Todd Starnes frames MSM, gives 'shining city on a hill' message at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills
By: Alex Murashko
America is a shining city on a hill. We are a Christian nation. Our founding fathers declared we have a creator who made us as equal in His sight and endowed us all with our inalienable human rights. We have moved far from that and our country is struggling on many levels. Remaking our country and returning to our foundations does not mean starting at Washington DC, but at the city council and local school board. That is why the fascist secular progressives in DC are sending federal agents to target parents opposing 1619 project, CRT, and more in our schools. We can fight socialism and defend liberty, rights, and freedom in America and overcome the secular left bias of the msm to do it!
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Todd Starnes frames MSM, gives 'shining city on a hill' message at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills
Most of the mainstream media in America don't understand Christians, and many hate them, said Christian journalist Todd Starnes, who is a former analyst for Fox News and author of the book, Culture Jihad .
Starnes, who was the guest speaker behind the pulpit during Sunday services at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in California, which is led by Pastor Jack Hibbs, framed today's mainstream media outlook on Christians and then gave a rally cry for the country during the current troubling times.
The journalist at the pulpit was fitting because both Starnes (radio show) and Hibbs (pulpit) pull from U.S. history to expose the deep Christian roots of the nation.
"My job at Fox News was to tell our stories to the rest of the country," Starnes said in front of the congregation. "There are not many Christians in the mainstream media. There are very few, so, they just don't get us. I think a lot of them hate us, but overwhelmingly I think they just don't understand who we are. It was a joy for over the 15 years at the Fox News Channel to be able to share those stories with the rest of the country."
Along with sharing his testimony of how he felt God "got his attention" and steered his career life, Starnes gave his thoughts on the political and cultural climate in the nation.
"I believe America is meant to be a Christian nation," he said. "When you look at our founding documents, when you look at the letters and the correspondence of our Founding Fathers it is very clear to me that they were basing every decision they made on the Holy Scriptures.
"John Adams, our second president said this: Our Constitution is holy and adequate for anyone other than a holy and just people. That means when you take God out of the equation you get chaos. And what's been happening over the last two decades in America? We have gotten chaos because we removed God from the equation.
"We don't get our rights from mankind, our rights come from Almighty God."
Starnes told the congregation that they "have been in the fox hole of the front lines of this war on religious liberty." Hibbs, along with other church leaders, locally, such as Pastor Joe Pedick of Calvary Chapel of the Harbour in Huntington Beach, strongly advocate for Christians to be engaged within educational and governmental establishments in order to bring about positive change.
Starnes said, "The Constitution is under assault."
"You might like our history or you might hate our history but it doesn't matter because when you erase history you will repeat that history," he said. "That's why we have to take such a stand here in the culture."
Starnes said that Christians are challenged when it comes to prioritizing their cultural focus.
"We think it's 'sexy' to go after Washington, [thinking] we have to 'take back Washington,'" he explained. "That's well and good but if you don't take care of what is happening here at home, you're never going to change what's happening in Washington, D.C. We've to get Christians onto the school boards and city councils. We have to take back our own communities first."
Starnes emphasized the importance of building strong families. "American exceptionalism doesn't start in Washington, it starts around the supper table," he said.
Does Starnes still have hope?
Starnes warns that Americans are being conditioned and led into socialism. However, he offers a more hopeful alternative.
"My hope is not based in the State Capital in Sacramento. My hope is not built on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' hope and righteousness," Starnes said.
One of several proposals he suggested was for Christians to get involved in school boards.
Responding to the DOJ's request that the FBI send agents to investigate "moms and dads" who are raising concerns about critical race theory, Starnes said: "In essence, what [advocates of CRT] are saying is that if you are a certain skin color you are a bad person. Well, I want to say something about that. My God doesn't make mistakes. Not one mistake. We are all made in God's image, and I tell you brothers and sisters, it is a lie from the pit of Hell designed to turn us against each other and foment a race war, and I am fighting against that every single day on my radio show."
He concluded his message with a rally cry.
"My fellow brothers and sisters, we are surrounded. The enemies of freedom are advancing and the time has come for all of us to stand resolute. ... Let our prayer be on this day, that our great nation will once again be that shining city on a hill."
... in the fevered dreams of theocratic dominionists.
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Thanks for you good comment here. It was appreciated.
Freewill - seriously, I was trying to get an explanation as to what "theocratic dominionists" are. Never heard of them, so didn't/don't understand the reference.
They are individuals who actually think our country and government should be Christian and think our laws and Constitution should be based on the Bible. They advocate the idea that the Founding Fathers intended this country to be based on and for Christianity. David Barton and the Wallbuilders are a well known example of Christian dominionists.
Here are some links that will provide you with a lot of information:
You will note that much of the propaganda posted by some people on here is discussed in these articles.
Also note that Christian dominionists are not above lying to promote their agenda. The aforementioned Wallbuilders is an example.
They often lie to promote their agenda.
Exactly. And they don't care.
Wow - some really damn weird folks.
Thanks GS.
"Weird" is not the word I'd use.
Gotta stay within the CoC, right?
That's right. Although, sometimes it can be a challenge.
I want to see you let loose one time. Go ahead, get a ticket...
Haha
(Just joking with ya)
You're welcome, 1stwarrior.
Unfortunately, those people have more influence than is good for our society.
So the lies get to 'win'? Knock truth face-first down into the dirt? I think not. Where are the good people? We need them right here and now to present themselves to be counted!
Rise up and speak for all you, we, are worth! And do not be casted down into the dirt ever again!
It's how they operate.
No. The lies and liars must be defeated.
I have noticed.
No one here is remotely thinking about or advocating for a theocracy or having any version of Christianity running the country. It is the bi coastal secular progressive elite that are trying to marginalize Christianity in our culture.
Comment 2.2 is completely fraudulent. It is a transparent con job.
It's also a sweeping generalization.
Yours is a nothing statement. Baseless sweeping generalizations of no value to any discussion. Your comment discusses nothing as to the content of either the post responded to our the seeded article.
I don't think you understand what a sweeping generalization is.
I do and post 2.2.1 is a prime example of one.
No, it’s not. It’s my personal opinion and is in support of the position of the article i seeded.
Clearly you do not!
Maybe you should research what a sweeping generalization is!
So? It's still a sweeping generalization.
It's a secular nation. Always has been, always will be.
No, it’s not.
The government is secular the nation is not.
The people are not. That does not equal to this being a "Christian nation."
Really? How secular is this?
Secular:
It was all soaring rhetoric then and yet some have worked hard to make it live in this country. However, some conservatives can not claim to believe in the inalienable human rights of the entire of our citizenry. Eh?
The founding fathers set in motion an exceptional nation and laid the foundations to create a more perfect Union. [deleted]
When they say "We are a Christian nation" what they mean, the message they intend to convey, is "We are a nation exclusively for white, right wing, evangelical Christian elitists".
When they say "We are a Christian nation" that is intended as coded hate speech for "We hate Black people, we hate Hispanic people, we hate Asians, we hate Native Americans, we hate Muslims, we hate Buddhists, we hate Hindus, we hate Sikhs, we hate atheists, we hate Jews".
It's a demonstrable lie!
There is not one thing in the content of your post that is accurate or true about us or our beliefs or our intentions. It is not our side or views reflected in all the hate expressed in that post.
No it’s not. We were founded upon Christian principles by our founders and by our founding documents. We set up a secular constitution and government so that no one church could impose religious ideas upon other Christians. We are still a majority Christian nation and it has room in it for those of other beliefs or none at all to freely practice their belief or lack thereof. It is the militantly secular that are the intolerant ones in today’s America.
Clearly, the language of theocracy.
There can be no constitution or bill of rights or elected representatives and a constitutional republic in a theocracy. So clearly neither the founding fathers or us now want a theocracy until we get to Heaven. On this earth, our Christian nation is just fine with the constitution and our government when it follows the founders and the constitution they wrote. We just need to resist the influence and effects of the secular progressive elites upon it and limit what damage they can do to us.
America is, of course, not a "Christian nation". You must live somewhere else.
More of the endless theocratic dominionist bullshit propaganda.
Clearly, they want us to "know our place" in the pegging order. And how people of color are permanent guests/citizens here. I get that "all day" for them. Moreover, those "evangelicals" can't pull the wool over my eyes, yours, and some others here!
Because some evangelicals have chosen to weaponize their faith against others!
That's for sure!
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He meant we can’t pull it away from his covered eyes by his choice.
Again, demonstrably false!
Which directly contradicts any claim that we are a "christian nation."
In other words, we are a secular nation with a population who mostly identifies as christian. That is not the same or synonymous with being a "christian nation."
Another sweeping generalization.
What "propaganda" would that be?
We are a nation with a majority christian population. Big difference.
At least you understand that much.
Perhaps they're simply not buying into the BS anymore.
Fortunately more are finding their way back to a more evangelical fundamentally sound denomination, or such a variety of their own.
That's not an improvement.
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Yes, it is!
Irrationality (or delusion) is never an improvement.
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More sweeping generalizations and taunting I see. You essentially prove my point.
Then I sincerely hope that you take the steps needed to overcome those things. God can help with that.
Wrong. Just resisting the propaganda and content control of the secular progressive elites in this country.
I stand by what I said and completely meant every word of it because theologically I believe it to be the case and make and owe no apology for expressing my religious belief to you.
As opposed to the endless anti theist militant secularist baloney propaganda we believers are so often exposed to here?
I'm not the one suffering from those things.
Well it’s not me that is so your point was?
Cite one example.
And so you said that to SAY WHAT?
Wanna bet?
As to the Biden regime, the letter to them from the school board association and their response to it proclaiming parents opposing school board policies as domestic terrorists used an incident a parent was abused for protesting his daughter being raped by a boy in a skirt in the girls bathroom. It turns out he was right, a cover up exposed and a female board member resigning. This is why Starnes is right and that the efforts start at the school board and city council level to take our country back.
Back to what? Be specific.
I follow Starnes on Twitter, I own him daily.. He is many things, but a Christian he isn't.
Gods love, "just kill them all".
Nothing says fundamentalists more than bloodlust!