God's Truth Abideth Still

The Leftist's Chief Rival

The West has become "anti-God".  But what God are they opposed to.  Not the god of Islam--Allah--although the West does not particularly like the things which Islamists do.  Rather, the West offers a number of apologies for such behaviour.  We are told that the Islamists are not really believers in Islam, but heretics.  They do not represent what is truly Islamic.  The West cannot bring itself to speak out against a deity called Allah.

The Deity which the West opposes is the Christian's God.  The West is threatened by Him who is "infinite, eternal, and unchangeable".  It is disturbed by people--Christians in this instance--living within its respective national borders who are not only prepared, but willing to say, "No" to the relentless drive towards a secular utopia.  But, once again, the question is begged as to why Western secularists are intimidated.  After all, by any measure, the beliefs of the secularists control just about every important node of power and influence in our cultures.  Secularism controls the schools, the law courts, the legislative arms of government, political discourse in general, and the market place.

There are two reasons why secular humanism is intimidated by God and Christians.
  The first is that Christians know full well that the utopia of secularism is actually the opposite--it is a destructive and cruel dystopia.  They know that a genuine utopia belongs to God and His Messiah, not to man.  The secular utopia is a mirage.  A myth.  The very continued existence of such recalcitrants is the proverbial burr under the saddle to card-carrying secularists.

The concepts of sin, of conscience, of eternal life, and of divine justice under and unalterable law are the ultimate defense against the utopian's belief that the end justifies the means and that morality is relative.  These concepts  are safeguards against the worship of human power.  [Peter Hitchens, The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010), p. 135.]

The more militant and demanding secularism becomes, the more epistemologically self-conscience Christians become.  This provokes and irks the apostles and prophets of  Unbelief.  The more demanding secularism becomes, the more the works of Mordor are unmasked.  The more the faith of Christians grows, in response.  It never ceases to amaze and encourage us that when secularism flexes its muscles against God and His people, Christians become more quietly yet firmly resolved.  When forced to choose between the world and Christ, it becomes evident that long ago they rejected the world, the flesh and the devil and opposition and oppression only makes it more evident, more real.  Other Christians, still limping between two opinions, suddenly become far more resolved and committed to the causes of Christ and to other Christians, when pressure from secularism increases.

The second reason why secularism is intimidated by God and His people is that Christians are workers and warriors.  They are not passive.  They seek to "institutionalise" their faith in their families, their communities, their churches, and places of influence.  They do this as merry workers, knowing that the doom of Unbelief is sure and that the end of all things is God's.  And Christians undertake these things are undertaken without recourse to the power of the state.  Still more intimidating is that Christians believe that were all the power of the secular state to be inveighed against them and the Lord, it would not prevail.  It would fail in the end.

Such people are truly free. To the secularist, such people are dangerous.  They are a viable threat. On this matter, the secularist is right on the money.