I write this post with a heavy heart. Blue Bloods has been one of our familyâ??s favorite shows of the past several years. It is a family police drama and one of the few shows on TV that takes religion, the â??traditionalâ? family, and law and order seriously and respectfully. For conservatives like us the show was a weekly oasis in a cultural landscape that is increasingly hostile to our values. But I confess we are on the â??wrong side of history.â? Something Karl Marx and our current president would no doubt agree on whole heartedly.
It seems in the last decade we have all of a sudden become bigots! Yes, Blue Bloods jumped the homosexual shark (I think thatâ??s an oxymoron). Iâ??m the prototypical regressive Christian (I believe morality is something that doesnâ??t change with the so called tide of history, and thus is not culturally determined), and that makes me persona non grata in a culture that sees sexual self-expression as lifeâ??s summum bonum. This doesnâ??t bother me much because weâ??ve always known that although we are in the world we are not of the world. Many Christians around the world are being tortured and killed for their faith, not just demonized by a progressive cultural elite. The Apostles, Christâ??s closest followers, died horrific deaths. Being seen as a bigot by self-righteous liberal elites isnâ??t the worst thing in the world (although it will, and has already had, real world consequences as it is codified into law).
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