A Sanitized World and the Oppression of the Tolerance Doctrine

When properly done, showing Christian love and truth is never bullying. Using words like "Jesus loves you and wants to have a relationship with you" are a great way to start. The Bible never teaches that Christianity should be won by force - only by love and sharing of truth: sharing one's own witness in loving candor.

Not even God himself ever forced anyone to believe, but gave them the free will to believe if they decided for themselves. To force belief is empty and hollow, and simply does not work. You just end up with "pew sitters."

But God is a God of wrath and vengeance, and there is a hell. Such things must be addressed as we share. To not do so means we are culpably incomplete in our witness. But what should be stressed is that God must meet out justice because of the greater harm that man would do to himself and others without the chastising rod of judgment, balanced by the gentle staff of guidance, compassion, and loving care.

It is not bullying to say justice must be served, for it is the greatest gift one can give another that, when they are truly going astray, and their lives are falling apart, you give them the tools to right their ship and sail true to the beam, borne on the winds of freedom in Christ. Those tools are one's personal witness and the Holy Bible, and introduction into the welcoming circle of loving Christians worldwide, in Spirit, truth, and prayer when they trust in Jesus.

Only those who truly know the heinous violence man has wrecked on man throughout history can appreciate God's need for justice. Today, in a land of opportunity, where wealth and stability abound and few have known the horrors of all-out war in their own homeland, it is so easy to just not know what God is up against in us stiff-necked, sinful people.

But how could we be expected to remember, unless we make the effort to learn our history, which so few do in this land:

We get our meat, poultry, and fish pre-butchered, expertly packaged in sanitary plastic trays and looking appetizing. No guts have to be dealt with, no blood gushing into sluices - that is all done by the proper people in the proper facilities.

Pre-made frozen gourmet meals and family sized casseroles are packaged in appealing boxes: just pop them in the microwave, and a few minutes later, eat the dinner then throw the packaging in the trash. All the butchering, slicing and dicing and cooking is done for us. We just heat, eat, and enjoy.

And now it gets serious: human pre-born infants are dispatched in a sanitized manner. Dissected and extracted, then what is left packed up and shipped to labs to use the baby's body and brain for research and medicine. The pros deal with the ugliness, leaving the woman under local or general anesthesia, not feeling the procedure, and not seeing the true brutality of it.

No wonder we completely forget the reality of sin and death and impudence in a land where everything comes packaged neat and tidy, magically and expertly crafted to be pleasant to the eye and without a hint of the true reality behind the appealing, convenient products and services.

This is the reality that the current generations see, and that is all most have ever known. But the good parts of it are a reality that is founded on our Christian legacy, with what is left kept alive by the residue of the Christian ethic still imprinted on our society, families, and individuals.

That residue is getting thinner and thinner all the time, and as it does, the spectre of man's evil against himself is already raising its ugly head. Foremost in this new secular reality is the intolerance of tolerance. What is presented is the core belief that anyone can believe whatever they want and should not be limited in doing so (relativism, most often moral when discussed). However, the inevitable, unavoidable paradox that they want you to be canceled and gagged if you do not believe their exact same "tolerance" doctrine, in the end game meaning death, is totally missed or ignored.

The once sacrosanct rights of freedom of religion and conscience are being assailed on all fronts, and in their place the oppression of a new secular religion is being forced on all. Inevitably, man will turn against man in brutality without honor, for a godless nation cannot hope to long endure and will die from rot within.

I pray one day never to again hear that the gift of salvation in Christ is a form of violence. How far we have fallen from grace, that the loving Oracles of God and the witness of His people are so woefully misunderstood and maligned.