God is not a racist.
Torch-wielding white nationalists and white supremacists marching through Charlottesville, Virginia, Friday night failed to learn that important lesson. They shouted ‘unite the right’ and ‘white lives matter’ — and called for the South to split from the United States.
The Friday evening march was a precursor to a larger “Alt-Right” rally taking place this weekend in response to Charlottesville’s decision to move a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park to another park.
The rally is reminiscent of an Alt-Right event in Charlottesville in May, in which white nationalists marched and chanted slogans including “Russia is our friend,” “White lives matter,” and “No more brother wars.”
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I have looked in vain for an article in which you condemn other racist movements such as Black Panthers and BLM. You also seem to believe that the racial divide in the US developed under the campaign of Trump. Where is your criticism of 8 years Obama’s race baiting? I cannot take you seriously if you are not even-handed.
I didn’t start writing until the past year. But you need to stop changing the subject. It’s dishonest and disgusting to change the subject after the vile display of evil today. Stop changing the subject. Speak to the matter at hand. You do yourself not favors if you don’t.
You sir are disgusting. In the first place where do you get off with such a holy joe attitude about race and christians? It is a lot more complicated than some pseudo conservative as yourself seems to grasp. BLM seeks the destruction of the white population. No group including whites want equality. We all seek superiority. But, for you to set and tell me how I should think when you are associated with an organization that is Baptist in name only is a joke. Are you so ignorant that regardless of what we would like things to be that you can’t see there is a racial upheaval happening in this country? Where is balance in anything you say? The matter at hand is that the country is suffering from moral decadence on a level never seen before. The tragic loss of life is sad for everyone but the problem is not white supremacists. The problem is the church and especially the corporate organizations like the S.B.C. have gotten so liberal that they can’t stand against sin. Educated idiots are the problem. They are piping their group straight to hell and I think you sir are missing that point. It is a sinful world and will be so until the return of Christ. You want to jump out and show how worldly wise you are and that is great. But, why did you not say conservative christians of all races should denounce what happened there? One news account said rocks were thrown at the car but of course you won’t hear about that again. Does it make it any less offensive? No! Does it help to understand how volatile the whole situation was? I think so. Everyone that went there had an agenda. Do you believe it is all white folks fault for every wrong this country has ever suffered and we owe all minorities everything we own. Do you believe that? If you do the “Christian” thing for you to do is sign over your house and bank accounts to the NAACP or BLM or the Black Panthers. Any of these fine nonbiased organizations would appreciate it. Bottom line is when you use Christ’s name for a political agenda you sir do not understand true Christianity. You are pandering for your own agenda and certainly not Christ’s
Hi Doug. You sir, read things into my article that I didn’t write. In the midst of all of the insults and misrepresentations in your comment, I can see that you want conservatives to call out bad thinking and bad attitudes on the other side of the political aisle. I do that regularly, having published probably 1,000 articles against the Left.
Well Bruce you did write a rather lengthy article that could have been more balanced and I guess writing over a 1000 articles means something although I am not sure what. My main point was that bringing Christ into politics and singling out white conservative Christians as a specific group that should be appalled by this mess seemed to be a weak shot at appeasing someone. I owe no apology to anyone over that event and I am a white conservative Christian. Everyone there had an agenda. Not that it detracts from the ugliness of it all but why was that girl there? She was there to stir up strife just like the white supremacist folks. The whole issue of racial hatred and divide swings both ways and always will. There will never be a utopia on this earth where we all get along until God removes sin from it. It seems to me that the more appalling aspect of that event is that it shows how depraved we have become as a nation. The root of all of this is sin. I always wonder how a true Christian can look at a lost world and expect them to act like anything other than a lost world. They do not know Christ so they cannot act Christian. For me to condemn a certain sect or group over another based on the fact I am a white conservative Christian is in itself contradictory. They are lost sinners. I condemn the sin. I mourn for our country as Satan grows stronger and our, “Preachers” grow weaker. I condemn the watered down message of a social gospel that leaves bowing the knee to Christ out of the equation. I think a better solution than calling on me to condemn someone would have been admonishing me to get on my knees and have a broken heart for the lost and our country. That brings to mind what I shared with a gentleman that was ranting and raving about the election. My King does not sit in the white house and my King is on the throne and in full control. I have read the Book and I know the outcome. But, I, as a conservative Christian, choose to pray for healing on all sides. There were at least two lives destroyed in a very public fashion at that event. The victim and the man that chose to kill her. Two family’s with loss and our great nation was pushed a little closer to that point of destruction from within. Look at history and all the great powers that used to be and almost all failed because of moral decline not invaders from without. We are not a Christian nation regardless of what pollsters say. We abort babies and accept homosexual marriage. We are near the end I believe because the time has cone where we call good evil and evil good. You want to do something important with the forum you have? Make a call for the lost to accept Christ as Saviour and for the saved to repent of the sin in their lives. You may have done this already considering you have written over a 1000 articles but I did not notice it in this article.
Doug,
Hi. Thank you for commenting. As an opinion writer, I have 800 words. that’s it. 800 words to make one point. I can’t make the 15-20 points needed to give a whole perspective on anything. Given the fact that conservative outlets have published tens of thousands of articles against antifa, BLM, and leftist groups, it is just fine for a white conservative opinion writer to make an appeal to other white conservatives.
I do make calls, in my opinion articles, for folks to accept Christ. I can’t do that in all of them.
I am happy that you believe the Bible and want the lost to come to know the Lord.
Best,
Bruce
I am convinced that the carnage in Charlottesville was orchestrated by the Deep State, which has been recruiting crisis actors on at least one Craigslist site in the South. There is good reason to believe that there were paid provocateurs on both sides in the tragic events of this past weekend. Objective: to insure a violent clash, to divert public attention away from the misdeeds of the ruling classes, and to expose President #45’s unwillingness to speak out against the extreme right in the U.S.
I did not intend in my previous comment to imply any sort of moral equivalency between the contending parties in Charlottesville. Anyone with any sense knows that the right-wingers who turned out were true extremists, looking for trouble and using the issue of the statue as a pretext. The torchlight march was an obvious provocation. The counterprotesters’ motives were honorable: when we let fascists run rampant and unopposed, we sin by our silence. My point was that there are powerful people in our society who like to fish in these troubled waters and will–to that end–fund and otherwise encourage violence.
Wow! The counter protesters motives were honorable? They all have there own agenda. You think the counter bunch came for peace? You can’t have the guys on the right w/o the opposing side being left. Neither side was neutral. Both sides Anti-American and certainly neither of a loftier spiritual plain. Sin of silence? I honestly get this Orwellian feeling about the whole statue removal thing. Anything to do with the south or confeferacy must go. Hey it is our history to be learned from not deleted out. Next up lets just take the history books and write out slavery, American Indians treatment, woman’s suffrage, etc. Etc. Where does the removal of history end? Both sides of this event are to be blamed because it takes 2 to tango. No good thing for America.
So shines a good deed in a weary world. Bless you, Bruce. Keep the faith.