March 14, 2023

Recently, Tucker Carlson focused the nation’s attention upon the notable silence of American Christian leaders on the Biden administration’s persecution of Christians by asking, 

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Where are all the professional Christians? You have to wonder … [w]here’s … all these people who are [should be] defending Christianity … as actual Christians are being arrested for being Christians?” (emphasis added). 

There are a host of excuses such professional Christian leaders might offer to explain or justify their silence.  But for the most part, most of these excuses have been debunked by people like Eric Metaxas in his latest book, Letter to the American Church.  In it, he points out that, because American church leaders today have before them the example of the dire consequences that resulted from the silence of the German church when it was confronted by the evils of Nazi tyranny, the American church has no excuse for remaining silent in the face of the similar evils presently metastasizing in this country on an ever-growing number of fronts. 

Our church leaders cannot ignore that we have a government that is intent upon destroying parental rights while at the same time it is

  • rewriting our nation’s history to obliterate from the record America’s original Judeo-Christian foundation
  • encouraging our young to question their gender; endorsing the mutilation of their genitals, and
  • inviting transvestites to their schools to twerk in their faces.  

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All of this is with the thinly cloaked purpose of eventually normalizing the criminal proclivities of the ultimate perverts among us — those who are actually hoping that our society will soon be brought around to legalizing their hideous desire to sexually engage with those minors. 

As both Mr. Carlson and Mr. Metaxas have suggested in their own ways, silence in the face of such evil must also be regarded as evil.  But it also raises a question: what exactly are the specific actions that these men would have the American church do today that the German church failed to do in the 1930s?  

No one wants to suggest that anyone should do anything that might be either unlawful or unpeaceful.  After all, nobody wants to be thought of as an insurrectionist.  But that leaves the American church with a bit of a conundrum by virtue of the fact that a tyranny is a form of government that will use its powers to manipulate the courts, law enforcement, and the laws to the extent necessary for any act of resistance to its tyranny to be defined — by the government — as unlawful insurrection — e.g. the J6 prisoners.   

Quite simply, in the context of any tyranny, justice is always quickly forced to take a back seat to ideologically driven judicial outcomes in order to please either the tyrant or his tyrannical mob.  To appreciate that such is very much the case in America today, one need only compare the ideologically driven murder conviction of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, which was not a murder with, the ideologically driven exoneration of Michael Byrd for the murder of Ashli Babbitt that indeed was a murder.   

Given such a stark reality in America today, what alternatives does that leave the American church?  

Among other things, most certainly the church would do well to carefully reflect upon the standard of immeasurable faith-based courage to resist tyranny that was set — lo, now almost 2,600 years ago — by three individuals named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.