The United States Supreme Court is currently in the process of deciding if a football coach in Washington State was illegally fired from his job. Coach Joe Kennedy, a winning and popular high school coach had a habit of taking a knee on the 50 yard line after a game and saying a silent 10-15 second prayer. After a while, some members of the team joined him. School officials became enraged and told him to stop. He did not stop, and was summarily fired.
Regarding this case, Justice Sotomayor remarked, "Why can't a school fire a coach who decides to put a Nazi swastika on their arm and go to the field and pray?" Apparently, as smart as I'm sure she is, she must know very little about Christianity, or the horrific meaning behind a swastika. Then there's the minor fact that Coach Kennedy did not put a Nazi swastika on his arm.
Across the world, there is a war being raged against Christians, and American Christians specifically are being lulled or shamed into silence. David Horowitz's book Dark Agenda, stunned me with undeniable facts about the constant chip, chip, chip, aimed at our beliefs in the religion of our forefathers, and the terrible effect it is having on our society. (Well, you live here, you already know about the effect on our society.)
Here are just a few notes from his book: In December of 2008, the U.S. Capitol Visitor's Center opened, to serve as a museum and information center. However, all references to God in our heritage were meticulously edited out of its displays. An enlarged image of the U.S. Constitution was photo-shopped to remove the words "In the Year of Our Lord" above the signatures of the signers.
The official motto of the United States was presented as E Pluribus Unum ("Out of Many, One"), but it is actually "In God We Trust." A replica of the speaker's rostrum in the House of Representatives omitted the gold-lettered inscription "In God We Trust" above the chair. Other photos were cropped, to hide the inscription.
For a speech at Georgetown University by a top government official, a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name was required to be covered. At that time, top government officials deliberately omitted the phrases about "the Creator" when quoting the Declaration of Independence, an omission made in seven high level speeches.
In 2012: Our government determined to forgive student loans in exchange for public service, but not if the public service is related to religion.
Finally, as far back as 1986, a study of textbooks used by 87 percent of public-school students had removed all references to God, religion, or the flight to America for religious freedom. The study said, there is not one account in the thousands of pages of all these books that includes our historic and fundamental basis in faith.
David Horowitz is Jewish. Perhaps, with the tumultuous history of the Jewish people, Horowitz sees extra clearly how all these small related and constant attacks minimize and slander religious culture, and work to turn people against faith, both personally and generally. It is nothing less than "death by a thousand cuts," and a constant and mostly unchallenged assault on our legally-protected beliefs and the true history of our nation.
I have to assume that those who hate us so much have forgotten the Jewish Maccabees and the Christians who held on in spite of torture by the Romans. Just remember, the prophet Isaiah wasn't kidding when he said, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil."
Nancy
