Love in a World Gone Mad
… The early Christians were objects of contempt among their Greco-Roman neighbors. Increasingly, one finds that to be the case in the United States. While I was walking through the Miami airport on Monday, I saw a man wearing a hoodie on which was written “In Glock We Trust.” The same day I’d read two stories in the Christian Post, one about a Satanic Temple promoting abortion as part of its religious practice, and one about Gretchen Whitmer mocking the eucharist. Whitmer’s people have said the video was “misconstrued.” The people at Catholic Vote aren’t buying it. I don’t think I am, either. Consider what may be a more familiar example, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who satirize Roman Catholicism by dressing in sexualized parodies of nuns in order to advocate and raise money for LGBTQ+ causes. The Christian faith is an offense to them worthy of mockery. It impedes true righteousness, which they understand as unfettered sexual self-expression. These are but a few examples of relatively recent public derision of Christians. Continue Reading…..