Easter – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:57:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://americanconservativemovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-America-First-Favicon-32x32.png Easter – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com 32 32 135597105 Disparity in Jay Inslee’s Easter vs Ramadan Tweets Demonstrates Satanic Left’s Hatred for Christianity https://americanconservativemovement.com/disparity-in-jay-inslees-easter-vs-ramadan-tweets-demonstrates-satanic-lefts-hatred-for-christianity/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/disparity-in-jay-inslees-easter-vs-ramadan-tweets-demonstrates-satanic-lefts-hatred-for-christianity/#respond Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:57:01 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=191644 The war against the faith has been ongoing for many years. There was a time not too long ago when Democrat lawmakers would embrace faith and allow for faith-driven policies. That may be hard to imagine in today’s world, but even Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton originally ran in 2008 against gay marriage. Oh, how times have changed.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is a stereotypical leftist Democrat. Some might even say we can look at him as the standard for the modern Democrat Party — radically woke, militantly anti-freedom, and devoid of any public attachments to reality. That’s why his Tweets about Ramadan and Easter are so different. They give us a clear view into the collective mentality of today’s Democrats.

Here’s what he said about Ramadan:

In observation of Ramadan, we extend our warmest wishes to our Muslim friends and neighbors. May your fasting and prayers bring peace, happiness, and prosperity. Ramadan Mubarak! #Ramadan #RamadanMubarak #RamadanKareem

It’s a respectful post that highlights his reverence and appreciation. He mentioned specific aspects of the Muslim holiday, demonstrating that this wasn’t just a passing, “Happy Ramadan” Tweet.

Now, compare to how he noted Passover:

To all those gathering around a Seder table this evening, Trudi and I wish you a happy Passover. Chag Sameach!

This was far less involved and far more generic. Clearly, he holds the Jewish holiday in lower regard than its Muslim counterpart. At least he mentioned Seder.

Now, compare to what he said about Easter:

Hopping into Easter Sunday with joy and laughter – Trudi and I wish everyone a hoppy and egg-citing Easter! 🐰🥚🌷 #HappyEaster

He is mocking us. He didn’t mention anything about the actual holy day. Instead, he made a conspicuous and clumsy attempt to make this a rabbit holiday.

To anyone who might think the disparity is unintentional, let me state this with absolute clarity. All three Tweets were meticulously crafted to send the exact message Democrats want portrayed. They desperately want to downplay Christianity and to a lesser extent Judaism while bowing to Islam and steering everyone into their true religions of Climate Change Hysteria and the LBGTQIA+ Supremacy Cult.

The war against the faith is accelerating. This is our one and only warning. Within years — not decades — Christianity will be all but outlawed in the United States if Democrats have their way. I am not being an alarmist. This is the path they are on and they won’t stop themselves.

This isn’t new. As mentioned before, Barack Obama used to be mild about abortions, allegedly against gay marriage, and at least pretending to be Christian. Today, he demands as many abortions and gay marriages as possible while ramping up direct attacks against the Bible.

Even Inslee demonstrated pro-Muslim tendencies before. As Todd Hermann noted on Twitter, Inslee’s 2021 Ramadan Tweet even had a revering video:

Nearly everything Democrats are doing against freedom, conservatism, patriotism, and sovereignty in the United States ties directly to their war against the faith. Until more people acknowledge this, we will not be able to mount a proper counter-offensive.

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]]> https://americanconservativemovement.com/disparity-in-jay-inslees-easter-vs-ramadan-tweets-demonstrates-satanic-lefts-hatred-for-christianity/feed/ 0 191644 Bunnies, Heroes, a Savior, and Living Well https://americanconservativemovement.com/bunnies-heroes-a-savior-and-living-well/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/bunnies-heroes-a-savior-and-living-well/#respond Sun, 09 Apr 2023 23:34:21 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=191618 The Easter Bunny is back.  However, during this un-American period, when J6 political prisoners are locked up for their beliefs and President Trump is persecuted for threatening the Deep State’s permanent power, another bunny story leaps to mind: Richard Adams’s adventure novel, Watership Down, about a warren of anthropomorphized rabbits fighting for their survival.  Among the many trials along their journey, the rabbits must escape an idyllic warren that belies its true purpose as a meat farm where our furry friends are kept tranquilly happy before being skinned and eaten.

The parallel to Marxism’s alluring but deadly Utopia is unmistakable.  In order to secure future peace and prosperity, they must also defend themselves from a vicious tyrant ruling a powerful but despotic bunny police state.  Fighting those who insist on their subjugation, the rabbits of Watership Down put their lives on the line time and again for the chance to be free.  With warrantless surveillance, State-sanctioned censorship, and endless media propaganda all strangling America today, this beloved tale is an allegory worth re-reading.

Adams’s novel is also filled with heroes.  There are prophets, warriors, thinkers, and true leaders.  There are moments when great personal sacrifices from the unlikeliest of heroes end up saving the whole group.  Every rabbit has a purpose, a destiny that aids in the warren’s survival.

That’s an important message that is often lost in today’s postmodern world.  It is tempting to become so discouraged with current events that life feels meaningless.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  You are not a “clump of cells.”  You are not an “accident.”  You have been brought into this world for an important reason.  Whether you realize it yet or not, you have a personal calling.

Some people are teachers or healers or builders.  Some are parents and grandparents.  Some are meant to fight, some are meant to counsel restraint, some are meant to lead, and some are meant to spread wisdom.  When you seek out your purpose and pursue it to the best of your abilities, you become a hero to those who learn and prosper from your presence.  Heroes give others hope and create new heroes in the process.

For Christians, Easter is a time for hope.  It is a time for reflection about the meaning of sacrifice, forgiveness, and redemption.  It is an opportunity to concentrate on the eternal blessing of being saved.  It is a chance to put the chaos of this life into proper perspective.

What does it mean to be saved?  Imagine the earth collapsing all around, an immense hole opening up beneath your feet, and the startling recognition that you have begun to fall.  Your arms and legs flail, your mind races, and you grab at every tree root or jagged rock within reach.  You find something to grip, clutch desperately, but it will not hold.  You can feel yourself slipping and realize that you will soon fall away.  Then, out of nowhere, a hand reaches down, grabs you, squeezes you with strength you no longer possess, and lifts you to safety.  That’s what it feels like to be saved.

For some, it comes when all seems lost and that last fingerhold is about to give way.  For others, it happens in the most unexpected time or place.  In every case, though, there is a moment — sometimes inexplicably long in the shortest space — when you realize that you are not alone, that Christ is with you, and that all will be okay.  And being pulled up to solid ground for perhaps the first time in your life, you are left with the unmistakable revelation that nothing going forward will ever be the same.

When that hand reaches for you and you take it, nothing else matters.  It is Christ’s embrace alone that grips the mind from that instant.  You don’t take a breather, thank the hero, and walk away.  You find yourself entranced deep in your soul with an overwhelming sense of having been redeemed.  Whatever path you had been treading fades away, and out of nowhere, a new path appears.  Heroic sacrifice delivers hope and brings new heroes to life.

Does this seem too miraculous to be true?  In an age when science is worshiped like “settled” dogma and religious teachings are rewritten to meet “woke” demands, God’s miracles are often ignored.  Craige McMillan recently wrote an essay, entitled “Are You Reticent about the Supernatural?,” in which he tells the story of four children with life-threatening injuries who were inexplicably healed at a hospital one evening.  The local newspaper never ran a story about the event.  People who heard the story, but did not witness it firsthand, chose to forget it.  Yet it happened.  It was a miracle.  And as with so many other miracles that happen all around us, people looked quickly and then turned the other way.

Will you turn the other way?  Or would you be willing to open your eyes and see what God is doing?  Will you believe — in miracles, in heroes, and in redemption?  Because if you can find the courage to recognize that there are great forces guiding us today, then you will also come to the realization that, though the ground may be falling all around us, there is a steady hand within reach.

There’s a wonderful scene in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln when Daniel Day-Lewis pushes back against his advisers’ pessimism about ever passing the Thirteenth Amendment by exclaiming: “We’re whalers! … We’ve been chasing this whale for a long time.  And we finally placed a harpoon in the monster’s back. … We finish the deed now. … Or with one flop of his tail, he’ll smash the boat and send us all to eternity.”

Every time current events threaten to spoil my mood, those lines echo in my head.  We’re whalers!  What we are doing in this life is not easy.  Defending American liberty from those who would oppress us is hard work.  Resisting State censorship and groupthink comes with dire costs.  Opposing immoral government policies when the whole news media apparatus embraces Deep State goals is not for the faint of heart.  But that is always the way things are when men choose to leave the safety of home, embark upon dangerous adventure, survive on tiny boats, float adrift in vast seas, and slay an enormous beast.

However bad today might look, tomorrow could be tremendous.  All it takes is a little bit of faith and determination to find out.

No matter how great the waters around us or how choppy the waves, not one among us will drown if we refuse to lose our way.  Part of staying on the right path includes recognizing the difference between living the good life and living a good life.  Those who meekly follow woke scripture and the politically correct doctrines of the State may certainly be rewarded with money and titles, but those who embrace truth, defend life, and act with conviction will always be wealthy.  No matter how ruthless tyrants can be, they still pale in comparison to the strength and blessings of an Almighty God.

So I ask again: do you believe in miracles?  Do you believe that God reaches down to catch us when we fall?  Do you believe He makes heroes out of those least likely to be so?  Do you believe living well is more important than being well rewarded?

If so, then no trial in this world is too daunting.  No adversity can best perseverance.  No tyranny can conquer those who insist on freedom.  No villain can steal the hero’s faith.  Believe, and you will find an outstretched hand when you least expect it.  Save others, and you, too, will one day be saved.

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In many ways, this is completely understandable. Bearing an outward similarity at first glance to the ancient Egyptian Anch, a trinket of good fortune from eight centuries prior to the Roman occupation of Judea, it was easily adopted to a presumably similar role. But in a world where real meaning in anything has at times been totally lost to the social trends of the day, and particularly in modern nihilistic culture where so much of life has descended into mindlessness, the irony of its usage on that basis is often completely lost.

The original cross was not only a weapon of execution, it was the means of death by slow, excruciating torture. In that, it far exceeded the ominous cruelty of a gallows or guillotine. Yet certainly, neither of those items are commonly recognizable as popular jewelry or the centerpieces of greeting cards and paintings. No amount of gilding or decoration could ever render them appealing or festive.

Nor is the Cross made desirable simply on the basis of the most noteworthy death it recalls. Try to imagine the impossibility of a stylized hanging noose on a ring or bracelet, intended as any warm reminder of the martyrdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed for his resistance to the Reich in 1945. Such an item would be rightly deemed dark and macabre, no matter how sanitized and ornate it might be.

Of course the Cross is the symbol of the death of the Savior, Jesus Christ. And on that basis it has held a deep significance among Believers for two thousand years. In modern America, and particularly since the madness of anti-Christian ideology has infected and overtaken the culture, it is frequently disdained as an emblem of “white European dominance” and even “Christian Nationalism.” But even prior to the advent of the twisted religion of Marx, it was despised and suppressed by any government that sought uncontested power over the thoughts and allegiances of the common person.

Yet it is just as inarguable that societies have prevailed and flourished, or sunk into squalor and oppression, based specifically on how they reflected the true meaning of the Cross, and the Faith it signified. No doubt some will contest this, on the grounds that not all who bore the Cross faithfully upheld the precepts of Christ. But that was the failure and infidelity of those who operated in such a duplicitous manner, and not the One to whom they falsely made claims of allegiance.

At this writing, we once again observe the events that gained such universal notoriety for the Cross. Were it not for the sacrificial death of Jesus on that coarse and pitiless Cross, it would have been no more noteworthy than the countless forms of brutal death created in the darkened souls of one cruel human being to be inflicted on another, throughout all of the gloom and hopelessness of human history.

Such an epithet might seal the fate of mankind, except that the Cross, and the agonizing end of that most innocent life it signifies, are only part of the message, and the ultimate act of love which God conveyed to the world through it. An obsession to suppress the remainder of that gift to humanity has been pervasive among every self-aggrandizing despot ever since, right up to the anti-Christian movements of the modern day. Those who demand absolute allegiance to their twisted and debasing agenda cannot tolerate any presence of goodness, truth, and redemption. So it was in ancient Judea, when “religious” leaders persuaded Roman governing officials to seal the tomb in which the body of Jesus was placed, after his crucifixion. They hoped to simply bury the evidence, and go back to “business as usual.” Some things never change!

Then came the New Day! Despite all their efforts, a power far greater than all of their malignancy prevailed. The stone blocking the entrance to the tomb was rolled away and Jesus arose from the dead, in an event that absolutely defined all of human history. Efforts to expunge that moment from humanity ever since have been vicious and relentless, but futile.

In this time of escalating fear and oppression, with every form of lunacy overtaking basic sense and reason, we must never lose sight of the Cross, and the One who carried it to the place of His death, to then overcome its sentence on Himself and humanity. When mournful followers went to the place of His burial that glorious morning, they were greeted with a message that has not ceased to resound in the hearts of those seeking Truth “He is not here; for He is risen, just as He said.”

Bio

Christopher G. Adamo is a lifelong conservative from the American Heartland. He has been involved in grassroots and state-level politics for many years, seeking to restore and uphold the Judeo-Christian principles on which our Nation was founded. His book, “Rules for Defeating Radicals,” is the “Go To” guide for effectively confronting and overcoming the dirty tricks of the political left. It is available at Amazon.

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