Christians are always trying to help out. But our view of ourselves has narrowed to the point we sometimes come against ourselves. Perhaps we need to clean our window to the world.
Many Christians promote multi-culturalism instead of Christianity, fearing to discriminate. However, no one can serve two masters, and certainly not several. Loyalty to our American values conceived by faith in the living God, depicts historical freedoms, unique in the world. Christianity is a relationship with a living Person, Almighty God.
Christianity is not just religiosity and religion and ritual. It is relationship with Jesus Christ, God with us by His Spirit, for all who receive Him. We choose. He offers forgiveness of sins and eternal life. It’s a free gift for seekers of God.
Christianity in action means that all cultures are welcome in America, as our laws speak to that issue. No one gets burned at the stake or beheaded in this our country where we welcome diversity. In America freedom to be, and become more, was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that humans are created equal.
No need to fear multiculturalism, unless there is a plot to undermine America, and Christianity, and force laws that would even eliminate Christianity, if it were possible. Practices of socialism, communism and Sharia law could aim to eliminate Christians if fully practiced here. Then we would have a problem with legalized “choppers who chop off heads” and not only heads, some hands and feet and some plucking out of eyes and stoning as well could then become “legalized” in America.
Death cultures are not welcomed here, and we will defend ourselves against cultures that destroy life and our way of life. Self defense in in order, even in America.
Perhaps America deserves repressive law like Sharia laws–seeing how we use our current legal system to decimate our unborn progeny, and over-medicate our elderly to death and into so much confusion that they can’t object to their own signature on a DNR/DNI form. These dishonored elders, when over-medicated, can’t drink water without choking and can’t chew and swallow their food without aspiration problems. The practice of euthanasia does harm first while forgetting that even the elderly and those near death can heal. Healing happens often in America!
As we Americans do it ‘to the least of these’ we do it to Jesus. Those Christians moving so self righteously against Christianity could remember we in America still allow our own enemies freedom to live among us, perhaps believing against all odds that some misled and misinformed brand new American citizens now living within our borders, will come to passionately value and protect freedom and liberty, too. Many new Americans are passionately pro-freedom, having experienced THE OPPOSITE before they arrived. While the Supreme Court ruled that the USA was Christian in its founding and in its documents, the Supreme Court did not ban non-Christians from citizenship. All people willing to live under rule of law are welcomed in the United States.
However, America has some legal housekeeping to do. We must stop the trafficking of humans–Minnesota is 13th on the list of U.S. states participating in this EVIL PRACTICE. We are an international destination for well paid human traffickers, those taking children and women from other cultures and depositing them into the grip of evil money mongers who use these trapped humans as a source of income. Disgust for these despicable slave traders must turn into actions to defeat them and their practices in Minnesota and in the U.S.
Human extinction still happens, one by one. What should we do when we see a human in need of release from slavery status in this ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’? You know. Act up. Speak out. Change laws so there is a higher standard than making money off another’s imprisonment. Yes, slavery is still extant here in MN– and where it exists in America the American dream is extinguished and a human often dies a tortured death. Torture happens here, in A MOTHER’S UTERUS killing an unborn human, in an assisted living facility that has become AN ASSISTED DYING FACILITY, in the grip of human traffickers that use offers of American freedom to entice and trap and even destroy other humans being deprived of their essential rights.
Stop abortion. Stop human trafficking. Stop euthanasia. Stand up for freedom.
Stop something evil! Change bad law, before these ill conceived statutes stop our very FREEDOM TO CHANGE LAWS, laws that should never have been legalized by us in the first place.
Rudyard Kipling sort of explained that east and west never meet and one does not become the other in a trip around the world. East remains east, and west remains “Westward, Ho”! Not so with north and south travels. Go south and you will eventually go north. Take your compass and your GPS!
Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
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In America we allow the strong to stand up and debate. We did have duels between opponents, but now we have a war of words.
Those righteous values that change people from the inside out, really promote freedom for all, even protection for our enemies to walk about in American freedom.
A new educational curriculum is in order in our schools–one that encourages debate about abortion, creation, evolution, socialism, capitalism, gender differences, health care and more. American history has often been rewritten until it becomes a diatribe against America. Supporting debate and research must be seen once again as proactive prevention. The right to speech and assembly actually prevents us from losing our way in a world of policies, philosophical differences, various religions, theoretical assumptions, ideas and ideals and more. There are very good and very evil practices calling to us. Do we know the difference?
To the public school unions and educators we would say, “American educators tear down those walls that prevent honest investigation and research in areas you fear to address–like LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”.
Silliness in education is rampant, really, when you think of real American educators being disallowed to have a bumper sticker on their vehicle parked near the school, not have their Bible on their desk, have duct taped mouths when it comes to giving any logical reasons for disagreeing with evolutionism, abortion, euthanasia, indoctrinating our students with false fears that the sky is falling, and more. Free speech is often cut off at the door of our public educational institutions.
No, we don’t have to be like the rest of the world. We will remain a city on a hill by not blocking the light that comes from our Christian heritage. Join us or not. BUT NO ONE MUST BE ALLOWED to destroy what we hold dear…FREEDOM TO DEBATE, TO THINK, TO CHANGE OUR MINDS, to move toward better government by reviewing our laws, for the greater good of all of OUR CITIZENS, for CHRISTIANS AND NON-CHRISTIANS as well, of course. Debate is part of education. Reality therapy is iron sharpening iron, good for education and often instigating research.
Notice how in Minnesota and in America everyone around us is recognized as ‘a human being’? In America we believe that all people are created equal, with rights to utilize their potential, unless in the process they DEPRIVE others of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We might have more debates that address the issue of human rights, of freedom of soul and mind as well as of body.
Dueling went out with the 21 century–hopefully. You can’t really intelligently debate a dead opponent. But debate forces you to understand your opponent, and to think and interact with ideas.
So Christians, let’s start with ourselves. We can stand our ground, pray for our enemies and defend the most vulnerable among us. Would Jesus approve of that expression of Christianity?
This practice of Christianity might even catch on globally…you know like countries around the planet welcoming American missions to Indonesia and Haiti, welcome American food for the poor, welcome American builders building homes for the homeless around the world, welcome American support of schools and education for children and women in Iraq, welcome American medical personnel and treatments, i.e. vaccines to prevent malaria in mosquito laden climates, welcome American missions to provide shoes for the shoeless, welcome American families adopting an orphan and sending money each month for children that can’t be brought to the U.S, welcome the giving of useful Christmas gifts in shoe boxes from American families to hundreds of thousands of kids, welcome sending dentists and doctors to far away places, welcome those American contractors who supply sources of water to those who have no water available for miles…and Jesus would approve of even helping our enemies in many of these ways.
Want to put new thoughts into enemies heads and touch their hearts? We can put hot thoughts of amazement about the American way of life into the ‘experiences’ we offer to our allies and even our enemies. If we really want to replicate democracy, freedom and faith in Jesus Christ, Christians must be united for Christianity as it comes to us in Holy Scripture, and in the lifestyle and actions of one JESUS of Nazareth.
Windows of opportunity for American freedom.
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Multiculturalism is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures, for practical reasons and/or for the sake of diversity and applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities or nations. In this context, multiculturalists advocate extending equitable status to distinct ethnic and religious groups without promoting any specific ethnic, religious, and/or cultural community values as central.
The policy of multiculturalism is often contrasted with the concepts assimilationism and social integration. Multicultural policies are sometimes confused with the concept of the multinational state. A country may be multi-national without being multicultural.
Some countries have official (or de jure) policies of multiculturalism aimed at promoting social cohesion by recognizing distinct groups within a society and allowing those groups to celebrate and maintain their cultures or cultural identities. Many critics of deliberated, government-instituted policies believe they artificially perpetuate social divisions, damaging the social cohesion of the nation-state.
However, proponents of multicultural programs argue that social cohesion has too often been achieved either by explicit discrimination against cultural minority groups (e.g., laws that restrict the freedoms of certain groups) or by an implicit discrimination which rejects other cultural forms as being without value (e.g., school programs that never teach the historic and artistic contributions of minorities).
Critics of multiculturalism often charge multiculturalists with practicing cultural relativism (i.e., judging customs and practices of other cultures in their contexts), often confusing this with moral relativism (lack of an idea of right and wrong), and they emphasize that not all cultural values and practices must be held in equal regard in every given society. They warn against special treatment that might violate the principle of equality before the law, and emphasize that citizenship denotes a tacit agreement to abide by the laws, customs and accepted value system of nation, especially in regards to those who chose to emigrate from abroad to join their newly adopted society.
Advocates of multiculturalism counter these objections by claiming that 1) the issue is not cultural relativism but the whitewashing of history, i.e., that history has been written to play up the contributions of the dominant group and to downplay the (often significant) contributions of minority groups; 2) with regards to cultural/artistic contributions, the claim that minority culture is inferior is often based less on aesthetic quality than on politically-motivated criteria; 3) the issue is often not legal equality but simply recognition that minorities do exist in the culture; and 4) many minority groups did not immigrate but were either imported or previously living on the land.
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