Religion Invoked To Coax America's

Cultural Surrender

by
Dr. Frederick Meekins
Fellow Of Worldview Studies
The Issachar Institute For The Study Of Apologetics & Policy

The March 2010 issue of Sojourners Magazine pictured on

its cover an adorable Hispanic child with a caption next to
the photograph reading "Citizen or Criminal". Inside the
issue were a number of articles expositing how Christians
are obligated to basically surrender America to outsiders,
most of whom defended by the magazine have no standing to
be in the United States to begin with.

For example, one pullout quote in red (no doubt playing on

the conditioning that the red words in some Bibles carry
more weight than the others) read, "If we are truly about
family values, how can we argue for a system that separates
parents from their citizen children." Notice how the onus is
placed on America rather than the Mexican government for
the responsibility of family reunification or cohesion.

Maybe our neighbors to the south should make it easier for

children beyond its borders to be repatriated there with their
parents. After all, the likes of James Dobson has in the past
lectured Pat Buchanan how the family values of Mexicans
are superior to those of the average American.

It is interesting how Sojourners, a publication that doesn't

really give a hoot about the Word of God any other time
given its modernistic and liberal affiliations, suddenly knows
all of the verses admonishing the believer to aide the plight
of the downtrodden. What about the verse extolling
obedience to properly constituted laws (such as those
administering the immigration process)?

Another column condemned the ethnocentrism of the

American church and that "broadening immigration ... allows
the church to pray and worship in a new way." Frankly,
what was so wrong with the old way?

Perhaps it should be pointed out that so-called "minority

churches" are the ones most mired in the respective
ethnicities and cultures of those in attendance. Furthermore,
special outreaches and semi-independent "sub-
congregations" are not being set up by spineless American
congregations for the purposes of preserving the traditional
mainstream culture. Rather, these are established because
the targeted immigrants are so reenforced these days as to
what their particular breed of man happens to be that they
won't set foot in a church unless the ecclesiastical authorities
fawn all over them and cater to them to the same extent as
the other social welfare bureaucracies they are accustomed
to dealing with.
And when was the last time a minister ever admonished the
new arrivals to make up their minds as to whether or not
they want to be Americans or remain what they were
originally and to go back from wherever they came? It is
about time to stop playing both sides of the identity equation
where one plays up what nationality that happens to get the
largest government or charitable handout or which provides
the most rational explanation for one's glaring flaws in terms
of character and behavior.

But whereas nearly no one --- typically liberal but

increasingly conservative as well --- will tackle the
shortcomings of immigrants in regards to ecclesiastical
practices and preferences, "Anglos" are being given an earful
on this topic all of the time. At one church I stopped going
to, after a snafu with the sound system, instead of simply
adjusting the volume, the pastor went into a semi-lengthy
explanation of how the controls had been fiddled with for the
raucous auditory preferences of the immigrant congregation
borrowing the facility the night before.

The verbal smackdown did not end there. We ignorant rubes

learned it was our obligation to relent since the immigrant
congregation, rather than the one actually floating the bills,
was the one on the cutting edge and thus the “In thing”.

This was not the only incident of pandering to minorities at

this particular church. Following the announcement of the
district's ministerial candidates ordained last year, only the
Hispanic ones were specifically mentioned in a
commemorating prayer.

In previously solid churches slowly eroding to the spirit of

the age, Whitey and anyone else speaking English is suppose
to simply shut up and just keep dropping the coins into the
collection plate until the gullible old White people die off.
And you had better have a smile on your face with a "please
sir, may I have another" attitude or you're not a good
Christian anymore. Frankly, I don't remember national
weakness being commanded anywhere in the pages of the
Bible.

Others will insist that since the Bible in general and the
Gospel in specific counsels that all who accept Christ belong
to the family of God irrespective of nationality or ethnicity,
congregations should avoid this characteristic to such an
extent that congregations that once sat solemnly in the pews
should now do back-flips over them and role around on the
floor in testament to just how free of bias the parishioners
happen to be. If Americans have to renounce their culture
that is probably already about as heterogonous as a nation
can be as countries with even lesser degrees of diversity are
characterized by regular ethnic bloodshed, then why are
Evangelicals putting up with La Razaesque front groups such
as the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
having the motto “Empowering the Hispanic Church,
Engaging the Hispanic Vision and Enriching the Hispanic
Dream”.

In the mission statement on the masthead of Sojourners it

reads, "The mission of Sojourners magazine is to inspire
hope and action by articulating the biblical call to racial and
social justice.” If this leftist rag is really concerned about
justice, than they ought to publish another issue on
immigration with a tattooed gang member on the cover and
articles detailing how unbridled immigration has ruined many
neighborhoods and the violence that has been inflicted on
Americans either in their homes or through the many that
have died in car crashes the result of foreigners that can’t
even exercise the minutest degree of self-control when it
comes to booze.

by Frederick Meekins