This is disturbing. I pray every day for the Christians around the world who are being persecuted. But, now our government is one of those active persecutors. And they have help from the mainstream media. Today Matt Vespa at Townhall.com has a piece entitled Why a Catholic Bishop Said This MSNBC Segment Was One Of The Most Disturbing Things He's Ever Seen. Heidi Przybyla finds it disturbing that what she termed "Christian Nationalists" believe that our rights as human beings don't come from any earthly authority but instead come from (here she points upward) God! The horror!
She makes plain that normal Christians don't believe that. Unfortunately, I have news for Ms. Przybyla: All true Christians believe that. More to the point, if she had bothered to read the Declaration of Independence, she would have found that Thomas Jefferson also believed that our rights come from God. And everyone who signed the Declaration endorsed that belief.
Bishop Robert Barron also corrects Ms. Przybyla when he points out that if our rights came from some earthly authority, then those rights could legitimately be taken away by that same authority. This would eventually lead to tyranny. So, as an American, never mind as a Catholic priest, he wanted to make clear that our rights come from our Creator, or God.
You can read the whole post and watch both videos. The post is not that long. I don't know what the heck "Christian Nationalism" is supposed to be. Every time I hear about it, I think to myself that what they believe sounds a lot like what plain old Christians believe. I suspect this is another made up strawman that doesn't exist.
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