by Thomas Reiner, ©2024
(Aug. 12, 2024) — First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller
Go see the ”Letter to the American Church” movie and learn the dangers of an apathetic church, clergy and worshipers. We are less than eighty years from Mao, Stalin and Hitler when over 100,000,000 people were murdered due to apathy followed by fear, then terror. This is NOT ancient history. God does not want us to be apathetic where many Christians seem to believe they can hitchhike to heaven by simply doing nothing worldly. Some believe it is okay to do nothing because everything is in God’s hands, not realizing that God put us in God’s hands to act. We are responsible to be both secularly and spiritually active. That is the real meaning of “rendering unto Caesar” found in the New Testament.
Many Christians refuse to vote which is tantamount to a sin against the many blessings that have been bestowed upon us, gained by blood. Only 45.90% of registered voters cast a ballot in our recent Yavapai Primary. Many of these non-voters are Christians and gun owners (which we’ll get to momentarily). We are already on the familiar road to Marxism whose goal is the destruction of culture, abolition of religion and the destruction of the family. Apathy and misinterpretation of God’s word will make this a jackboot reality if we don’t register to vote and then vote. Sharia Law has already come to parts of Europe. When it arrives in your neighborhood, your church will lose its 501(c) tax-exempt status and then be shuttered because you didn’t vote. It is time for all Christians and Jews to stand against the coming oppression by expressing your Love through voting.
America is a blessed country, unlike any in history. Our Founding Fathers possessed the wisdom that our godly gift called the American Constitution can work only if there is a virtuous population supporting it. We are bestowed Rights from God but responsibilities arise from these rights. No other country can lay claim to this universal truth.
Now the same warning goes to the apathetic, non-voting gun owners. As reported in the New York Post: “Vote4America data show that if Republicans don’t address political apathy among their gun-owning base in key swing states, they’ll have far fewer voters in their arsenal to score victories this November.”
“A breakdown of the data reveals a major shortfall in voter registration among gun owners in the states that will decide the 2024 election: 515,277 in Pennsylvania and around 370,000 each in Michigan and North Carolina. Georgia, Wisconsin, Missouri and Virginia all have more than half a million hunters and gun owners unregistered, and Arizona has the smallest shortfall at 133,000”. We can make the difference between liberty and despotism by voting.
“REGISTER TO VOTE AND THEN VOTE!”
Please share this with your preachers, ministers, rabbis, fellow Christians, Jews and gun clubs.