Editor, Times-Union: WWJD? What would Jonas do? Remember Jonas Clark, pastor to many of our founding fathers in Lexington, Mass.? The “shot heard round the world” marking the start of our revolution against England and its tyrannical king happened just outside Pastor Clark’s church. Many killed that historic day were church members.
Unlike the silence from present-day pulpits, colonial pastors of Jonas Clark’s time spoke out against the injustices of their day. In fairness, however, to the silence of present-day church leaders and pastors regarding the many government imposed injustices of our times, it must be remembered that colonial pastors did not have to fear the loss of funds and membership for violating 501(c)3 regulations. The only concern of colonial pastors who spoke out was, if captured by English military forces, the hangman’s noose.
WWJD? Any Jonas Clarks out there? There were once again in 1857 those courageous pastors who spoke out against slavery and government wrongful decision declaring slaves as mere property of slave owner masters. The Civil War that followed claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands but did succeed in restoring our Union, saving the Constitution, and most importantly freeing the slaves.
Likewise in the 1930s and ’40s, there were courageous pastors like Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer of Germany who spoke out against Hitler’s Nazi-Socialist rulings regarding Jews to be like slaves – merely property – therefore disposable at the government master’s pleasure. Pastor Bonhoeffer’s stand cost him his life. Millions of others likewise were punished in a World War where obvious ominous warning signs were ignored.
Obvious and ominous signs once again separate us by a little over 200 days from the most important presidential-congressional election of our lives here on God’s earth in this the most blessed country ever. We blessed citizens and survivors are privileged once again to cast our ballots – to vote. In the process, however, remembering to honor the memory of those heroes of our history who sacrificed so much – even their lives, we ought to do all in our power to protect – to preserve the many rights our heroes – our veterans gave their lives for.
Foremost among all rights must be the protection of life itself from conception to natural death. Tragically, President Obama’s Democrat party have long ago decided the unborn child (even born and still living ones of botched abortions) to be merely property – undeserving of life or rights. Like the Jews of Nazi-Socialist Germany and the slaves of our earlier history, our unborn children are defined as something other than human. Common sense as well as science tells us this is a horrible lie and its horrible effect is murder.
WWJD? Jesus declared the author of such deception and death to be Satan, “a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth ... he (Satan) is a liar.” Jesus is the truth and as such is never silent on the subject of life, nor would he want his followers, especially the shepherds, the pastors and priests to be silent.
Still wanted: Men and women, pastors and priests of courage and conviction to stand up for, speak out clearly and frequently especially about this worst of all Obama abominations as well as the many other atrocities of this deadly and deceptive administration. WWYD? What will you do?
