Politically correct chameleons or passionately committed Christians?

I am absolutely exasperated, infuriated, and indignant over the whole concept of political correctness. Political correctness is just another term for social, national, and religious demolition.

Because of political correctness our country has stopped getting stronger and more influential and has become weaker and less influential. We have lost all respect for authority in the home, school, church, and nation. Instead of authority ruling its constituents, the constituents rule authority. There is an insidious rebellion taking place whereby power is methodically being wrested from the traditional rulers and placed in the hands of “the occasional will of the people.”

In political correctness all language, philosophy, and beliefs are reduced to the lowest common denominator so that no one is offended. Tolerance is exalted and convictions are diluted.

For example, since there are those who now believe that climate change has moved from scientific theory to dogma, there are now proposals that “global warming deniers” be treated the same as “holocaust deniers” and suffer professional ostracism, belittlement, ridicule, and even jail.

Some politically correct advocates think “history” is a pejorative term and prefer “herstory,” because it takes the male element out of the word. Though there are more than 800,000 Google citations for “herstory,” they are all based on a mistaken assumption. When Herodotus wrote the first history, the word meant simply an “inquiry.”

To press home the point, the staff at a coffee shop refused to serve a customer who had ordered a “black coffee,” believing it to be “racist.” He wasn’t served until he changed his order to “coffee without milk.”

Furthermore, the headmistress of an elementary school had to divide a grade into two equal classes. Although the students were divided purely by alphabet, parents objected because they feared that the children in class 1b might be perceived as academically inferior to the children in class 1a.

Since 9/11 some of the PC activists believe that we should use the term “misguided criminals” for terrorists, because the word “terrorist” can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding.

And, of course, the PC fanatics think we should pray, “Our Mother and Father Who are in heaven” and insist that if we must sing during the winter solstice, a term which they prefer over Christmas, that we should sing “God Rest Ye Merry Persons” for “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.”

The Common Era (C.E.) is much to be preferred over A.D. (Latin for: in the year of our Lord) for proponents of political correctness.

Tony Perkins, who heads the Family Research Council in Washington, recently reported that Great Britain is drowning in a wave of political correctness. He states, “As the country copes with an influx of Muslims, the church and government find it extremely difficult to maintain their British identity. As an example, the Church of England is considering removing the cross of St. George from its flag because of its association with the medieval crusades. The debate has enraged citizens who are concerned that the country may soon become unrecognizable in its pursuit of cultural pluralism.”

Perkins also exposed a growing problem in the public school curriculum of England. He explained, “For fear of ‘offending’ Muslim students, teachers have become increasingly hesitant to teach history lessons on the Holocaust because of the students’ predominantly anti-Semitic feelings. A government study found that educators are also afraid to tackle the 11th century crusades, in which Christians fought Islam for control of the Holy Land, or the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since the curriculum often conflicts with what some children are taught at the local mosques, some teachers are dropping the lessons altogether.”

The developing trend in Great Britain, America, and across the world is to use history as a means, not for teaching the truth, but for promoting a value-free form of tolerance. It is utter madness and will ultimately dismantle our Judeo-Christian-structured American society and the traditions we hold dear.

As we stand at the front of the third American century, most citizens of our country know all too little about the first two. As a nation we don’t visit historical sites, don’t learn our nation’s stories, don’t recognize the people and places that shaped this nation, and, unfortunately, much of our history has now been rewritten to reflect the cultural diversity and religious pluralism that prevails today. Consequently, we are gradually losing our national sovereignty, our role as a world power, and most importantly our distinctiveness as a Christian nation.

Unfortunately, the cancer of political correctness has metastasized in American life and has infected our schools, our entertainment, our media, and even many of our churches. Those who name the name of Christ must make a choice! Do we want to be politically correct chameleons or passionately committed Christians with the will to learn the truth, speak the truth, and live the truth regardless of the consequences?