Straighten Those Spines, Christians!

This article makes me so frickin’ angry!

Attacking a business that was trying to help a family in need this winter?  Threatening to boycott them because they got help from someone who might not support your LGBT agenda?  Forcing them to apologize because they offended you?

ARE YOU FREAKIN’ KIDDING ME!?!?

Are you so vile and so overly concerned with your agenda that you would attack someone who was trying to care for a needy family – to keep them warm this winter – and who would give away free food to do it, all because they got help from someone you don’t agree with?

Let me ask you this ... What kind of help did you offer a freezing family this winter!?!  What sacrifices have you made to help someone else!?!  Or are you just so dang proud of yourself for attacking those who do help?

I think this article shows what kind of people you really are!  Shame on you, you wretched, heartless bullies! 

That doughnut shop should have never been attacked for offering to help people in need.  And they should have never apologized for it.  That only gives those wretched, heartless activists more power.  It empowers them to attack more, feeling like all they have to do to control people is to cry, “I’m offended!”

Wretched, wretched people!

You need to find Jesus!  Before it’s too late!  Before you are standing before Him trying to give a reason for why you hinder charity, why you attack those trying to help others, why you care more about your godless agendas than you do about people in need! 




Do you think that the family cares where the warm sweaters come from?  Do you think they would thank you for the stand you took, for preventing them from getting the help they need?  You wretched people, opposing charity, blinded by your own misguided self-righteousness and wicked agendas!  If your children were cold, would you care who gave them a warm coat?  God forbid that you ever find yourself in a place of real need, especially after having attacked the very charities and good people who would have been the first to jump in and help you! 

What is wrong with you!?!  Seriously!?! 

You know what, maybe I shouldn't be saying "God forbid."  Maybe I should actually be saying, "God willing, you will find yourself in a time of real need like that" - for that may be the only thing that opens your eyes to your wretchedness, that drives you to your knees before the Lord in humility and repentance! 

Christians (and all other, good, decent people who try to do the right thing) … we need to stop apologizing for the stands we take.  It only gives power to those who are against us.  

Unfortunately, those on the “other side” are making it just about impossible to live in a spirit of tolerance and peace, in a "live and let live" way, as seen more and more in the news and the lawsuits and the silencing techniques and the articles like this one. 

They have no desire to meet Christians in the middle, to allow us any room to live out our faith, to do anything they don't agree with.  If we give them an inch, they bulldoze right over us by the mile, forcing us to fall in line with them or risk consequences. 



You know what I'm particularly sick of seeing in the headlines:  "Such-and-such gets removed because atheists complained ... such-and-such gets canceled because atheists complained ... such-and-such gets taken down because atheists complained."  (Or you can substitute "LGBT activists complained.")  

Is that all it takes to make changes ... complaining?  Or taking out lawsuits, as they so often do?  If so, we've got a lot of complaining we can do for good, Christians!  Start complaining!  Make your voices heard!  Don't quietly accept these awful changes.  Make your own noise!    

If we "play nice" and try to be accommodating and apologize when we offend them and tolerate their pushing and complaining, they take it as a sign of weakness and pounce all over us, tearing away more and more of our freedoms and rights.  They are invading our churches, our Christian schools, and our private business.  (Where is the separation of church and state now!?!)  They act like we don’t even belong here, like we have no right to have a say in politics, to hold public offices, to run our own businesses, to vote, to help those in need, etc., as though they are the only ones with the right to live in and run this country.   

It’s time to straighten our spines, Christians. 



To step up, to be bold, to stand up for our beliefs, our faith, and our rights to exercise our faith.  It's time to stop supporting the filthy movies and music and books.  It's time to vote with our dollars  - to use our money to show the companies what we will support and what we won't.  It’s time to stop being embarrassed by Jesus' name.  To stop softening the Gospel to make others feel good about their sin.  To stop apologizing for offending people who should be offended.  Those on the wrong side are always offended by those on the right side.  NEVER try to make people feel better about being on the wrong side!  NEVER apologize for being on the right side!   

What that doughnut shop should have said is “I will NOT apologize for trying to help someone in need!  I will NOT let you make me feel guilty about it!  What have you done to help those less fortunate this winter?” 

Turn it back on them!  Do not give them permission to shame you!

It’s time to stand tall, to refuse to be bulldozed or silenced or shamed by the other side.  It’s time to stop acting weak and afraid and ashamed of our faith and good deeds.  It’s time to stop letting them walk all over us.

"For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, of love, and of sound mind."  (2 Tim 1:7)

I wish it didn't have to be this way.  I wish we could live peacefully among each other, tolerating our differences.  (We used to be able to do that.  What happened?)  But the other side is making it impossible because they don't want to play nice or be gentle or be tolerant. 

How do you cooperate with those who don't believe in cooperating with you?  How do you “give and take” with those who only want to “take”?  How do you accommodate those who would boycott you for helping a needy family in a way they don’t like?  Why would you even want to accommodate someone like that!?! 

If society wonders why Christians are pushing back more and more, they can blame themselves.  Because their constant, intolerant steam-rolling forced us to do it before they erased us from society completely or put us all into prisons simply for not supporting their agendas.  We are not only getting in trouble for things we do ... but for things we won't do and things we don't agree with and for things we say and for praying and for helping a needy family in a way they don’t like. 

And I am getting sick of it! 

And if we don't stand up now, if we don’t push back now … then when?  When all hope is gone?  When we have lost all rights and all power? 

Our weak, lukewarm timidity will not lead to more harmony or unity with society.  Apologizing for offending them won’t make them like us more or think more highly of us.  Like apologizing to any bully, it will only give them power and cause them to stomp on us more and more, until every last trace of our faith is erased from society.  (Kudos to Atticus Shaffer from The Middle for calling on Christians in Hollywood to be bolder and more courageous in living their faith!  If only all Christians were as bold, unashamed, and unapologetic as he is about Jesus and the Truth.  Wise, bold words from a 19-year-old.  May God bless him for it!  Way to go, Atticus!)     

It's time to take strong, bold stands.  For godliness.  For decency.  For goodness.  For morality.  For our rights.  For Jesus.  In love and in truth.  From a place of humility, on our knees, bowed low before the Lord, always abiding in Him and His Word and Truth.  Gentle in how we treat others but firm in our convictions.  (Never with violence.  That's not Christianity!)  And always with a desire to reflect Christ to others, to win them over, to help them find the love and healing and grace and salvation we have found in the Lord. 

But remember that Christ was never a wimp.  He never apologized for the stands He took, for doing the right thing, for Truth.  He was meek but not weak.  Even as He reached out to sinners in love, He was confident and bold and firm.  He never compromised on Truth!  On sin!

After all ... our sin cost Him His life!

It’s time to stop compromising on the things that cost our Lord His life.  It’s time to get serious about the things He’s serious about, to stop being ashamed of and timid about the things He was bold about, to stop apologizing for doing the right thing.  It’s time to stop letting evil run roughshod over us, trampling our rights and our country along the way.

It’s time to straighten those spines, Christians!

Before it’s too late! 

(God help us!)

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