Salty and Bold- A Christian's Duty to Fight America's Sins

By Ray Eichenberger

Salty and Bold is a hard-hitting social commentary emphasizing the Biblical admonitions against abortion and gay marriage.  The author outlines the truths of what God's word has to say about both subjects, and calls for Christians to fight the sins of our government and others as to both topics.

 

As opposed to some Christians and non-Christians alike who claim otherwise, God's Word has plenty to say about the sins of abortion and homosexuality and gay marriage.

 

The author issues a call to arms for Christians to stop being wimpy in all of those areas and to speak out against our nation's sins in regard to abortion, homosexuality and gay marriage.

 

The book examines the sinful attitudes of our federal  government and national leaders concerning the topics of abortion and gay marriage.  

 

The author then discusses whether God's laws have any relevancy and should be duly considered when deciding how America is governed in our day to day lives.  

 

The work focuses on practical ways to bring the truth of God's word as to the topics to both Christians and non-believers, while still serving others in a loving and empathetic manner.  

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ray Eichenberger
• Release date: Oct 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215744819

Ray Eichenberger

Ray Eichenberger is a retired attorney, and lives in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.  Ray has a B.S. in Education from Miami University, a B.A. in HIstory from Miami University, and a Juris Doctor from Capital University.  Ray's hobbies are golf, travel, and racing and breeding standardbred horses for racing.  Ray is a Christian author with twenty books to his credit, including non-fiction Christian themes, and fictional works.  Ray can be contacted at [e-mail].

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PROLOGUE

This book is very much a continuation of my previous and recent work, American Trojan Horse.  That work discusses the lunacy of the fact that many citizens of the United States now prefer to be identified with their particular special interest group rather than just be Americans concerned about the prosperity of all of us.  That work also derides the nonsensical nature of political correctness which has engulfed our country.

This book will discuss several of the same issues, but is directed towards those of us in the Christian faith as followers of God and Jesus- if you’re not a Christian, you still might find the current event topics to be interesting and applicable to you.

The topics of this work will be the Christian responses to abortion and homosexuality, and our duty as Christ followers to correct the recent and trending sinful behaviors of America coming from our culture and from our government and our elected leaders.

This work has as its impetus my growing realization and concern that too many Christians are wimps.  We can sit in church and say loud Amens time and time again when the pastor or preacher decry abortion, homosexuality/lesbianism and gay marriage, but we then leave the walls of the church and do nothing about the topics.

Several recent incidents involving my family members and people I know brought this to light and spurred a realization that something has to be done.  I was also called to action by thinking about and considering the fact that exactly what to do in response to these topics for a Christian can be very, very difficult.

For example, a close friend posted on a social media website last June a joyful statement of something along the lines of Roe v. Wade overturned- life wins!  That post, exercising her right of free speech and her right to religious freedom, elicited a very hateful and vitriolic series of responses from various people.  One of these people turned out to be my friend’s young adult grandson, who opined a long response touting the popular defenses of abortion- a woman’s right to choose, the unfeeling nature of opposition, the failure of the public to support women who can’t financially afford their babies or sustain nine months of pregnancy either, etc.   Oh yes, the grandson professes to be a Christian and sits in a fundamentalist church on most Sundays and hears the Bible preached at that church.

The grandson’s social media post and diatribe were quickly followed by vile responses from other people, who rather rudely denounced the glee of my friend over the death of Roe v. Wade.  One such poster, a cousin of the grandson, voiced the opinion that the grandson should be ashamed to have such a woman as his grandmother.  Really?  Does exercising one’s right to free speech in America suddenly lead to all of this hate?  All of this viciousness was on the social website pages of my poor friend, who commonly uses that medium for family and friend news, to share family photos, and for other, certainly less innocuous things.  Maybe it was to be expected- I’m a firm believer that people will post mean and hateful things online that they would never have the nerve to utter in a one on one, face to face conversation.  We have quickly become a nation of rude, written hatefulness.

Then, several other responding posters created similar posts, certainly not as mean-spirited, rude and vitriolic, but voicing the same, rote, over and over arguments to stand up for and support the killing of babies through abortion.  The startling thing to my mind was that several of these certainly more polite, but still strong advocates for abortion, once again profess to be Christians and said that they were Christ followers.  One of these pro abortion supporters at least attends the same church that I do, and weekly has the Bible preached to her, including an occasional excellent sermon about the fact that abortion and gay marriage are sins, and what our responses should be as Christians to people contemplating abortion and people living in the homosexual and lesbian lifestyles, and in gay marriages.

This work will discuss in great detail the Christian response to abortion and whether a Christian can indeed be pro choice and pro abortion.  We will also dive into the subjects of homosexuality/lesbianism, LGBTQ and gay marriage issues, and their various social ramifications for all of us.

Then, in a somewhat more awkward and revealing occurrence, my wife and I visited the apartment of a fellow church member, after being invited to do so when a nearby music concert concluded.  While touring the apartment, my wife picked up a family photo which showed two brides dressed in their wedding gowns.  My wife innocently and innocuously asked something like, Oh, did members of your family have a double wedding?  The person who was giving us the tour of the apartment quickly responded that No, my daughter recently married another woman.

Perhaps such socially awkward moments can be avoided by thinking about twenty-first century American values, but my wife and I often now call ourselves dinosaurs about many such things (still clinging to quickly becoming extinct values), and we were very much taken aback by the response.  The lady is fairly new to our church, and we haven’t known her much longer than a year.  But, she seems to be a Bible-believing Jesus follower, and, once again, sits in a church service where the Bible is taught and the Christian responses to homosexuality, lesbianism, and gay marriage are occasionally discussed in detail from the pulpit by our pastors.

Driving home from the woman’s apartment, we both wondered what this Christian woman’s reaction was to having a daughter who first announced that she was gay, and then had a gay wedding complete with matching white wedding gowns.  The dilemma for the woman as to how to treat and handle the situation must have been terrible- my first impulse would have been to extend love and grace to my gay daughter, but to refuse to attend and to condone her life style of living with another woman, and then a marriage ceremony.

Finally, the pastor at my church recently related a story about a church member, a school teacher in a public school, attempting to be a follower of Christ amongst the madness of the new and weird atmospheres and new operating procedures of our educational system.  The veteran school teacher was called into the principal’s office one day, and strongly reprimanded and threatened with dismissal because a student’s parents had loudly complained that the teacher had incorrectly called their daughter by the wrong, non politically correct personal pronouns.  This bewildered teacher most likely addressed the female student by, horrors, using the pronoun her for the presumed gender of this female student.  Instead, the teacher was supposed to use the modern and politically correct pronouns chosen by the student (possibly subject to change at any given time and subject to the blowing of the wind)- he, she, it, they, we, us.  Sorry, but I don’t get the foolishness of this particular controversy- yet another dinosaur moment.

I left church that day after hearing the story of the school teacher’s dilemma and mistake thinking, wow, how is this Christian teacher supposed to keep track of all of this for scores of students (maybe hundreds of students)?  And, was it an acceptable solution in the eyes of the loony school principal and probably even loonier parents to simply call the offended student by her given, first name?  One would think that it is hard to err by using a first name- a name is only subject to change through a legal process in court in my state, which the modern, loony parents are more than welcome to initiate before a judge.

I relate the above stories to illustrate several points.

First, the zaniness of these topics has invaded all of our lives and they are serving to create unnecessary discord in our family relationships, as well as friendships, and even in our public schools and work environments.

Secondly, the craziness and misplaced opinions of even self-labeled Christians towards these topics illustrate that many people who claim to be Christians have no understanding as to what the Bible teaches in the areas of abortion and homosexuality and