The Pagan Left Takes Off its Mask

Fay Voshell is speaking out about Leftists mocking Mike Pence for his Christianity.  You can find the article at the American Thinker today entitled Madness, Christianity, and the Left. David Limbaugh had a similar article on February 16 entitled I Wish I Were As Bad a Christian as Mike Pence (is). I can say the same thing as David Limbaugh. I read the Bible daily, and I pray daily. But sometimes I have trouble getting to it. Luther called it despising God's word. I suppose so, and it points to my sinful nature, so I wish I were as bad as Mike Pence, because then I wouldn't be as bad as I am.

Miss Voshell, however, has the more intriguing article on the topic.  She points out that Christians are finding themselves in the same position as when the movement first started, and pagans made up the dominant culture:

Such inversion of truth is what happens when a society is pagan or reverts to paganism, as is clearly illustrated in the case of the Apostle Paul, who was deeply involved in pagan (politically correct and politically reinforced) politics similar to that of today.

Summoned to appear in court by the Roman rulers of his day, Paul testified concerning his conversion to Christianity before Festus, procurator of Judea, and King Herod Agrippa II, who was in an incestuous relationship with his sister Bernice.

Paul spoke before the two men about the core claims of billions of Christians throughout the ages: Christ has died; Christ has risen; Christ will come again. He presented the case for Christianity compellingly, clearly, and persuasively.

The response from the two leaders before whom Paul was being tried? Agrippa was not persuaded. Festus shouted, "You are out of your mind. Your great learning is driving you insane" (Acts 26).

I have been reading a book by Alvin Schmidt entitled How Christianity Changed the World. If the burqua, the hijab, the oppression and restriction of women feels like paganism, well you would be correct. This is how women lived in pagan society for thousands of years before Christianity came into the world. If widespread abortion and infanticide feels like paganism to you, we that's because before Christianity, babies were often just left exposed to the elements to die. The discovery of a mass grave of abandoned babies in Ashkelon, Israel in Roman times, here is but one article. There are other sites as well. It was not illegal, and indeed, was considered a legitimate form of birth control to simply expose your newborn to the elements and let it die.

There is more.  Hospitals for the public were built by Christians to attempt to heal the sick, as Christ had.  Yes, there were a limited number before that treated soldiers, but widespread hospitals were a new innovation invented by Christians.

So, it is perplexing, given this history, that the "ladies" on the view feel free to mock Mike Pence, a decent man.

For some time, it has been in vogue among the left to consider Christianity itself an insane belief system. Certainly, such seems to be the case for some of the talking heads on ABC's The View. According to Joy Behar, one of the most dangerously insane people in the United States is the vice president of the United States, Mike Pence.

Let's be frank: a well known spokeswoman has so thoroughly absorbed the left's definition of insanity that she believes she can trash without consequence a good man whose core beliefs are based on beliefs held by Judaism and Christianity for over four thousand years. Of course, she would never dream of trashing the Muslim mayor of London in a similar manner.

It is sad that the women of the View have such a stunted view of history, unlike our founders who studied history including ancient history. They then would see that Margaret Sanger ushered in not a new freedom for women, but a return to paganism. They would see that the move toward homosexualism, and other perversions, while common enough to the human condition, at the least, not be celebrated. They would see that the Muslim treatment of women does not represent freedom, but rather subjugation and exploitation.  It is only through the efforts of generations of Christians, many of them women, that today they can mock the Vice President of the United States on television without consequences.

The point is that the teachings of one man, Jesus of Nazareth, changed people, and then those people changed others, until the world began to change. Indeed, it can be argued that much of modern science and technology grew out of a fundamental belief that God is rational, and that his laws are therefore discoverable.

The Apostle Paul said that he would gladly be a fool for Christ.  Paul was a great and a learned man.  Can I, a poor miserable sinner, be willing to do less?