Nobody
has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I
have ever read.[1]
Many Americans have been propagandized to the extent that
they now form an entire subclass – the perpetually offended. What are the
signs? One of the most glaring signs of this new genre of the walking infantile
is the belief, often expressed by aggressive and even violent behavior, that
anyone or thing that offends them ought not to be allowed to exist.
People that think this way apparently believe that the universe
operates according to their ideology. They have no real justification for
believing this way. They can’t point to any standard of moral reasoning,
logical analysis, or time-tested system of thought that supports their
viewpoint. They further demonstrate their ignorance by believing everyone would
be better off believing like they do. Remarkable, they think they are the
modern equivalent of the knights of old, riding in to rescue the damsels in
distress, in this case culture, civility, and the American way. The truth that
these individuals cannot grasp is something much different.
Here is a case in point: Two University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill students were recently arrested and charged with assault. What
led to their arrests? They were arrested after they physically and violently
attacked a pro-life activist who was on the campus with Created Equal, a group
that uses dialogue to attempt to persuade people that abortion is the murder of
unborn human beings. One of the strategies that Created Equal uses is the
prominent display of actual pictures of the dismembered bodies of babies, the
result of “choice” as abortion is euphemistically called by those attempting to
disguise the barbaric truth of what abortion is and does to the preborn human.
Pictures of babies who have suffered the cruelest fate
imaginable are a powerful reminder of the truth of what abortion really is.
Pictures leave no room for debate about abortion being “women’s reproductive
healthcare” as the brainwashed like to call it. Abortion ends the life of the
baby and therefore trying to obfuscate this truth by calling it “reproductive
healthcare” is idiocy.
The university students mentioned above were shocked when
law enforcement officers arrested them. They could not believe that their noble
cause of violently opposing and assaulting pro-life individuals resulted in
arrest. One of the students said, “I cannot believe this is happening,”
referring to her arrest.
Another example of the same mindset demonstrated by the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill child murder supporters is the now
infamous behavior of Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims. Sims, the
self-proclaimed champion of a woman’s right to murder her unborn child, thought
he was valiant and courageous for demeaning, belittling, and verbally
intimidating an elderly woman outside a baby murder facility.
What was the crime that set Sims over the edge? This
grandmother was walking in front of the murder mill while praying silently. For
this gross offense Sims took it upon himself to video the woman, demanding her
name and address, offering a money reward to anyone who would identify her and
where she lived so that he and others that think like he does could go harass
her at her home.
In the least Sims demonstrated that he has no business
making decisions that affect citizens of the state of Pennsylvania in his
capacity as a State Representative. More troubling than that however, is the fact
that Sims thought it perfectly normal to call for a mass turnout of like-minded
baby murderers to intimidate an individual for having the temerity to be at a
place where women murder their children and pray that they would change their
minds.
Then there is the recent case of the morally bankrupt young
women celebrating the act of murdering babies by dancing through a graveyard of
crosses representing aborted babies. This publicity stunt was noteworthy for
the callousness with which these young women were exulting child murder. Here
is one report of this incident:
Planned Parenthood supporters at the University
of Texas at San Antonio protested at a Students for Life symbolic cemetery for
the unborn.
The incident occurred on April 9 as Students
for Life commemorated aborted babies through a cemetery display, the
pro-life nonprofit group revealed in a press release Wednesday.
Students for Life set up pink crosses and talked to students
about pro-life options as part of a spring Planned Parenthood Truth Tour
throughout college campuses.
Young women from the university’s Students
United for Planned Parenthood group interrupted the memorial activity. The
protesters strode through the assembled crosses, shouted and waved signs,
according to video footage.
“Look, there’s mine right there,” one Planned
Parenthood supporter shouted in the video, pointing at a cross and pretending
an aborted baby lay beneath it. A student shouted across the cemetery
that she loves having sex and aborting babies. “My number one kink,”
she can be heard saying in the video, as noted by Students For Life.
“I love advocating for abortion! My uterus
loves advocating for abortion,” another girl shouted, waving her sign. “When I
say Planned, you say Parenthood. When I say aborted, you say fetuses!”
“It’s a fetus graveyard!” another protester
said.[2]
What has happened to a great number of men and women in
America is that their conscience has become seared. Their mind is in a state of
depreciating ability to grasp morality personally and interpersonally. They
have become incapable of moral reasoning and logical analysis that lead to
guilt or shame related to their thinking and behavior. They are being turned
over to the darkness they crave and prostitute themselves to and on behalf of.
Depending on the severity of the behavior, psychologists
call this psychopathic or sociopathic behavior. The difference between the two
is that a psychopath has no conscience remaining. The psychopath’s conscience
is completely seared and devoid of any emotion of shame or guilt associated
with their behavior. Ironically, Hollywood glamorizes this behavior, giving
tacit approval to the violent and murderous results of psychopathic people.
The sociopath has a small amount of conscience remaining.
This person might still feel a twinge of guilt but not enough to stop their
evil behavior. Both the psychopath and sociopath are dangerous to others with
which they interact and especially those with whom they disagree. Courtrooms across this nation are filled with
cases involving the egregious behavior of people with little to no functioning
conscience.
All of the examples above demonstrate varying states of the
inability to reason morally. America is well down the path of being wrested
from its moral foundations by psychopaths and sociopaths whose faculties have
been impaired by evil. What can be done to correct this development? We must first
understand what we are dealing with.
J.I. Packer* said concerning conscience that:
An educated, sensitive
conscience is God’s monitor. It alerts
us to the moral quality of what we do or plan to do, forbids lawlessness and
irresponsibility, and makes us feel guilt, shame, and fear of the future retribution
that it tells us we deserve, when we have allowed ourselves to deny its
restraints…Satan’s strategy is to corrupt, desensitize, and if possible kill
our consciences. The relativism,
materialism, narcissism, secularism, and hedonism of today’s Western world help
him mightily toward his goal. His task
is made yet simpler by the way in which the world’s moral weaknesses have been
taken into the contemporary church.[3]
Packer identified the real crux of the issue. Conscience is
a God-given warning system that has been deliberately turned off today in a
large number of Americans. An alarm cannot warn of danger if it is not
connected to a power source.
Slowly and over time the innate ability of Americans to
determine right from wrong has been strategically and with malice corrupted.
The constant drive to remove and even erase Christianity from the public mind
and memory has borne the rottenest of fruit culturally speaking.
How can a culture sustain moral uprightness from generation
to generation when even the Church, that instrument of God meant to inform and
when necessary, correct culture, begins to emulate the culture? When a society
becomes seared in conscience, when a critical mass of people begin to think and
advocate for evil under the guise of good, and exchange light for darkness,
their minds become seared as with a branding iron and the resultant scar tissue
renders them incapable of returning to correct thinking and behavior absent a
radical surgery.
The Church is meant to be God’s scalpel, guided by His hand
to make perfect incisions to remove the cancer of evil, the scar tissue of a
seared conscience, and in so doing, restore right thinking and behavior to all
individuals. When the Church refuses to do that mass deception is allowed to congeal
and that environment creates hostility toward the truth of man’s precarious
condition and toward the only solution to his dilemma.
The answer to this predicament is not for the Church to go
with the flow, to seek the path of least resistance, to affirm inclusiveness as
that term is meant today and throw open the doors to culture. The only answer
that will turn America around is a full-on biblical revival that must start in
the pulpits of America and sweep through the local bodies of Christ spread out
over this nation. That kind of revival cannot be contained and it will spill
over into local school boards, city councils, college campuses, businesses,
state representatives, and finally our national leadership. When God’s people
once again bow their knee to Him alone, then revival will come, minds will be
freed from the bondage of the demonic slavery imposed upon them from God-hating
miscreants who have secretly snuck into our churches, communities, and
governments at every level.
True biblical revival will transform hearts, heal minds,
and lead to tangible action by those delivered from their bondage. True
biblical revival will come on the heels of true repentance, a faith that
demonstrates a changed heart, mind, and life trajectory.
The Scriptures[4]
tell us that: There was the true Light which, coming into the
world, enlightens every man. John 1:9
This means that only through
faith in Christ will people become free from a seared conscience and the
inevitable consequence of that state. Christian, rise up and take your place in
the army of God, and march forward in victory, for our God has given us this
land. Occupy until He returns!
[1] Quote attributed to author Salman
Rushdie found here – https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/offense
[2] See https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/02/planned-parenthood-texas-unborn-cemetery/
[3] J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness.
[4] All Scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible, The Lockman Foundation, 1995.
*My original post listed Mr. Packer as “The late.” Mr. Packer is very much alive. My apologies to him and readers.
