Sometimes It Causes Me To Tremble

"Tell the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your King is coming to you, Lowly, and sitting on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.'”-Matthew 21:5 NKJV
As the Western Church prepares for Palm Sunday, the mind turns to those who fight the War against Christianity. To live in a world inhospitable to Christ, Christianity and Christians is to return to the origin of the faith. To fabricate one is evidence of faithlessness and craven, worldly ambition.
During Lent, culture warriors braved desolate D.C. to bravely attend the conference “The War on Christians and the Values Voter,1” like Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego,2 confident of God’s protection against hot air. The politicians attending were notorious and the ministers obscure but for their militancy. All came to denounce the persecution of poor Christians in our multi-cultural republic.
The evidence of the war abounds in the promotion of tolerance and liberty in our culture and the hostility, waning lately, to lunatics, rascals, exterminators and the unread in our politics.
There is no more accurate measure for the idleness of hands than the busyness of mouths and no more accurate scale for justice than the pettiness of outrage. The sturm und drang3 over gay marriage, Terri Schiavo’s death, the prominence of the 10 commandments on public land and what’s on TV reassures that ours is a land of justice and prosperity. If you look at your What Would Jesus Do? bracelet and think “constitutional amendment banning gay marriage” then perhaps I should explain: it goes around your wrist not your throat.
Morality may win enemies but only avarice imagines them The paranoia on behalf of the dominant religion on Earth is the paranoia of the pretender King. I take no issue with those who believe that religious values and worship have a role to play in every part of society including government. However, the reliance on imagined enemies and exaggerated threats demonstrates that these people, advocates of a defensive war, seek power not glory. A martyr complex is a luxury reserved to the unmartyred and the makers of martyrs. Theocracies dependably outlaw the just, honest, godly, weak or different.
Our culture warriors prepare the ascension in this world of those who descend in the next.
The Prattler Wordbook
CAIN, n.p. A culture warrior when it meant something.
CRUCIFY, v.t. To fix with nails what’s unconstrainable by congress.
CRUSADE, n. The defense of Christendom abroad.
ESAU, n.p. The first Democrat.
PIOUS, adj. On camera.
PIOUSLY, adv. In the manner of Saint Thomas Delay or a monkey with a handful.
ALREADY IN THE PRATTLER WORDBOOK:
PIETY, n. Sufficient outrage.
1 See http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/2/23/10455/6132 for a blogger’s record of the event and American Vision for the convener.
2 See Daniel 3:17
3 For Minka who feared out loud that she might not understand this column, Sturm und Drang translates approximately to storm and pressure. It’s German.

Saturday, April 8, 2006