Is oppression of Christianity inevitable?

I am on the same page as Dennis Foley in his article at the Intellectual Takeout website titled Render Unto Caesar? He starts off by saying, “I’ve seen it coming for many years.” He believes oppression is coming for Christians. I have seen it, too. My college age daughter and I discussed this very thing last night. A group of “friends” who purport to be Christian ridiculed her for a position she took that is fundamental to Christian belief. This is all part of the reason we decided to homeschool our children eleven years ago. Foley describes an event where the governor of a state blames Christianity for the ills of our society and suggests that religion (Christianity really) and the religious should be suppressed. Foley describes it so well, I am just going to post a starting quote and recommend a read of the whole article.

The threat appears regularly in the comments on our social media pages. The first time you learn that passing your faith on to your children is considered a form of child abuse, you’re taken aback. But then the allegation is repeated over and over and over again. The first time you see talk of “stamping out the virus of religion,” you wonder what that means. But then you learn what it means for some when another commenter nonchalantly recommends going into the churches, slitting the priests’ throats, and finally getting on with the evolution of society.

Such anti-religious (typically, anti-Christian) attitudes as are now spreading like wildfire through social media. Similar sentiments played out horrifically in the French Revolution, the Marxist purges in Eastern Europe and China, the Cristero War in Mexico, the killing fields of Cambodia, and the ongoing slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and Africa. Is it unreasonable to wonder if and how the virulent, anti-Christian attitudes of today will be unleashed in America?

Betty Blonde #324 – 10/13/2009

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