Spiritual Extortion:
The Method of Choice for Public Schools, Universities, Major Media, and “Loving Liberals of all Stripes.
Published on Facebook, December 10, 2010
By Bud Powell
Wanna Make Something Of It?
From: Basket of Figs 2 August, 1999
We
first learned about it in grade school. With me, I think it was about the
fourth grade. There were several kids in my class who had failed a couple of
grades. One of them was taking the fourth grade for the third time, if I
remember right. A real intellectual.
He did
manage to win all the arguments, though. His technique in debate was simple
enough, “You want to make something out of it?” Of course I didn’t. I was the
smallest kid in my class, and had no warlike spirit. I had had my arm twisted
behind me, my lunch box emptied out on the ground, my face pushed into the ground
enough to know not to get in the way.
So I
didn’t argue. I knew better. As the years passed I learned more and more about
extortion. In logical terms it is called an “appeal to force,” or the last
arguments of kings. We don’t twist arms today, we send in cruise missiles. It
is the manly way of winning arguments.
Peter
the Great of Russia, a manly man of some 6 feet 7 inches in height won a
theological argument with Charles XII of Sweden in this way, and sang the Te
Deum in St. Petersburg after the Battle of Poltava. It was clear that the
Orthodox Church of Peter was superior to the Lutheranism of Charles.
Public School Extortion.
In
modern public schools children are being exposed to more subtle forms of
extortion, but the principle is the same. They are being subjected to a form of
emotional blackmail and extortion that goes something like this:
1.
With nuclear weapons and other instruments of mass destruction, war has become
unthinkable.
2. War
comes because of intolerance. If we would learn to tolerate and be nice to
people, we wouldn’t have war anymore and the world would be a great place to
live.
3. You
are intolerant if you do not treat all people the same. You must treat all
religions and all people the same, including people with bizarre sexual
tendencies.
4.
Therefore in the name of “tolerance” every person must surrender his moral and
intellectual person hood.
If he
doesn’t he will be ridiculed, harassed, and re-educated until the proper
“outcome” is achieved. Intolerance, then, is the evil that brings nuclear war
and world destruction. The threat of nuclear war and destruction is used as
extortion to blackmail young people into abandoning their religious ideas.
Accept
other religions and non-Christian life-styles, or your intolerance will bring
about the destruction of the world. Whew! That’s heavy stuff! Pressuring young
people to abandon their faith in the Bible because of the threat of nuclear war
is a very subtle form of extortion and blackmail.
The
various hells of humanism have replaced the very personal hell of old-fashioned
Christianity. The Reformed Church in the U. S. at its recent Synod in
Bakersfield [1999] passed a resolution which affirmed that the homosexual
lifestyle is unbiblical and ungodly. The R.C.U.S. did not do anything unusual,
for this has been the confession of the Christian church since the days of the
Apostles. The resolution reads as follows:
"Whereas
according to the Holy Bible, homosexuality, like other violations of the
Seventh Commandment, is a sin and an abomination before God, the Reformed
Church in the United States declares homosexuality to be unacceptable in any
form. Therefore, in Christian love we call those who are involved in this sin
to turn in repentance to God, who promises to forgive sinners through faith in
His Son Jesus Christ. We further declare that the same is a principle of our
religious faith."
At the
same Synod, the RCUS affirmed its faith that Genesis 1 is history, that the
world was created in six days. Once again, this affirmation is nothing unusual,
for the church has always affirmed its faith in the Genesis creation account.
We will not exchange the simple words of the Bible for shaky scientific
theories that change every year or so.
Hurrah for Tolerance!
Toleration
is a good word. It means that you are willing to live at peace with those who
disagree with you. Christ commanded us to do this, and to do good to all men.
But tolerance cannot mean abandoning your faith or denying your faith because
some people find it intolerable for you to believe that God created the world,
and that homosexuality is contrary to His law.
We may
be forced to live in Sodom, but you won’t persuade us that it is heaven. The
RCUS showed that she will not yield to blackmail on these and other issues.
Humanists need to learn that their extortion will not work. The Christian is
driven by a Spirit which is not of this world, for he is taught by the Spirit
of God.
Humanists
of all ages have found out that the believer is a tough nut to crack. His faith
does not originate with his own logic, will, or emotion, so no human effort can
change him.
You
can ridicule the Christian for his faith. You can afflict him, you can
kick him out of office, you can kill his body, but the truth of his ideas will
prevail because Christ is in His church and the gates of hell will not prevail
against her. The world must deal with Christ until the last trumpet
sounds, and He will preside over the judgment of the world, and even preside
over the eternal damnation of His enemies. [Rev. 14]
