The following is shared on behalf of Michelle Buckman, a Catholic fiction writer I have great respect for.
CHRISTIANS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
Evil is triumphing because good men didn’t
do
anything. No one would listen in 1994.
Government controlled healthcare has resulted in almost all
healthcare providers being hooked into huge corporate conglomerates. Homosexual
marriage is not only valid, but forcing Christians to participate through their
businesses. Baby parts are being sold for big profit. Transgenderism—where is
that headed? And at the root of it all, Christianity being attacked and
systematically destroyed, or at the very least, stymied. Anything Christians
speak against is railed at as being racism or bigotry, while every other
religion is given free reign. Tolerance is only for the immoral.
The pathway to this free-for-all was visible in the ’90s for
those willing to stop, look, and listen.
Back then (1996), there was a push for the Defense of
Marriage Act (DOMA). People acted like it was no big deal. Why, they asked, do we need
to defend marriage? It’s been around since the beginning of time? What’s to
defend?
Back then, no one was challenged for being Christian.
Transgenderism was an odd mental condition that few people even pondered; the
actual physical condition of people being born with more than one set of
genitals so rare that it was an anomaly, and certain not something discussed in
daily conversations.
Back then, the one issue that was being discussed was abortion,
legalized twenty years earlier and growing in numbers as the agenda was pushed
in schools and every forum possible as being for the safety and benefit of
women, to protect girls from suffering back-alley procedures and from the
mental stress of raising unwanted children.
I was a young mother at the time, very attuned to the
political ramifications of issues at hand and appalled that no one could see
what was coming. So, I wrote a book about where we were headed:
Death Panels.
Back then, the book was titled Liberty because that’s what
it is about—people remembering that the value of our country lies in our
extraordinary liberty, and how political agenda was bent on first restricting
and then destroying the fantastic liberty on which our nation was founded
because the plan to thwart the domination of Christianity was already underway.
When I wrote
DeathPanels, I did my best to make everything as farfetched as possible. I
wanted to shake people up enough that they would consider where the various
pushes against Christianity could lead. Unfortunately, I was a new author and
after one publisher’s acceptance that ended up falling to rejection in favor of
another book, I abandoned the manuscript until 2008, when Obama was elected. I
presented it to Tan Books / St. Benedict Press and it was bought and published in
2010.
Now, six years later, many aspects of the story have come
true, or can more clearly seen as the end result of our current path. You’ll
see, this isn’t about hating anyone. It’s about loving people, but not
embracing their sins as normal, acceptable behavior.
Read it. Think it through. Pass it on.
Stand firm in your beliefs.
