GIRD YOUR LOINS FOR BATTLE, BABY!
Ron DeSantis delivered these fiery remarks at the Sunshine Summit's Victory Dinner.
Now, I feel the immediate need to address the triggered Big Eva disciple out there who is VERY upset that Ronny D would quote the Bible.
"Doesn't he know that Ephesians 6 specifically says our fight is not against 'flesh and blood'?"
I can see the staff of Christianity Today penning a new article on "Christian Nationalism" this very moment.
Even worse are those of you who go to "churches" where a rainbow flag flies over the door.
"He's basically calling for a new crusade!! Where's my Handmaid's Tale costume?"
Slow your roll, buckos.
He isn't calling for the blood of lefties themselves. Go and listen again. Instead, he is calling out the ideology of leftism, with its wholesale rejection of traditional morality, objective truth, and reality itself. He is calling for people to fight against the ideology of power and oppression and Marxist hierarchy that the Left teaches.
A Christian must believe that there is evil in the world, and that it isn't just some nebulous modern Disney villain brought on by disharmony.
From Ephesians 6:12-13:
Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
The Bible teaches that there are actual demonic forces that rule this fallen world, and have since man disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden.
From Matthew 4:8-10:
Again, the devil took [Jesus] to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."
Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"
The Christian believes that God gives people and societies over to their sins when their shameful desires lead them astray (Romans 1:24) and that they become slaves to that sin and the dark powers behind it (Romans 6:16).
The Christian also believes that these "spiritual forces of evil" twist the minds of men and women, crafting powerful ideologies that lead astray millions and cause suffering and genocide of unimaginable scale.
Therefore, when a Christian sees girls being chopped up in the name of transgenderism, full-term babies being joyfully killed in the name of sexual "freedom," sexual predators teaching in schools, men being named "Woman of the Year," children being indoctrinated to hate one another based on skin color, hard work being called "racist," and objective truth being called a myth, they have no choice but to assume that this is the devil's scheme.
For those that see the danger but do nothing, they are worse than the most cowardly soldier, for as Martin Luther said, "Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."
Unlike the politicians who butcher Scripture to stroke their own egos, Ron DeSantis actually seems to believe what the Good Book says. Even if you're not a Christian, I hope it's refreshing to see someone with a consistent worldview.
And having a man like that in power is dangerous to the ruler of this world.
After all, that's the type of man the fictional demon Screwtape warned his demon nephew Wormwood about in C.S. Lewis's famous "Screwtape Letters."
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
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