Undermining Christianity, the best tactics: principalities and powers.
If you understand the tactics of your enemy, you
are better positioned to be able to thwart his endeavours.
I have recently written a series of pieces on
this Blog which have shown how political correctness actually functions; what it
attempts to do; the philosophy behind it.
As part of this package, the liberal left want to
destroy Christianity because it stands against all that they are trying to
accomplish.
This is how they have achieved such remarkable
success so far:
1) Persuade churches to adopt an attitude which
embraces 'salvation through good works'. You can even point out that 'if you are
not loving your neighbour - you cannot be loving God'. Thus you begin with a
decontextualised truth at the same time as taking both 'The Grace of God' and
'The Redemptive work of Christ' out of the picture.
2) Have these 'liberal churches' downgrade sin to
the level of it being ' a little bit naughty' - remember those cream cakes in
the adverts?
3) Insist that 'a loving God will never condemn
anyone to hell' - thus removing, not only fear, but even basic respect for
God.
4) Create 'new sins' based on politically correct
thinking. Most of these should end in ' ---ism'.
5) Affirm the importance of other religions and
ignore that the Christian attitude respects the adherents of the religions
concerned but emphatically not their carefully designed pathways to
hell.
6) One of the cleverer tactics is to insist on
'respect for religious belief' especially if this includes being a witch or a
worshipper of tree stumps. This has the effect of lumping the sublime in with
the ridiculous and thus diluting the impact of the True
Faith.
7) Claim that there are no such things as
'absolutes'.
8) Encourage moral relativism. Implement this by
making statements such as "Well, we all have our own personal moral
codes."
9) Remove social consequences from anti-social
actions. This helps to create the idea that there is no such thing as 'cause and
effect'. Once this idea takes hold, it becomes very difficult to see that this
must be the case in the larger, spiritual picture.
10) Ensure that schools teach only Religious
Education. This is a must. You are now in a position to present Christianity,
concealed amongst a hotch potch of other religions, so it is not allowed to
stand out from the crowd and fervently hope that it will not be taught by a
Christian. If that works in any particular case the pupil is doomed never to get
to see the claims of the Gospel.
11) Ensure that teaching NEVER points out that it
is utterly illogical to consider that 'all religions are equally
valid'.
12) NEVER let it be pointed out that by
definition 'either ALL religions are wrong - or just one is
right'.
The differences are simply too great to make
logic-chopping leaps that "All religions have some value" or that "At the core
of all religions is a desire to pursue truth and goodness." It is intellectually
dishonest - but hey - we have a smear job to do!
13) If you can use expressions such as 'the
creation myth', you have already accomplished a significant degree of
undermining potential faith.
14) Present faith as being 'rather quaint' and '
a bit nice'.
15) On other occasions try the opposite tactic
and point out disingenuously that 'all wars are caused by religion' as if this
is relevant to the truth behind the question. You can also conveniently forget
that religious wars in the Western World because of religion have been out of
the equation for centuries. (At last a benefit for what we describe as 'modern
civilisation'.) In the unlikely event of being challenged and
defeated by historical fact, attempt to use the tribalism of N. Ireland to strengthen
your moribund case.
16) Get the TV to marginalise Christianity and in
the case of Channel 4, ensure that it feature Islam with all positives and
Christianity with all negatives.
17) Portray Christians as 'possibly dangerous'
particularly the ones who take The Bible seriously.
18) Refer constantly to The Bible as being
unscientific.
19) Refer to the historical inaccuracies of
Scripture even though you could not name one to save your
life!
20) Promote evolution til your dying day with
vehemence and fervour. Every time another brick in this rickety wall falls to
the floor, attack creationists, ad hominem, instead.
21) When attacking creationists always ensure
that you NEVER engage in full debate (too many have been lost in the past and it gets
a bit embarrassing). Always remember that the louder the insult - the less
evidence you will be required to produce.
22) Point out the bigotry of believers. If at all
possible, do try to introduce Tomas de Torquemada and The Spanish Inquisition
into the argument - after all they are SO representative of Gospel
Christianity!
23) Do try to mention The Crusades - apparently
some dubious missions a millenium ago are relevant to your
case.
24) Point to the evil of 'christianising' of S.
America by The Conquistadors - and disingenuously forget to mention the rank,
deathly evil of the religious practices they thankfully expunged from that
continent.
25) Claim that 'conspiracies were rife' in the
development of Christianity - use the work of great historians like Dan
Browne.
26) Claim emptily that 'The God of the Old
Testament is NOT the same as The God of The New'. Always do this from a base of
total ignorance - naturally, this means never having actually studied God's
Word.
27) Claim that The Early Church 'suppressed much
of the information' from the time of Jesus and just
beyond.
Never mention the expression 'Sifting through the
dustbins of history' and always forget to tell your readers/listeners precisely
when and where the rejected texts originated!
28) Remember to get the point across that talking
about a 'man tortured to death on a cross' is 'not really nice' and besides 'it
scares children'. 'Best to stick to the nicer bits of Christianity - you know -
Santa, Easter eggs, bunnies, robins, yule logs and that sort of thing.'
Naturally, I could go on. But let us remember that
however important all of the above is to know so that we are equipped for the
fray - ultimately these are battles which must be fought on the spiritual
level The first step is to 'gird our loins with the full
armour of God' - and that starts with prayer - and plenty of
it!
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