Regime Christians Are Sadducees Who Don’t Care if Their Children Live Free, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, February 2, 2024

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His upcoming book is No Second Amendment, No First.

Here’s a quick quiz you can use to test yourself on what kind of person you are. Also what kind of Christian. Grace doesn’t destroy or replace nature, but builds on it. And if your edifice of faith rests on shifting sands or a bubbling swamp, it won’t stand through the storm.

Which is more important to you:

a) Keeping your hands squeaky clean, associating with sophisticated and prestigious people, and steering far clear of any threat of persecution? Or:

b) Helping your neighbors, fellow citizens, and fellow believers in a time of vicious hatred for our faith?

Which incentive prevails in your decisions about living your faith in the public square:

a) Offering a “witness” to the powers that be — which hate the Church — that you are harmless, docile, and in no way threatening to them? Or:

b) Doing whatever it takes — within the moral law, if not current bourgeois norms — to guarantee that your children and their children will be free to live out their faith? ….

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