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Will the coming dystopia be caused by Christians?

Will the coming dystopia be caused by Christians?

Unsplash/Shashank Sahay
Unsplash/Shashank Sahay

“I don’t think we should make concessions when we talk about a fundamental freedom…” Kamala Harris said in a recent interview.

What “fundamental freedom” did he have in mind? Religious freedom? Equal protection under the law? Was she perhaps talking about one of those God-given inalienable rights written in the American Declaration of Independence, such as life?

Not. Kamala Harris was talking about abortion.

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Let that sink in. Abortion. A fundamental freedom. Serious?

What was the question the interviewer asked that provoked such an extreme response? “As a matter of pragmatism, what concessions would be on the table? Religious exemptions, for example?” So central is the government-made abortion right to Kamala’s secular fundamentalism that she said it should trump the First Amendment — the religious freedom of all Americans — without exception.

Harris’ godless ideology allows no dissent in public discourse or policy. Its secular fundamentalism is so total that it requires the government to exercise control over all aspects of the public forum in order to purge all vestiges of America’s Judeo-Christian moral framework. Harris’s secular fundamentalism even demands the conformity of all people, professions, and institutions to a self-centered morality, redefining freedom and dignity not in terms of God’s purpose for man, but in terms of each person’s perspective on their immediate experience of pain or pleasure.

So totalizing is the secular fundamentalism of Harris and that of the political elite that they arrogantly try to secularize even traditional Christianity! Harris and others are The Christianization of abortioneroding First Amendment religious protections of “pro-life” Christian activity to justify their systemic pro-abortion bigotry.

Her seriousness about this “fundamental freedom” of abortion cannot be overstated, especially in the light of pro-abortion. Scandalous DOJ indicting and imprisoning 130 peaceful “pro-lifers” while winking and nodding at actual pro-abortion domestic terrorists — the literal bombing of load centers with the stated aim of shutting them down. Meanwhile, Harris’ colleagues in the blue state are trying to it excludes what they characterize as “anti-choice” public expression. while forcing Christians who oppose it to buy abortion through their health insurance plans. I know this first hand because our pro-life pregnancy center in Buffalo, New York was bombed.

If this insistence that Christians bow publicly to the new secular fundamentalism continues unchecked, the public forum will become the new Roman Colosseum where Christians are ordered to confess Caesar as Lord or suffer a terrible fate.

In sum, Harris’s secular fundamentalism demands total public engagement with comprehensive government enforcement, even at the expense of the unalienable right to life of an unborn child and the constitutional liberties of peaceful Christian dissenters who seek equal protection for all under the law.

Logistically, Harris’s form of secular fundamentalism plays out the same way an Islamist regime might, marrying ideology with the coercive power of government. And there, all policy and public activity must conform to the accepted fundamentalist norms of the politically powerful or be punished, marginalized, or worse.

As disconcerting as all this is, what is worse is the lethargy and apparent socio-political blindness of believers – especially born-again Christians. According to recent Barna research study41 million Christians plan to opt out of voting these elections!

Some Christians argue that they are walking away because there is no valid candidate for office. Others doubt the integrity of the process, believing that their vote will not count. But isn’t the stake too high to trust a doubt?

This election is not about a candidate, but about what it means to be human, and therefore about how civil societies should behave. Of all people, Christians should speak of human purpose and proper moral conduct.

Given that most swing states in the last election were decided by margins of up to 60,000 votes, a small percentage of the 41 million Christian voters who did not opt ​​out are the hinge to slam the door on dystopia. A Christian’s choice to depart from one’s most basic civic duty is to renounce one’s influence. And while a Trump victory does not equate to salvation from secular fundamentalism, it may give Christians more time to wake up to the dehumanizing realities of pro-abortion political bigots seeking to outlaw Christian advocacy for the truly oppressed – the unborn child and the mother who believes she must choose between her life or her child’s life.

rev. Jim Harden, M.Div. is a medical ethicist, author of the newly published Ethical theory and pertinent standards in women’s reproductive healthand CEO of CompassCare Pregnancy Services. He pioneered the first measurable and repeatable medical model in the pregnancy center movement and has written extensively on medical ethics, pro-life politics, and executive leadership. rev. Harden has developed materials and strategies used by hundreds of pregnancy centers nationwide, helping them become more effective in serving women and saving babies from abortion.