The putridness of religious politics
By Jim Fletcher
Eric Swalwell this week posted one of the most odious remarks I’ve ever read. It was the musings of a reprobate mind. The Democrat congressman, whose dalliance with a Chinese spy seems not to have embarrassed him—or incarcerated him—likes to tweak conservatives. Christian conservatives, to be exact.
As “Pride Month” began to be forced on the majority of the country by a loud minority, Swalwell poste this:
“Didn’t Jesus have two dads?”
This was in response to a tweet by a pro-family person, who posted a color image of God’s hand reaching out of the ocean to grasp a rainbow. The words “And the Lord said…Nope! This is mine.” Obviously, a reference to the Noahic rainbow, which is for all time God’s symbol to us that He will never again flood the earth. Homosexual deviants of course have adopted the symbol and its colors as representing their movement.
So Swalwell stands with the deviants. He is one, so the progression is logical.
This marriage between politics and religion (Christianity) has been going on a long time. Leftists can point to Billy Graham being chummy with seven presidents, but what I’m talking about today is something different. The current coordination between the Left and some segments of American Christianity is an abomination, which Swalwell’s smug post symbolizes.
During Barack Obama’s catastrophic reign, several Christian leaders appeared with him, grinning like monkeys in photo ops. Pastor Erwin McManus grinned all over himself with Obama in the Oval Office. Relevant magazine publisher Cameron Strang was in a grinning group photo. And perhaps worst of all, then-Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore smiled like an English schoolgirl in a photo op with Obama. Interestingly, Moore (a short guy anyway) was seating much lower than the glowering Obama, whose contemptuous smirk was lost on Moore.
The fact is, these progressives are used by the Regime. They are useful idiots. If the term offends you and you think it’s too harsh, it isn’t the same universe as the harshness meted out to all of us by corrupt political regimes that coldly use religion. Obama was particularly good at this.
In 2010, Michelle Obama found herself invited to speak at Andy Stanley’s Atlanta church. People were lined up out to the street to get in, which just goes to show you they have been taught poorly by a wolf pastor. She should have been boycotted. Both Obamas are anti-American, Marxist change agents that care nothing for people. Their hatred of American principles drove their eight years of tainting the White House. Yet plenty of evangelical celebrities dutifully marched in and out.
The fact is, Democrat administrations going back many years have understood how to use progressive Christians to do their bidding.
Exactly 30 years ago, the malevolent Jimmy Carter visited North Korea. His meeting with Kim il Sung left him convinced Kim was “very friendly toward Christianity.” Mind-boggling.
And this progressive infestation has been going on for 100 years. Woodrow Wilson’s attorney general, Alexander Mitchell Palmer, was a Quaker and pacifist.
As Paul Kengor wrote in his magnificent book, Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century—
“The number of Religious Left figures involved in the Communist-initiated American Peace Mobilization was remarkable. Some were open Communists, some closet communists, some non-Communist liberals, some dupes. Amid the grand schemers who were doing the duping was a much larger group of victims from across multiple denominations. Particularly vulnerable were folks from the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church USA, the Quakers, and especially the Episcopal Church.”
This was an effort by the Soviets from the 1920s to the 1950s; it birthed generations of progressives and Marxists at every level of our society, including and especially religion.
So you see, what has led us to this moment, when our own government is involved in open warfare on biblical Christianity, was hatched long ago. Alexander Palmer to Eric Swalwell…a toxic, sinister brew of religion and politics has brought America to the brink of destruction.
It stinks to high heaven.
