It seems
that Christianity is now the one religion everyone is free to criticize, mock
or be offended by. Even other Christians. Case in point: some members of the
LGBTQ community are “deeply concerned” about a soon-to-be rebuilt pier in Ocean
Grove, New Jersey. Why? Because it is to be constructed in the shape of a
cross. Gasp!
The Ocean
Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist group,
established the town more than 150 years ago, and still owns the small
beach and boardwalk, as well as the rest of the land that the town and its
businesses sit on. (When buying a home in Ocean Grove, residents must enter
into a land-lease agreement with the camp.)
After the town’s largest pier sustained serious damage
from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the association embarked on an extensive campaign
to rebuild it. The groundbreaking finally took place in July, but the design of
the pier has caused some trepidation among certain residents of the community
and surrounding areas.
Douglas
Grote, a retired Presbyterian pastor who lives in the town, has sent several
letters to officials at the state and local level on behalf of members of the
LGBT community, calling the pier design “Christian bullying.”
“I am so deeply concerned,” Grote told NJ.com. ”And I am so
concerned [for] my neighbors who are scared and bullied.” By a wooden
pier? They’re not particularly concerned about rising crime, street violence,
theft, and car-jacking, but a large dock is frightening them?
Shane
Martins, an attorney and Ocean Grove resident who is gay, claims people are
“being hurt” by the pier. No, Shane, people are being hurt by criminal
recidivism, rising inflation, and vaccine mandates. By contrast, piers let people
walk over water safely.
“Once
this pier is built like a cross, I believe that will be the point of a no
return,” he said to NJ.com. “To say (the cross-shaped pier) doesn’t represent
Christian nationalism — anyone who says that isn’t being honest.” A single jetty
on a small strip of land owned by a church group represents Christian nationalism?
Does a plethora of LGBTQ flags and Pride! banners being carried down city
streets by throngs of people wearing next to nothing represent Gay nationalism?
Should heterosexual Christians feel “scared and bullied” at the sight of just
one such banner or symbol of the LGBTQ community? Does that mean we’ve passed
the “point of no return?”
And then we have the recent Libs of TikTok video in which a person discussed using "god"
as a pronoun. The self-described atheist claimed not to have a gender and
said that "it's like I'm existing" and "not existing at the same
time — god" and "I am a being" but also "not a being ...
like god." Alrighty then.
The person in the video also stated that "'God'
is me validating my agender-ness,” and added, "People can get offended. That's
fine, but nothing else validates my agender-ness like that pronoun.”
The person’s pronoun is “God?” Because “God”
validates agender-ness?
It might be good for that “person” to travel to
Ocean Grove someday, walk out on the pier…and watch the sun rise.
I don’t know about “agender-ness,” but God validates
the skies and the sea, the truth…and eternal life.
His son also rose.
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