By Douglas V. Gibbs
There is a war being waged, and nobody is talking about it. It’s not happening in some foreign desert. It’s happening right here, and it’s aimed squarely at you. At us. At people of faith, specifically Christians. And if you haven’t been paying attention, you’re missing the longest and most disgusting warfare of our time.
I’ve been talking about the war against Christians in America my entire life. We can go back to the sixties for a large part of it. They kicked God out of the schools, and they’ve been incrementally removing Him from the public square. But now, I have a couple of articles here that just lay it all bare, and it is chilling. It is a one-for-one playbook right out of every authoritarian regime you’ve ever read about in a history book. The left always, always goes after the people who believe in a higher power than the government. Because if you answer to God, you don’t answer to them. And they cannot stand that.
The first piece details the absolute reign of terror the Biden administration waged on Christians. Armed raids on pro-life Americans! Can you imagine? The FBI storming the homes of people who pray outside an abortion clinic. Meanwhile, Antifa and BLM can burn down cities for a year and they get “mostly peaceful” coverage from the state-run media. This is the double standard. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature of their program.
They talked about the Babylon Bee. A satire site! And why did the left come after them? Because the National Review columnist, Caroline Downey, nailed it. The most threatening speech to a ruling class is mockery. They can’t handle being laughed at. Their entire ideology is built on a foundation of lies and emotional hysteria, and when you shine a light on it with humor, the whole thing collapses. So they had to censor the Bee. They had to. And thank God for Elon Musk, a “benevolent billionaire,” as she puts it. But isn’t that terrifying? That our most fundamental right, the right to speak our minds, now hangs by a thread thanks to one guy who decided to buy a platform? What happens when the next guy is Mark Zuckerberg or some other left-wing stooge?
Then you’ve got this Don Lemon character, a former CNN anchor, marching into a church and disrupting a service. And his defense is his First Amendment rights. See how this works? His right to protest trumps your right to worship. Your right to religion is secondary. The left sees the First Amendment as a hierarchy, and freedom of the press, and only their kind of press, is at the top. Freedom of religion is at the bottom, right next to the right of conservatives to exist.
And the battlefield, as Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council points out, is marriage and gender. That’s the hill they chose to die on. He said the moment Obama came out for same-sex marriage, anyone with a biblical view of marriage was blacklisted. Banished. Even Fox News wouldn’t book them. This is how they operate. They take an institution that has been the bedrock of civilization for 5,000 years and they tell you it’s now “hate speech.” They redefine words, they redefine reality, and if you don’t go along with their new reality, you are the enemy.
But something changed. The tide started to turn. And what was it? It was parents. It was moms and dads who finally had enough of the indoctrination of their children. They showed up at school board meetings and they raised hell. And the left, for the first time, was shocked. They weren’t used to being fought back. That’s what started the resistance. That’s what gave people of faith the backbone to get into the political arena and start taking back ground.
But don’t you get complacent. Don’t you dare think this fight is over. Perkins warns about groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, these junkyard dogs of the left, who have hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, and their only job is to label every conservative, every Christian, every pro-family group as a “hate group.” They are the ones who provide the intellectual ammunition for the censors.
Which brings me to the second article, and this is the “Ruby Ridge” warning sign. New Zealand’s Defence Force, our alleged allies, mind you, was running war games where the terrorists were “Evangelical Christians.” The villains were people who want to build a state on Christian values. This wasn’t an accident. This was a scenario written by AI, but adopted by the government under a left-wing, socialist leader. The enemy wasn’t radical Islamists. The enemy was Christians who oppose what they call the “Islamification” of their country.
This is not institutional bias, folks. This is conditioning. This is grooming soldiers to see their fellow citizens, people who go to church on Sunday, as the enemy. As terrorists. They are mentally placing ordinary people on the other side of the gun. This is Caesar demanding to be God. When the state decides that your faith is a threat, that your beliefs are a security problem, you are on a very, very dangerous road.
And you know why they’re doing this, right? It’s fear. They are terrified of the Christian message. They are terrified of the truth. They are terrified of a people who will not bow the knee to the state. That’s why Tony Perkins is right when he says, “Now is not the time to be silent. Now is the time to take the hill.”
This cannot be a generation of careful men. We cannot be quiet. We cannot shrink back just because some left-wing nutjob calls us a hater or an extremist. Our charity and our grace do not require us to surrender our values and the safety of our children. It’s time to charge forward. It’s time to retake these institutions. It’s time to speak the truth, and if they call it hate, so be it. Let them be the ones to explain why the Gospel is “hate speech.” Let them be the ones to explain why believing in marriage is “extremism.” The mask is off. We see exactly who they are. And it’s time we fought back with everything we’ve got.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
