Adopt a Conservative's Time To Waste!
There are times when you read something so absurd you literally laugh out loud (lllol). When I read about the Liberty Counsel’s new “Adopt a Liberal (TM)” program, that was just the reaction I had (Hat Tip: Jeremy Hooper).
I’ll give you the basic gist of the program, and then I’ll tell you the amazing idea proposed by the title of this post.
Okay, so here’s how it works:
Pick one or more of the liberals from the list we have posted online at www.LC.org, or choose your own liberal(s) to adopt. If you are led to choose one or more of the liberals we have selected for consideration, please read their brief biographical statement, including the reasons they stand in need of prayer.
Pray earnestly and intensely for them! Pray that the Lord would move upon them and cause them to be the kind of leaders who will encourage others to lead “a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.” We encourage you to seek the Lord’s guidance on how to pray for your liberal(s), always allowing Him to temper your prayer with His love and mercy.
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Please pray daily for the liberal(s) of your choice, so each can become a good influence on our Nation’s culture. Prayer is powerful! It allows God to change the minds of those for whom we are praying. In fact, we fully expect that many of our adoptees will “graduate” from this prayer program with vivid testimonies of God having changed their lives and worldviews!
But it will have the complete opposite effect.
See, I think maybe we’ve been going about resisting fundamentalism all the wrong way. Generally, we see delusional ideas motivating people to make detrimental decisions, and we oppose them with the logic and reason that guides our thinking. In our heads, that makes sense. We should promote rationality with rationality.
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But that motivates them to respond and be more proactive in pursuing their ignorant beliefs more fervently than ever before!
The Adopt a Liberal program got me thinking though… if their own leaders can convince them to waste all that time praying, maybe we can too.
Maybe we should all ask them to pray for us. Pray really hard! We’re godless! We’re gay! We’re heathens! We’re evil socialists! We’re destroying the fabric of society! We need all the prayer we can get! Daily is not enough. Take a cue from the Muslims and how much time they dedicate to prayer. We’ll never see the light of God if you don’t pray more for us! We’ll pray too! (*wink wink nudge nudge*)
If we get them to waste all their time praying and we even lead them on to think that it’s working a little, they’ll have less time to dismantle public school curricula, attack the president with ignorant racist propaganda, or campaign against same-sex marriage and abortion. We need to get them to pray so much that they don’t even have any free time, and then they won’t be out and about in the way of our socialist/indoctrination social justice/critical thinking agenda .
So, Adopt a Conservative (or more!). Tell them everything they want to hear. Repent (like Cassandra in Saved!) and tell them you need all the help they have to offer so they’ll spend all their time trying to save you. Then go do something radically liberal (like attend your cousin’s same-sex wedding or something) and come crying to them afterward. Tell them you need them to redouble their efforts! I bet there is no limit to how long you can keep baiting them while we change the face of our nation without them even realizing it!
Go out and adopt your conservative now!
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I don’t like taking advantage of people’s compassion. I’m not that cruel. Besides, that’s exactly what I criticized in the previous post about the Muslim prayer event. But seriously, I do really think it’s funny that people will pray for people they’ve never met and steadfastly believe they’re making a difference. What a joke. Good luck, Liberty Counsel!
Feigning Compassion To Reinforce One's Own Agenda
(Read through to the bottom of this one for a real kicker! UPDATE (1:31 PM): And Another!)
In most of my writing, I don’t differentiate between “Christian privilege” and “religious privilege.” In our nation, they are basically the same because Christianity is so prevalent.
Christians extremists understand that defending religious privilege on behalf of other religions just reinforces their own privilege. Here’s a great example of what that looks like. OneNewsNow posted an article yesterday called, “Muslim prayer event shows ‘greatness of America’.”
The Christian Defense Coalition is welcoming Muslims planning to hold a large prayer gathering Friday on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
More than 50,000 Muslims are expected to take part in the event Friday on Capitol Hill. Pat Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, says it is sad that some Christians have been hostile to the Muslims planning to gather Friday.
Did you catch that? I highlighted in green just in case you didn’t. See, the Christian Defense Coalition seems to think that the West Lawn is their territory, but they’re happy to allow Muslims to gather there. How gracious.
“They are receiving numerous calls from people who profess to be Christians, full of hateful language to them, telling them to go back their own country, when they are Americans and they love this country,” he notes.
Maybe I’m cynical. I don’t know. I just can’t possibly buy into the idea that Mahoney is sincere with that statement. I actually believe the CDC probably does some good things, but not exclusively. Here is some pertinent background on Rev. Mahoney from the shoddy CDC website:
Rev. Mahoney organized and led rallies and vigils for Chief Justice Roy Moore to publicly display the Ten Commandments in Montgomery, Alabama. He also led the fight to keep Teri Shiavo alive in Pinellas Park, Florida and in Washington D.C.
Rev. Mahoney was founder, and also served on the Executive Board, of the Alliance for Revival and Reformation. This organization is made up of nationally known pastors, historians, theologians and pastors who are dedicated to spreading the message of repentance, biblical revival and cultural reformation. He speaks in churches on on a regular basis concerning these topics.
See what I mean? If this organization is specifically dedicated to making our nation more Christian, why would they be so quick to support a Muslim prayer rally?
“It is important to send a clear message that the Christian community loves the Muslim community. That we do not hate Muslims, that our heart is not set against Muslims, and that with the heart and compassion of Christ, we are to reach out and build bridges,” he adds.
Get it? We want you to submit to Christianity, so we’re going to show you how great we are! Besides, we LOVE praying in public spaces!
OneNewsNow does not compassionately reach out to the Muslim community. They are more in the fear-mongering business. Take a look at these headlines currently found (even though some are a month old) on the OneNewsNow website, mostly under “National Security”:
“Sept. 10 attitude still prevails – Still handling homeland security with a 9/10 attitude” (Thanks Michelle Malkin!)
“Nuke negotiations with Iran – been there, done that”
“Webcast to address church’s response to terrorism” (It’s called “The Threat of Radical Islam and the Church’s Response”)
“Obama praises Islam, ignores radicals’ threat”
While it might be nice to see conflict-driven religions “getting along” today, I really don’t think there is any sincerity in that compassion outrage.
This morning, I got the real proof. TALK ABOUT MIXED MESSAGES. The following email is from the AFA, the same organization behind OneNewsNow that published the other article just the day before:
We thought this was a good idea, and then we remembered we were talking about Muslims.
These folks are either wildly manipulative or have massive internal communication problems. Or both. Yes, both.
UPDATE: “Capitol Hill gathering to inspire Muslim aggression?”
Perkins called the Muslim gathering “a wake-up call for the church” and a warning that if Christians do not “fill the void that’s in this nation with the truth, it will be filled with something else.”
If that’s not fear-mongering, what is?
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