Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Leaving your faith at home

We are encouraged in this politically correct society to leave our faith at home. We are (as Christians) admonished not 'impose' our beliefs on others. It is acceptable, it seems, to be devout at home, as long as we are thoroughly secular at work and in the public square.
No Christmas carols, just Christmas songs. No public prayer, unless it is so sanitized as to be meaningless. Eliminate any sort of mention of God in any school or government context, or on public property; atheists are so threatened by the cross that they want it gone from memorials and city seals.
Well the issue is not about imposing views or forcing anyone to anyone. It is about integrity. It is about being the same person on Sunday morning as on Wednesday at noon. It is also about protecting free speech as well as freedom of religious faith and practice. The secularists are consistent in their secularism; how dare they ask us to be inconsistent in our faithfulness.
It is true; political correctness reigns when all other kinds of correctness are deposed.