Torn by Justin Lee

Author:Justin Lee [LEE, JUSTIN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781455514328
Publisher: Jericho Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Faith Assassins

In the second X-Men film, the evil William Stryker plots to kill all the mutants of the world. Realizing he’s no match for their superpowers, he finds a way instead to poison and control their minds, causing them to use their powers to fight for him instead of against him.

It’s a popular strategy for fictional villains. Nearly every cartoon I watched as a kid had at least one episode in which the heroes were somehow hypnotized or brainwashed into doing their enemies’ bidding. Often, this comes in the form of something that removes the heroes’ free will—The Manchurian Candidate’s subconsciously conditioned sleeper agent who doesn’t know he’s an assassin, for instance, or Star Trek’s Captain Picard being turned into a robotic Borg drone.

Other times, the plot is craftier. In one action thriller, the hero races across town, dodging roadblocks and breaking laws, all in pursuit of a van he believes is carrying a bomb. Only after arriving at his destination does he realize in horror that he’s been tricked. In the film’s shocking conclusion, we learn that the van he was following was clean; the bomb was in his car, and he’s just brought it to the very destination the villains wanted.

A good twist ending, like a good magic trick, depends on misdirection. While you’re watching one hand, the magician is doing something with the other hand. While you’re focused on the van, the villains are planting the bomb in the car. And while so many of us in the church have been focused on the “threat” to our culture posed by homosexuality, we’ve missed the realization that the church in our culture is under attack—not by gays, but by Christians.

We Christians are the sleeper agents. The bomb is in our car. We have become the unwitting assassins of people’s faith.

The Christians are killing Christianity.

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