Category: Clarion Call
High School Rule-Makers Endanger Female Athletes
The inmates are running the asylum in Indy. Until recently I had not heard of the National Federation of State … Read More
Supreme Court, ‘Gay Marriage’ and the Easter Bunny
There is no such thing as the Easter Bunny. If there arose a global movement that loudly and proudly demanded … Read More
Lesbian Extremist Mayor Must Go—Now
Should we make an example of her? Absolutely. I was born in Waco, Texas, and lived in Houston, so I’ve … Read More
‘LGBT’: The ‘T’ is for Tyranny
Tranny tyranny. Strike that. “LGBT” tyranny. Lesbian, gay, bisexual tyranny. That, generally speaking, is what’s on display in Houston right … Read More
What the Gay Marriage Debate Is Really About
It’s called Pandora’s Box. And the Supreme Court just opened it. Did you actually think the debate over gay marriage … Read More
The Magical Land of Progressitopia
There once was a land, a magical land, with a chicken in every pot. And in this land, which was … Read More
A Lesbian’s Eyes Opened: ‘You Don’t Hate Us!’
“Projections have shown that if current trends continue, half of all gay and bisexual men will be HIV-positive by age … Read More
Federal Judge Envisions ‘Rape License’ for ‘Right to Rape’
Judge Richard Posner, a federal judge with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, recently become a hero to the pro-gay … Read More
How Christian Kids Should Deal With LGBT Peers
No one can deny the fast-rising popularity and approval of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lifestyles. Most especially, … Read More
How We Told Our Kids About Sex
It was the summer of 2011. We were visiting friends in North Carolina one weekend for a lovely wedding on … Read More
An Open Letter to the False Church
“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for … Read More
Flash: Christians Actually Far Less Likely to Divorce
This is a game-changer. Talk about “an old wives’ tale.” You’ve heard it said that 1) 50 percent of all … Read More
I’m Wanted for ‘Hate Crimes’ in Canada
It seems I have some liberal knickers in a knot north of the border. The left is anything if not … Read More
Finding Joy Amid World’s Chaos
Matthew 24:6 says, “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not … Read More
Israel: The Palestinian People’s Greatest Ally
Israel is not tame. But she is good. If a poacher shoots arrows at a pride of sleeping lions, are … Read More
The Coming Christian Revolt
From behind a smoking sniper rifle high atop his ivory tower peers the secular “progressive.” He surveys his many victims, … Read More
Left Moves to Outlaw Christianity
The mask is off. All pretense has been dropped, and the anti-Christian left’s boundless depth of hatred for individual liberty, … Read More
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Right … Sort of
While reams have already been penned examining the implications of last week’s Hobby Lobby decision, most of what’s been written, … Read More
‘Justina’s Law’ Introduced in Wake of Pelletier Nightmare
It’s hard to determine where the tragedy begins and the travesty ends. It’s a story that has gripped and enraged … Read More
The Top 8 Things to Think About
Look at your life. Life is hard. Look at the news. In our fallen, sinful world, evil swirls about like … Read More
Treason: Obama’s ‘Gitmo Five’
You were already thinking it. Treason. For Richard Nixon, it was a cover-up surrounding illegal wiretapping. For Bill Clinton, it … Read More
Thank God Men Are Different Than Women
A priceless vein of God’s infinite wisdom and creative beauty can be found marbled throughout the marvelous and myriad differences … Read More
How Liberalism Violates All 10 Commandments
One of my readers, we’ll call him Moses, is the publisher of a mainstream newspaper in California. He wrote me the other day with an insightful observation.
Since Moses works in one of the most liberal industries in one of the most liberal states in the union, I won’t divulge his real name. We don’t want Moses tarred, feathered and banished to Oklahoma with a scarlet C, for Christian, emblazoned on his Harris Tweed sport coat. (Note: I have antipathy toward neither Oklahoma—I once lived there—nor Harris Tweed, though I do recommend against wearing Harris Tweed in Oklahoma. Especially in the summer.)
“Matt, think about this,” wrote Moses. “Every one of the Ten Commandments is explicitly violated by a principle of the left.”
So I thought about it.
And you know what? Slap me with a Red River catfish if Moses ain’t exactly right.
To be sure, as individuals, we’ve all violated many, if not most or all, of the Ten Commandments. In our fallen, sinful state we have an inherent propensity to rebel against God’s perfect and holy will for our lives. “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23).
Thank God for making available a path, narrow as it is, for eternal redemption and salvation through Christ Jesus.
Still, there is a difference between individual sins and a philosophical worldview that embraces those sins as a matter of course. Modern liberalism—progressivism, leftism, secularism, pick your poison—is built upon, by and for sin itself. Liberalism’s entire fabric is constructed by precept planks that are soaked through and stained by man’s arrogant rebellion against our Creator God.
In sum, liberalism is folly. It represents man’s futile attempt to disorder God’s natural order. It’s the unholy brainchild of God’s very first enemy, given by that enemy to God’s favored creation—us—with the sole purpose of destroying that creation.
Unfortunately, we’re all too happy to help. Liberalism just formalizes the process, making sin public policy.
Volumes could be penned on the myriad ways in which the central tenets of liberalism violate each of the Ten Commandments. The following is a much truncated analysis:
The Ten Commandments (Ex. 20:1-17)
1. Thou Shalt Have No Gods Before Me.
At worst, liberalism denies the very existence of God in the forms of atheism and secularism, while, at best, it adopts that wonderfully “inclusive” blasphemy called religious pluralism. Pluralism presumes to give the false gods of false religions equal footing and denies Christ as He defined Himself: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). Liberal Christianity falls under this category. It’s pluralism with a Christian stamp.
Secular humanism, liberalism’s prevailing false religion, denies God altogether and crowns man as king over himself and the measure of all things. “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
‘Gay’ Bishop Pretend-Divorces Pretend Husband
The AP reports: The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who became a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church … Read More