2 Dangerous Arguments Christians Are Buying Into
Hilmar Von Campe, a former Nazi solider in World War II, explains how so many people were robbed of their conscience in order to create the groundwork for mind control from the Nazi state.
“I thought I was defending my country, and it was a terrible awakening, after the war when I came home, that I had not defended my fatherland, but I had done the dirty job which Hitler and the Nazis had selected for us.
“One has to remember that everything that happens is about power—the power of God against the power of man. God wants us to be free; man wants to control each other … it is good vs. evil, God against godlessness. And since I have experienced godlessness in Germany and seen the destruction of my family, the destruction of the nation, and then I see the same forces at work here, I shudder.
“Wrong is being promoted as a virtue. But that is the road to a totalitarian system because a totalitarian system is abandonment of God’s commandments where man can only rule if they control everybody. And in that case, there are no moral standards.”
The more and more legislation desensitizes everyone’s conscience and removes the freedom of religion, the more we create the groundwork for collective brainwashing.
Once you desensitize a nation’s conscience, you can do just about anything.
The tricky part is that Jesus never said anything directly about homosexuality. But He did speak to sexual sin.
Consider the woman at the well who had five husbands. Jesus didn’t condemn her; He forgave her. He also kept the Pharisees from stoning another woman who was caught in adultery. However, and this is a key point here, He put the fear of God into this adulterous woman by prophesying to her and at the end saying, “Go and sin no more.”
Going back to the first example, if we replace the women’s sin of fornication and adultery and say that they were sleeping with women instead, we can understand a bit of what Jesus’ perspective might have been. If sin is sin, and homosexual acts are no different than fornication, lust or adultery, we have a fair replacement. If the argument many people are making is true, “Just facilitate the gay wedding out of your love for people!” then Jesus would have had quite a different response for the women then He actually did in the Scriptures. If this reasoning were true, He would have said, “Come, let Me officiate your wedding!” instead of what He did say: “Go and sin no more.”
People’s deeply held religious convictions are the reasons why they do inconvenient and selfless things, such as feeding the hungry, fighting against injustice and setting the captives free. The moment you begin picking away at people’s conscience is the moment those “deeply held religious convictions,” which are the basis for all those other good things, begin to disappear.
Let’s recap:
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When people are forced to violate their conscience by the powers that are in charge of our nation, the result is a calloused conscience. At this juncture, confusion sets in about what is right and wrong.
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When the powers that force law-abiding citizens to violate their conscience, (and their free will), we no longer have liberty, but tyranny.
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People’s “deeply held religious convictions” are not only the reasons they refuse to participate in things they believe are wrong, like gay marriage, but also why they do inconvenient and selfless things, without which, the world would suffer.
God help us if we ever find ourselves in the same place as pre-Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, I really believe we are already there.
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.” —George Washington
Charis Hillman Brown is the marketing and communications director at Marketplace Leaders Ministries, an organization founded by her dad with a vision to equip men and women to fulfill their calling in and through the workplace. Charis is is author of TGIF, Today God Is First Daily Devotional for Next Gen and has been published in TwoTen Magazine, The Christian Post and Charisma News.
