PC Christian: "Overcoming politically correct mindsets that even Christians practice and don't realize"

By Mike Gonzalez

In this sinful world, over the past few decades, we have unconsciously adapted to various aspects of politically correct mind-sets, and we don't even realize it. This book will help to discover how we've gotten away from God's intended focus on His Word and return to a closer relationship to Him. It is designed to help us think critically practicing biblical principles and teachings. As a result, our marriages and relationships with one another and with our Lord Jesus will improve and our joy in Him increase. Everyone will gain some understanding of how to improve their lives through the words of this book. Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781645592648

Mike Gonzalez

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012).

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PC Christian

Overcoming politically correct mindsets that even Christians practice and don’t realize

Mike Gonzalez

ISBN 978-1-64559-263-1 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64559-264-8 (Digital)

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Are You a PC Christian?

Women are Equal to Men

Men Are Stupid

Submit? Rule?

Why Do I Do All the Work?

I Don’t Need a Man to Be Whole

It’s Not My Fault

That Offends Me!

That’s Not How I See It

There’s No Right Way

It’s My Freedom!

Speak Your Mind

Politics? Democrat, Republican?

Living in the USA

Becoming a Christian

About the Author

Introduction

I’ve been a Christian since 1987 and am totally devoted to God and Jesus. I’ve learned so much over the years as I read and study the Bible, pray, meditate, fast, and live my life to serve. I am the first to say that I’ve made a boatload of mistakes and will continue to. I am not an expert on Scripture, on life, on wisdom, or anything else when I compare what my life will be in eternity. But I do have a sense of certain parts of life that many people don’t see sometimes. I am a very analytical thinking person, which is why I have been in the software development arena for over forty years. I teach my church’s Wednesday night adult Bible study. I have taught Junior Church for a couple of seasons in the past and been involved in various ministries in various churches over the years.

As I mentioned, I’m certainly not perfect and don’t understand on my human side why my past and future have been forgiven. I’m the least of any kind of example of perfect Christian, but my intentions are toward my Lord and Savior, Jesus. My opinions may be unique, or they may be exactly what you’ve thought. Maybe you’ve heard them before; maybe you thought you were the only one to think that way. Either way, I hope what I write helps people grow closer to Jesus in a down-to-earth way with common sense and devotion to what is right. I am a lot like Peter in the Bible. Many times, I talk first and then think of what to say. I seem to know the taste of the soul of my shoe very well as I put my foot in my mouth so much. It’s laughable, but I’m working on it. I know Jesus just smiles sometimes when I do stupid stuff. I smile at myself and then hit myself in the head knowing I did it again.

Everyone has different spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit, so we see the same events or issues with different glasses and lenses looking through our gifts. The words I’ve chosen in this book are based on the way I see society, the Bible, other people, trends, etc. in my life. I’m a man who ponders and meditates throughout the day, and with the way I think analytically, I analyze what I think about, sometimes to an extreme. Everyone has their own perspective seen through their gifts if they are Christians. If you are not a Christian, take a look at the chapter at the end of this book to decide if you would like to know if you will end up in heaven through Jesus’s payment of your sins and His willingness to offer you forgiveness of all your sins.

So as you read through the pages of this book, you may get angry with what I say, you may overwhelmingly agree with it, you may consider it not applicable to your life, or it may change your life completely. There is no malice in what I write; however, if it angers you, maybe that is exactly the thing you need to hear. Please consider that the words you read here or words that someone says to you may not be what is making you angry. Instead, it may be the Holy Spirit convicting you and trying to convince you that you need to change the way you think or behave. Or maybe the words simply make you disagree. Only you can discern the real reason. With that said, I hope and pray there are a few things here that will change your life for the better. That is why I wrote this book. And so it continues…

1

Are You a PC Christian?

Everyone knows that PC means politically correct. Everyone’s definition of it, however, may be slightly different. Some may think it only has to do with politics. Others may think it is following whatever society does, whatever that means. I would suggest further thought of the meaning of the term politically correct. In a general sense, I consider the definition to be; the majority consensus of society that doesn’t cause controversy, stress or objection of what is said or done. Much of that definition can be summed up in the term peer pressure or going along with the crowd. If we succumb to that mindset, we lose our ability to think creatively, and more importantly, we give up growth spiritually and emotionally in keeping with our biblical Christian lives. It does feed our ego to know other people agree with us, but that could be a false high. If we are doing and saying things only to get people to agree and give our ego a lift, the question is, do we really believe, in our hearts, what we said or did was the right thing to do even if others disagree?

This is a dangerous road to walk for all people: spiritual or secular, black or white, tall or short, male or female, etc. We as adults behave as teenagers to a certain extent in that we do what other people do, say what other people say, confine ourselves to the very definition of politically correct to find ourselves, and become individuals through peer pressure. But the end result is just the opposite. We do not define ourselves in a way that helps us discover who we are as individuals. Instead, we fit in justifying our actions and words based upon the person standing next to us. In that scenario, I am talking about a high-level general statement about people. I want to tone in on the Christian’s way of life as the Bible teaches us and talk about how, without realizing it, we don’t even know it’s happening to us. In short, one loose definition but still relevant definition of politically correct is sinning. I say that in the sense that sin is outside of God’s will for us and is how all of humanity fails in that respect. If we have ever defended our behavior or words by saying something like, Well, so and so did it or said it, then we are not comparing ourselves with God’s plan. Instead, we’re comparing ourselves with other sinful people. That is not the way God wants us to live. Hence, sin is a humanity thing, not a God thing; so as Christians, doing what is politically correct sometimes is synonymous with sinning because it’s doing what everyone else does, because they do it, even though we have that same sin nature in us as well. Let’s discuss that further.

We live a life with many sets of rules. We have the laws on the book in our town, city, state, nation, and world, each with variances. We have rules at home growing up, rules as parents toward our children and households, rules at church or at the mall, rules at work, rules in school, or rules in driving our cars. We have moral law and our own rules for our own lives based upon many factors that we’ve taken into consideration through our experience and knowledge at any one snapshot point in time. Our own conduct changes as we learn more and mature. It’s an ever-changing law inside each one of us that determines our passions, the way we think, and how we conduct our lives all thrown together to create what we call our life. Everyone is different—with differing opinions, behavior, morality, psychology, thoughts, and mind-sets—but, with all that, still has many similar laws and rules to follow.

As Christians, we also have a higher law which we use as our highest priority in life sometimes to our own detriment and other times to our benefit. Good things can result in benefits and consequences in our lives, and I’m sure you have experienced various forms of what that is like in your life. Some parts of our lives are in autopilot, and others are specific choices we make and thoughts we have. We should think about everything we do and say, but we don’t. Sometimes we act, then think or maybe don’t even think, just act. Let’s get into the meat of what this chapter is about.

My goal in this chapter and in the book as a whole is to get everyone to realize that Christians have taken Scripture into the politically correct realm, or maybe vice versa. Here’s what I mean. To explain this, let me ask you a question. Did Jesus offend anyone? Think about this before you answer because most people’s first thoughts in our current society is, Of course not. Jesus represents love and compassion. He wouldn’t offend anyone. I guess your answer would depend on what your definition of offend is. Merriam-Webster’s definition that is applicable to this discussion is this: to cause (a person or group) to feel hurt, angry, or upset by something said or done, was offended by their language, or She carefully worded her comments so as not to offend anyone.

So let’s substitute the word offend with a synonym from Merriam-Webster: angry or upset. Do you think Jesus ever said anything to make anyone angry or upset? The answer is overwhelmingly yes. That also depends upon what level of criticism it takes to make you upset or angry. Everyone has a different threshold of anger and for different reasons. This is what we will discuss.

Another question I put to you, What is the basis and our highest priority for rules and laws in how we act or speak, obey, and please? The obvious answer is God or Jesus. So with that said, and I am the foremost failure of this, Do we make God our highest priority—please Him and obey what He commands? Jesus asks this question in scripture:

Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household (Matthew 10:34–36).

Why would there be division from someone who loves everyone? The answer is because He said things that made people angry because of their hearts. He preached what was right and not what was politically correct in His time and current day. Even in Christian’s lives, we are putting what people want to hear as a high priority so as not to disagree with what is right in their own minds, even when we disagree with it and more importantly even when Scripture disagrees with it. Do you do this? In addition, we even claim to come to conclusions that are politically correct, even when we know the intent was not that of what we concluded.

You may say, But that isn’t me. I am not politically correct. I act and say what is right, or something to that effect. Following are some very subtle ways in which Christians have become politically correct to the deference of Scripture. This subtle infiltration of politically correct mind-sets has resulted in destroyed marriages, stifled Christian walks, reduced the advancement of personal Christian maturity, and increased selfishness and pride and other dysfunctional aspects in our lives. No