Saturday, April 15, 2023

D.L. Gardner: Overcome Evil with Good

“But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head. Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.” How should Christians respond to hateful attacks? 


The level of hate and violence has risen precipitously over the past decade. God’s command to believers to “overcome evil with good” is contrary to human nature. God is teaching believers His ways are not only different from our ways, but His ways are much better than our ways. 


Last week after former president Trump was indicted for … for what? No one knows or cares. He was indicted. And, commentators across all media spewed excessive hate toward him and his followers. His followers? Yes. Were they indicted too? Yes. For what? For not hating Trump as much as everybody else and for being stupid and stubborn. One pundit labeled Trump’s supporters “white Christian nationalists!” Wow! I resemble that charge. 


“White?” That sounds racist? Do Trump’s Black supporters identify as white people? How about “Christian?” Oh my! That sounds like Christophobia? Why would Trump’s detractors hate Christians? Nationalists? Like those who love America? Haters have to hate those who love what they hate. 


America is entering our 8th year of hating Trump. The hate began roughly around the time he announced he was running for president. His supporters believed he could turn America around with solid economic policies, that he could make us stronger on the international stage, and that he might even make the world a safer place. Nothing personal against the other side. 


The other side hated Trump from the beginning, but they didn’t stop there. They hated Trump’s supporters, calling them a basket of irredeemable deplorables. Then they got really nasty and created lies about Trump through federal law enforcement agencies that were supported by legacy media as well as social media. 


We know where the hate is coming from, and we can see who the haters are targeting. Supporters of Trump who happen to be Christians find themselves in a dilemma. How do we respond to those who hate us literally because we are Christians who support Trump? We should not be overcome by evil, but we should overcome evil with good.


Christians who support Trump should concentrate on issues, not on personalities. Above all, Christians should not call others names. A pundit on a progressive cable news program noted that Trump’s supporters would always vote for him “because of his policies.” What? What a radical idea! Supporting a candidate because of his or her policies rather than voting for a candidate who is cool and popular. 


Back to the point: politics is just politics. Christians are the most persecuted groups in the world according to the vast majority of polls and fact finders. Jesus told His disciples that if the world hated them, they should not be surprised - the world obviously hated Jesus then, and hates Him even more today. Moreover, the world hates Christians more than any other group because Jesus is God.


“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.


Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

D L has become dreadful.

Anonymous said...

I am overchallenged if expected to not deride, ridicule and list grievances against Marxists who live to promote evil and destroy good in the world.

Anonymous said...

Does DL pay to have these columns posted here?

Anonymous said...

I don’t consider commies, aka so-called “progressives” to even be Americans, much less people.

Anonymous said...

Socialism - When "subjects" or the citizen constituents themselves campaign for it - it's a mental illness that leads to them voting for their own suicide.

Communism - When narcissist psychopaths take advantage of the uneducated through the political process of government to grab more power over people simple for control and nothing more - it's a mental illness that has led the citizens to have voted for their own murder.

Economic Nationalism = America First. - Putting all Americans as the priority of all tax dollar utilization so that they may thrive while limiting the amount of government interference in their freedom. Less government = more freedom... and personal accountability.

The entire "establishment" (corporate media/governments) is evil in that it is at war with the concept of being limited and held accountable to anything - especially the working people of the world. They want to silence us, and ultimately erase us.

The Patriot Pastor

On January 21, 1776, at the Lutheran church in Woodstock, Virginia, Pastor Muhlenberg preached from the third chapter of Ecclesiastes, which starts, “To everything there is a season.” After reading the eighth verse, “a time of war, and a time of peace,” he declared, “And this is the time of war.” He then threw off his clerical robe to reveal the uniform of a Continental Army Colonel. It turns out that Pastor Muhlenberg also had a military background, and George Washington had personally asked him to raise and command the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army.

Outside the church, drums began to roll as the men in the congregation turned to kiss their wives and then walked down the aisle of the church to enlist. Within a half hour, 162 men had joined the 8th Virginia Regiment and marched on to fight for their country’s independence.

After the Revolutionary War, John Muhlenberg went on to serve the new Republic in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The “Patriot Pastor” became a great American story of faith and freedom.

Don't follow D.L. Gardner to the slaughter.

Anonymous said...

@7:42, FYI “aka so-called” is redundant. Best, a progressive American person.

Anonymous said...

Quite the pity party from Daniel. Pathetic.

Anonymous said...

That makes about as much sense as making rules for a war.

Anonymous said...

"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." -- Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

And Wilson would be one who knew, too.


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