Rosie Fever

True colors always show themselves sooner or later. Hollywood and the liberal media were brutal on Mel Gibson when he released “The Passion of the Christ,” yet these same liberal elite were silent after Rosie O’Donnell recently said on ABC’s “The View” that “radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state.” Besides being woefully ignorant (like so many Americans) of the true meaning of the First Amendment, O’Donnell should be grateful that we “radical” Christians are not like radical Muslims; if we were, her house and ABC’s studios would be burned to the ground by now. The very fact that nothing like this has happened shows the fallacy of O’Donnell’s view.

Not to be left outdone, Augusta's Kennebec Journal, in its 9/21 editorial "Defense bill is no place for culture war," starts off with a reasonably well-argued point, but then shows its real agenda – opposition to Christianity – when it says that evangelical Christians “need to abandon their holy war, and stop holding military salaries hostage to their narrow interests.” Holy war? Hostage? I daresay that such language, if used in a similar way in reference to Muslims or some other religious minority, would spark riots and Liberal outrage. I also believe, however, that the KJ would not have used such language in reference to any other faith, preferring to leave such insults for us “radical” Christians to deal with. Sounds like Rosie Fever is spreading.

Shake This

Testament and The Lucifer Gospel. What are they?

Simply the two latest novels that propose the possibility of “shaking the foundations” of Christianity.

Since the volume of recent “faith-shaking” novels about Christianity has now officially reached (according to this official) nauseating proportions, I’ll cut straight to the point: You want to talk faith-shaking? Then consider this:

* Mormonism: Founded by Joseph Smith, a convicted fraud.

* Scientology: Founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction author.

* Islam: Founded by Mohammad, an attention-seeker who searched and searched before finally finding some people who would believe his newly-invented faith – a faith founded on the pagan moon-god Allah, one of many gods worshiped by Mohammad’s contemporaries. Oh – and one more note of possible interest ... Mohammad was about as warlike and bloodthirsty as today’s “radical” (i.e. true) Muslims.

There are other examples, I’m sure, but I trust that you catch my drift. So let’s cut it with the drama that Jesus might not be who Christians claim He is. Enough with the codes and secret societies and “long-lost secrets”; there are plenty of truly fraudulent religious figures, both historically and in today’s world – write a book about them.

Intelli-Gent

So get this: Talk-radio host Lionel believes that it’s impossible to be a thinking person while at the same time believing in what the Bible says. I guess he also believes that people can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.

I’m also guessing that he’s never read anything by C.S. Lewis or the like. In case you don’t know who Lewis is – he wrote the best-selling children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia. Now before you go laughing at the idea of a children’s author being an intellectual giant, know this: The Chronicles of Narnia contains more food for thought than any other children’s book I’ve ever read (just one of the reasons why it’s one of the best-selling series of all time). And more importantly, Lewis (also the author of many nonfiction works) wrote Mere Christianity, both a giant and a classic in the field of Christian apologetics. In Mere Christianity, Lewis penned the most complete and orderly – and most mind-bending – explanation of Christianity I’ve ever come across. It’s so well-done, in fact – so adept at presenting Christianity as the purest and highest form of logic – that it makes one wonder how they ever overlooked such obvious truth.

And let’s not forget the Founders. They were a regular parliament of owls ... and many of them were also decidedly Christian (Patrick Henry, John Jay and Samuel Adams, just to name a few). Go a bit farther down the line and you find people like Abraham Lincoln, who once said, “I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.” And yet this blockhead somehow came up with the Emancipation Proclamation. Go figure.

And since Lionel seems to specifically think that scientific pursuits and Bible-believing faith can’t go together, I also feel compelled to point out those scientific imbeciles Galileo Galilei and Antony von Leeweunhook. Christians are often criticized as being of the “Earth is flat” variety, yet Galileo was a strong proponent of the Copernican System – the belief that the planets revolved around the sun (not vice-versa), which we now know to be true. This is the same Galileo, by the way, who said, “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect intended us to forgo their use.” Sounds downright Ive League-ish, doesn’t it, Lionel?

I want to say here that Lionel truly is an intelligent guy – I know this from having listened to him dozens of times. He suffers, however, from a problem that is all too common in today’s America: egocentrism.

Much like those in medieval times who insisted that the universe must revolve around Earth, Lionel insists that everything revolves around his opinion and his desires – or in your case, your opinion and desires. According to Lionel, if there’s a God, His opinion doesn’t matter much, if it all, and you’re crazy for consulting with Him on how to live your life. But on that day when Lionel, like each of us, stands before God ... well, that’s one situation that Lionel won’t be able to talk his way out of.