© Wendy Clark 2025

People who speak in the public square are being persecuted for their belief in absolute truth. Those who persecute them have their own definitions of both “God” and “Jesus,” and push back against the truth. This is why they can dress, speak, and behave in disgusting and foul ways and still say that they are “a good person,” or that they love God or say that they are Christians or that they follow Jesus and then accuse people like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk and those who stand up against abortion or transgendered ideologies or sexual sins or those who say that Jesus is the only way to be saved, of being ungodly or not Christ-like or of being evil.

It used to be that you could talk about God all day long and most people would smile and nod but to talk about Jesus was a dividing line that sent the other person walking angrily in the opposite direction, but now, in most cases, you can talk about both God and Jesus–just as long as you don’t get too specific about what might be required to truly follow. 

People are happy to “live and let live” as long as they can hold onto their general and squishy ideas about God, Jesus, and what is right and good. It is your “moral certainty” that they find “hateful” and “dangerous” because they rightly assess that the truth is the enemy to all they hold dear.

Isaiah 5:20-21, NLT
“What sorrow for those who say
    that evil is good and good is evil,
that dark is light and light is dark,
    that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes
    and think themselves so clever.”

John 3:19-21, NLT
“And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.” –Jesus

Philippians 4:8-9, ESV
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”–Paul, Apostle of Jesus