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Is it right to be angry about certain issues? Is it right to get involved in protecting your freedoms? Is it necessary? Absolutely! Christians need to get off their backsides and start doing something before it is too late. Our freedoms are being taken away every day we sit by and feel frustration but do absolutely nothing to fight back. There is an important video listed at the end of this article, which every Christian needs to view and pass on to everyone on their email list. Then they need to subscribe to grassroots organizations for email alerts and write their representatives regularly every chance they get. This is the minimum a Christian to do.

Do you feel angry about certain issues?

Contrary to popular Christian belief, it is biblical to feel righteous indignation (yes, I mean anger). There are two words in the Bible which are translated as "anger" or some variation of that such as the word "wrath". Both words are used in the Bible to describe anger which God feels. There is the word "orge" which is a feeling of what one might call righteous indignation. The other word is "thumos" which indicates a more agitated condition of the feelings. Ogre is less sudden in its rise but is more lasting in nature. Thumos on the other hand, rises suddenly like a white hot heat, but dissipates. Thumos is sometimes translated as "wrath" in the Bible. Both terms are used of God's anger directed toward various issues, event, and people. Many Christians believe that anger is wrong, but that is not the case. Even Christ felt anger in the Gospels towards the attitudes of certain people. What determines whether or not we are justified in feeling anger is determined by the causes or motives of the anger and what we do with it. I have a right to feel angry, for example when I see injustice in the world. I have a right and obligation before God to remedy that injustice if I can. I also have a right and obligation to speak out against immorality I see. I have a right to speak out when I see militant homosexuals attempting to pervert our children by the so called training being instituted in our schools under the label "diversity sensitivity training". I have a right to feel anger and speak out and protest against the attack on our family values by moral reprobates. Christ commanded us to love people, not their sin. I also have a God-given right and mandate to fight the onslaught of corruption and immoral laws being passed in this country. This right is not just given to me by the first amendment. It was listed as the first amendment because it was recognized by our founding fathers as a GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO ALL MEN!

Anger is not hatred

I think many people have the misconception that to feel anger is the same as feeling hatred. That is not the case. As any parent knows, a person can feel anger at something their child does, but not hate the child. I can be angry with an issue such as injustice or blatant immorality without feeling hatred for the person committing the injustice or immorality. The Bible teaches there is a difference between feeling anger and hating. To be effective in Christian activism, we need to be able to distinguish between anger and hatred. It is our anger at situations and issues which is necessary for motivate us to right the wrongs in our society. Without the right kind of anger, we will be apathetic to the social and moral ills of our society and nation.

Indifference is our biggest enemy

This country has gone to the dogs for the simple reason that Christians have sat idly by while the humanistic, liberal, and immoral sector of our society has taken over. It has happened because we have not been faithful in fulfilling the Great Commission and thereby keeping this nation a Christian nation. And please don't feed me that history revisionist garbage that we never were a Christian nation. People who try to feed you that line of bull, in my opinion, rank right along side those people who say the Jewish holocaust never happened. For decades now, we have been composed of generations of people raised with the "me first" philosophy. This humanism began invading the school systems back in the 1940s with John Dewey's style of philosophy. It flourished during the 60s and 70s as atheistic and humanistic college professors spewed forth their venom against Christianity and moral standards. Now we have a whole society which has been brainwashed with this atheistic and immoral "anything goes" mentality.

We are to be Salt and Light

Salt is used as a metaphor for a preservative. It is used to prevent rot and decay from setting in. It is also used as a flavoring to add zest and life. The sad situation we Christians now find ourselves is due to the fact that we have lost our saltiness as Christ described it. Salt can be made salty again if the impurities are removed. Christians in this day, have allowed themselves to absorb the philosophies of the world system and have therefore lost their ability to preserve society and infiltrate it with moral and Christian influence. Because of our neglect, we have allowed the rot to set in and been unable to give our society the Christian flavor it needs so desperately.

Some Christians are making a difference

There are grassroots Christian organizations attempting to stem the tsunamic tide from washing away every vestige of decency and morality in this country. The problem is that it appears we are attempting to close the gate after the cows have gotten out. Because we have not insured this remained a Christian country by fulfilling the Great Commission to evangelize, we now have to use the court system just to try to maintain our own liberties as Christians. In addition, these courts are being overseen by judges educated in the anti-Christian climate of the schools and universities we allowed humanism to infiltrate. This situation sounds to me like a good plot for a book entitled, "While Christian America Slept". While we were complacent, anti-Christians took over the country. We have only ourselves to blame. It is true that the Bible predicts this happening in the end times. My question is, "Was it necessary for it to happen in America?". I think not. I feel it was only our complacency which allowed it here.

Organizations like American Family Association (AFA) are making a difference. Through their email alert system, their constituents have managed to bring about change in some areas. One such example is that some big corporations have changed some of their policies advocating gay rights due to boycotts instigated by members of AFA. It is a continuing battle, but there are victories for Christians. It does make a difference when enough Christians get involved in Christian activist organizations like AFA.

What Do We Do Now?

Every day you will find news articles about Christians being prosecuted in this country for their religious beliefs and stand. You won't find it in the mainstream media. You will have to search the Internet for such news. Yes, even a complete moron knows these days that our major news media is controlled by Christian-hating liberals. Look what happened in Russia. After the Communist takeover in the early part of the twentieth century, Christians were persecuted for 70 years. Then a short time of liberation came where that country allowed the Gospel to be spread. Now Russia is again beginning to close it's doors to religious freedom. If you are unaware of this situation, it is because you have not kept yourself informed. The same thing is happening to America. We are loosing more of our freedom each day. Pastors are afraid to preach against sin, for fear of being prosecuted for so called hate crimes. Hate crime laws are being used to squelch any talk against immoral behavior and lifestyles.

Our loss of freedom is being accelerated each and every day. There is no such thing as standing still in the Christian life. If your are not growing each day, you are going backwards. The same principle applies to our freedoms and liberties. Each day we stand by and do nothing, more of our rights and liberties are being taken away. It's time to stem this flow toward dictatorialship and immorality.

Start Protecting Your Freedom and Liberty Today

Here are some steps each of us needs to start doing if we are to have any hope of surviving as Christians in this nation.

1. Start Growing as a Christian. If you are lackadaisical and complacent about your Christianity, you won't become involved in protecting your freedoms. You will take them for granted until they are taken away. Then you will realize how important they were, but it will be too late. If you are not committed enough to spend a few hours a week in getting involved, then you don't see the importance of this issue or don't have your priorities correct. Reading your Bible and praying daily is not only necessary to grow as a Christian, but is also necessary to escape the mental and spiritual stagnation which causes a person to be blind to their situation. Right now there is hope to change the direction our country is going. If we don't change things now, it will soon be too late.

2. Join Christian-based organizations which are involved in Christian activism on political and moral issues. Activism does not necessarily mean violent activism. I think many people misunderstand this term. A lot of people associate activism with violent demonstrations we saw in the 1960s and beyond. There are other types of activism in which you can be involved. The civil rights movement lead by King in the 60s and those by Gandhi in India brought about social reforms. These were social movements. By using these examples, I am not promoting social theology. We won't protect and advance our cause by social activism, but by religious activism. It is religious freedoms and our freedom of speech we need to protect. It is only by protecting these freedoms that we will have a right to believe as we choose and a right to tell others what we believe.

3. Sign up for email alerts at these Christian-based organizations. When you receive an alert, sign the petition or send an email to your representative concerning the issue involved.

4. Financially support these Christian organizations. Read their website to keep updated on current events. Search their links page for related organizations to join.

5. Spread the word of what you are doing and the organizations you are supporting. Send alerts you receive to others on your email contact list who are interested in being involved. These types of organizations and campaigns are built by word of mouth and email. If you have a website, post links to these organizations and related articles. Get the word out. The more Christians supporting and involved in these organizations, the better the chance of our success in protecting our freedoms as Christians and Americans.

6. Copy and paste this article and send it in an email to all your friends and family members. (You can click on one of the little icons at the top of this page to the right of the title.) Post it on your website if you have one. I am making it public domain so you can print it, email it, or distribute it any way you can in order to get out to as many Christians as possible.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke

Online Organizations Which Need Your Support

Here are some organizations which are helping to stem the tide of assault on our freedoms as Christians and Americans. Get involved today. If you don't, you will have no one to blame but yourself when you lose them.

American Family Association

Citizen Link (Focus on the Family associate)

News Resources With Christian Related News

World Net Daily

This is a conservative/Christian news website where you will find an enormous amount of daily news items to alert you to attacks on your freedoms. There is a lot of information on this website you won't find reported in the liberal news media. Keep track of what is going on and how it affects your freedoms as a Christian.