If Oprah Winfrey has her way Universalism will dominate religious discourse. By advent of her extreme popularity and influence now even in the political arena, Christians may be shamed into accepting her worldview or at least to be silent about their own. She called Barack Obama “The One” and helped propel him to the White House.
Barack and Michelle Obama have been friends with Oprah for a long time. They agree with her philosophy of many paths to God. The Obama’s say they are followers of Christ. Their former pastor and also Oprah’s pastor for awhile was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Rev. Wright taught them the Biblically errant concept of black liberation theology. Rev. Wright also taught that Jesus is NOT the only way of salvation, that that hell doesn’t exist, and that practicing homosexuals will still go to heaven. Oprah is no longer attending Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church, but she is now promulgating New Age philosophies using her magazine, radio, and television as a platform.
She accepts the New Age Bible, A Course in Miracles, as being one of her sources of truth. It states that there is no sin. How convenient. If there is no sin, then one can behave in any way they deem appropriate. That is the theory of relativism. Everything is relative. What may be sin for one is not necessarily sin for another. Hence, a mother’s right to have control over her own body trumps the right of the life inside her womb.
The Bible is not vague concerning the issues of the right of the unborn child, the act of homosexuality, or cohabitation. Scriptures relating to these vital Christian standards are not based on “obscure” passages of scripture as Barack Obama has stated in his book, The Audacity of Hope. Yet, the ideology of Oprah and Obama is pervading our culture with a vengeance. Traditional Christianity is perceived by these proponents as backward, out of touch, and unintelligent. By the mere fact of a media or political person’s powerful communication abilities, Christians are being deceived and shamed into silence or compliance.
In my new book, The Oprahfication of Our Culture, I call this silence cultural Christianity. It is time for believers to avoid compromise by being “uncultured” Christians. This is not the hour for believers to cower into the corners of society and hope for the best. Speak out for what you believe! Stand up and having done all to stand, stand! Don’t be intimidated into silence.
Are we still a center/right country or are we advancing more toward the extremist left in ideology? Three states, California, Arizona and Florida, just asserted conservative values by passing constitutional amendments corroborating traditional marriage as being between a man and a woman, a real hindrance to the homosexual agenda. Yet, lawsuits have been proposed in California to try and abrogate the will of the people. Is a church leader open game for litigation by pundits who challenge him to quote the Bible from his platform, because their perspective of scripture is that of “hate speech?” Does the Bible breach certain assumed civil rights? Do those civil rights negate the freedom of speech and of religion we have appreciated for over two hundred years in our awesome country? Where does the path that we are on lead?
It looks like the prophet Isaiah discerned this interval in our history when he said, Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 The Amplified Bible
Things seem to be turning upside down. Practicing Christians are depicted as hate mongering extremists for simply differing with “politically correct” views of the cultural establishment in New York, Washington and Hollywood. In spite of these very unrelenting, well staked, fanatical, left predisposed voices, Christians are warned to be watchmen on the wall and sound the alarm (Mark 13:35-37). God’s Holy Word is not hate speech. It is the axiom of righteousness in an morally decadent world. Sit not in quietude. Be aware, pray and, be vocal. Stand out for truth.
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