The West’s War on God, by J.B. Shurk

Christianity teaches that one’s duty to God comes before one’s duty to the state. For statists, that’s intolerable. From J.B. Shurk at americanthinker.com:

Perhaps the most startling quality of world leaders today is that they do not believe in much beyond their own wants and needs.  Many will feign a belief in God for the sake of appearances, but true believers are hard to find.  In the West, where Christianity has shaped society for two thousand years, it is more common to find governments punishing Christians for their faith than to see biblical doctrine defended.  

Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen, a rare Christian politician in our overwhelmingly secular times, has spent the last several years defending herself against criminal “hate speech” charges for quoting the Bible.  Prosecutors claim that her religious convictions concerning marriage and morality are “insulting” and “degrading” and violate “sexual rights.”  Furthermore, her accusers insist that the State “can limit freedom of expression in the outward expression of religion.”  

Such despotic statements amount to nothing less than full-throated attacks against religious freedom.  Faithful Christians are not Christian for merely an hour or two during church service each week.  They do not slip in and out of their Christian identity as a worker might put on overalls and gloves.  Believers walk the walk in everything they do.  For Finnish authorities to demand that Räsänen hide her faith is to demand that she no longer be a practicing Christian.  Only a government that believes in nothing beyond its own power would command a citizen to obey the State by disobeying God.

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