Everyone who thinks the election was stolen from Trump needs to read this article by National Review:
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/12/31/it-must-have-been-stolen/
National Review Says Trump Lost the Election
In an article titled Disgrace after Defeat, National Review had the following to say about the idea of mass voter fraud:
The politicization of voting methods meant that same-day ballots would be heavily Trump while absentee ballots would skew Democratic. The fact that key states counted the same-day ballots first created the impression of a Trump lead that got overtaken in the dead of the night or in the days after the election. If the order of the counting had been reversed, Biden would have established an early lead that steadily eroded but never disappeared.
I have listened to many Christian and conservative commentators say that “the sudden Biden lead” was proof positive that the election was stolen, but after reading this in a conservative magazine, I’m convinced that Trump just lost the election.
Reading The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz
I’ve been reading The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz, and I’m amazed at the cruelty displayed by the Nazis towards the Jewish people. Part of me asks, how can such inhumanity be possible? But then I remember that there was massive propaganda demonizing the Jews in the eyes of the German people. It makes me think of what is going on in America today, the media is demonizing Christians. It starts small, and then it grows, and unless you are a Christian with God’s moral standard to guide you, you will fall for it.
The brutal Nazis were not exceptionally evil people, they were people just like you and me. As socialism and communism threaten to take over America, what will we find ourselves doing to each other in the future?
Should we reject the electoral college results?
Texas senator Ted Cruz is calling for an emergency audit to inspect for voter fraud. You can read his full letter at National Review here. I think this is a desperate move, because thus far, no one has been able to present credible evidence that enough fraud was committed to overturn the election results. I think Christians need to focus on preparing for life in a country where religious liberty is no more.
What do you think?
Is Hiding Our True Beliefs the Future for America?
This is a brief excerpt from Rod Dreher’s blog post Ketman And The Left’s Problem, if you have a moment to read the full post, I’d love to get your thoughts on this in the comments:
If people come to believe that to tell the truth to a pollster, or to anybody in authority over them, could put them in danger, they are going to lie. They are going to practice what Czeslaw Milosz called ketman. I explain it in my book Live Not By Lies:
Ketman is the strategy that everyone in our society who isn’t a true believer in “social justice” and identity politics has to adopt to stay out of trouble. On Sunday, I heard about a professor in a large state university in a state that yesterday went for Trump, who is filled with constant anxiety. He believes that his interactions with colleagues and students are filled with the potential to destroy his career. Why? Because all it takes is an accusation of racism, sexism, or some other form of bigotry to wreck a lifetime of work. This is the world that the identity politics left has created for us.
Is Totalitarianism Coming to America?
Here’s a teaser from the Rod Dreher article America Is On The Road To Revolution:
As Arendt warned more than half a century ago:
There is a great temptation to explain away the intrinsically incredible by means of liberal rationalizations. In each one of us, there lurks such a liberal, wheedling us with the voice of common sense. The road to totalitarian domination leads through many intermediate stages for which we can find numerous analogues and precedents. . . . What common sense and “normal people” refuse to believe is that everything is possible.
If totalitarianism comes, it will almost certainly not be Stalinism 2.0, with gulags, secret police, and an all-powerful central state. That would not be necessary. The power of surveillance technology, woke capitalism, and fear of losing bourgeois comfort and status will probably be enough to compel conformity by most. At least at first, it will be a soft totalitarianism, more on the Brave New World model than the Nineteen Eighty-Four one—but totalitarianism all the same.
How did he come to this conclusion? You’ve got to read the article to find out. And to learn how these ominous developments could affect Christians in particular, check out this conversation between Allie Beth Stuckey and Rod Dreher:
Arzoo Raja, 13-Year-Old Christian Girl, Kidnapped and Forced to Convert to Islam
This is my first post to this blog, and it couldn’t be for a better cause. I just want to raise awareness of what happened to this poor Christian girl, and many others like her. Please watch this and pray:
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