Sing Louder!

By Lee Duigon

September 7, 2023

Years ago there used to be a Christian radio talk show, just 15 minutes, with a panel of three. I can’t remember the name of the show, nor the panelists’ names; but one single spoken line I have remembered very well indeed. I’ll never forget it.

They were talking about the state of our fallen world, and how outrages pile up faster than you can keep track of them, and you can hardly put two coherent thoughts together… and it seems like nothing you can say or do makes any difference…

When you reach that point, said the lady on the radio—

“Sing louder!”

They say the early Christian martyrs sang hymns as they were marched into the Coliseum to face the lions. One might certainly ask, “Well, what good did that do?” But think a little farther. Whose empire is still here, Christ’s or Rome’s?

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. All right, the teachers’ unions aren’t going to kill and eat us. But they are doing everything they can to estrange us from our children and destroy the family. Can any sane person even imagine the kind of world the Far Left wants to build? Or what it would be like, to try to live in such a world?

Sing louder.

“Are you crazy? What good will that do?” cries the parent who has so far resisted every exhortation, every provocation: her kids are still in public schools… being groomed for aberrant sex lives… starting very soon.

The Left will laugh at your hymns and make fun of your prayers. The Romans in the stands mocked the Christians being slaughtered down below. But God heard the hymns and prayers. He also heard the mockery. And judged it.

Sing louder.

We don’t have to sing loud because the Lord is hard of hearing. He hears our whispers.

We are the ones who need to hear. We can give each other courage: we all need to feel we’re doing right. Parents should be outraged, scandalized, that state governments (California, for one), the teachers’ unions, and Democrat politicians mean to sue school districts for “outing” children—to their parents!—if a child, groomed accordingly, shows an interest in “gender reassignment.” And the FBI will “investigate” any parents who object.

How is this not intolerable?

Maybe if enough of us sing loud enough, the government might back off—before millions of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim parents get up the courage to pull their children out of there. Far Left teachers’ unions can’t thrive in empty classrooms.

Yes, there are surely a few unspeakably weird parents who want their children going to Drag Queen Story Hour and reading pornographic books in their elementary school libraries. If that’s what they want, that’s what they’re getting.

But for the rest of us, we need to find the courage to take the only step that means business—to withdraw their children from the public schools. This is the exodus we need. Parents must learn to find that courage in themselves—and in each other.

That’s why we all need to sing louder.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… while we still have free speech in this country. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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