Churches Muzzled Selectively

ClashDaily weighs in on Christian churches’ lack of response to left-wing government abuse that began in the 1960s with anti-Christian Supreme Court decisions. However, Black churches don’t seem to fear government retribution.  

#WAR: National Effort To Bully Churches Into Silence Before Elections With IRS Threat, October 27, 2014

Many pastors have been cowed into inactivity by the threatened loss of their tax-exempt status if they say anything remotely political.

This fear can make pastors who don’t—or won’t—get good legal advice about as politically active as Howard Hughes was during the flu season.

The church may, among other things, register their members to vote, pass out voter guides, invite all candidates in a race to speak (even if only one of them shows up) and speak directly about specific issues. And by the way, in his personal capacity off the clock, the pastor can endorse and support (or oppose) whomever or whatever he wishes, just like any other citizen. Duh.

That said, The Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is still trying to intimidate ministers with IRS scare tactics regarding the potential loss of their 501(c)3 status if the speak out on political issues. Please pastors … for the love of God and our nation … don’t curl up on the floor in the fetal position and wet your big christian diaper in fear of the IRS.

Check out this video regarding how the jackboots from Obamaland wish our ministers to be mute on pressing issues.

http://clashdaily.com/2014/10/war-national-effort-bully-churches-silence-elections-irs-threat/

4 Reasons Why Wussy Christians Bow To Big Government Goons

October 26, 2014

Whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the People may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new Government; the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. –Declaration of Rights, Maryland

Unlike America’s original rebel Christians who dumped the Brits’ taxed tea into Boston Harbor and told King George that he could kiss their King George, today’s evangelicals, I believe—especially the dandy ministers who love to be loved—would have folded like one-ply toilet paper before British oppression. We’re a timid tufted titmouse compared to our rowdy founding forefathers.

Here are four reasons why I believe today’s evangelicals would have melted like little bon-bons during the American Revolution:

1. Some dainty saints of today think rebellion against tyrants is disobedience to God, when the converse is actually true. Yep, these stooges of the machine believe that Yahweh wants Christians to be the corralled cattle of corrupt politicians and policies. Indeed, a lot of pop evangelicals have become nicer than God. Our current craven “faithful” think it’s sinful to say bad stuff about bad elected leadership. Many somehow think it’s righteous to go in an unrighteous national direction. And we’ve got stacks of do-gooders who are turning the other cheek to political abuse and generational theft so fast that they make Shakira look arthritic.

2. A lot of evangelicals would rather live as government slaves than live and die as free men. Some do it out of sinful slothfulness, completely passive and thus complicit in the face of evil. Others do so because they actually think Christ was a Communist and that government theft and wealth redistribution somehow fulfill the Sermon on the Mount. D’oh.

3. Others, especially in the ministry, won’t say squat about our political squalor because it’ll offend the emotional members of their congregation and thereby jack with their weekly offerings, which, in turn, will cause them to lose their vacation home in Naples where they’re currently banging their mistress. Wow. Good luck at the judgment seat. I’ve been to many, many Tea Parties up and down the east coast of Florida and have only run into a handful of ministers. Where are you, ladies? Your absence and silence during America’s demise is more obvious than Renee Zellweger’s recent nip/tuck. Hello, Judas.

4. Another thing that irks me is this end-of-the-world Rapture mentality that, supposedly, all of this bad stuff we’re currently fielding as a nation is God’s plan for the ages and that there’s nothing we can do about it. I’m sure glad our predecessors didn’t look at the gargantuan junk they were facing during times of oppression and upheaval and say, “Oh, well. The Rapture must be right around the corner.” No, what they did was think, work, pray and fight. And guess what, end-of-the-world Christian? They yielded up this grand experiment in self-governance, that’s what.

The Church needs the biblical rebel spirit of our founders injected back into the evangelical mix instead of this squishy, pusillanimous, ignoble and compliant crapola that’s currently cranking through our indolent pulpits and pews. God help the Church to lose its cowardly, effeminate bent in these critical days. Amen.

Source: http://clashdaily.com/2014/10/4-reasons-wussy-christians-bow-big-government-goons/

Comments

Christian churches are made up of liberals and conservatives.  The liberals have no problem with our government pursuing redistributive socialist policies if it helps the poor. They have no problem with the U.S. government giving money to the UN and foreign governments because they believe it helps the poor. 

The conservatives believe that charity must be person to person as stated in the Good Samaritan parable.  Conservatives believe that Mother Theresa had it right; charity is person to person. Conservatives hold that charity from government breeds corruption and socialism and that leads to communism and church closings. 

Churches should address issues and endorse the principles of the Founders, like freedom, self-determination, freedom to be self-supporting and own property and inalienable rights consistent with free will human needs and human nature.  By refusing to do so, churches risk becoming irrelevant and are encouraging their own decline and eventual government initiated destruction. 

Our shared goal is to encourage all governments to allow these freedoms for their citizens, so that they can be self-supporting.  Churches should work to end bribery and corruption in all governments.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader