Last night I finished reading the book on Christians being persecuted in America. Believers in China or other genuinely hostile places would laugh themselves to pieces seeing what constitutes persecution here. I was glad to be done with it, a guy can only handle so much whining. The author does a fine job of confusing conservatism with Christianity, not sure he really knows what Christianity is apart from conservatism.

It also seemed apparent to me that his solution bordered on–instead of letting them silence us, let’s get our freedom of speech back by silencing them. He wanted the tables to be turned rather than equaled. I agree that it is hard to say things and be respected as a Christian, but that doesn’t mean that people have to back off, nor do we have to be bothered when they don’t.

Even more disturbing was the answers given in the last chapter by prominent church leaders. One said–we need to vote more. One said–we need to understand the postmodern mind and change our message. Ravi Zacharias said a piece which I thought was the best–we should learn how to think so we can explain our side more effectively. But none of them seemed to understand that we have a Bible that we should learn. No one brought that up.

I think the reason most Christians get “persecuted” is because they are genuine imbeciles. They say dumb things at dumb times in dumb ways. If we knew our Bible better I think we would avoid much of the “persecution” we get. Plus, in my mind, the more persecution the better. Any time the Church has been persecuted there has been tremendous growth. The main reason why I know we are not being persecuted is because the Church is largely lazy and ineffective. I say, bring on the persecution.

However, the bottom line is–marvel not that the world hate you. I never said who wrote this book or what the title was because I don’t want to tempt anyone to read it. It won’t do you any good. Live above it, our world aint that bad. In fact, it’s quite good. Go enjoy it and live consistent with the Lord Jesus Christ. Fight the fight!