Christians and the Culture Wars: Time To Engage
by Bill Muehlenberg, Culture Watch:
Given that my website contains 2,233 articles on Christianity and 1,457 articles on the culture wars, it may be thought there is little left to say on these topics – at least from me. Well, there is always a new spin or a different angle one can run with on these issues.
One way to approach this is by way of a familiar quote. While many people today may not know about the American comic strip “Pogo,” most would have heard of a memorable line that came from it: “We have seen the enemy and he is us.”
The idea that we can be our own worst enemy certainly fits in here. Sure, there are plenty of militant groups at war with Christianity and biblical values, but far too often it is clueless Christians who are doing the most damage and inflicting the most injuries.
They can do this in various ways. One, they can simply sit out the culture wars, and pretend everything is just peachy in life. By refusing to get involved in some of these crucial battles of the day, be it the war over marriage or the attack on life, these Christians have really gone over to the other side by default. Their lack of engagement in these key battles not only means they offer zero help to our side, but they effectively aid and abet the other side.
Another way believers become their own worst enemy is when they actually, deliberately, align themselves with the other side, fighting against their own. They buy the myths and deception of the radicals, and war against their own brethren.
Let me provide an example of each. As to the latter, consider this recent case of Christians going over to the other side – either out of sheer ignorance about their own faith, or because of actual alignment with unbiblical ideology. It comes from a discussion on abortion on a social media page. A “Christian” actually said this:
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