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Civil rights activists love to flatter themselves by assuming they would have been on the right side of history ‘if they were around back then’.
The same people that think they’d be on the right side of Selma, are siding with police crackdowns like what we’re seeing in the supposedly ‘Progressive’ city of Amsterdam:
Riot police in Amsterdam violently shut down an anti-lockdown protest today after leftist mayor Femke Halsema triggered an emergency order to stop the march. The Netherlands has been in Covid lockdown & gatherings of more than 2 are illegal. pic.twitter.com/AphZew85LI
— Andy Ngô ?️? (@MrAndyNgo) January 2, 2022
Here is how the protest started — with a large banner that read, “Less Repression, More Care.”
2022-01-02 +++ Amsterdam +++ #2januariamsterdam #klaarmetrutte #wef #eindelockdownnu #Museumplein #StopQR #HoldTheLine #NoThankYou #NoVaccinePassport #coronaprotest #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/ao979tVQL6
— Guerrilla Reporters (@GuerrillaRepor1) January 2, 2022
Riot Police arrived with K9 units.
2022-01-02 +++ Amsterdam +++ #2januariamsterdam #klaarmetrutte #wef #eindelockdownnu #Museumplein #StopQR #HoldTheLine #NoThankYou #NoVaccinePassport #coronaprotest #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/tPwkUtfKpn
— Guerrilla Reporters (@GuerrillaRepor1) January 2, 2022
Claiming you won’t make the same bad judgments as earlier generations have is an awfully easy boast to make since nobody can put that claim to the test. We are not currently living in, for example, 1930s Germany and most people making those boasts weren’t even born in the Civil Rights era when protests were met with hoses and dogs. They are events that are tucked neatly and safely in history books.
Such boasts can only be measured against decisions made today, while we are faced with the current crop of civil rights questions.
Would you still maintain those civil rights values, no matter who is on the receiving end of police mistreatment? Or do you conveniently move the goalposts to suit your politics?
Would you stand against those same dogs and hoses when the people they are turned against have already been deemed society’s villains? Would you still stand for their right to peaceful protest when the changes they are demanding are ones you are NOT prepared to accept?
THAT is the real test. And people today have been failing it.
Badly.
Psalms of War: Prayers That Literally Kick Ass is a collection, from the book of Psalms, regarding how David rolled in prayer. I bet you haven’t heard these read, prayed, or sung in church against our formidable enemies — and therein lies the Church’s problem. We’re not using the spiritual weapons God gave us to waylay the powers of darkness. It might be time to dust them off and offer ‘em up if you’re truly concerned about the state of Christ’s Church and of our nation.
Also included in this book, Psalms of War, are reproductions of the author’s original art from his Biblical Badass Series of oil paintings.
This is a great gift for the prayer warriors. Real. Raw. Relevant.
