Stoning at the Stake

     Christians in America are becoming like the frog in a pan of water.  The water is slowly being heated on a stove but the frog doesn't realize it.  All of a sudden, the water is starting to boil and the frog has no place to escape to.  Plus, we make pretty easy targets.  Lambs to the slaughter...   

      I am seeing more and more Christian persecution around the world and especially in America.  I read this morning on Focus on the Family's website about Christian adoption being banned in the UK over anti-homosexual beliefs.  That link is here.  Last month it was the story on David Coppedge being fired at NASA.  David was the Team Lead on the Cassini mission to Saturn.  He simply shared his intelligent design view with co-workers and was persecuted for it!  All the lurid details are here. 

     The biggest two "pushes" by societal engineers seem to be homosexual rights and banning Christian teaching.  I suppose money has a lot to do with that, since we send a lot of our moola overseas for Chinese trinkets and MiddleEastern oil.  China is very anti-Christian and holds our country hostage over borrowed money while Muslims consider Christianity as a pagan religion.  Furthermore, homosexuals don't like Christians, probably due to the guilt of their sin.  The gay rights lobby in Washington is tremendous and passes out a lot of money for that agenda.  So, politicians keep overseas money flowing in and grease their pockets locally with gay bribes.  That money must go everywhere.  On television and movies, gays are all over the place.  Newspapers give positive stories on gays and negative ones on Christianity. 

     Politicians work hard to keep those groups happy.  Our military generally does what Saudi Arabia wants us to.  I'm starting to think they need to change uniforms.  It seems we only intervene in crisis situations where Muslims are in danger.  It's my opinion that Saudi Arabia uses us as a big stick against their opponents.  Of course, President Obama is very happy to please the Muslim world.  No one has mentioned helping Christians in Nigeria, Rwanda, China, or Cuba, but we'll probably be in Libya very soon because Muslims are in danger.

     It's kind of funny that the "sides" have ended up this way.  Gays haven't realized that the Muslim religion is not kind to their lifestyle.  Several eminent scholars of Islam have ruled that the person guilty of homosexuality should be stoned.  That does not refer to smoking something!  The end result for the gay person is not a happy one, evidently not in this life nor the next. 

     But I digress, my main point is that as Christians we knew persecution would come.  2 Timothy 3:12-13 says, "everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and imposters will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived".  Romans 8 asks the questions, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine...or danger or sword?"  The Bible gives us the answer, nothing!  "We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us!"