Tyranny of the MinorityThe disdain with which the secularists view Christians is nowhere more apparent than in the rantings of the liberal left about the "red states" and their simple-minded philosophy of being for God and guns, but against gays (the "God, guns and gays" formula as articulated by Howard Dean before he lost the nomination).
After the election, some brilliant satirist drew up a map that joined the blue states to Canada and labeled the red states as "JesusLand." It is unclear whether it was intended as an insult or a compliment, so I chose to take it as the latter.
But a new study shows that not all Christians are simple-minded folks who check their brains at the door each Sunday morning.
A national study of 1,100 physicians in New York City found that the majority doctors don't just believe in God, they believe in miracles. And remember, New York City has never been considered "JesusLand." According to the study, conducted by HCD Research and reported in BusinessWire, three-quarters of the doctors queried believe miracles have occurred in the past and that they can occur today.
In addition, the survey found that 58 percent of doctors join the rest of the addled masses in checking their brains at the door at least one Sunday a month. Forty-six percent of them rely on prayer, saying it is "very important" in their own lives.
According to BusinessWire:
Often, religious conviction, especially a belief in the miraculous, declines as level of education increases. This does not appear to hold true for physicians. Perhaps because of their frequent involvement with matters of life and death, physicians show significant openness to religion.
It reported that 58 percent of physicians believed the Bible is divinely inspired, while 55 percent agreed that medical practice should be guided by its teachings.
And a majority of doctors claim they have seen miracles occur during their practice. Fifty-five percent of them said they've seen treatment results that they consider miraculous, and 67 percent of physicians report they encourage their patients to pray.
Despite BusinessWeek's condescending contention that "religious conviction declines as the level of education increases," doctors are only slightly more religious than scientists.
A survey of American scientists conducted in 1997 found that 40 percent believed in a personal God who reveals Himself and answers prayer. This is the same number that was found in similar surveys conducted in 1914 and 1933, according to the Scientific American. (And let us not forget to mention Michelangelo, Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, etc., who all believed in God.)
According to the Harris Poll, 89 percent of Americans believe in God and 80 percent believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Seventy-seven percent believe in the virgin birth.
Considering that 80 percent of Americans believe in the resurrection, one might assume that, at best, non-Christians account for less than a quarter of the population. So what's the deal about Christmas?
How is it that a small minority can dictate terms to the vast majority in the name of "diversity"? If over three-quarters of us are at least culturally Christians, then the other 23 percent or so represent all the other religions, together with the agnostics and atheists.
How is it then that President Bush caused such a scandal when it was discovered that his Christmas cards contained a Bible verse (gasp!) from the Book of Psalms?
Why are most of our schools forbidding students to use the word "Christmas"? Why have they gone to the ridiculous extreme of banning any Christian references to the very holiday that celebrates the birth of Christ?
Why are retail stores that have depended on Christmas shopping to carry them through the rest of the year now banning employees from wishing their customers a "Merry Christmas" out of fear they might offend somebody by addressing the holiday by its name? This, I remind you, is being done as part of some orgiastic celebration of diversity!
This is not a war against a state-sponsored religion or a rigid adherence to the First Amendment. It is a precise and targeted violation of the First Amendment that promises freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Wake up Christians! This is a war against Jesus Christ and against His followers. We need to bombard our Congressmen with demands to stop this "tyranny of the minority."
This country was founded as a Christian-based society. Though all religions are welcome and may freely practice their religion, this government never intended for them to dictate the removal of the very essence of what we are historically – a Christian-based nation. And certainly our Constitution was never set up to allow agnostics and atheists to drive Christianity out of the public forum.
The First Amendment declares, "... [Government] shall make no laws restricting the free exercise thereof [of religion]." In the context of the historical period in which this was written, "religion" primarily meant Christianity.
It is time for Christian lawmakers to force a stop to the "tyranny of the minority" and to the No. 1 agency for its cause, the American Civil Liberties Union.
God gave us a promise through the prophet Isaiah that we should claim: "When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him." (Isaiah 59:19)
The anti-Christian minority has made great strides in its strategy to remove Christianity from the public arena. But it is not too late to turn it around if the Christian majority wakes up and fights. May God significantly reverse this trend before next year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Hal Lindsey