Persecution of Christians Comes To America

I came across this article about Kurt Beathard losing his job over his Christian world view this morning. We all know that the advent of national politics injected into sports has turned the entertainment sector into a dumpster fire. Right now, football has borne the brunt because of the publicity around Colin Kaepernick. However, I expect the rest of the sports entertainment industry to follow suit in the near future. Professional basketball seems to be willing to carry the momentum forward, and it is a matter of time before baseball picks it up.

Black Lives Matter, whose leaders have admitted to being trained Marxists, In a previous iteration of their website, they promoted the dissolution of traditional nuclear families, a foundational tenet of orthodox Christianity. While the page included references to parents and mothers, it purposely left out the concept of fathers. Why? Because in Western culture, the father is the traditional authority figure in the family. They have since deleted the page containing that dyscivic idea.

For Marxists, government is god, and the god they believe in is a collectivist, one-size-fits-all god. And one size fits all unless you are one of the leaders, in which case you are a god yourself. Marxists do not want any other authority figure other than themselves. And if you don't recognize them as the highest authority figure in your life, then they will make your life miserable. If they let you live.

So, how are these things related? Good question. The answer is simple. BLM and most other organizations with leftist notions are anti-Christian, that is to say, if not complete atheists, they are not devoted followers of the almighty God. Consequently, they are enemies of God. And as enemies of God, they will persecute those who are followers of God. Kurt Beathard's story is a harbinger of things to come, unless divine intervention turns things around. 

Let us pray that God will raise up good men to stand up to evil in the coming battle. The time may come when we must beat our plowshares into swords and our pruning hooks into spears. And while physical battle is always a possibility, our greatest weapon is prayer.

This is no time for fence sitters.

But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.  Joshua 24:15