We all knew it was bound to happen but it’s the speed with
which it happened that has taken even those not easily shaken aback. I even
warned in my last post that someone somewhere would find a way to blame
Christians and Christianity for something a Muslim man and an adherent to Islam
did, and lo and behold, within the span of hours, even before the bodies were
cold, the narrative began to shift and Christians were in the cross-hairs once
more.
How insidious a soul do you have to be, how corrupt of mind
and heart, how utterly removed from any semblance of reality to blame
Christians for the death of 50 individuals when the person pulling the trigger
over and over and over again was a Muslim man just shy of thirty?
How deprived of common sense and devoid of reason must an
individual become to repeatedly insist that it’s Christians’ fault that this
tragedy occurred, and if blame need be laid at anyone’s doorstep it’s the
Christian church, and of course, white males.
Let’s just make this as simple as possible for those who
insist upon intellectual gymnastics and machinations. A Muslim man walked into
a club and killed 50 people. The gun did not walk into the club by itself, the
man was not a closet Christian, the man was not inspired by messages of loving
one’s enemies and loving one’s neighbor as oneself.
It seems as though to many in the mainstream media the
narrative is all there is, truth be damned. If it doesn’t fit the narrative of
hateful Christian bigots and the need for gun control, well then they’re just
going to have to make it fit even if they have to start telling out and out
lies.
“Even if we get called out for telling the lies we tell,
we’ll just keep telling them, because especially in this culled and
intellectually stunted generation, if you tell a lie long enough with enough
conviction eventually a majority will believe it.”
As I said in my previous post, try as they might to make this
heinous act seem as something different than what it was, Christians just don’t
go on killing sprees, nor do they target homosexuals, atheists, or Buddhists.
The reason for this is because Christianity is fundamentally
different from Islam, and once more, shame on every two-bit preacher and
evangelist who continues to insist that these two religions are different branches
of the same tree, or that we serve the same God just by different names.
Unfortunately, some do not see any middle ground between not
validating and embracing their lifestyle and actively seeking to murder them
for their lifestyle. Some have been so indoctrinated for so long that they
truly believe a Christian’s stance on the homosexual lifestyle and a Muslim’s
stance are no different, even though Islam says without equivocation that
homosexuals should be put to death.
At this juncture the worst thing we can do is allow the
talking heads to redefine Christianity as a religion of hatred, pretty much
projecting the beliefs of Islam onto Christianity without saying anything to
the contrary. When you hear a lie spoken about your faith make sure you let them
know it is a lie, and know the Word of God well enough to be able to point out
the truth if you are called upon to do it.
It’s long past time we called out the crazy, we called out
the liars, and we made it known that we will not sit idly by and be lumped in
with the deranged and homicidal.
These insidious attacks on Christianity will neither lessen
nor become more mild, and though in recent years almost every large profile act
of senseless mass murder was perpetrated by individuals of Muslim leanings,
somehow it’s still Christians that are left holding the bag and being made to
apologize for something they neither encouraged, had a hand in, nor ever even
contemplated.
With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.
