Government schools have decided to go on a anti-bullying campaign to protect GLBT types. Why stop there? I think they should have some anti-bullying signs also to protect people who like to cozy up to farm animals. The persecution people can get from doing that is just terrible. Also, anti-bullying signs that protect people who like to cozy up to dead bodies is probably needed as well. I know I hate it when people are judgmental against people who like to cozy up to dead bodies.
Faulting those who communicate strong disapproval of homosexuals is a classic example of how people measure love in a quite shallow fashion. We are told it is mean and not nice to be strongly disappoving towards the wicked and so we get the state going on what they call “anti-bullying” campaigns.
But is it really true that societal disapproval is unloving?
Is it loving to show acceptance and tolerance for the wicked? To show this kind of tolerance towards the reprobate, I would contend, is an example of the Proverbs where it says that, “The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”
Is it really loving to the perverts in question to allow them to go on in their sin unchallenged? Would it not be mercy to them if they realized that their perversion couldn’t be practiced and flaunted unrestricted in open due to the social ostracization that they would experience? To deride their perversion, would make the practice of their perversion that much more difficult.
But let’s extend this and ask about the issue of love as it pertains to other people who are part of the societal equation besides the perverts.
Is it loving towards third party observers who might be swept up into the perverts lifestyle if the lifestyle of perverts is not disapproved of in the strongest terms? Are we being loving to those, who might otherwise not have themselves become perverts, if the perverts had met strong disapproval thus being forced back into the closet? I would contend that it is hateful towards those who might otherwise be tempted towards perversion to allow perversion to NOT be rebuked in strong terms.
What about society as a whole. If we do not speak adamantly against the behavior of the wicked we are creating a climate of acceptability of perversion in society. Societal Taboos are normally upheld by members of society, who by their disapproval are not tolerating violation of the accepted tabbos. Societal disapproval of perverse behavior is a healthy functioning of societies auto-immune system as it seeks to suppress societal infection.
Finally, is a lack of pointed disapproval loving towards God? Scripture tells us to “Hate that which is evil.” Is not disapproval, sometimes to the point of derision, a “hating that which is evil?” Did we not see Elijah on Mt. Carmel deride mock the servants of Baal to the glory of God? Was Elijah wrong for his derision? Was Elijah being being and unkind?
The pursuit of forcing mouths to be shut in the current Statist anti-bullying program that would otherwise express revulsion at perversion is merely the ongoing attempt by the Pagan state to seek to normalize perversion and to force the citizenry to accept perverse behavior.
You are right, of course, but it’s hard to reason thusly with the Christ-haters.
Axe,
I think most Christians would favor the anti-bullying campaign of the State.
I feel that I have no earthly country. Oh, I know that Jesus Christ is the ruler of all things and to Him has been given authority in Heaven and Earth, but among those that I used to call “fellow citizens” I now find they have been indoctrinated into a citizenship that is wholly opposed to God.
As I type, I feel a deep sadness for what was once a place that God was present and active.
Rob,
As a Pastor, I want to let you know that given the trajectory of reading and studying that you’re on (a trajectory I praise God for) the consequence is going to be an ever increasing sense of what you’ve expressed here.
The more you think in Christian Worldview terms the more you realize how upside down things are here and have been for quite some time.
I do believe that this is one reason why God gave us the body of Christ. The body of Christ has as one of its roles to “comfort one another.” The body of Christ ought to the place where one finds ones countrymen.
Unfortunately too often the Church is doing the indoctrinating into the citizenship that is wholly opposed to God that you mention above.
I know your sadness and frustration Brother … and so I will tell you what I constantly preach to myself…
Be of good cheer, Christ has conquered the world.
Since you’re concerned about sexual misconduct, what about Patrick Edouard? I know he’s not from your denomination, your church has the same demographics.
This ex-URCNA minister is charged with sex crimes against four different women from Covenant Reformed Church in Iowa over several years.
Steve Schlissel once called Edouard a “Haitian man with the bearing of a prince.” He started Urban Nations, a scheme to evangelize NYC with ESL classes for immigrants. Well, Edouard was on staff there in the mid-1990s.
While in Brooklyn, this alleged predator married Greetje Huisman, who came from the Netherlands to volunteer at Urban Nations. She became Grace Edouard and bore him several children.
Soon after his marriage to Greetje Huisman, who came from the Netherlands to volunteer at Urban Nations, Edouard went off to Mid-America Reformed Seminary. During this period, according to the Des Moines Register, he taught catechism at a Presbyterian church in Valparaiso, Ind., “and led worship in churches throughout the Midwest.”
Edouard became pastor at Covenant Reformed in August 2003. Police also say Edouard exhibited “a pattern or practice or scheme … to engage in sexual contact against … emotionally dependent female” congregation members between 2003 and 2010. While this black minister was preying on his white congregation, he was also rising in power within the demonation. At one point he was chairman of the URCNA committee studying the Federal Vision.
On the sex crime, someone dropped a dime to WHO-TV:
“[E]ach alleged victim had a particular weakness, a “stress in their life” that they said Rev. Edouard targeted and exploited. The source told Channel 13 that Edouard invited the victims to come to him for counseling. The sessions took place in Edouard’s study, which was located in the basement of the pastor’s home located in the nearby golf resort community of Bos Landen. Some people now wonder why the pastor wasn’t given a proper study at the church building. However, the source insists that the victims do not blame the church elders who oversee operations for what the alleged victims said occurred.
“The source told Channel 13 that the women were happy in their marriages and fulfilled in their lives. “Sure, they were stressed at times,” the source said, adding that the women eventually displayed, “drastic negative changes in their moods and certain behaviors.” The source said that Edouard threatened them, in order to keep them quiet. “He said, ‘You will lose everything,” according to the source. The source said that Edouard meant they would lose their husbands, children, homes, status within community, friends, and good names. The source said that Edouard warned them, “Nobody will believe you…”
“The number of alleged victims stands at four. However, the anonymous source said that there are likely more alleged victims who have not come forward. For now, the families await one or more criminal trials and live under the scrutiny of people who wonder why the women didn’t just reject the reverend’s advances”
In other words, we may only know a small part of the story. How many victims?