Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, has weighed in on the new worship area for Pagans at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Spring, Colorado. According to the Associated Press article, the Air Force Academy already has worship facilities for Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Buddhists.
Here is a snippet of Jeffress guest column over at the Washington Post:
…The decision by Air Force Academy officials in Colorado Springs to construct an outdoor space for the worship of pagan deities is an open invitation for God to send His harshest judgments against our nation.
As I read of the Academy’s plans to move stones to a nearby hilltop to facilitate the worship of pagans, Wiccans, Druids, and other earth-centered believers, I thought of the Old Testament story of King Manasseh who “did evil in the sight of the Lord. . . . For he rebuilt the high places and erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them” (2 Kings 21:2-3).
God responded to Manasseh’s actions by announcing, “Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle” (2 Kings 21:12). God soon delivered on His promise by sending the Babylonians to invade Jerusalem. Apparently, God did not fully appreciate the merits of theological diversity.
What we label today as “pluralism,” God called “idolatry.” The first commandment from God was, “You shall have no other gods before Me.” There is no evidence that God has changed His mind on the subject. To openly violate this most basic law is to invite God’s judgment upon our nation. God has judged idolatry in the past through military invasions, earthquakes, a flood, and a mixture of fire and brimstone. The book of Revelation prophesies that God will employ the same agents of His wrath during the final seven years of earth’s history. There is no reason to think God is on hiatus during this present age.
“But doesn’t our Constitution demand that all religions be treated equally?’ you might ask.
Since God is not an American, there is no reason to think He has a particular affinity for our ideas about the separation of church and state. Nevertheless, although the First Amendment guarantees the right of every American to worship however they choose, it does not require government to provide a stone monument to facilitate that worship - even if the same government provides a chapel for Christians.
Apparently, Jeffress has a severe case of the “Religious Freedom For Me But Not For Thee”
Jeffress has peddled this same line of reasoning in the not-so-distant-past over at the blog Mainstream Baptist and in a sermon titled America is a Christian Nation. Needless to say, Jeffress has been heavily influenced by revisionist amateur historian David Barton in his understanding of the First Amendment.
Jeffress might need a chat with the SBC’s ethics guru Dick Land. I’m pretty sure that even Land’s version of accommodationism would not deny the free exercise rights of the Pagan cadets at the Air Force Academy.
For more commentary, see Texas Pastor Can’t Grasp The Basics of Religious Liberty.




















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