The Truth Manifesto

Back in the beginning of November, Glenn Beck had a cadre of black conservatives on his program called Time To Be Heard which you can find here at the Truth Manifesto. One of the panelists, Charles Payne, made an interesting comment as he was explaining to Glenn why he voted for Obama. His reasoning was, and I quote:

“I was torn…I did it mostly out of a sense of obligation to Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, people of my family who came up through Alabama.”

The comparisons that have been made between Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. has been myriad. Invoking his name in the American black community is akin to the Jews invoking Moses as the lawgiver. Extremely sacred and serious.

The people that Payne mentioned were influential in advancing the cause of American black men and women. Their work and sacrifice should not be downplayed in any sense. I applaud their sentiments and effort. Their cause was just.

That being said, I say this which as much candor and respect as I can without compromising my conscience: I owe them nothing.

I am in no way obligated to them. I do not owe them my fidelity nor allegiance. I am not driven to uphold their cause as something that’s central to my existence.

I Pledge Allegiance…

Everyone will choose what are the most important things in their life and who and what they are obligated to. Some people pledge allegiance to their country to a fault. Some, as has been alluded to above, to their race. For those who are called by the name of Christ, our allegiance should be to Him and Him alone. This is proclaimed in the scriptures themselves:

And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:38)

If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor. (John 12:26)

We are to hold on to those things which the word of God says is good (1 Thessolonians 5:21) and resist all that is evil (James 4:7). That includes laws that are against the word of God, actions and attitudes that man calls good but God calls evil, irrespective of race. We are the light of the world (Mathhew 5:14) and darkness can’t stand us. We bring the heat and they can’t stand in the kitchen because they love their evil and don’t want it exposed. (John 3:19)

In closing, Mr. Payne felt obligated to other black people. I’m obligated to God and God alone. My allegiance and fidelity is to Him and Him alone. I’m driven to uphold His cause because it is central to my existence.

Three out of four Americans say they believe in God with the vast majority identifying themselves as Christian. However, the country is highly divided, the 2008 presidential election resulting in a near 50/50 split. Tempers have flared amidst a plethora of T.E.A. parties, town hall meetings, and media wrangling that’s unprecedented.

One of the main and least repeated facts concerning the ideological war between conservatism and liberalism is God’s influence in shaping each worldview.

According to Barna Research:

• Six out of ten conservatives say their faith is becoming an increasingly important moral guide compared to just three out of ten for liberals.

• Liberalism has almost six times as many atheists, agnostics, and general unbelievers than conservatives.

• 63% of conservatives believe the Bible to be accurate in the tenets it teaches to just 27% of liberals.

• 63% of conservatives were categorized as “born again” versus 32% of liberals.

• Conservatives are seven times more likely than liberals to identify themselves as evangelical Christians.

Politics is a smokescreen in the battle between conservatism and liberalism. It’s not about politics. It’s about God.

As one of those conservative Christians, this doesn’t come as a surprise since the Bible speaks specifically about this coming down the pike:

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

When we look at the ideology of liberalism which supports such positions as abortion, euthanasia, and homosexuality, only two things can happen. You have to redefine and reinterpret the Bible so that it supports your position and therefore creating God in the image you want Him to be, or get rid of the Bible and God altogether, therefore strengthening the evil positions the philosophy is steeped in. Liberals have tried to do both and continue to do so with more of the latter.

I have said this before and I will say it again: there is no way you can be a true Christian and a true liberal. Not possible. Never gonna happen. Liberalism is anathema to the Christian worldview. Always has been, always will be.

So don’t be fooled by those who profess to be a liberal and a Christian. Challenge them with the truth of the scriptures. That will always be the litmus test of where they stand in the grand scheme of things.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:  And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (1 John 4:1a,2-3)