Policing Your Thoughts

The term ‘thought police’ describes a group of people who aim or are seen as aiming to suppress ideas that deviate from the way of thinking that they believe to be correct.

It was coined in the novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by the author George Orwell. The Thought Police are secret police of a superstate, who discover and punish thoughtcrime, personal and political thoughts unapproved by the regime.

That is what is happening today. Most notoriously it is happening in Western countries and governmental authorities are the enforcers.

People are being persecuted for upholding their own beliefs all in the name of “social tolerance”.

But there is no tolerance of thoughts and beliefs which are outside those these thought police find acceptable.

Tolerating and condoning somethings are two different things.

People are being forced in their schools and in their workplaces to condone things they conscientiously object to.

Where does religious freedom fit into this scenario?

Dr Frank Turek was fired from his job at Cisco Systems because he wrote a book that the thought police at his workplace disapproved of.

Frank did nothing in the workplace that reflected his views, nor did he have any conversations in the workplace about the topic of his book. The employer simply found out about the book and fired him.

This is the dilemma many people Christian and non-Christians are faced with. If you don’t conform, you will be excluded or expelled from school classes. If you refuse, you will lose your job and means of survival.

Revelation 13:15-17

15 It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast could both speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

16 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given a mark on their right hand, or on their forehead;

17 and that no one could be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, the name of the beast or the number of his name.

Unless you violate God’s commandments and your own conscience, you will be persecuted.

I recently read a remark that gave the impression that its only Christians who find these things objectionable. That is so far from reality.

The fact is that people from all walks of life and differing belief systems are in opposition to the imposing of these social engineering programs.

Even Richard Dawkins, the well known atheist apologist, is against what is going on. He got “cancelled” too. You must conform to the program.

So…no its not just Christians.