Onward Christian Soldiers

Once again I am watching law and order and the lead characters is a pastor of a church and his son. They are characters that have been designed as greedy and ill moral. I am still amazed at how many times that Christians are portrayed in a negative light.

I understand that those of us who believe in Jesus Christ are not perfect people. But is concerning that Christians are fair game for those who do not share the Christian point of view. I have personally never seen a television program that portrays any other religion in such a negative way as they do Christian on network television.

The frequency with which Christians are made to look like hypocrites is alarming to me personally. Because this attitude of humanism is beginning to permeate the world view of our children and they are the leaders of tomorrow. We have already seen the constant assault on the institution of marriage. I have now anger or animosity toward any human being. But we have in our technologically advanced society but God on the back burner.

It has been almost fifty years since we took prayer out of schools and we are now reaping the harvest of that decision. Now we see in a recent study that marriage itself has become an undesirable state. There are several studies that show the number of people in our country that are married is less than those who just shack-up.

In the black community the stats are even more disheartening nearly 80% of all black children born in this country are born to single mothers. The number one killer of black women between the ages of 24 to 45 is AIDS.

Yet we see on television that Christians are somehow out of touch with reality, we need to get in line with the way things are today. We think this is something new and we are growing into some brave new world. So we have developed the attitude that everyman should do what is right in his own mind. Because there is no right and there is no wrong only shades of gray.

This type of thinking led to the down fall of the Roman Empire, when morality goes, society is not far behind. We debate until the proverbial cows come home but there are absolutes in life and a major one it that when a people turn their backs on God, God will do the same.