Grow Up! by Everett Piper

Author:Everett Piper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2021-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

Not a Buffet

Maybe a symptom of much that ails our culture today is all the cheat codes we find in video games. If you have ever played games, or watched your kids do the same, you know that buried in many of these games you can find the right combination of codes that allows you to skip levels, avoid some of the rules, and get a leg up against the game’s enemy. The implicit lesson here is that the rules don’t matter as much as having the skill it takes to figure out how to break them.

In the old days, games such as Monopoly, Candy Land, and chess came with a little pamphlet that listed and defined the rules. The game was meant to be played by those rules. Breaking the rules had a name: cheating. There were no “cheat codes.”

Christianity is similar to the old games, not the new. The rules of Christianity don’t change every time someone joins the game. There are no cheat codes that allow you to progress through life with more ease. Doctrine and practice have been established. And the “game” wasn’t defined just yesterday. We can trace it back a couple millennia.

Recently, Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a 2020 presidential candidate, took to the national stage to attack Vice President Mike Pence and, by association, tens of millions of America’s orthodox Christians.

“My [homosexual] marriage,” said Mr. Buttigieg, “has made me a better man. And yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God. If being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far above my pay grade. That’s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand, that if you have a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”

This wasn’t an isolated rhetorical cheap shot. Earlier, in 2019, Mr. Buttigieg criticized Vice President Pence by saying, “Who would think that this uber-Evangelical Christian would go down in history as the midwife of the porn star presidency? If he were here you would think he’s a nice guy to your face, but he’s also just fanatical. How could he allow himself to become the cheerleader of the porn star presidency? Is it that he stopped believing in the scripture when he started believing in Donald Trump?”

Mr. Buttigieg’s ridicule of the Pences’ religious convictions persists, in spite of the fact that Mr. Pence has done nothing but show grace and respect at every turn. “I hold Mayor Buttigieg in the highest personal regard,” said Mr. Pence. “I see him as a dedicated public servant and patriot.” There is no record of Mr. Pence’s ever insulting Mr. Buttigieg or returning his mockery with similar derision, despite the fact that both served the state of Indiana together when Mike Pence was the state’s governor. Mr. Pence has shown remarkable restraint and nothing but civility and a generous spirit of true tolerance.

I won’t exercise the same restraint.

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