OPINION:
Democrats are up-in-arms because a pastor from California, Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, dared pray in Congress — as an invited guest chaplain of Speaker Mike Johnson — in a manner that advanced the truths of the Bible.
How dare he. Right?
Lawmakers, the Christian Post reported, criticized how Hibbs used language like “repentance” and “holy fear” and spoke of “national sins” — as if these words and phrases were antithetical to America’s guiding doctrines, model of governance and founding principles.
Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Constitutional Convention, framer of the Bill of Rights, had this to say to his fellow Massachusetts citizens — whom he also served as governor: “ … for our unparalleled ingratitude to that adorable being who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of the gospel of Jesus Christ … let us fall prostrate before offended deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of His divine favors, fervently implore His pardon through the merits of our mediator,” as Capitol Ministries noted.
Hibbs didn’t say all that.
Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, framer of the Bill of Rights and a U.S. Senator, had this to say before Congress in 1854: “The great, vital and conservative element in our system is the believe of our people in the pure doctrines and the divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” Capitol Ministries wrote.
Hibbs didn’t say all that, either.
Josiah Bartlett, a military officer and signer of the Declaration of Independence, called on the people of New Hampshire, whom he governed, to “confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ,” Capitol Ministries also reported.
Hibbs didn’t say all that, either.
But because Hibbs prayed in the name of Jesus, and spoke of issues the Democrats have embraced as evil — because, according to the Bible, they are evil — and because leftists cannot bear the thought of a higher power holding them one day accountable for their evil thoughts and actions, and therefore must attack anyone and anything, like pastors and Bibles, that suggest the existence and truth of a higher power who will hold them accountable — Hibbs was condemned because, get this, he’s a, gasp, gag, a “Christian nationalist.”
That is to say: He puts God and country ahead of petty, partisan, mind-polluting politics and stands steadfast and firm on biblical truths rather than on wishy-washy, blowing-in-the-wind ways of humankind.
The horror.
“Hibbs,” more than two dozen Democrats wrote in a letter to Johnson and to Rev. Margaret Grun Kibben, the House chaplain, “embraces the false and exclusionary Christian nationalist narrative that the United States was established as a ‘Christian nation,’ and he has repeatedly flouted separation of church and state by working to institutionalize Christian prayer and Bible readings at local school board meetings.”
He’s called out the LGBTQ agenda as indicative of end times’ prophesies, where the people grow most wicked, they complained.
He’s called out Islam as a “death cult,” they added.
He’s maintained that Judaism “cannot save you,” but rather only Jesus, they went on.
He’s hurt our feelings in all kinds of manners and ways and means, they continued — not really. But it was implied.
Now the Freedom From Religion Foundation has asked the IRS to revoke Pastor Jack Hibbs’ 501(c)(3) status because he dared step into political territory in his church.
“Hibbs has historically used his positions to preach a militants agenda about the LGBTQ community, the Jewish religion, the Muslim religion and anyone else who has conflicted with his ‘biblical worldview,’” FFRF wrote.
Yawn.
FFRF’s just ticked they weren’t around to go after Elbridge Gerry, Charles Carroll, Josiah Bartlett and a host of other heavenly founders and framers — so they have to make up time and take up legal arms against today’s faith warriors.
Christian nationalism is in the crosshairs of the left. And their agenda is to first turn the label into a dirty word; a badge of shame — and then, when Christian nationalists are cowed and Christian nationalism has been pinged as something anti-American and intolerant, they can take steps to drive out the faith, to drive away the patriotism, to drive off the very roots of American Exceptionalism. Then, they can move America even further down the road toward communism and Marxism.
This is the left’s disgust with Christian nationalists.
This is why Democrats oh so detest Christian nationalist.
“I’ve never witnessed anything quite like what we are seeing today: Open Christian nationalism is being espoused by so many at different levels in government, from school boards all the way to presidential candidates,” Free Thought Now! wrote. “As a minority, Christian nationalists aren’t fully in charge at the moment, but intend to be.”
Amen, brother,
Skippedy-doo, sister.
America’s founding ideals — that of God-given individualism and a government that humbly serves to protect that individualism — cannot be whisked away by the spirits of darkness masquerading as politicians in the Democrat Party. America’s greatness comes from the ideal that all are created in the image of God; that all have worth and value and talents and skills from God; that all are born into sin and need God for moral direction and teaching — to stay on the godly path; and that government exists solely to serve in humble roles to preserve and protect those inherent, natural, God-given rights and liberties.
Christian nationalists to the rescue!
America needs more Hibbs — more Christian nationalism — to recover from the years of wicked Democrat and leftist and globalist rule.
If America is to be free, Americans must embrace, not flee, the Christian nationalist label.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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