Curtis Dahlgren
January 27, 2007
The Top Ten "most politically incorrect Scriptures"
By Curtis Dahlgren

"Fear makes the wolf appear larger than he is." — old German proverb

STILL FEARING THE ANTIQUE PRINT AND BROADCAST MEDIA, many politicians boast of being "centrists" or "moderates." To be fair to the Queen's English, most of them can be called centrists only according to the redefined words of the new liberal lexicon.

Liberals who are called centrists are like movies that were once considered "R" but are now rated PG-13 (our 13-year-olds are now more sex-saturated than most prostitutes in the 1950s — sad, but not overstating the case).

Likewise, political principles that were once conservative "mainstream" in the GOP became "extremism" by 1964 when Goldwater ran (thanks to the media), and those SAME principles are coming to be considered the "radical fringe" by many "moderate" Republicans now.

They are about to bail out on many of those principles, while at the same time saying, "Conservatives need to stick together." That's what the "country club Whigs" were also doing and saying in about 1852.

The Free-soilers and Rail-splitters responded by saying, if we're going to "stick together," it can't be in the Whig party anymore.

The CCGOP (country clubbers) are almost totally blind to what's happening to the "Party of Lincoln." I keep telling them that they should spend a little more time in church and a LOT more time in the saloons (to get their ears opened to the grass roots).

BTW, my dog was going nuts this morning, barking as if there was a bear or something in the woods. He's a typical black lab, full of zeal, so he sees his job not as standing on the front porch barking just to "warn" me something's out there, but as going out into the woods to try to drive away whatever is out there!

Grass roots activists need to be like black labs even if the typical "Christian" or "moderate" politician sees us as "fanatics." Our job is not to just complain that "the wolf is at the door" (the cultural and religious wolves), but to try to drive them back into the woods and swamps from which they have emerged to curse our up and coming offspring.

The cultural wolves are the Michael Newdows and the faceless leaders of the ACLU and other Freedom From Religion organizations who want to drive religion back into the cellars and caves. They would be happy with a Soviet-style church that would adhere to the Pravda-line all the time (accepting and then promoting perversion of both scripture and the human soul). Or a church that is simply SILENT.

Think about "WHY?"

Sometimes we need to state the obvious. The other day, Bill O'Reilly pointed out that the 20-year-olds today are more pro-life than recent generations. This is "intolerable" for the "progressives" of "societal evolution," so the source of the pro-life principles must be quashed; that's why they hate the scriptures so much and are mounting a blitzkrieg of PR against all people they see as "regressive" (retros).

To them we are the "flat-earthers," the "witch hunters," "book burners," etc. (at the same time, they ban the "old" books). Lately I've been wondering what are some of the most politically incorrect scriptures from those "old books."

Here are some of my nominees:

"I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord, and have comforted myself [because] horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked who forsake thy law." — Psalm 119:52-53

"But they rebelled, and vexed His holy spirit; therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them. Then He remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is He Who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock?"
- Isaiah 63:10-11 [the whole chapter is a timely read right now]

"And the winner is . . . "

"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, and their mouths speak great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of [certain] 'advantage[s].'"
- Jude 4

I wonder how many decades have passed since the last time a mainstream preacher read the book of Jude in church? But here's a scripture passage that may even top Enoch's little sermonette:

"For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.

"They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people 'slightly,' saying Peace, Peace — when there is no peace.

"Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall among them that fall [as empires fall]; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

"Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the OLD PATHS, wherein is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls." -Jeremiah 6:12-16

[Some great advice there for the 110th Congress, for the President, and for all candidates for President.]

P.S. "But they said, We will not walk therein"[?]

God's anger is simply the flip side of the same coin that includes grace, which was not a new testament "discovery." For example, Micah ends his book this way:

"Who is a God like unto thee, Who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retains not His anger forever, because He delights in mercy."

But on second thought, the most politically incorrect verse in the Bible is:

"The heart [of man] is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it?" — Jeremiah 17:9

This was the reason our Founding Fathers worked so hard to create the principles of checks and balances on government, and in fact they did NOT keep God hidden from the public square. Their biggest fear was an "ungodly" society.

And the ungodly psycho-babble of the secularists does not agree with the Founders. "Guilt" and the need for the redemption of man is now "out of style," and self-esteem (and relativism) are "IN"!

When deceit and self-esteem "rule," the inability to blush becomes the rule more than the exception. As evidence, I give you our pop culture — and the terrorists' culture of death, both of which confirm Jeremiah's words.

© Curtis Dahlgren

 

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Curtis Dahlgren

Curtis Dahlgren is semi-retired in the frozen tundra of Michigan's U.P., and is the author of "Massey-Harris 101." His career has had some rough similarities to one of his favorite writers, Ferrar Fenton... (more)

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