This photo-shopped picture and fictitious article about Venetian authorities allowing Muslims to pray in the streets of Venice is typical of the increasingly common anti-Islam hate information on the web. Senders and re-senders of base drivel like this are similar to racists who insist on distributing emails to supposed sympathizers that equate South African leaders to primates.
This semi-popular hate culture is indicative of a reality check that Western cultures are finally taking. My definition of Western culture acknowledges the preeminent influence of Judea-Christian faith and morality, something which many have deftly attempted to deny.
By eroding the Christian conviction in Western society and pursuing a liberal critical approach to the authority of Scripture, a so-called free, enlightened but degenerate society has been created. In reality we have hollowed out the greatness of Western culture and created room for destructive forces from within and without.
I personally have more admiration for Islam than most Westerners. It’s discipline, dedication and holistic impact on life and culture is something a lot of Sunday Christians can learn from. The resolve in the Muslim mind and heart is what is eating the heart out of Western cultures. Westerners went soft on their foundations, thinking that the future was relativism. The truth of human history reveals that the strong rule. If you leave your strengths outside the door, don’t expect to be the master of the house very long.
Many European cities and communities are under siege or have already capitulated to the Muslim march. The work of Muslim extremists has created a global paranoia about the future of the planet. Americans don’t have the same degree of problems with Muslim control in the cities, but they laughably worry that their President is a Muslim plant!
The troubles aren’t only from without. The enemy within the so-called Christian West is indicative of our rotten core. Decades of degradation and humanistic moral ambivalence has hideously disfigured the Christian family and the gay agenda stronghold within the church is ensuring that our resolve to preserve the fabric of our communities will be long gone when the fundamentalist demands of Islam capture our education, law courts and economy, suppressing our arts and oppressing our women.
Well done high-minded theological professor! You created an unbelieving, skeptic out of the seminary student, now twice as apostate as his mentor. Well done, bleeding heart humanist! You systematically erased all appeal to a moral authority with your guilt-removing, feel-good psycho- babble!
Christian conservatives are caught in the middle between the disorienting picture of gay clergy performing a same-sex wedding, and an advancing Muslim horde. Yes, conservatives have played a lot of the wrong cards in the last while; this blog may be a poor hand too. But if the war on conservatives was finally over and the last one had capitulated, then the frontier lines would be redrawn between ordained lesbians and militant Imams. I wonder who would win that war?
