A Pew poll released about a year ago noted that just 37 percent of American liberals identify as Christians, versus 82 percent of conservatives and 61 percent of independents.
In 2007, 62 percent of liberals identified as Christian, so the drop, particularly vis-à-vis drops in Christian identification for conservatives and independents, looks Cyclone steep.
For Americans concerned about the souls of their fallen fellow countrymen, fear not! A counterintuitive form of evangelism leads them back to Christ — or at least to the churches where perhaps they, felix culpa, find Him.
In St. Paul on Sunday, a mob of about three dozen invaded Cities Church. They chanted “Renee Good” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” They point to the association of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer with the Southern Baptist-affiliated church as the justification for the raid. But he neither presided over nor attended the disrupted Sunday morning service.
A more objectionable figure who did was Don Lemon, the former TV personality once accused of this.
“Okay, but, listen,” he lectured the pastor during an interview in which the former CNN host justified the mob’s action. “There’s a Constitution and a First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest.”
Does the First Amendment say something about freedom of religion, too?
Lemon strangely took the side of the Fred Phelpses of the Left. Do you remember him?
The pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church protested outside of churches with deluded followers holding placards reading “God Hates You” and “You’re Going to Hell.” His signature phrase, “God Hates Fags,” and manner of taunting mourners emerging from funerals, made him one of the most loathed figures — among Democrats and Republicans, Christians and non-Christians — in the United States. Yet, he possessed one shred of decency that the Cities Church disrupters lacked: he kept his protests outside of churches (otherwise, the man was gross).
But some elected officials in Minnesota applaud Fred Phelps’s progressive imitators.
“Actions like this — nonviolent resistance in the face of government inaction or oppression — are essential,” State Rep. Leigh Finke, who represents the very city where this happened, posted online. “And they must continue until I.C.E. is out of our state, the administration is out of the White House, and dignity and humanity for all of our neighbors is achieved.”
The civil rights movement organized inside churches. This seriously wrong movement disrupts them.
One of the disrupters apparently engaged in similar activity at Christ Church in Washington, D.C., where Secretary of War Pete Hegseth worships.
“William Kelly is a regular outside our church. He screams incredibly vile and gross things at families, at children, at people. He’s called my wife a c—, a whore, and a Nazi breeder — all sorts of fun things,” the Christ Church member told FoxNews.com.
Under his nom de internet DaWokeFarmer2, Kelly calls ICE agents “Nazis,” insists he documents evidence for Nuremberg 2.0, and refers to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as a “terrorist.”
He exhibited similar nastiness toward the non-public figures who congregated at Cities Church in St. Paul.
“You are a fake Christian,” he told one youngster during the service. He labeled others “sinners,” “pretend Christians,” and “comfortable white people.” As one family attempted to drive away from the church, the fire-and-brimstone preacher of wokeism heckled them for “living real comfortable while the people starve, living real comfortable while children are dragged into concentration camps.”
Mr. Kelly lives in an ideological hallucination that depicts government agents who deport criminals as Nazis, a country with more obesity-related deaths than any other as a hotbed of starvation, and Auschwitzes as littering the American landscape.
One can overdose on politics, and its effects can skew perception every bit as much as LSD.
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