Call it art

Push for rigorous health standards, licensing and inspections in such places as homosexual bath houses & other fun spots and in so-called “clinics” where abortions are performed in the name of “public health.” There are a lot of places where such regulations don’t exist.

Well, Christians could adopt the cute post-modern trick of redefining things that already have an established meaning to make them more suitable to one’s own ideas.

For instance, when the Muslim says, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet”, Christians could redefine it and tell the Muslim, “Oh, it’s so wonderful to hear that you agree with us. Allah, of course, is just your name for the Triune God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — and Muhammad isn’t a real person, of course, but just another way of affirming God’s revelation in the Bible through the apostles and prophets!”

And Christians could tell every Jew they see with a Star of David, “I rejoice to see that you wear a cross just like we do. Since Jesus is the promised Son of David, the Messiah, it’s clear that your wearing of David’s Star is just your different way of declaring your faith in Jesus, the crucified and risen Christ, as your Savior.”

And, of course, the most obvious is perhaps the most political: instead of claiming that the moral and other positions of conservative Christianity should be maintained because they are the majority position in society, Christians can instead claim the status of oppressed minorities who need to be accommodated and who cannot bear to be offended.

But the reason Christians don’t do these things already is because . . . biblical Christianity and post-modern ideals are mutually exclusive. Too bad … could be fun!

People who are apt to be the targets of violence (gays, afro-Americans, women, etc.) must have their Second Amendment rights protected. How can we expect, say, a black man in the South to rely on the local sheriff for protection when said sheriff is the same person who just pulled him over for being black? Women, who are often only half the weight of their abusive ex-husband, are disproportionally endangered by gun control laws. (In my our ministry as a Lutheran Pastor I have had occasion to advise threatened women in my congregation on how to protect themselves. Just the presence of a firearm often has a pacifying affect on would-be violent person.)