The Mockery

Folks, our country has become a mockery, a putrid and defiled image, of what it used to be.

Read this article from Breakpoint:

"What's the Matter with Canada?
Crushing Free Speech

July 21, 2008

How is this for irony? Recent actions by Canadian human rights groups have observers alarmed for the state of human rights in Canada. That is because the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal do not give a fig about protecting human rights. Their mission is suppressing free speech.

Maclean's magazine was hauled before these two "quasi-judicial" bodies when it published excerpts from Mark Steyn's popular book America Alone. Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress charged that the content of these excerpts about the expansion of radical Islam "subjects Canadian Muslims to hatred and contempt."

The Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissed the complaint, but the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal got in on the act. It investigated the charges in what bloggers on the scene called a "kangaroo court," and has yet to issue a ruling. But there is a greater cause for concern here: As the Calgary Herald pointed out, Maclean's has the money to fight the charges—but not everyone does. The Herald gloomily predicted, "Let a citizen of modest means utter a politically incorrect thought: He will be crushed."

That is what happened to the Reverend Stephen Boissoin. In a letter to the editor in the Red Deer Advocate, he protested the homosexual agenda, and was hauled off before the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The complaint—sound familiar?—was that Boissoin's words were "likely to expose homosexuals to hatred or contempt because of their sexual orientation."

The panel ordered "that Mr. Boissoin . . . shall cease publishing in newspapers, by e-mail, on the radio, in public speeches, or in the internet, in the future, any disparaging remarks about gays and homosexuals." He was also ordered to apologize in writing for the article, and was fined.

As the Catholic Exchange reports, "In essence, the Alberta Human Rights Tribunal is ordering . . . the minister to renounce his Christian faith, since his opposition to homosexuality is based upon the Judeo-Christian Bible." The article went on to observe that a prominent Canadian priest, Father Alphonse de Valk, is now being investigated "for having publicly defended the Church's traditional definition of marriage. Some of [his] allegedly hateful statements are quotations from the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church."

This is what Pope Benedict calls the "dictatorship of relativism." In the name of tolerance—or of someone's twisted idea of that concept—we have to protect everyone's sensitivities. Nobody can say anything that might make someone feel like a victim of hatred and contempt. And thus we back into a soft despotism, which suppresses free speech and eradicates religious freedom.

Where is this going to end? Will it become a crime even to be a Christian in Canada? Will opposition to radical Islam be routinely punished? Here in America, we already know you can get in hot water for opposing gay marriage—like the Christian photographers who refused to take pictures at a lesbian civil ceremony, and ended up being fined by the New Mexico Human Rights Commission.

Make no mistake. If Canadians do not stand up for their religious and free speech rights, they will soon be gone. And so will ours. For what happens in the beautiful country to the north of us often affects our so-called "enlightened elites" in the United States. "


There's a question that always pops into my head after reading something like this.
How did this happen? When did our country (and the country of America...I think we're in this boat together) become such a corrupt and broken image of what it used to be? When did tolerance take the place of truth? When did political correctness overcome righteousness?

Because, the biggest problem our countries face is that Churches will not stand up for what's right. All too often we see churches are in fact on the opposite side: siding with "conformity" and "tolerance". This is a big problem.

Proverbs 29:12 - "If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked."

How quickly our nation has fallen into corruption! How many years ago were we founded as a country, with morals and ethics completely different from today? What now is accepted that back then would have been abhorred? Have we progressed since that time? I think not.

We have become nothing short of a mockery. It may not have begun with the churches, but it certainly wasn't stopped by them. So the biggest question is, where were we?

Our Armor of God was there and waiting, shining and as solid and perfect as ever, and we were lying around waiting for our bodies to rot. We were too cowardly to take a stand, and now society is out of control.

We have lost what we once were. The Church's excuse is what - that the Bible is outdated? That therefore we have to love and accept those who are explicitly sinful - an abomination to the Lord - because we know better than the Bible does?

Wait just a minute. What?

“Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years” - Charles H. Spurgeon

When did we become superior to the Word of our God? Do we follow Him at all anymore?

Spurgeon again:

“If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.”

Do we not have the faith to stand up and say "wait a minute. There's something wrong here"?
No, we don't; because society has become so backward that anything we say comes up against us in court! We are fined heavily for saying something - anything - that might offend someone else. The nation walks around on tiptoe, avoiding eggshells. Those who are brave enough to stand up for what's right are swiftly made an example of.

So what can we do?

What did the apostles do? They were constantly thrown in prison, beaten, murdered, and they kept on going. To follow Christ means hardship. Usually, as soon as the way gets easy, that means you're not following Christ with your all. You're not leaving everything at the foot of the Cross for Him.


Romans 12:12 - "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer."

This is our generation's battle. We are to take a stand. We can't hide anymore. How have we wasted all this time hiding from the truth? We have failed our God!

Churches should not tolerate what is sin. We know it is sin. The Bible tells us it is sin, and the Bible is not wrong. Ever.

There is hope for us. God is with us, no matter what. Even if we come through troubles, let us never take the easy road. I hope that I will have the courage to always say what I have said here. It's easy enough to type something out; but do I believe it? Would I fight for it? I pray that it is so!

Churches - Don't teach Tolerance. Teach Truth.
Parents - Don't teach your children to conform to what the world wants. Teach them to lead the world to something better.

How can we change our country for the better? By practicing what we believe - by obeying God. By living our lives - our entire lives, not just our lives on Sunday morning - for Him.

Let's take this mockery and restore it to what it once was - a nation that sought to glorify the One True God.