I sent the following letter to the editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal. I am not sure they will print it, so just in case, I am publishing it here too. UPDATE, they will not publish the letter because I cannot prove the 5% figure. I agree with them, it should not be published unless I can source that information. Curiously, that information has been very difficult to find….

Leftist activists are intentionally using the debate over LGBTQ rights to persecute Christians. Christians do not want to discriminate against LBGTQ people over important things like housing, jobs and voting rights. Activists know this so they decided to make LBGTQ rights about marriage and bathrooms instead. Since gay marriage has been legalized, only about 5% of LGBTQ people have gotten married. When you compare this to the majority of straight people, the 5% figure is minuscule. As for bathrooms, most transgender people used the bathroom of their biological gender unless they had gotten surgery. Both of these issues were not things LGBTQ people complained about very much until very recently. These issues have one purpose, to marginalize Christians. Leftist activists see Christians as their biggest enemy in the culture war, a war that they started in the late 1960’s over free love. Because Christians are opposed to both these issues, activists feel that they can now apply the “discrimination” label to anyone who opposes their agenda. This way, they can tell people that they have no choice but to accept their agenda otherwise any dissent will be described as discriminatory. These activists are making huge changes in our culture, and because people are afraid of the labels, they just back down and let these people do whatever they want. We need to stand up to them otherwise we will be controlled by them, and end up living in a world that is not comfortable for anyone, except the activists.

The Bible says in Matthew 22:14 “Many are called but few are chosen”. Does this seem unfair to you? If choosing God is a life and death decision, then why would God not choose certain people? A lot of people use the word “omnipotent” to describe God, but I would not use this word personally. Why? Because God has limits. “Omnipotent” implies no limits. In Titus 1.2 the Bible says “in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago”. But since the Bible also says in Psalm 34:3 “O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together.”, I think it is OK to say God is Omnipotent. But isn’t it nice to know that God’s limitation is that He cannot lie?

In Psalm 139:13 the Bible says: “For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.” So God knew us before we were even born. Because of this, I believe that God knows who will accept him, and who won’t, omnipotent or not. So in His perfect nature, he doesn’t bother drawing people who won’t ever accept him, because He knows already what they are going to do. But just so people are without excuse, He instructs us to preach the Gospel to everyone. So it is our job to try to draw everyone to salvation in Jesus, but God only personally draws those who He knows will accept the truth.

I don’t know about you, but I am absolutely honored that the God of creation chose me, spent his time drawing me, a “weak thing” to be his servant! Praise God!

In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar set up a statue (presumably a representation of himself) in the plain of Dura. He then required his subjects to worship the statue as a god. If they did not, he threw them into a furnace, where they would certainly be killed. This seems like such an ancient thing, worshiping an idol, and getting killed if you don’t. We who are living today are so much more sophisticated aren’t we? Turns out, we are not.

Leftists in this country have turned science into an idol. Right now, the punishment is ridicule, social ostracizing, losing your job, being sued, and general persecution. They haven’t gotten to the death penalty yet, but I think that is coming. Right now, people are losing their jobs if they don’t support gay marriage. Right now, Exxon is being sued because they didn’t buy into the Climate Change narrative (of which there is no proof). Right now, Bill Nye has accused the Kentucky Noah Museum of “brain washing” children. Right now, a pharmacy is in trouble because it doesn’t want to sell the abortion pill, because of a law that thinks abortions are “emergencies”.

Leftists show, over and over, their hatred of Christianity and Christians because they simply point out the fallacious reasoning they are using. The reasoning they are using is religious in nature, because most of it is based on scientific theories. Theories by definition are not proven facts. They are simply conclusions drawn on available evidence. For example, scientists have found thousands of fossils of animals in the wilderness. These fossils are sometimes made of rock material that has leached into a cavity created by a dead animal. The fossil is assumed to be old because of the rock material in it. Because these fossils are sometimes the shape of animals that do not exist, the assumption is made that the animal is an earlier version of an existing animal, and therefore, because the animal didn’t survive, natural selection has eliminated that version, and has evolved into the new version that we see today. But because the dating of the rock is based on theoretical principals, and the use of a “god of gaps” “millions of years” time frame, and assumptions made on no evidence at all, it requires faith to believe that the theory of evolution is true.

Espousing theories is one thing, but spouting them off as “true” is very bad. Theories that are proven facts are turned into Laws. An example of a Law, is the Law of gravity. This Law has been tested and proven to be true. This is because we can drop an object and measure is speed, notice its motion and measure its impact as it hits a solid surface. We CANNOT do this with evolution. Scientific religious people who like to say that evolution is “true” are using a semantic trick where what they are really talking about is “micro evolution” aka mutation. Micro evolution is a proven fact because we can compare the DNA of bacteria reacting to its environment over a period of time and as the environment changes, the DNA changes. Scientific religious people like to draw the parallel between micro evolution and “macro” evolution. Macro Evolution or just plain evolution is still a Theory because no matter what people say, the bacteria that change their DNA are still bacteria at the end of the test. No bacterium has changed into another type of living being. The parallel between macro evolution and micro evolution is bogus.

As a result, you must “believe” in scientism, because there are no facts involved. This by biblical definition is idolatry. Idolatry is anything that is worshiped instead of God. Because they are putting their faith and trust in scientism, they are Idolaters. If those people promoting “science” really were NOT being religious, they would not have a problem with things like the replica Ark in Kentucky or people doubting if climate change is really taking place. They would instead simply defend the choice they have made about scientific theories. Because scientism is an idol, they instead want to “establish” scientism as the state religion, and force people to believe! They are violating the establishment clause of the constitution when they do this, and this is precisely the reason the establishment clause was added in the first place. These people need to be stopped because they will eventually get to the place where they are killing non worshipers.