Defeat the Evil Attacks Undermining Our Land

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By Joe Renfro, Ed.D.

We are living at a time of great conflict in the ideas battling it out, and the solution is not to seek to

accommodate ideologies that cannot fit together. Vain deceit can never be true Colossians 2:8 well

warns, saying: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”  This can apply to this situation!

In the mist of the political chaos of our time, we need to gift of discernment to see what is evil and to take a stand to do what we can do In the midst of our political wrangling, we must realize that God is not a Democrat or Republican, or an independent. But God is not running for political office.

The tie-up of Muslims and Communists across the world looks akin to an alliance of shrewd politics of give and take. Both the axis ideologies can be seen as a response to they perceive as oppression and inequality. External groups may exploit religious narrative to justify violence. The area of education is one of the battle fields especially evident in the union of the Communistic/Islamic ideology against Judo-Christian thinking. Community welfare and social justice have been the basic focus in human history, but it hasn’t, and can’t work as is very much evident and it has not worked in history, because it neglects individual responsibility. The Islamist does not touch base here with Communism, because basically in the Islamist the vast majority are individually dirt poor and the elite extremely rich.

Colossians 2:8 “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.”

There are many teachings in Islam but looking from the Quran which has been well be called “Educational Jihad,” and it has been taking place in American contemporary public education. It seeks to seeking to rewrite history as the Socialistic/Communistic power have done and do.

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary, speaking in regard to his commentary on Galatians 2:8 says:

“There is a philosophy which rightly exercises our reasonable faculties, a study of the works of God, which leads us to the knowledge of God, and confirms our faith in him. But there is philosophy which is vain and deceitful; and while it pleases men’s fancies, hinders their faith.”

We can in this alliance observe the thinking of Communism that has promoted Islamic Jihad, united to destroy the Judo-Christian world views that established the freedom that was once was very much spread in spread by our land. The Communists will work with the radical group to create discord and revolution, All Islamic nations are authoritarian, as are all Communist, and here is the key for their commissary.

There has been extreme brutality going on in the Islamic world, and this is particularly has been seen in the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Boko Haram, ISIS, and many others– all united by the strict interpretation of Sharia Law which demands non-believers in the Islamic faith either be converted, pay a tax for not being Muslim, or be killed. It is a bad picture! It sad to see great persecution of Christians especially in many Islamic nations.

In the American public schools, and in the American public for many decades the educational establishment has not only closed their eyes to it, but subtly promoted it. It is like a frog being put in a pot of water and slowly increasing the heat, until the frog is killed and even boiled. And much of this is in the pot of history being taught that ignores the violence spawned and innate in the Islamic faith.

The concept of “history” can be understood from many different vantage points and interpretations, depending on the various religious and philosophical worldviews.   The statement, “It’s historical”, or “I learned it in history class” has a note of true credibility to it, but sad to say we are observing a distortion of history in our public schools in name of history to where by subtle manipulation and selection of events, our children are being programmed into really a non-historical understanding of the Islamic religion in the name of being inclusive and multicultural.

 Bertrand Russell, an educational atheistic thinker of the past generation, in his attack on the Christian influences in education, said, “An education designed to eliminate fear is by no means difficult to create.  It is only necessary to treat a child with kindness, to put him in an environment where initiative is possible without disastrous results…. In particular, there must be no taboo on sex knowledge or on conversation about matters which conventional people consider improper…. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education…religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific co-operation in the place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment.

Colossians 2:8 well warns, saying: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

Vain deceit spreads. In the context of freedom from religion The Freedom from Religion Foundation says that it works to educate the public on matters relating to non-theism, and to   promote the constitutional principle of separation between church and state. And they purport to be the nation’s largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and skeptics) with over 20,000 members.

What we see is the unraveling and destruction of or nation with the loudest voices frequently winning the argument no matter how wrongheaded, divisive, and irrational, We are, in effect, being asked it seems to believe that two plus two can equal five together with something just as false that a male person can give birth to babies, that children should question their gender or change their sex. Prophets are being shouted down and killed.

Godly people who speak out are strongly condemned by propaganda from the Left, as we have seen evident in the murder of Charlie Kirk, who helped build support for Trump among young people and has stood for traditional morality died from a gun shot during a campus shooting Proverbs 2:3-5 says:  “If thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God”.

William Kilpatrick in his book Christianity, Islam and Atheism argues that Islam is a religion of conquest and subjugation and that in spite of 9/11 and thousands of other terrorist attacks throughout the world, many Western people still do not know or admit this truth, because it conflicts with their belief in multiculturalism.

In addition to challenging both the multicultural and common-ground approaches, William Kilpatrick alsoex poses the role played by atheists and secularists in their advancing Islam’s of totalitarian agenda. Despite playing lip service to freedom, radical secularists willingly serve as enablers of radical Islam.

The civil liberties that Americans and Europeans enjoy are the fruit of Christian civilization, Kilpatrick argues, and only a reawakened Christianity can defend against Islam’s advance. We need revival, Christian revival before it too late!

Yes, the Islamic focus brings bondage in religion and society, while the various atheistic and agnostic groups such as The Freedom from Religion Foundation undermine the foundations for morality and the characteristics necessary for America to work.

In the Islamic world it is a crime to promote Christianity, but here in America, a nation in which Christianity is the most popular religion with around seventy-three percent of polled Americans identifying themselves as Christian.

Islam is a minority religion, practiced by about one percent of the total population.  Yet, the Islamic faith is given all kinds of acclaim in much of our public schooling under the under the banner of multiculturalism.

However, two strange bedfellows, atheistic secular humanism and the Islamic faith. are seeking to change our culture often through education, one devoid of traditional faith in God and the other, with a distorted view of God, all very much in contradiction to what our founding fathers set up.

We need to grow in understanding and not to give up in the battle against the evil forces at work very much in our nation and world at this time.

See what the Bible says:

Proverbs 2:6 says: “For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.”

James 1:5 says: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach.” In Philippians 1:9-10 – the Apostle Paul wrote: “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight”

In Hebrews 5;14 it says: “But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil”

In 1 Thessalonians 5:21 – “Test all things; hold fast what is good.”

And in Proverbs 3:5-6 the direction for discernment is- “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him.”

We are living in critical times. We who believe that Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life” need to stand up for it. We need to stand up for the faith through which God has blessed our land. It is important to recognize the threats to our freedom and nation and along with it we must recall the message from II Chronicles 7:14 that says: “If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and heal their land.”

We need this direction to speak the truth in America—and it is not going to be found by the spread of Islam, Communism, or that of secular humanism, but the call to stand up against the evil errors that have been and are attacking the Judo-Christian morality that is basic to the foundation of our land, “One nation under God” and “endowed by out Creator” are essential, and if we ignore this, our land will fall.

The solution is to be found only in the cross of Christ which sets the tone for acceptance and freedom for those who may find themselves in disagreement on a part of Islam or Communism do. We need Christian revival in our land and reverse the undermining our foundation! May God help us.