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Americans Dying For What? After ten years of fighting in Afghanistan something has been eliminated from that country. Is it not the Taliban, or Muslim extremism. It is not corruption, ignorance and poverty. What has been eliminated after the loss of several thousand American soldiers, and countless billions of dollars? The answer? Christian churches! As of March of this year, all the Christian churches in Afghanistan had been destroyed. Before the American intervention, the world reacted in shock and anger when ancient Buddhist carvings were dynamited by the Taliban. How many news reports have you heard of the world being outraged by the destruction of Christian churches? All we hear is the sound of crickets chirping. The new American religion of secularism is bearing fruit, not only at home, but around the world. There are many political and social agencies in our country which are delighted to eliminate Christ from our institutions. Most of these people are atheistic or agnostic, and the ones who claim to be Christian are hardly Christian in any meaningful Biblical sense. Nature abhors a vacuum and will rush to fill it. Satan loves a vacuum (or absence of real spiritual faith), and will gladly fill it with his religion of Secularism. Our pitiful politicians went along with the demands of Muslim countries when they told our soldiers that they could die in their countries, but they could not openly worship or carry Bibles or attempt to spread their faith. Our politicians thought their political goals were more important than honoring the Almighty God who made America great! The logic of it is hard to grasp: We can blow Muslims to pieces with drones armed with Hellfire missiles, but we dare not “offend” them by giving them a Bible. Is it any wonder that God’s wrath is gathering around our nation? So all the Christian churches have been gone, and soon, our American troops will be gone, and the Taliban will be back, and soon things will be worse than they were on September 11, 2001. Futility, all is futility, says Ecclesiastes. All action without Jesus Christ at its core is doomed to futility. The governor of Rhode Island demands that no one use the word “Christmas tree”, and must instead say “Holiday tree.” Even the speaking of the name of Christ in public is now offensive to the governor of one of our oldest states. Christmas is a holy time, and a time for joy for every believer, but to our politicians, it merely makes them uncomfortable. All who are embarrassed by the name of Jesus Christ are lost. Jesus said that if we deny him, he will deny us before the Father. And when that day comes, that will be our only hope. We place our faith in Jesus Christ to justify us on that day. Unless he knows us, nothing else will matter. We seem to have been cursed by clever politicians who are spiritually ignorant; they worship money, love their addictions, and care little for the traditions and beliefs which established and sustained the country. What can we do? We can be of good cheer. We know the end of the story! With real joy and without hatred or bitterness, we can proclaim Romans 1:16 with Paul,and say that we are not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone! Whether the world knows it or not, Jesus Christ died for all of us. The killing of Christians and the burning of churches in the Afghanistan, Nigeria, or other parts of the world may not bother our current set of politicians, but it is offensive to the Almighty. Rather than worrying about which interest group might be “offended”, we would all do well to avoid offense to the only One who ultimately matters.
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