'Evangelical left' did its dirty work well ...

It sounds like an oxymoron: the evangelical left.

The two words just don't go together. Yet in present-day America, where bad is good and good is bad, liberals craftily are "evangelizing" people off the straight and narrow, using religious terminology and concepts.

The “Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant,” for example, is a leftwing league of politically correct leaders intent on dragging America down the slippery slope faster than ever. The ruse concocted by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, along with former vice president Al Gore, fooled far too many right-minded Americans, who even now still are blind to the unholy threat.

The gathering, held Jan. 30-Feb. 1 in Atlanta, was nothing more than a Trojan horse, a smokescreen out of hell to promote the liberal agenda. It wasn’t even thinly disguised. And it worked, setting a model successfully used by Obama and other Democrat candidates.

This new liberal voice in reality belittles and opposes courageous believers, who make their stand on the inerrant Bible. What’s worse, ungodly media finally have a “respectable” religious mouthpiece that will say whatever liberals need in order to lead Americans further astray.

Created by politicians, not preachers, it was held only days before Super Tuesday’s primaries. One left-leaning speaker after another took the pulpit –- including avowed evolutionist Gore, who was proclaimed a “prophet.”

Carter opened by calling for unity among all Baptists by complying with homosexuals, condoning abortions, conceding Bible errors and continuing separation of church and state. He indirectly likened unwavering conservatives, who refused to compromise their beliefs, to cancer in the body of Christ.

As a conservative believer, I think you agree that our bedrock doctrine is NOT tolerance for diversity, but tenacious adherence to the gospel of Jesus Christ, Who is more than capable of transforming anyone out of anything.

Throughout the event, however, “narrow minded” and “intolerant” conservatives were urged to yield on differences that divide Baptists. Fundamentalists were criticized for being “divisive” and “not forgiving enough” of those in the Covenant who believe the Bible is flawed, or that it’s OK to abort the pre-born and embrace the liberal political agenda.

Gore, who charged $35 a plate, interspersed his 90-minute closed presentation with slides of Scripture. He used Luke 12:54-57 to say it is dishonest, and thus sinful, for anyone to claim global warming is merely a theory rather than a scientific fact. A Covenant spokesman said the program was off limits to media because Gore didn’t want the slides of Bible verses “getting out to the Internet.”

While Carter has religious credentials, you’ve got to wonder what qualified Clinton or Gore to address such a gathering. There’s no doubt, though, that all three former Southern Baptists are hard-core, died-in-the-wool, card-carrying liberals.

The Covenant, which also showed Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” didn’t stray far from the Democratic Party line. The Iraq War was opposed to the point the U.S. Army was not allowed a booth to recruit chaplains.

Activist Marian Wright Edelman urged solving the problems of America’s children by making sure the Bush tax cuts don’t become permanent. And novelist John Grisham, who called for an end to the death penalty, offered this advice to Baptists: “Stay out of politics.”

The event accomplished its purpose by helping to lure progressive Christians into the secular liberal web and thus divide the vote while forging a seemingly believable political force worth quoting on the nightly news.

The question that exasperated me is: How so many Americans could vote for change without knowing whether the changes would be good or bad?

How could hundreds of thousands of supposedly evangelical Christians dutifully enter voting booths without first asking God's will? How could they instead pull the lever for increased abortions, homosexual unions, loss of religious freedom, socialism and ultimately godless Marxism. How could Christians be so easily deceived when it is abundantly clear socialism has never, ever, not once come through as promised?

It could have been worse, but only half of professing Christians register to vote, and only half of those registered actually make it to the polls. So, in reality, we ourselves are responsible, one way or another, for the leaders we get.

It’s time for God’s people to stand up for what’s right -– yes, even in political circles. Especially in politics!

We must counter the false prophets in waylayed pulpits who have been urging church-goers to end poverty, homelessness, AIDS, racial division and usher in world peace. And of course not to dirty our righteous hands in politics.

It’s obvious those of us who hold traditional Biblical values have a vital role to play in the days ahead. This insane notion we shouldn’t address anything political was a lie born in hell designed to destroy our God-honoring nation.

We cannot again let the unholy enemy, seeking to take our nation out from “under God,” marshal his unwitting forces for decisive action on the next Election Day to further sweeps America under his disastrous spell!

We must not let other misguided Christians ignore, twist or water down God’s inerrant Word in order to make it politically correct -– and thus render it powerless!

We MUST make our voice known! If we don’t, the words of Edmund Burke may soon be our nation’s epitaph: “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.”