You have got to be kidding me. First of all, it is academic malpractice to cite yourself, as if you are citing a source. That aside, remember, the book he cited claims that the year 1726 started a great awakening that led to this nonsensical sense of slavery becoming anathema. Except slavery would not end for almost another 140 years. Yeah, that was real anathema Eddie. I might add that we then dealt with horrific treatment of African Amer4icans for at least another hundred years after that. Most of the Founding Fathers Hyatt venerates, including Washington, owned slaves until they died. Washington passed his on to his wife at his death. The United States was one of the LAST countries to abolish slavery and we had to fight a Civil War over it. It is true that many in the north were abolitionists but Eddie always pretends as if there was not another half of this country that fought to the death to keep their slaves and used the bible to justify it. Slavery did not end quickly beloved. This is not to bad mouth America, who has done a great deal of good in history but we should not be embracing lies as Christians.
Also, on this weekend Charisma ran another political article from Dr. Michael Brown, who always tries to strike a reasonable tone amidst unreasonable positions. They also ran an absurd piece claiming that Donald Trump is the fulfillment of prophecy. They ran a third piece arguing that Christians cannot abstain from voting. These are all within a two-day period and comes on the heels of last week that saw the Gibbs article calling the Democratic Party a "death cult." Sadly ironic and tone-deaf considering he is advocating for the party that refuses to do anything to curtail the proliferation of assault weapons as we saw yet another school shooting this week. Also, this past week Charisma ran a two-part series from another dominionist and false apostle, Joseph Mattera, abusing the Ten Commandments into a vote for Donald Trump. Beloved, Charisma News is in the business of trying to co-opt your vote and they try to accomplish this by wrapping their choice in Christianese and butchered bible verses. When that does not work, they butcher American history. It is not good enough to simply say they think their choice is a lesser evil. Instead, they have to make him righteous when he is not. Instead, they have to try and guilt or scare their readers in complicity. Instead of saving faith, we now will be judge based upon which carnal man or woman we voted for. That is blasphemy. Pray and vote as you feel led. Do not be guilted by snake oil salesmen like Locke, Murillo, Brown, Hyatt, Gibbs, Mattera, or any of the other Charisma News hucksters Steven Strang trots out there. The only credible argument a Christian can make for voting is that they have determined the lesser of two evils and we are free to make that determination. Let us always remember two important distinctions. First of all, our opinion, is merely our opinion. It does not make it right or righteous. Secondly, we should never be caught defending evil, no matter how lesser we have assumed it might be.
I checked with God just now, so let me share a prophetic word with you. God will still be on the throne November 6th. He assures us He will not be surprised nor dismayed. He says He will still accomplish His purposes regardless of who wins. He reminds us that He does not need, nor has He asked for our help. He never asked for us to create a theocracy and America, has never been under covenant with Him. He has charged us with one thing and one thing only and that is the gospel. It is high time we got back to it.
Reverend Anthony Wade - September 8, 2024
