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Cry-bully Antifa terrorist Matthew Banta (l.) and American hero Kyle Rittenhouse (r.).
Nancy Flory reported it here: A political mob of anti-Christian thugs attacked a Portland, Oregon, church service outdoors. They used shields, pepper spray, and other weapons to shut down a public prayer event. Police were called but didn’t show up to intervene. Antifa won. The service was cancelled. Just this past weekend. In the United States of America. A profoundly dangerous precedent now stands. Which church will be next?
The Servile Sorority of Sloth
I know that some servile Christians out there will read this news and feel warm and fuzzy. Persecution, they’ll sniff from the comfort of their suburbs, is our natural state anyway. At least, they will think, no Christian Nationalist zealot was present to pull out a weapon and try to defend the event. That would have scandalized people and violated the Spirit of the Gospel.
Cheap Grace for Virtue-Signaling Male Karens
People who think this way have never consoled Iraqi Christians ethnically cleansed from their families’ homes of 2,000 years. Nor escapees from concentration camps in China. Such comfy beta-Christians did nothing while Syrian Christians fought back and helped conquer ISIS. Pacifists, in my experience, are people who lead comfortable, well-protected lives, parasitical on the sacrifices of others.
Dorothy Day of The Catholic Worker was safe in New York City when she called for the US to do nothing in response to Pearl Harbor. I suspect if she’d witnessed the Rape of Nanking, or was sitting in Dachau along with the thousands of Polish priests the Nazis rounded up and sent there, she would have sung a different tune. (She certainly did in later years, when she praised Communist revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro.)
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