Things Kevin Thinks…

Some things I think along one train of thought:

1.  Prayer, Bible reading, and God have not been banned from public schools.  Any student, teacher, or school employee is free to pray or read their Bible while at school, and last time I checked, God is free to show up wherever He wants to.

2.  Yes, I believe our culture’s rejection of traditional Christian sexual ethics has had significant ruinous effects to the health of the family and the raising of children in stable, profitable environments.  But if you really think our country has become so much worse with adhering to and respecting Christian standards and ethics, just ask the black slave who was whipped or raped by their white master, or the black baseball player who was inundated with all kinds of contempt, insults, and hatred from fans, the opposing team, and even his own teammates, or the Native American who was forced to leave their homeland and travel hundreds and hundreds of miles over a deadly and dangerous trail to a wasteland, what they think adherence to Christian standards and ethics were like in America in their day.

3.  If you think it is of great importance that America be a “Christian” nation, you may not be very familiar with Jesus’ statement that His Kingdom is not of this world.

4.  Drag queen reading hour at the local public library is concerning and I’m sure a good number of children who observed such things have been influenced and impacted in harmful ways.  What is far more concerning are the tens of thousands, if not even hundreds of thousands of children who have been abused in a church setting, often by church leaders, threatened and shamed into silence, and even then many times see the crimes of their abusers covered up or explained away when something does become known.

5.  If you continue to think that the last election was stolen, despite there never having been ANY verifiable, documented evidence being submitted in a court of law or even for public consumption that would support such an assertion, you may not be very familiar with God’s calls for us to judge wisely, righteously, and impartially.

6.  There are some activist teachers out there who are pushing LGBTQ+ agenda items into their classrooms and upon their students.  However, the large, large majority of public school teachers out there have little concern with getting involved with such things and are only trying to capably and faithfully teach our kids.  To speak in a fashion as if there is a widespread epidemic of schools and teachers who are trying to indoctrinate our children in LGBTQ+ culture and standards is to do a great disservice to the millions of good men and women who are honorably serving our kids.

7.  Yes, there are plenty of people who are struggling in our economy, and things like inflation and the difficulty of young couples to buy their first home are concerning.  However, if one steps back and also considers things like the great job growth, the low unemployment, and the GDP growth that our country has experienced the last couple years, it can be seen that our economy has on the whole has been doing okay, especially considering all the shutdowns and tumult from the pandemic just a few years ago and how that had the potential to tank our economy for a good long time.  To act like we have been in a frightening or terrible economy the last couple years is a denial of reality.

8.  Our southern border is a mess and there are no easy fixes.  However, it should also be acknowledged that studies have consistently shown that immigrants, including even the “illegal” ones, commit the same amount or even less crime than the average American citizen, that immigrants fill many jobs to help keep our economy going that most Americans don’t want to, if not even refuse to do, and without the presence of the illegal immigration population our Social Security system would collapse.  Thus, assertions that immigrants coming over our southern border are causing great damage to our country’s safety, economy, and well-being are highly exaggerated, if not outright false.

9.  If you are more concerned that The Ten Commandments remain on the walls of our courtrooms or that the America flag remains on the platforms of our churches, than you are with the way that many American Christians and churches have created an unholy conflation of America and the Christian faith, you very well may be part of the problem of that unholy conflation.

10.  In light of all these things, one must wonder why so many American Christians participate in and proclaim these fallacies, falsehoods, and exaggerations?  Why, if Christians know and have the truth, a truth that sets them free, do so many use that freedom to muddle in things that are anything but true?  Why can’t Christians just let their yes be yes and their no be no, and not add in all kinds half-truths, manipulation, and deception into their posture and dialect?

Partisan politics are poison to the soul.

Jesus is the cure.