Many liberals, especially those on the far left, would have us believe that God is a myth, a fairytale that we Americans should have surely grown out of by now. They hold to the quotation by Karl Marx that “religion is the opium of the people.” In his article, “Karl Marx and Religion,” Austin Cline explains that Marx simply means “that religion’s purpose is to create illusory fantasies for the poor. Economic realities prevent them from finding true happiness in this life, so religion tells them that this is OK because they will find true happiness in the next life.” So religion, a belief in a Supreme Creator, is obviously relegated to those who are poor and unsophisticated, because the wealthy and elite class understands that life from birth to death is all we get. Former President Obama, the favored leader of the left, rather contemptuously dismissed all the people living in the middle of the country as those who “cling to their guns and their religion” as if that were somehow wrong. Further proof of the Democratic party’s drift away from their Creator resounds in the wording of their party platforms. In 2004 God was mentioned four times, in 2008 only once, and in 2012, the word “God” was removed entirely before being hastily put back to loud boos from the convention at the request of a worried Barak Obama. In 2012, the Republican platform, by contrast, mentioned God twelve times. At the 2016 convention, Bernie Sanders’ supporters began booing and chanting during the invocation at the mention of Hillary Clinton’s name. Hardly an act of respect towards God.
But what has their callous and casual dismissal of God won for all those liberals, and unfortunately through the presidency of Obama, for all the rest of us as well? Chaos and immorality. Some would argue that one can be moral and still not believe in God, but I would argue that the very foundation of morality as we have known it in the United States is based upon the laws of God. Treat others as you would want them to treat you — Matthew 7:12. Don’t commit murder; don’t steal; don’t lie; don’t commit adultery; honor your parents — The Ten Commandments. A dismissal of God eventually erodes morality until nothing is wrong anymore. That is where we find ourselves now. Consider this verse from Paul’s writings to the Corinthians. “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor Sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortions will inherit the kingdom of God.” Corinthians 6:9-10.
And yet, what do we find? The Democratic 2016 platform included these words: “We support a progressive vision of religious freedom that respects pluralism and rejects the misuse of religion to discriminate. … We will also promote LGBT human rights and ensure America’s foreign policy is inclusive of LGBT people around the world.” “Religious freedom that respects pluralism” simply means they believe that there are many roads to God, if God actually exists, that is, and that Christians should not be allowed to say that Christ is the only way. “The misuse of religion to discriminate” means that pesky Christians must not be allowed to call sin, sin. The Bible can not be used as a yardstick by which human behavior is judged. They go on to “promote LGBT human rights” both here and across the globe. Those in the LGBT community have the same rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as the rest of us do. However, let me retreat from political correctness here into the basic tenets of Christianity. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender are all perversions of the sanctified union between man and woman as ordained by God, and while we as Christians are admonished to love the sinner, we are also admonished to hate the sin.
God created, as we are told in Genesis, man and woman, Adam and Eve. They were not homosexual. They were not transgender. Adam did not later decide he really identified as a Mary. Nor did Eve decide she was asexual, not desiring sex with Adam or with a Mary, should one have existed at that time. They were male and female and from their joining came the descendants that peopled the earth.
A practical look at the physical make-up of the male and female bodies should show that nature (God) intends the coupling always to be one of male-female, since our bodies are not constructed for female-female sex or male-male sex. Nor does female-female sex or male-male sex provide offspring. Thus, these are deviations from nature. Transgender and the latest fad of “identifying” as male or female even though your body parts identify you as the other gender are as fake as false eye-lashes since our maleness or our femaleness lies in our DNA and no amount of hormone therapy or surgery or “identifying” will change that. If you are born a man you will remain a man despite what liberals or the Democratic party might say. Indeed, the liberal position now is that you are born straight or homosexual, but you are not born male or female. That is dependent upon how you feel and upon how you feel alone. They manage, as they always do, to ignore the inconsistency of that argument. Sex education now begins in some kindergartens where students are taught about transgender and, students in the first grade have been expelled from school for calling a student who was a boy in kindergarten by his boy name when as a first grader he feels that he is really a girl. Ridiculous? It gets worse. Some parents are getting sex change drugs for their children of kindergarten age because the child “feels” like the opposite sex, and the Delaware Department of Education is considering a proposal that will allow school students of any age to self-identify according to sex and race without a parent’s approval or notification, and the school authorities, if the proposal passes, will have to abide by the child’s choice. Children want to be a lot of things when they are young – Teenage Ninja Turtles, Spider Man, Cinderella – wanting to be these things is just a part of the imagination of the young. No one takes it very seriously and they grow out of it. But some parents, swept away by the insane sexual opinions of the left, might see their young daughter playing with her brother’s trucks and whisk her away to a doctor to begin hormone therapy to turn her into the boy she no doubt really is.
This is a decisive attack on the sanctity of the family. LGBT’s may choose to adopt children (something which studies have shown is not good for the children), but they themselves can not reproduce as couples. Many families no longer consist of a father, a mother, and children, the core model that studies show produce the most well-adjusted children. Although some children without a father in the home still thrive, many other children of single parent homes and homes with two mothers or two fathers often do less well in school, have emotional problems, get in trouble with the law, or become addicted to drugs. Children need both a masculine and feminine role model in the home, and the liberal idea that anything goes sexually is undermining the health and well-being of our children. It is also condemning generations to poverty as evidenced by the black communities in large cities such as Chicago. There, the norm is a mother, living on welfare, with two or more children, often by more than one man but with no father in the home. According to CNN, in 2009, the percentage of black children across the U.S. living in homes without a father was 72%. No doubt the number now, eight years later, is even higher. According to The Atlanta Black Star, “In some communities, like southeast Washington, D.C, a staggering 84 percent of children live in homes without a father.” And blacks, while hardest hit, are not alone. 25% of white children live in single parent families and over 50% of American Indian children do.
Sexual freedom— picking up someone in a bar and having sex with him/her—has also destroyed the importance of sex as an integral part of loving someone. Sex has become the common ending of a date night with no apparent downside. Use a condom to avoid diseases. Take birth control pills. And if those don’t work and you end up pregnant, well, no problem! Go down to Planned Parenthood and get an abortion. As for getting married? Why bother? You don’t need kids and you don’t need marriage to have sex — so why go to the expense? You’ll probably just end up getting divorced anyway.
The left promotes the casual acceptance of sex as entertainment, kind of like going to the movies. How then is having sex with the one you love above all others something special any more? The left also promotes all kinds of unnatural sexual proclivities. Nothing seems to be taboo any longer. Marie Claire magazine ran a story on “the beauty boys of Instagram,” bragging on their adept application of makeup – the youngest boy was 10 years old. The lines between male and female have become so blurred by the left, that they scarcely exist. How can the beautiful creation of man and woman to be partners in life and in the raising of their children have become so twisted?
But the left has brought more problems. With the blurring of sexual identities comes also the blurring of sexual boundaries. Sexual predators have always existed, but the left has a long track record of protecting them, of elevating them to positions of power that enable them to victimize even more defenseless women. We can begin with the “Lion of the Senate,” Ted Kennedy. That oh so revered member of the Democratic party “let a girl drown at Chappaquiddick, after driving with his lights off to avoid detection on the way to a late-night extramarital liaison.” (Colter, Ann. Townhall. 24 November 2017). After his drunken accident, Kennedy managed to escape from the car which was quickly filling with water. Rather than try to save the young campaign worker who was still trapped in the car, however, he courageously swam to shore and passed numerous houses with their lights on as he tried to concoct an alibi. He finally reported the accident hours later after having consulted the family lawyer. Lion of the Senate indeed!
Yet Ted Kennedy’s “war on women” didn’t stop there. Multiple reports exist of his boorish and rough treatment of women. One of his aides was reportedly his proud “pimp,” procuring attractive women for him. An episode that was reported in a 1990 edition of Gentlemen’s Quarterly magazine of him with Democratic Senator Dodd is especially disturbing. They had a private room at a restaurant in D.C. late at night with two blondes as dates. All were drunk. The dates left to go to the bathroom and the men called in a female restaurant employee. Kennedy grabbed her (she weighed 103 pounds) and slammed her onto the top of the table, smashing crystal, spilling drinks, knocking over the candles. Then he picked her up again and threw her into Senator Dodd’s lap as he was sprawled drunkenly in his chair. Then Kennedy sat on top of her, rubbing himself against her as her screams attracted another waitress who also screamed. Startled, Kennedy leaped up and the assaulted woman was able to run from the room, bruised and shaken. The two senators soon left with their dates, laughing and talking. In 2012, at the Democratic National Convention, this “man” was honored with a seven-minute tribute that bore the words “Women’s Rights Champion.”
Then we move on to Democratic President Bill Clinton. 15 women accused him of sexually harassing them and two, Eileen Wellston in England (while he was studying as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University) and Juanita Broaddrick in the U.S., accused him of rape. Still, he was elected president as the Democrats smeared the reputations of his victims. When he was caught in the scandalous affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky, in the Oval Office among other places, he lied repeatedly on television, once famously saying “I did not have sex with that woman!.” When it was proven beyond a doubt that he had and the House impeached him for lying, the Democratically controlled Senate failed to convict him and then repaired to the Capital Steps for a self-congratulatory photo. The lecher would remain in office.
This is not to say that Republicans have not also abused their power and preyed upon women, but Republicans, perhaps because of their more conservative religious beliefs, have been less inclined to protect and honor sexual predators. Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly were recently fired by FOX News because of allegations of sexual harassment. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama has also been accused by two women of sexual assault, although both accusations are decades old and are thought by some to be somewhat dubious. President George H.W. Bush, 93 and wheelchair-bound was accused was touching a woman on her butt and telling her an off-color joke while his wife stood at his other side. (As a former nursing home aide, I would not call what any 93-year-old man did “sexual harassment.” Age and dementia remove moral guides from all of us and I know of formerly proper men who wandered the halls half-clothed, pinched available butts, and in one memorable occurrence, even escaped from the home at night, unclothed, to be retrieved by the police as he swung in all his natural glory on a lamp-post. That is not at all the same thing.)
Nor can the numbers of accused Republicans compete with those liberals and Democrats who have spent literally years touching, pinching, caressing, and forcing sex upon those who were dependent upon them for jobs. Among those liberals accused of sexual harassment are:
Actor Kevin Spacey
Director Brett Ratner
Actor Dustin Hoffman
Filmmaker Oliver Stone
Actor Ben Affleck
Director Roman Polanski
CBS television personality Charlie Rose
Director James Toback
Producer and actor Steven Seagal
Producer Harvey Weinstein, whose actions were well-known but ignored because he was a
huge Democratic donor
Bob Weinstein, Harvey’s brother and business partner
Chris Savino from Nickelodeon
Comedian Louis C.K.
Lockhart Steele of Vox Media
MSNBC senior analyst Mark Halperin
Matt Lauer of NBC
Garrison Keillor – author and radio star
Television icon Bill Cosby
11 democratic mayors
Former Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner
Current Democrat Congressman John Conyers
Current Democrat Senator Al Franken
For many members of the Democratic Party and certainly for the far left which is populated by Communists and anarchists, there is no longer a God. They push their non-religious, anti-Christians beliefs upon the rest of the country and then cry out in rage when a small town puts a nativity scene on the courthouse lawn or a city puts up a sign saying that the churches of that town “welcome you.” Where there is no God, there is no morality, and there is certainly a dearth of morality in many parts of the United States today. Those of us who know there is a God and who know that sin has a penalty must not let ourselves become overwhelmed by the evil.
Pope Francis could have been talking about the lies of the left when he said, “Friends, the devil is a con artist. He makes promise after promise, but he never delivers. He’ll never really do anything he says. He doesn’t make good on promises. He makes you want things which he can’t give. . . . He makes you put your hopes in things which will never make you happy. That’s his game, his strategy. He talks a lot, he offers a lot, but he doesn’t deliver.”
Like the Devil whose unwitting agents they are, the left offers a life of happiness doing whatever you want to do. But it is a con. There is no happiness — only disappointment, disease, and despair – where there is no God.