Whitson G. Waldo, III has a very major article today at the American Thinker entitled Countercultural Christianity. He makes it sound as if this is something new. But Christ has always been countercultural from the very start. What God wants is for men to change their minds, their hearts, and their souls to have a relationship with Him. It is not about morality or rules, as we understand these things, but developing a relation with God, after which we will be moral, we will follow the rules, because we will want to. This is what the Jews don't get, and what many Gentiles don't get either. Everyone wants to fake it till they make it, to "do" something to earn God's love. But God already loves us, what he wants is for us to love Him.
If you are an orthodox traditional Christian, you cannot be a progressive, a socialist, or a communist. Why, you say? Because the charity that God commands must come from each person. It cannot be out of other people's money, or out of taxes which is the same thing. The collectivist ideologies encourage envy, but God commands us not to covet. Collectivist ideologies seek a state where no one owns anything, but God commands that we do not steal. Of course, one can only steal what belongs to another. Indeed, God prefers private property because it avoids the "tradgedy of the commons" and encourages people to take special care of it.
Bible-based, orthodox, historical Christianity is so countercultural today. There is less and less common ground between progressives and Christians.
Christmas and Easter are the great holidays of Christianity, celebrating the birth of our Savior and his resurrection from the dead, respectively. You can venture into Hobby Lobby or dine at Chick-fil-A and be greeted enthusiastically with cries of “merry Christmas!” But progressives are aghast at the birth of an exalted child in the ignominious circumstances of an animal shed with a bed made in a feeding trough. Consistently, in most companies, employees may bleat out the bland secular salutation “happy holidays” instead.
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Continuing their two-hundred-year infatuation with racism (see here, here), progressives endorse racist, hateful, divisive Critical Race Theory which posits that racism is entrenched, oppression of minorities precludes escape, and there is no atonement for white privilege but rather only unending oblation of apologies. Against this, the apostle Paul taught, “He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.” Embracing Christian teaching, which opposes CRT tenets, Martin Luther King, Jr., shared, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Progressives recently buried the Defense of Marriage Act to raise up the abominable Respect for Marriage Act. This is one of the latest progressive actions celebrating LGBT behaviors. Thinking children to be little animals, there is progressive inclination to groom children for sexual exploitation.
In opposition, science, statistics, and the Bible indicate that LGBT behaviors are unnatural, abnormal, and immoral, respectively. Proscriptions against immoral sexual behaviors are extant because God has said, “I do not change.” Having created man and woman, God ordained the sanctity of marriage for the natural, normal, and moral behaviors of a man and a woman (see here, here). Knowing that children are made in the image of God, Christians want to protect childhood innocence as long as possible.
Christianity has always been countercultural because Satan is always fighting against God. His pride was such that though he was a created creature, he thought he should sit on the throne of Yahweh. It is countercultural because man always does evil in spite of himself. It is countercultural because the world is a constant distraction pulling mens' attention away from God. But Christ understands the weakness of man and offers forgiveness. He offers to make us brothers with the Son. All he asks in return is our faith and trust in Him. Sadly, too many cannot do it.
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