True Discernment

from The Christian Reader:

The Associated Press article printed in the Arizona Daily Star on January 5, 2011 was entitled, “Cross at San Diego Park ruled Unconstitutional.” According to the article, an enlightened three judge panel of the liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued their unanimous decision that the 29-foot cross erected and dedicated in 1954 to honor Korean War veterans was unconstitutional.

This ruling, as well as a challenge to a cross set up in a remote area of the Mojave Desert, reflects the most egregious interpretations of Constitutional law ever seen in our land by liberal jurists who have taken it upon themselves to interpret separation of church and state issues beyond the intended spirit and intent of the law.

Challenges to the cross memorials are usually made by a small minority of atheists and others who despise the presence of symbols of Christianity in our land. They are always aided by the leftist American Civil Liberties Union. In the San Diego issue, the Jewish War Veterans also supported the challenge. I suppose if the groups hostile to Christianity and who find the Cross so offensive can manage to convince 3 judges to remove a memorial erected in 1954, then perhaps they will be encouraged to proceed to wipe out most remaining crosses on any federal property.

If one visits any national cemetery, federal property, one will see thousands of crosses on the granite and marble headstones honoring the Christian faith which veterans of our wars have held dear.  By their blood and their sacrifices, by their pain and suffering for our land, weren’t these veterans entitled to have their crosses etched into the headstones that mark their memorials?

Perhaps, we will see the jurists of our land who now hold the power turn their wrath on those millions of offensive crosses on federal land; after all, if they can remove a cross from a remote desert and one that has been in San Diego for 57 years, what can stand in their way?

I believe the path of the justice system in our nation is moving from religious intolerance of Christianity to the next step: active persecution. I believe this will happen in the next decade. I have made this prediction in a previous article (“What the DADT Repeal Really Means“). This is no brilliant conclusion on my part. Many other Christians also see this coming. Still, many more are sleeping as the culture moves against the faith, against the Bible, and against, of course, that most offensive of symbols: the cross.

To interpret  the political and social trends of the day, we must look back at history. We find that governments which centralize power and become oppressive rarely relinquish their control. When governments in primarily Christian nations attack religious expression and when the culture mocks Christian values and celebrates immorality and sexual promiscuity,  evangelicals must know for sure that their faith is on a collision course.  The signs of the times clearly show that religious persecution will take place in America; and it may be sooner than you think.

Christians need to pray for courage and strength, and need to show the will to prevail by the grace of God. As we know, the final victory is the Lord’s; we are confident of the result. Nevertheless, in this writer’s view, our country is becoming less friendly to Christians, one in which the cross we hold dear is both offensive and unconstitutional. God Bless America. May we not forget that it was the blessings of Providence that has kept us around for more than 200 years. To reject the God who presides over the world and the universe is to guarantee that our civilization will fail and come to spiritual ruin.  Soli Deo Gloria.