WORLD NEWS & PROPHECY
The Conspiracy to
CANCEL GOD
An insidious campaign is underway right now to cancel God, His commandments and His values from people’s lives. How and why is this happening? What are its effects? How will it end?
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ism in recent years . . . has propelled ridicule of Christianity into the mainstream of acceptable behavior. Today, Bible-bashing and Christian-mocking are a favorite pastime on television, in movies, and on social media. “The attack on the free exercise of religion now moves beyond prayer at football games and commencement ceremonies to legal battles over wedding cakes. A relatively small group of atheistic and radical activist organizations . . . have succeeded in banning prayer from schools and Christian symbols from public buildings. At the same time . . . Christianity is extricated from the common way of life. This is the culture war, plain and simple. The effect is cascading beyond America” (Jeff Lukens, “Christianity Is Under Siege in America,” June 12, 2019). Canceling Christian values is not just a contemporary phenomenon, as Christianity has always had its detractors. Indeed, a diabolical campaign has been ongoing throughout the ages to oust God and His influence from people’s lives. Nevertheless, respect and honor toward God and the Christianity under siege Bible formed the bedrock of Western culture and proBiblical moral principles and values are often especially vided major benefits to society for many generations. targeted by this onslaught. An American Thinker article As a report by the Heritage Foundation explains: “The describes the situation this way: “A vigorous new secular- strength of the family unit is intertwined with the prache word “cancel” is derived from the Latin term cancellare meaning “to cross out”—to expunge or delete—such as when terminating an airline reservation or a cell phone contract. However, in recent years, “cancel” has been used of declaring people and organizations unacceptable or even detestable. Such “canceling” is employed via mass media and social media in many Western countries, and it’s growing. So pervasive is this practice of public rejection or boycotting of various individuals, groups or institutions as punishment for social, moral or politically objectionable viewpoints or actions that it’s given rise to the coined phrase “cancel culture.” Cancel culture advocates delineate which views are “acceptable”—which are almost always those that are pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ, anti-God and anti-Bible. Anyone violating these ideological criteria may be threatened with loss of job, loss of reputation, expulsion from social media or worse.
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by John LaBissoniere
