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, in March 2021. Those convicted now face a possible prison sentence of 10 and 1/2 years and up to $250,000 in fines.
The Regime’s Justice Department, which is reluctant to prosecute anyone involved in the 2020 riots or to investigate any of dozens of violent attacks against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, seems to view Christians “as a dangerous subset of conservative Americans” and as a threat to the peace and security of the United States—particularly to The Regime itself.
This time last year, FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin leaked an intelligence memorandum that originated within the Richmond, Virginia, Field Office of the FBI. The memorandum purported to address concerns about “extremism” within segments of the Roman Catholic Church in America. Its title is a mouthful and reveals much: Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.
Those ‘opportunities’ to ‘mitigate’ violent extremism included recruiting spies or having federal agents ‘infiltrate’ certain churches to provide intelligence about potential domestic terrorism.
According to the memo:
‘Radical Traditionalist’ (or ‘Rad-Trad’) Catholics—defined as those who attend the Latin Mass, oppose abortion, express dissatisfaction with the papacy of Pope Francis and dislike the modernizing reforms produced by the Second Vatican Council—are secretly ‘white supremacists’ who are plotting violence against Jews and members of other faiths, Blacks and other minorities, and gay people.
The memo appeared to rely on definitions and other information about “hate groups” provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center:
[A] leftist organization notorious for its sloppy and baseless accusations of racism and smears against conservative groups and individuals.
Embarrassed, the FBI subsequently disavowed the document as not meeting their “exacting standards,” and removed it from their systems. But one cannot help but wonder what the FBI would have done had the memorandum not been made public.
And the extreme bias against Christians
is not only from the federal government.
A family in Montana lost custody of their 14-year-old daughter last fall after being told that gender transition was the appropriate treatment for the child’s mental and emotional disorders. The family objected, telling government officials and health care workers that “transitioning” their daughter to a boy violated their “values, morals and our religious beliefs.” Their daughter was taken from them and placed in the custody of Child and Family Services.
Christian baker Jack Phillips continues to be harassed in the state of Colorado. Phillips won a Supreme Court case in 2018 after he refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, arguing that it violated his religious beliefs. He is being sued again—this time because he has refused (also on religious grounds) to make a cake celebrating an individual’s gender transition.
Further:
The media loves to inflame this narrative as well. After Donald Trump won the recent Iowa caucus by a record-breaking margin, MSNBC co-host Joy Reid argued that the result was explicable because the state is ‘overrepresented by white Christians’ who want people of color to ‘bow down’ to them.
NOTE: The primary reasons Christians are under attack:
1) [B]ecause they refuse to bend the knee to a culture that exalts sex as the apex of all human activity, and
2) [B]ecause they insist that there is a higher authority than government.
Those two positions place Christians—as well as members of some other religious faiths—at odds with the culture of the dreaded Obama-fundamental-transformation of America.
However, contrary to the Obama-fundamental-transformation, the founding documents of this country make the underlying philosophy of our government brilliantly clear:
The Declaration of Independence states explicitly that all men are ‘endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.’
While the Declaration of Independence does not specify who or what that “Creator” might be, it is very specific that our rights come from that Creator, and not from the government.
And in the United States of the 2020s, government—The Regime—will not tolerate the notion that anything—or anyone—limits its powers.
That is, frankly, the source of much of the conflict behind the current push for ‘transgender’ policies; nothing—not parental rights, not the needs of young people with mental illness, not fairness to biological women in sports, not even chromosomal biology—trumps the power of [The Regime] to declare that a man can become a woman and vice versa.
In other words, the truth is whatever The Regime says it is. Anyone who claims otherwise is an extremist, a “Christian nationalist,” or a “white supremacist” and a certain threat warranting a harsh reprisal.
Again, faithful Christians are not the enemies of America, however, they are increasingly viewed as the enemies of a Regime that is assuming more authority each passing day. Now, please consider a note of advice to all Americans: The Regime’s attacks on freedom may have begun with Christians, but if it is not reined in quickly, The Regime will most certainly not stop there.
