Sodom and Gomorrah-the Sequel and 1984 Revisited are rapidly becoming acculturated into modern societies in America and around the world.  However, most Christians have been blinded by Satan to the reality of their immediate future.  World governments, including the United States, are openly using their powers to force Christians to accept their mandates concerning the homosexual agenda.  They do not fear God, and they certainly do not fear lukewarm Christians.  Therefore, Christendom in the world is on its way out unless Christians of all faiths and denominations ban together.  They must organize an effective frontal attack against the onslaught of spiritual negativism and ethical relativism that is destroying the very essence of religious freedom throughout the world.   

Why is Christianity being attacked so bitterly by modern societies and their governments?  According to Jon Christian Ryter in his article “The Banning of Christianity,” 

The foremost reason that Christianity is being targeted is because it is now being viewed as the religion of exclusivity–the world’s religion of hate. To the secular globalists who are structuring the framework of governance for the New World Order as a society of inclusiveness, there is no room in their humanist Garden of Eden for a religion that excludes homosexuals, lesbians, atheists, polytheists or monotheists who believe in a different God than the Jewish Jehovah or the Christian’s Yahweh. And, because of that, there is no room in the “New World Order Inn” for Christianity.  (1)  

What is the main method being used to eliminate Christianity in the United States and in other countries in the world?  The answer is simply the discrediting of Christianity.  Discrediting Christianity and mild persecution have been the methods used for many years by anti-Christian forces in America.  However, as Christian persecution intensifies, other more severe methods are being used to end the influence of Christianity in the United States.  One of these more severe methods for banning Christianity in America is to criminalize the religion.  Unfortunately, this step to criminalize Christianity in the United States has already been initiated.  Many Christians have been labeled criminals simply because they speak out against the sinful lifestyles that many Americans live.  The sins that Christians are preaching against are the same sins mentioned by God and Jesus in the Holy Bible.  In fact, in many instances, preaching against sin in America has been classified as “hate crimes” or “hate speech.”  Does this tactic sound familiar?  It is very reminiscent of Germany’s attack against Jews during the reign of Adolf Hitler.  However, large groups within the American society are buying into this plot by anti-Christian groups who detest Christians and their anti-sin religious beliefs. 

Some liberal lawmakers are still attempting to enact a federal “hate crime” and “hate speech” law.  If they succeed, the federal government would be in charge of the protection of certain groups at the expense of other groups who are accused of hate crimes.  This unconstitutional law would give the government some dictatorial powers.  According to Steve Watson of INFORWARS.Net, 

A federal hate crime law could permit gay rights activists to conduct parades through the streets of America, but, if a Christian was to read his Bible at the same parade, he could be in violation of a federal hate crime law.  This actually occurred on October 10, 2004, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when 11 Christians were accused of hate crimes because they read from the Bible at a Gay Pride parade.  Fortunately, they were exonerated by a higher court.  However, if a federal hate crime law had existed, they could very well have been found guilty.  The penalty would have been up to 47 years in prison and a $90,000 fine for each person.  (2) 

Imagine being sent to prison in America for reading from the Bible publicly.  But, as America gets closer to its own Christian Holocaust, being a Christian could be labeled a hate crime.  As a result, Christians in America could face some of the same situations that Jews faced during World War II in Germany.  Mr. Steve Watson’s summarized the awful scenario that could face Christians and other religions in America. He states,    

Let us put this more into perspective. The bill directly violates freedom of religion in this sense as it declares moral disapproval to be unacceptable. It condemns the religious beliefs, not only of Christians but also of Jews and Muslims, who according to their faiths consider homosexuality and unorthodox sexual practices to be morally wrong. The federal hate bill effectively equates such reservations with the racist views of White supremacists, Nazis and Klansmen.”  (2)      

Therefore, the Bill of Rights would then apply to protected minority groups only.  The rights of most Americans would become a thing of the past.  Therefore, the ideology depicted in George Orwell’s 1984 would once again become prominent in the minds of those whose goal is to control specific groups of people. 

According to Greg Koukl, founder and president of Stand to Reason, “George Orwell once said that sometimes the first duty of a responsible person is to restate the obvious. Note the obvious: Hate crime laws criminalize thought, not conduct. Assault is already punishable under existing statutes. This legislation levies an additional penalty solely for the attitude of heart: a motive called hate.”  (3)  Also, Mr. Koukl states, “One of our most cherished freedoms is the liberty to think as we see fit, even if our thoughts are ignoble. A man’s inner life has been his own. His conduct was under jurisdiction of the law, but not his convictions. Thoughts could not be made criminal.”  (3)  This is the scenario that Christian Americans are facing today.  Anything that Christians’ condemn, even though it is condemned in the Bible, is being viewed as a negative hate thought.  Therefore, the individual persons or collective groups who speak against sins of Americans, especially homosexuality, are labeled as criminals.  Anti-Christians want even the thought of Christians to be criminalized.  But, as stated by Alan Keyes, a former Presidential candidate and ambassador, “Government can govern men’s actions; it cannot govern their hearts. And when it attempts to govern their hearts that is simply an excuse for the worst kind of tyranny.”  (3)  

Christian thought has been viewed by many citizens of the United States as the source of America’s decline.  Specifically, the negative thought toward homosexuality in the American society is the major problem.  If state governments and/or the Congress of the United States give into the demands of the minority for hate crime legislation, Christian persecution will reach a new high in the nation that purports religious freedom for all.  Therefore, would a Christian then advocate a lifestyle based on the Bible if the Bible itself is categorized as a hate-promoting book?        

How have anti-Christian groups tried to discredit Christianity in America?  It began on June 17, 1963.  On this date in history, the right to pray in public schools was declared “unconstitutional” in the Supreme Court case of Murray v. Curlett.  Since this infamous event, America has been going down hill as a nation and as a people.  According to Henry Lamb, the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization, “This nation is in the throes of deciding whether we are, in fact, one nation under God. Until 1963, we were one nation under God. We certainly were not a nation of one religion under God. We were a nation that recognized the existence of God, man’s dependence upon God and man’s individual freedom to recognize, define and worship God – or not.”  (4)  However, as individual Christian Americans began to fall from the grace of God, the greatest freedom-loving nation in the world began to fall from the grace of God, too.  Therefore, as seen in the Bible, the sins of a nation will bring that nation to its knees.  This is what is happening in America with the discrediting of Christianity and its symbols.

Many Christians in America live their daily lives as if the anti-Christian forces in the world will never affect them.  They live a relaxed life similar to the military stationed at Pearl Harbor prior to the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.  However, just as Pearl Harbor was attacked, Christians in the United States are going to be attacked by Satan’s anti-Christian allies.  They are going to see more persecution than they could have ever imagined in a nation founded on the principles of Jesus Christ.  In fact, if Christians would read the newspaper daily and/or watch the nightly news broadcasts, they would hear true stories that would verify that the initial stages of the prelude to a Christian Holocaust in America are already in operation.  According to WorldNetDaily editor and founder Joseph Farah, “The attacks on Christianity in America are alarming. We are witnessing more than religious bigotry now. We are entering the early stages of what could become persecution and outright criminalization of Christianity if it is not exposed and fought vigorously by all freedom-loving people.”  (5)

              References 1.    Ryter, Jon Christian. “The Banning of Christianity” In Plain Site.22 June 2006<http://www.inplainsite.org>. 2.    Watson, Steve.  “Hate Crime Laws: Criminalizing Free Speech” Infowars.  29 June 2006<http://www.infowars.net>. 3.    Koukl, Greg.  “Why Hate Shouldn’t Be a Crime” Stand to Reason.  26 June 2006<http://www.lifeway.com>. 4.       Lamb, Henry. “Falling from Grace” NewsWithViews. 23 June 2006<http://www.newswithviews.com>. 5.    Farah, Joseph. “Criminalizing Christianity  WorldNetDaily.  28 June 2006<http://www.worldnetdaily.com>.     

Dr. Parnell is a retired public school educator and presently teaches social science courses at a private, Christian high school in Georgia.  He is the author of From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: Exposing America’s New Terror From Within (Wheatmark Publishing, ISBN: 1-58736-613-4).  He is also a guest columnist on several online websites.