Whatever We Allow Will Continue

By: American Decency Staff

Every school has their challenging rival, every athlete his looming nemesis; but what happens when the boundaries are no longer set to a confined space and time?  What happens when its murder instead of a game and the whole world is your “playing field?” 

Some authorities are finding reason to believe that there is a bitter rivalry being shown in public competition between Islamic terrorist groups, particularly “Al Qaeda" in Yemen and “the Islamic State.” What are the murderous events which win the title “Most Extreme Islamic Terrorist?”  The competition is to see who can kill the most people, the most brutally, and the most publically.  With these goals in mind and the many attacks against humanity how can anyone still consider these groups as part of a peaceful religion?

There are none so blind as who will not see.

 These Islamic terrorists don’t claim to be peaceful; yet our leaders willfully refuse to acknowledge the dangers they are putting us in with open borders, open arms to terrorist “refugees,” and attempting to disarm and dismantle our Bill of Rights while ignoring our Constitution. Our government willfully remains blinded to the actual war we find ourselves in – a war of theological dimensions and a war in which Islamic extremists are setting the terms.  Our “representatives” are neglecting to stand for that which is rational and right, refusing to call things and groups by their true identities for fear of offending, and moving our country and its people closer and closer to the demise which our enemy desires.

On Al Moehler’s radio program,“The Briefing,” he brought up the point that moral outrage over terrorist attacks seem to have a short shelf life, that people will discard their “I’m Charlie” shirts soon, much like they discarded their “Bring back our girls” signs for those 200 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped and still haven’t been returned.

I fear that he’s right; in part, because we’ve been a nation of sheep willingly led to a comfortable slaughter instead of a nation of men standing firm, braving the waves of opposition and refusing the luxury of a complacent comfort.  Instead of speaking truth we’ve been manipulated to silence for fear of the labels that are incorrectly placed upon us.  To stand biblically might land you the label of “Bible Thumper;” other stands may make you an “Islamophobe,” a “homophobe,” uncaring, unChrist-like, or any number of false labels. So we remain silent.

Our leadership has done much to divide us against each other instead of uniting us and making us “indivisible,” as our pledge calls us.Our enemy ought not to be those of our own country; rather it should be those who are joining together to bring us to ruin, foreign or domestic.  Our enemies should be those who pose an irrational and violent danger to us rather than those with whom we just disagree.

With an ever increasing number of tensions, shootings, and attacks, it would be mentally impossible, emotionally draining, and physically exhausting to maintain a heightened degree of moral outrage, but at the same time we mustn’t just “let it go” or be forgotten.

The key is to use the outrage in a productive manner, to DO something rather than just be upset about it.  So what does one do to show that it’s not just a time for wearing a t-shirt or holding a sign?  (This is not to downplay the usefulness of demonstrating.)  What do you do to show that 9/11 was more than catching an Islamic terrorist leader? 

Again, it requires action.  I’m not calling for a retaliation of violence; but we do need to actually do something.  We need to talk to our representative government telling them we are in a war of religious ideologies, reminding them of the violence these Islamists have done and are doing both here and abroad. We must insist that our leaders protect us according to the Constitution and that all branches are held accountable.  In reminding them of the deadly violence that has been perpetrated against humanity around the world in the name of Allah, we insist that because of Islamic, irrational hatred we expect rational, patriotic actions from them.

To put it succinctly, speak to them as Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Jay concerning those violent, Muslim “Barbary Coast Pirates.”  “Justice indeed on our part will save us from those wars which would have been produced by a contrary disposition. But to prevent those produced by the wrongs of other nations? By putting ourselves in a condition to punish them. Weakness provokes insult & injury, while a condition to punish it often prevents it. … I think it to our interest to punish the first insult; because an insult unpunished is the parent of many others.”

A good course to remember is that whatever we allow, will continue.

Keep these extreme actions before your mind remembering who the perpetrators are, yet tempering that with forgiveness and love. We mustn’t do this feeding a weed of bitterness; but we do this to make good decisions, speak to the truth, and remind ourselves what the true issues and real threats are.

As always, we must pray for protection from the evil one and that God would use us to further His kingdom.  If you see this need for prayer please join us at the American Decency Association in Fremont on Friday, January 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm as we host Dr. Terry Slachter, author of The Next Great Awakening.  Click here for more information. 

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