By
Dr. Patrick Johnston
November
27, 2012
The
wrong diagnosis leads to the wrong remedy
A
250-pound man with powdered sugar on his OSU sweatshirt was in my office
recently complaining of an infected toe. “It’s an allergy
to that new BP drug,” he insisted. “My toe got red and started
draining yellow as soon as you put me on it.”
A
careful history and examination revealed that the patient had uncontrolled
diabetes and a severe diabetic foot infection. “It’s not
the BP drug,” I informed him. “It’s your donuts. If
we don’t get your diabetes under control, a surgeon’s gonna
have to amputate your toe or foot to save your life.”
Identifying
the symptom’s easy – “my toe has an open ulcer.”
Finding the cause, however, is more complex. Coincidence is not conclusive
evidence. Just because the patient’s symptoms began when he started
medication for his blood pressure, that doesn’t mean the med caused
it. Needless to say, without discovering the true cause of his symptoms,
we would never have cured it.
The
greatest single threat to American liberty is… (drum roll, please)
Listen
up religious conservatives: God is a greater threat to American
liberty than Obama. As news spreads on the front pages of newspapers
all over the country that hundreds of thousands of people have added
their names to online petitions encouraging the secession of every state
in the union since Obama was re-elected, and as the number of signatures
grow exponentially, let’s keep the true cause of our loss of liberties
at the forefront of our minds. Just because our freedoms and prosperity
began dwindling dramatically when Obama took office, it does not mean
that Obama is the principle cause.
Why
is God a greater threat to American liberty than Obama? There are three
sins that repeatedly are mentioned in the Bible as reasons God punishes
and destroying nations:
1.
the shedding of innocent blood,
2. the toleration of sodomy, and
3. idolatry.
2. the toleration of sodomy, and
3. idolatry.
Judgments
are pronounced in Scripture not only against the nation of Israel –
the “apple of God’s eye” – but also Gentile
nations (Jeremiah 18:7-10). Nations that slaughter as many people as
our nation has – almost 55 million since Roe v. Wade
legalized abortion-on-demand – deserve tyranny. When we
promote the toleration of sodomy at taxpayer expense to our nation’s
public school children, in our federal and state bureaucracy policies,
and in allowing tens of thousands of sodomites to march the city streets
at annual gay pride parades (they march nude in Columbus, Ohio) –
we deserve tyranny. Nations where the public proclamation of
God’s law and Jesus’ lordship in our courthouses and schoolhouses
can get you sued, expelled from your teaching position, or booted out
of office – such nations deserve tyranny.
Tyranny
is a beast worthy to be feared, but if you fear tyranny more than you
fear God, you’ve not identified the proper cause of the threat
to your liberty and you’re consuming the wrong remedy. You’re
like an athlete who’s running the race in the wrong direction.
You’re like a patient with a diabetic foot infection eating donuts
to make his infection go away.
Romney
is a donut
Why
is this important? Most of the secession movements have been motivated
by fear of what Obama’s going to do economically during his next
four years in office: higher taxes, more business-choking regulation,
more expensive environmental conservation measures, more gun control,
more illegal immigration, and more welfare. These are symptoms, not
causes of tyranny. It’s like putting a bandaid on a diabetic foot
infection, and eating more sugar-coated donuts. It’s the wrong
remedy. Even if Texas secedes, it will not abate the wrath of God they
deserve for the shedding of innocent blood in Texas.
If
Romney had been elected, the secession movements out there would be
practically non-existent and wouldn’t make any headlines. Why?
The same people signing the secession petitions today would have rested
content with Mitt Romney. But was Romney a threat to child-killing in
America? No – he ran pro-choice commercials to counter Obama’s
charge that he’d recriminalize abortion. His healthcare plan when
he was governor of Massachusetts included $50-copay-taxpayer-subsidized
abortion. He forced Catholic charities to prescribe abortifacient-drugs
or lose funding. Was he a threat to legalized sodomy? Not at all. When
he was governor of Massachusetts, he gave the nation the first state
to legalize same-sex marriage, and he did so by executive order contrary
to the Massachusetts state constitution. He opposed the Boy Scouts forbidding
active homosexuals to serve as Scoutmasters. As a Mormon, he belongs
to a polytheistic religion that teaches that Satan and Jesus are brothers.
Why is fear of Obama causing such an outpouring of support for secession
while fear of Romney did not? Because we think a sugar-coated donut’s
going to heal our malady. Because we think Obama’s the problem,
not our sin. Because we fear Obama’s unconstitutional executive
orders more than we fear God’s wrath.
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