[Note: This is my Newswithviews column, but I was working so fast today, so many things I have to do, that I put it here on the blog instead of sending it as an email to NWV. Hopefully they’ll be able to publish it. I pray!]
Let’s pretend the United States was a single property–its people, its culture, its economy: everything–and it was your job to find a buyer for it. How would you advertise it? And let’s further suppose your sales pitch had to be as honest as possible, without being suicidal.
What would you say? “A Great Fixer-Upper”? “Needs Work”? “Invest in Hope”? (I like that one; I must find a use for it.)
Uh-oh. Here are two factors that might drive down the market value.
Political Corruption. As reported by The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/27/bidenbucks-laundered-through-education-department-target-likely-biden-voters/), our current administration has been laundering tax dollars, paid by everyone regardless of party, to recruit college students for a massive “get out the vote” project–in reality, a scheme to get out the vote for Democrats, Republicans need not apply.
You’d think there’d be some kind of law against this–using tax dollars for partisan political shenanigans. Maybe no one ever thought we’d need such a law. So we have “Biden bucks” for SloJo’s re-election, enthusiastically backed by teachers’ unions who want it to reach all the way down into freakin’ kindergarten–“teaching kids about disinformation.” For those who haven’t paid attention, “disinformation” is any information that doesn’t jibe with Far Left politics.
Corruption in the Churches. What do you get when you mix religion with pop culture? Look and see.
Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, a megachurch boasting 34,000 weekly congregants, this year held a “Super Sunday Super Bowl Service (!),” featuring an alleged pastor kicking the Bible off the stage. (Yeahbut, yeahbut! The Bible was decorated with football stitches!) They also reveled in what another pastor called “middle school humor”… from the pulpit. It was all supposed to make church “fun.” And be spiritually beneficial, too (https://www.christianpost.com/news/ohio-megachurch-kicks-bible-off-stage-during-super-bowl-sunday-se.html)!
Once upon a time, men and women would rather be martyred–and in many cases, were martyred–than lend themselves to such a spectacle. St. Paul wrote, “Let all things be done decently and in good order” (1 Corinthians 14:40). What do you think he would have thought of this?
We have many broken churches in this country. What do you get when you mix religion with pop culture? You get pseudo-religious garbage.
It’s not going to be easy to clean up this mess. Corrupt politics and fake religion won’t simply depart if we show them the door. They’ll fight us tooth and nail, and not according to any rules you ever heard of.
I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit: we promise not to show you any football. My articles can also be found at http://www.chalcedon.edu/ .
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