Post-America's culture war is actually spiritual warfare

I won't belabor the entire matter of my becoming a Christian here. Longtime LITD readers know that it was a process of working through a series of sticking points, from Biblical accounts of supernatural occurrences to Christ as the exclusive route to salvation to man-woman relations. (Sometimes I shock myself at how far I've moved away from bristling at the notion of male headship in the family and the church - it just seemed so unfair and limiting to the entire female sex - to embracing it because it is the natural and God-designed way things work out.)

My focus here is one particular sticking point: the existence of a real Satan. Toward the end of my pre-Christian faith period - long after I'd considered myself a serious adherent of the whole Eastern all-is-one viewpoint - I'd become your basic postmodern secular agnostic. My attitude was, "Sure, I guess there's a God of some sort, but it's not really too far up my list of things to think about on a daily basis."

I was an ideologically solid conservative, though. That conversion experience came earlier. Naturally, then, much that was coming down the nation's sociocultural pike was sticking in my craw. The irritation turned into downright alarm. Still, I looked at the cultural rot as something to be dealt with in an earthly manner.

Finally, though, I took a look at developments like Obergefell v Hodges and the boycott-and-divest-from-Israel movement and the perpetuation of the lie that there was a racial angle to the Michael Brown / Darren Wilson / Ferguson incident and the perpetuation of the lie that the global climate was in a state of crisis, and the word "demonic" bubbled up quite on its own among my thoughts.

A principal characterization of Satan is that he is the father of lies. He furthers his darkness by convincing us of the supposed veracity of what is not true.

That's how the mainstreaming of transgenderism, which is a tragic mental illness, occurred.

Satan is a pretty good gaslighter, too. He says, "You are the one operating under a delusion if you insist that there are only two genders, and that a person is always of the gender that his or her DNA says that he or she is."

He's even convinced one current presidential candidate - the former mayor of San Antonio - that women under the delusion that they are men, and who mutilate their crotches accordingly, can then get pregnant.

In fact, he makes a moral case out of it. Our basketball league, my rock band, our corporation, will boycott your state if you insist on clinging to the rules for restroom use that everyone observed until last year! We will not tolerate your injustice!

The making of a moral case out of it is particularly horrifying when applied to the insistence that it is the just position to permit the popping of a hole in someone's skull and vacuuming her or his brains out - and them pulling her or his limbs from her or his torso. (It's appropriate here to extend kudos to Clint Eastwood, who intends to continue filming movies in Georgia.)

Can there be any doubt of the demonic essence of the continued harassment of baker Jack Phillips? Yes, he won his Supreme Court case, and, yes, there's no serious refuting of the argument that the free market provides a win-win for Christian wedding-service providers as well as homosexual couples who can go down the street and find a non-Christian provider who will happily bake the cake or provide the photography for their "wedding." So there is no reason for the continued harassment of Phillips other than to perpetuate the devil's designs. In fact, the latest example of harassment is quite explicitly about that:

One requester demanded that Jack Phillips bake a cake for Satan, complete with a working sex toy.

And the above-mentioned celebrants of gender dysphoria are trying to make his life miserable as well:

Another request involved a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside — which wasn’t a problem until the caller said it was meant to commemorate her transition from male to female.

Is there any other explanation for the burgeoning child-drag-queen phenomenon?

Sorry, but I’ve had it with headlines like this: “Nine-year-old drag queen is a hit on Instagram.”

As the story explains, “Meet Kween Kee Kee – the ‘baby drag queen’ who is teaching his own teachers a lesson about gender identities.
“Keegan, 9, lives with his parents and brother in a Christian suburb just outside Austin, Texas. He plays football and video games, and also likes to dress in drag. He usually goes by the pronouns he/his, but his mother Megan describes him as ‘gender creative.’”

This is not healthy. This is not right. This is not good. No amount of LGBTQ spin can make this normal or positive or praiseworthy.

Another article reports, “the dance music is thumping, the audience is giddy and 10-year-old drag artist Queen Lactatia is sashaying up and down a makeshift catwalk in a shimmering metallic dress. The enthusiastic crowd hoots in approval as the diminutive style phenom weaves between tables at the all-ages brunch event, where the Montreal grade-schooler is followed by three more big-haired pre-teen performers, each in varying degrees of glitter, eyelash extensions and rainbow-hued attire.”

We are now at the point in the decline of Western civilization at which the scene resembles what Moses saw when he'd descended Mt. Sinai, tablets in hand. He was so furious he dashed them to the ground, where they shattered into pieces.

Ultimately, he convinced them to turn from their demonic ways. His argument went basically along the lines of, "Do you understand who it was I came face to face with up there? If you think I'm exhibiting wrath, watch his display if you don't knock it off. Now, we still have a long journey through this desert ahead of us. We're not going to make it if you continue to engage in this debauchery. Pull yourselves together, and let's get moving toward the promised land."

Who among us will convincingly exhort us in the present to say with one voice to the father of lies, "get thee behind us"?