Victory

When we suffer one defeat after another, when we clearly see that the demographic future of the western world is inexorably Islamic, when the public discourse is hopelessly slanted in favor of the enemy, surely it is time to surrender.

Consider the plight of Roman Christians in the third century. Forced to pay tribute to the pagan gods, some bribed authorities to lie that they had paid, some paid tribute and prayed to the living God for forgiveness, and some suffered greatly for refusing to compromise their faith.

Consider Polish Jews in 1939, trapped in their ghetto in Warsaw. For them, there was literally no hope on earth.

Consider Americans in 2009 who are faithful to the principles of our Republic: all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We, too, are in mortal jeopardy.

No human force could spare these souls from oncoming misery. So what is the source of their victory?

Are we so distant from our Creator and Savior that we trust only our own strength to save God's people? When in history can we find an example of God's people winning on their own? How many times were the Israelites freed from bondage? How was the Ottoman horde repulsed at Vienna? Did the hitherto undefeated general Robert E. Lee merely experience three turns of bad luck at Gettysburg when the much smaller army of General Meade soundly defeated the Confederates and saved the Union? How could only the Americans produce a working atomic bomb in World War II, when both the Germans and the Japanese had vigorous programs to develop one? For more than 40 years, the US and the Soviet Union stared across a nuclear abyss, yet no one triggered the atomic war so greatly feared. Was any of these victories achieved without God's hand?

Now we confront the remorseless onslaught of a demagogue who acts as if he were The One anointed to transform American society into the nirvana that Sixties socialists sought for more than a generation. He wants to tell us what cars to drive, what to eat, what not to smoke, how to arrange our home lives, what words we may not say, how to spend what we earn, who will succeed and who will fail, how we will obtain health care, and who knows what other aspects of our lives. He says that ours is not a Christian nation, that America is not exceptional, but only one of many nations, that our laws should be influenced by the laws of other nations, and that our greatest allies are no better than our worst enemies.

This dangerous and self-involved man capitalized on the anger and discontent of a nation at odds with itself, took advantage of a fawning media that either loved the idea of a black president or actually sympathized with his views, and profited from disaffected opponents who cared hardly less for him than for their candidate.

Now he is abetted by a ruling party that has no roots in the Constitution of the Republic, that has for decades arrogated powers to the central government that the founders of our nation never intended, and that is driven by morbid hatred of the current president's predecessor. They aim to make their reign permanent by enfranchising a dependent class of tax-takers, by giving citizenship to millions of foreign invaders, and by demoralizing honest Americans who see no way to overcome "liberal" hegemony on public expression, on the public purse, and on the police powers of the state.

Never in the history of our nation has there been a greater need for God's children to call on His power and mercy to rescue us. We will not retake our nation without His help. We cannot overcome this enemy by force, and we are unlikely to recapture it with only the power of reason.
Let us, therefore, employ every power at our disposal to save our nation from this horde of usurpers. Let us cry out to our God for His help. Let us plead with our countrymen to wake from their stupor and turn out these wicked men and women. Let us find and support those who speak for the tradition that made our nation great, and struggle to recapture our legislatures. Let us defy the convention that would force us to be civil to those who would enslave us. Rage against their depredations. Stand up for the right.

This is not a time for the faint of heart. We must draw strength from the belief that our Maker truly granted us the right to be free, to keep what we earn, and to live. No man can rightly take these from us, and no law is just that claims to give one man the right to take from another. We must defend the rights of our fellow men to these same gifts. We must show by word and deed that God is just and loving, and that the wisdom of men is folly.

Our loving Father will not let His people be enslaved forever. Let us serve Him by defeating those who will enslave us.