I abhor virtue signaling, including piety signaling by Christians ( See Matthew 6:1). I also don’t like using Christianity as a tool to advance a political agenda. However, today I will do both for I know no other way to illustrate my point. First, let me state that I am an imperfect man, very much in need of God’s grace.
I came to this revelation the other day. I am mad about the destruction of my city and the people causing it. A few weeks ago a black lady contacted me with a legal problem. She found me on the Internet. I liked her. I told her how I thought her problem could be solved, and I gave her some homework to do. She called me back, and had done everything I told her to do. With a little bit of extra help from me, she will receive a $200,000 asset that likely will change her life. I felt this overwhleming sense of joy run through me. I almost teared up. I was startled by how happy I was for her and knew that this was the Holy Spirit moving through me.
Also this week, I had an Asian immigrant lady, who is now a US Citizen contact me about an international tax issue. We conncted! She told me about her love for the United States, her family, her faith and we talked about “non tax” issues for an hour. Again, I felt the Holy Spirit move through me and I had an overwhleming desire to help this lady, my new pal.
My personal experiences strengthen my belief that good things come from God’s influence, not from tearing down statues or meaningless chants from the angry mob. Regarding race relations, I have been to many a black church, as one or two of the only crackers there. I have witnessed not just great love and good music, but folks who really understand the tenets of Christianity. All things are possible in this venue.
Now the flip side.
There are also evil spiritual forces at work in the world. Growing up an Episcopalian, we didn’t hear much talk of the devil from the pulpit. Our clergy were too gentille and erudite for such boorishness. Well, evil exists and it emanates form Satan. Now, this is where I get political. I have long felt that those who reject God’s laws do so because they want to be their own deity and this can lead to dangerous naricissim on the part of our leaders. But what if instead of just rejecting God’s laws, one consciously makes himself a disciple of the Dark One?
Saul Alinsky, the author of Rules for Radicals, the modern day bible for antifa and other radical left groups wrote this as the introduction to his “bible:”
Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.
Karl Marx wrote poems praising Satan. Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, one of Marx’s comrades in the First International, called Satan “the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds.” The Dark Lord was also praised by a healthy cadre of French revolutionaries, responsible for the Reign of Terror.
” Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.” 1 Peter 5:8-9.