OPINION:
This week, Vice President Kamala Harris tweeted, “One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree” with her and presumably vote for her in November.
In response to the post, former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy asked the following. “Dear Vice President, I hear you make this statement all the time. Exactly what ’faith’ are you talking about?” He went further: “Are you talking about [the Christian faith] or some nebulous, general ’faith’ …? What ’faith’ are you [referring to]?”
Mr. Dungy is absolutely right. Today, when we hear politicians talk about faith, the first question we should ask is what Mr. Dungy just asked Ms. Harris: “Exactly what ’faith’ are you talking about?”
All of Ms. Harris’ talk about “deeply held beliefs” is, frankly, about as meaningless as President Barack Obama’s mantra of “hope and change.” When someone begging for our vote uses such ethereal and lofty language, we should all be like Tony Dungy and ask, “Hope for what, change what and faith in what?”
The question here is really quite basic. When Ms. Harris talks about faith, is she talking about faith in God or faith in government?
To paraphrase Robert A.J. Gagnon of Wesley Biblical Seminary, when Ms. Harris speaks of “deeply held beliefs,” is she referring to those of Moses, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, or is she talking about the faith of Sodom, Gomorrah and the Canaanites? Is hers a belief in Jesus — maker of heaven and earth — or is it in Moloch, debauchery and child sacrifice?
When the vice president says we don’t need to abandon our faith to vote for her, is she talking about faith in state-sponsored child abuse through the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors? Or how about the state’s abduction of dependent children from parents who don’t support their 12-year-old’s gender confusion to the government’s satisfaction? Does the vice president’s religion include all of this?
Do Ms. Harris’ deeply held beliefs include using the Justice Department to go after those who exercise their First Amendment right to publicly disagree with her morality or the lack thereof concerning abortion, sexual license, socialism and censorship?
Or how about Ms. Harris’ faith in the government’s prosecution of her chief political opponent? Is this a good and moral thing to do?
Does she believe we should be arresting and jailing protesters who want fair and honest elections? Does Ms. Harris have faith in the voting fraud threatening our country of the 10 million foreign nationals she, as our border czar, has permitted to enter our country illegally?
Does Ms. Harris have faith in a Department of Homeland Security that cites pro-life advocates and conservative homeschool parents as potential terrorist threats while her own actions have permitted members of Central American gangs and drug cartels to infiltrate our neighborhoods, parks and communities? Does Ms. Harris have faith in a political party that does all this?
Does the vice president have faith in a government that threatens Christian and Jewish schools with loss of accreditation if they don’t bow to the god of sexual nihilism?
Does she have faith in appointing Supreme Court justices such as Ketanji Brown Jackson, who can’t even define what a woman is?
Does she have faith in providing free, i.e., taxpayer-funded, gender-transition surgeries to all prisoners and illegal immigrants who want them? Does she have faith in the inflation that her senile boss and she have imposed on Americans?
Does she have faith in a never-satiated welfare state and the theft by taxes it imposes on all of us?
Does she have faith in defunding police departments while crime runs rampant in the streets of Baltimore, Miami, Milwaukee and Seattle? Does she have faith in the Black Lives Matter rioters who burned entire neighborhoods in 2020?
Does she have faith in her stated goal to ignore our Second Amendment rights and impose a gun buyback on us so we can no longer defend ourselves against criminals?
Does she have faith in a woman’s “right” to kill her healthy baby as a means of birth control?
The list could go on.
It is said that talk is cheap and that actions speak louder than words. With all this talk of faith and deeply held beliefs, we might do well to remember the words of St. James, which might carry a little more weight on such topics than those of our vice president:
“You say you have faith. I will show you my faith by what I do. … Even the demons believe and tremble.”
• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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