Will You Be My Neighbour?
by the Reverend Fairley Clench of Just Do It! Ministries™
July 20, 2005
The secular media's longstanding bias against Christ, against Christianity, and against Christians has never been more evident than over the last couple of weeks. Ever since the London bombings the dogmatically secular news media have been full of accounts of the terrifying ferocity of Muslim religious zealots.
Yes, our Muslim friends are zealous about their faith. Brushed aside by the press, however, was the story of a Christian whose zeal for his religion is in no way excelled by any Muslim's. Eric Rudolph, recently made a victim by the "justice" system of the United States, is a Christian whose Christ-inspired attacks on family planning clinics, night clubs, and spectators at the Atlanta Olympics were a forceful reminder that the secular agenda of abortion, fast living, and being on the grounds of the Atlanta Olympic Games is rejected by all right-thinking, God-fearing Christians. The threat to the godless and false agenda of secularism posed by Muslim activists was relentlessly raised by the press, but the actual anti-secularist achievements of a humble, dedicated Christian were swept under the carpet.
Of course, as Christians we are accustomed to being marginalized. The contributions to Irish spiritual renaissance of such Christ-guided groups as the Irish Republican Army and the Loyal Order of Orange Lodges are regularly depicted in the godless press as questionable, while closer to home the spiritual initiatives of Christian militias and of that plucky band of dedicated Christians who hunt abortionists are routinely downplayed by the media. Why, the media have even given space to the absurd notion that Christians should apologize for the Crusades!
I know, I know. I know what the more brainwashed among you are going to say – Isn't Christianity supposed to be a religion of love and peace? Didn't Christ tell us to turn the other cheek, ignore others' sins and concentrate on our own, yadda yadda yadda? Well, let me just point out something you seem to have been trained to overlook.
Christ told us to love, all right, but he told us to love our neighbours. Do you have any abortionist neighbours? I know I don't. Come to think of it, I don't have any Jewish, homosexual or evolutionist neighbours, either.
If you're still not persuaded, I have some evidence that you cannot refute – two thousand years of Christian history. Who, after all, are better judges of what it means to be a Christian than Christians themselves? Throughout their long and glorious history Christians have shown no hesitation in chastising and punishing the sinful. They have killed Jews, they have killed Turks, they have killed Arabs, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists; they have even, in Christ's name, killed each other. The major churches support major wars, and even allow their clergy to join the armed forces in time of war.
Christians know that Christ, the beloved son of a loving and merciful God, would not tell His followers what sin was and then expect them to tolerate it! So perhaps it is time for rabid soul-destroying secularists to show some appreciation of this longstanding Christian commitment to the purification of the world by the elimination of sinful elements, such as people who are not Christians and not our neighbours.
You have two choices: fear God, or fear your neighbour. Choose wisely.
Will You be My Neighbour? © John FitzGerald, 2005
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