Silenced
January 14, 2009 by Standing on Truth
Filed under Culture
Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about conspiracies. Usually it’s in connection with the words “vast right-wing” or sproken from Bill Clinton regarding the Lewinsky scandal that America is so proud of. But something about these recent times makes me feel as if, as a conservative Christian, there is a conspiracy to silence me and my views. My political and religious creed has, ever increasingly, been what condemns me in the eyes of the world.
Think of what we’ve been threatened with or been forced to accept in the last few years. The Fairness Doctrine threatens the conservative voice on radio simply because liberal radio keeps failing. Is there any complaint from the left for the dominant liberal media bias?
What about the violent protests (and media coverage in such a sympathetic way) over the passion of Proposition 8 in California last November? Yes, it passed, but the sypathy for those who want gay marriage is growing rapidly while the anger and violence towards those who seek to preserve the traditional family is beginning to silence us.
Do we even need outside forces to silence us? It seems we go undercover into exile rather easily these days. George Barna has researched this and the number of Christians not voting in elections or abandoning biblical values in their voting is astounding.
The classic quote from Edmund Burke, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” is maybe never more true than today.
