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Today is Halloween. And many children will be celebrating by trick or treating, gathering candy, and putting on fun costumes. I hope that there’s fun in your family and your community this Halloween.
But today is a very important day for Christians, also. Different denominations have different reasons to celebrate today. For Protestants, today is Reformation Day, the day that Martin Luther nailed those 95 Theses to the church doors.
For Catholics, today is All Hallow’s Eve, an occasion for Catholics to remember the saint that came before us.
There’s a temptation to be divided on all of these issues, and to argue about our differences in faith. But we should not let this distract us from the things that affect all of us.
The Western tradition is a Christian tradition. Western civilization, which includes the United States, is Christian. Our nation was founded by Christian men and on Christian values.
Now those values are under attack. And so Christians of all denominations need to put aside our differences and face the crisis.
Abortion is wildly popular in the United States. Babies are killed every single day. Whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox or something else, this is a travesty. We must pray, and we must fight for the rights of the unborn. Transgender and LGBT ideology has been creeping into our schools and our media, subverting the Christian truth about love and marriage and pushing our children toward vice and degeneracy. They want to ruin God’s plan for men and women and destroy the inherent dignity both genders proudly have. We all need to fight back against this.
Finally, mass Islamic immigration is coming to our nation as it has across the West. Islam hates Christianity and hates what Christians stand for. And they want to see all of us gone. Christians must unite.
We can settle our denominational differences later. But first we must ensure that Christian civilization will endure.
