Christianity, Cults and Culture

At the fall of Yorktown, the British Army was said to have played an English folk song titled The World Turned Upside Down. It closes with the refrain, “Yet let’s be content, and the times lament, you see the world turned upside down.” This feels a bit like the world that I’m inhabiting. Over the past few months, I have watched people insist that our greatest right is to kill our unborn children. I have watched videos of LGBTQ events and observed legal cases that push forward an agenda that is offensive to conservatives and immoral to Christians. The government has refused to protect its citizens, failing to enforce the law and defunding police activities. I feel like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz; I am not in Kansas anymore. Today, the Family Heritage Alliance suggested that families with a married mother and father are the safest place for children. The statement seems unremarkable, but it was not. The statement provoked the wrath of Representative Erin Healy, a South Dakota congresswoman, who tweeted that the group was “extremist” for spreading a dangerous and un-American belief. I don’t even know what to do with that. It flies in the face of reality. Even the idea of the family is being dismantled by leftist revolutionaries. To hear her, it is as if the nuclear family had never existed, and proposing the idea of a family with a married mother and father was a new and dangerous thing. The world has turned upside down. We live in a strange time. We must keep the faith and resist the lie.