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Dark Times of Pandemic Sheds Light on Church Haters

  
Via:  XXJefferson51  •  4 years ago  •  9 comments

By:   Jerry Newcombe

Dark Times of Pandemic Sheds Light on Church Haters
In her classic book, "Godless," Ann Coulter postulates that abortion is the left’s "sacrament." The sacraments of the church are out. The left’s new sacrament is in. The most pro-abortion rights leaders are the ones who are most cracking down on real constitutional freedoms in their states. If a politician gets abortion wrong, they tend to get everything else wrong too. This anti-religious spirit at work is exceedingly ironic because America was born as a religious nation.

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It is interesting to watch the religious liberty on the one side and the vile anti religion intolerance and bigotry on the other side of the cultural and political divide in America.  Some on the secular progressive side see no place for the practice of religion in America and are using the pandemic to push their priorities and stamp out free exercise.  


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Dr. Richard Land once described our nation as "the divided states of America."

How apt — especially when we survey the various responses to the coronavirus.

They are lessons in liberty and lessons in tyranny.

To paraphrase what a friend of mine wrote me recently, "We have 50 real-world government examples of liberty or tyranny — 50 real-time experiments in whether state governments moved towards liberty (as in Texas and South Dakota) or absolute control (as in California, Michigan, and New York)."

As a resident, I would add — Florida’s leadership is doing a great job.

Nowhere can this contrast be better seen than in how the state authorities deal with churches versus how they deal with abortion, ordering churches closed while deeming Planned Parenthood and other abortionists "essential services."

How fitting. In her classic book, "Godless," Ann Coulter postulates that abortion is the left’s "sacrament."

The sacraments of the church are out. The left’s new sacrament is in.

The most pro-abortion rights leaders are the ones who are most cracking down on real constitutional freedoms in their states.

If a politician gets abortion wrong, they tend to get everything else wrong too.

This anti-religious spirit at work is exceedingly ironic because America was born as a religious nation. In the Mayflower Compact, the Pilgrims explained their reason for coming: "for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith."

Our First Amendment declares our first freedom — freedom of religion.

The Founders stipulated there would be no national denomination and there would be no prohibition on the "free exercise" of religion.

They didn’t add, "except in times of pestilence."

Indeed, U.S. Attorney General William "Bill" Barr sides with the churches (following social distancing guidelines, etc.) in this conflict. He said, "There is no pandemic exception to the Constitution and its Bill of Rights."

But many of the left today have used the pandemic crisis to try and shut down a lot of religious services:

•The mayor of Kansas City, Missouri was demanding that churches hand over a list of anyone who attended any of their services. When Mat Staver and Liberty Counsel threatened to sue, the city backed down.

•The governor of Illinois postulated that church services may need to be banned for a year. This is the same governor who prohibited residents in his state from traveling — while apparently his wife vacationed in Florida.

•Overzealous administrators have sought to ban churches even from holding "drive-in" church services, which follow the mandates to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

If your church parking lot permits, holding a drive-in service is a clever way to worship the Lord together. Usually, the pastor would preach to the congregation in their cars though a low frequency on the FM dial in such services.

But even in the Bible belt, such as in Kentucky and Mississippi, some overzealous administrators have tried to shut such services down.

First Liberty Institute has threatened lawsuits, and the cities have relented.

The Wall Street Journal's May 12, 2020 editorial "Caesar, God and the Lockdowns," observes, "A federal court ruling on religious liberty is a lesson to governors."

The editorial relates the story of Maryville Baptist Church in Louisville, Kenticuky. They held a modest Easter service — with some worshipers inside and others in the parking lot, hearing the service through a loudspeaker.

To harass the worshipers, notes the Journal notes , "The police took down license-plate numbers. The church sued."

A panel on the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of the church, "It’s not always easy to decide what is Caesar’s and what is God’s — and that’s assuredly true in the context of a pandemic. Why is it safe to wait in a car for a liquor store to open but dangerous to wait in a car to hear morning prayers?"

A new report out of Chicago over the weekend shows the lengths to which the anti-God forces will go. Wirepoints  (May 18, 2020) observes that the mayor sought to punish a church, Philadelphia Romanian Church, to prevent it from holding services. They reported, "On Sunday morning the tow trucks descended — not just on churchgoers, but on residents and everybody else, and on a private lot used by parishioners."

The pastor of the church said, "The mayor is inciting hate against the church which is very sad. A lot of our members risked their lives to escape Communism, only to find it germinating in 2020 under Mayor Lightfoot in Chicago."

Lightfoot is so committed to abortion rights, she helped drive out of office one of the last Democratic, anti-abortion U.S. conressmen.

Wirepoints adds, "It should also be a clarion call to the churches across the city as to how far the left will go to crush the faithful of all denominations."

Freedom-loving Americans can look at a map of the country and see how those on the left versus those on the right are delicately handling the crisis. Abortion-loving, church-hating politicians stand in great contrast with their freedom-loving counterparts in red states.


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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago

The Wall Street Journal's May 12, 2020 editorial "Caesar, God and the Lockdowns," observes, "A federal court ruling on religious liberty is a lesson to governors."

The editorial relates the story of Maryville Baptist Church in Louisville, Kenticuky. They held a modest Easter service — with some worshipers inside and others in the parking lot, hearing the service through a loudspeaker.

To harass the worshipers, notes the Journal notes , "The police took down license-plate numbers. The church sued."

A panel on the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of the church, "It’s not always easy to decide what is Caesar’s and what is God’s — and that’s assuredly true in the context of a pandemic. Why is it safe to wait in a car for a liquor store to open but dangerous to wait in a car to hear morning prayers?"

A new report out of Chicago over the weekend shows the lengths to which the anti-God forces will go. Wirepoints  (May 18, 2020) observes that the mayor sought to punish a church, Philadelphia Romanian Church, to prevent it from holding services. They reported, "On Sunday morning the tow trucks descended — not just on churchgoers, but on residents and everybody else, and on a private lot used by parishioners."

The pastor of the church said, "The mayor is inciting hate against the church which is very sad. A lot of our members risked their lives to escape Communism, only to find it germinating in 2020 under Mayor Lightfoot in Chicago."

Lightfoot is so committed to abortion rights, she helped drive out of office one of the last Democratic, anti-abortion U.S. conressmen.

Wirepoints adds, "It should also be a clarion call to the churches across the city as to how far the left will go to crush the faithful of all denominations."   https://thenewstalkers.com/vic-eldred/group_discuss/8557/dark-times-of-pandemic-sheds-light-on-church-haters

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  XXJefferson51 @1    4 years ago

It is interesting to watch the exercise of religious liberty on the one side and the hate filled anti religion intolerance and bigotry on the other.  Two sides of the cultural and political divide in America.  Some on the secular progressive side see no place for the practice of religion in America and are using the pandemic to push those priorities and stamp out the free exercise there of and trample upon the religious liberty in their search for revenge. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago

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XXJefferson51
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2.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2    4 years ago

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Texan1211
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3  Texan1211    4 years ago

I'm sure the usual bunch will be along soon enough to chastise you severely for having the temerity to worship God without any proof He exists they accept as good enough for them.

Come on, you can go to a freaking Wal-Mart but some don't want you to go to church--with or without following guidelines on social distancing and wearing masks.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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3.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Texan1211 @3    4 years ago

They won’t show here because they don’t want their cover blown and the light to shine upon them directly as the headline suggests they are.  Not just Walmart but abortuaries, pot dispensaries, and liquor stores.  But by all means no one can go to church.  Blue state governor and blue city mayoral hypocrisy.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4  Vic Eldred    4 years ago

The bright spot in all of this from the perspective of the religious is that as of Friday, May 22 -  houses of worship were deemed "essential" by the President. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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4.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Vic Eldred @4    4 years ago

That’s true but in key blue states and cities there are governors and mayors fighting that declaration tooth and nail.  Hopefully the courts will impose the free exercise there of portion of the 1st amendment upon them since they ‘forgot’ it exists

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4.1.1  Vic Eldred  replied to  XXJefferson51 @4.1    4 years ago

The key will be if there are lock downs that are placed on Church and not other "essentials."  That would clearly indicate a violation of the 1st Amendment.

 
 

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