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Jan. 10, 2025 - The David Knight Show
12:16
Churches Lockdown to Comply with "Green" Prohibitions
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What is Christianity today, especially in Europe?
In Sweden, they're now closing churches in order to meet climate goals.
How about that?
You know, we always said they're going to do climate lockdowns.
Well, let it begin with these churches, right, I guess?
This is the Climate MacGuffin.
They shut the churches down for the COVID MacGuffin.
Now they're going to do it for the Climate MacGuffin.
It includes historic churches from the Middle Ages.
Non-essential churches, because they're not essential.
If they don't believe that they have anything to do, and of course, the new religion, LGBT and transgenderism, is a religion.
Absolutely is.
But so is the Gaia stuff.
The climate religion.
It's got its own commandments and all the rest of this stuff being enforced by the government.
It's a government.
The government has established a religion.
That's what the climate stuff is.
It's not science.
Again, they don't want to show you their data.
They hide their data, just like the virologists have hid their data.
And so don't talk to me about it being science.
It is a religion.
And they have a code of ethics, and they have commandments, and they have a worldview, and they have all this other stuff, and they're going to force you to do it, and the government is establishing that religion.
So, the Church of Sweden is closing down historic churches during the colder months of the year in order to meet its climate agenda goals.
The climate is more important to them than Christ.
And this is exactly what that atheist, Rausch, who works for the Brookings Institute, was saying.
He said, look, society's going to collapse if the Christians don't start following Jesus again.
He's an atheist.
He doesn't believe it, but he sees the fruit of it.
The problem is you can't have the fruit without the root.
And he knows that the root is Jesus Christ.
And he's encouraging Christians to be Christian.
But they won't have it in a lot of these churches.
The Lutheran National Church of Sweden will close down seven churches on the island of Gotland, including historic churches from the Middle Ages from October to May every year.
The vast majority of the year.
A Swedish radio station reported that the churches in Gotland are heated with oil and will be affected by the closures due to the Church of Sweden's official climate roadmap.
They don't have the Romans road, they got the climate roadmap.
That seeks to eliminate the use of fossil fuels for heating by the end of 2027. It is too expensive to switch to other energy sources for heating, they said.
So we'll just shut the church down.
Because the first thing that's important is that we follow the climate rules.
Second thing is that we've got to make money.
So let's just shut the church down.
Swedish journalist Peter Emanuelsson Said, the Church of Sweden is very progressive.
For example, some years ago, they encouraged clergy to use gender-neutral language when talking about God, despite the Bible being very clear that God is masculine.
Now they are essentially engaging in climate lockdowns, he said.
The woke climate cult religion is more important to them now than Christianity.
And again, it's not Christianity, but it's Christ.
It's Jesus Christ.
They don't follow him at all.
And again, it's the atheist is saying, come on, this is, you know, wake up!
Get a hold of what you need to do, and these churches won't do it.
The Church of Sweden has been in decline for decades, going from 95% of the population in 1972 to 53% of the population in 2023. Although 50% of the population that are still members, only 19% of those members So, okay, if it's 50% and it's only about one-fifth of them are religious, so that means that it's only 10%.
It's gone from 95% to 10% from 1972 to 2023. There you go, over 50 years.
This is an article from Bill Peacock.
I looked him up.
His name didn't register with me.
He's somebody who has, for a long time, worked for Think Tank's Heartland Institute he worked for, but he did a lot of stuff in Texas as a Republican, as a Christian.
And he wrote this article, The Vanity of Christless Conservatism.
We're starting to see this from various corners.
Again, even an atheist can see it.
The new right has sought to reassert Christian morality in the public square.
But Boombants have misdiagnosed the problem.
The problem wasn't one of a commitment to unfettered liberty, but a failure of publicly to acknowledge that true liberty only comes through Jesus Christ.
And I absolutely agree with him.
He said, Buckley never sought to bring the word of God to bear in his fight against liberalism and the culture, and Reagan took a similar approach.
You know, you talk about the man upstairs or whatever.
You know, Jesus was he who must not be named.
He said, I worked in public policy for over 30 years, and for most of that time, I have worked closely with other Christians in Texas and across the country, and the public policies that we proposed and implemented, more often than not, comported with Scripture.
While that was a good thing, it wasn't enough.
In fact, it never really was.
America's post-World War II enlightenment-driven practice was not bringing God's word to public discourse means that for 70 years, conservatives have essentially been engaging in just a massive educational effort.
There's no power in it.
And why did that happen?
He doesn't talk about Madeline Murray O'Hare and her campaign.
When I was a school child, that's when she started all this stuff, and the Supreme Court said, no, you can't have any religion in school.
And it's not just teaching religion, which I would not support, a school teaching religion.
But I don't support any schools at all.
You all know that.
But it wasn't just that.
It was that they were going to suppress the free expression of any religion by anyone.
Students, faculty, administration, nobody can express their religious desires.
And that's not what the Constitution was about.
As a matter of fact, we talk about the Freedom From Religion Association, and I talked about that just a couple of days ago, and how Richard Dawkins and multiple people resigned because they We're no longer about free expression of religion.
They had a stupid op-ed piece about transgenderism.
You know, what is a woman?
Well, a woman is anybody who thinks they're a woman, that type of thing.
And the person said, well, this is nothing but tautology.
And, you know, as a biologist, we have to get objective about things.
This is not scientific.
This is actually a religion, but the purpose of a lot of these mid-century atheists in the Supreme Court, and that work has been carried on by the freedom from religion, is to suppress all free exercise of religion.
He says, what the U.S. desperately needs is a revival brought about through the Holy Spirit through Christians who do not shrink from declaring to our rebellious culture the whole counsel of God.
We don't need to spend time calling Americans back to conservatism.
We need to call them to a faith in Jesus Christ.
He agrees with the atheist.
And I said, look, we don't have to, our job is not to judge other people, and our job is not to debate other people.
Our job is not to win an argument and to own the other side.
Our job is, and that's what evangelism really was about, was just declaring the good news, right?
We just need to...
Not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
And we need to say that out loud, regardless of whether or not – we don't know how people are going to respond to that.
That's between them and God.
That's determined on what God is doing in their life, the condition of their heart.
But our job is to not back away from that and just tell people the truth and not be ashamed of it.
And we are at a turning point.
We've had people now pushing back recently against these prohibitions.
We had the coach who would pray silently on the 50-yard line.
They fired him for that.
He's now one in the Supreme Court.
We've had a lot of different cases like that.
He said, Psalm 2.1 tells us that kings and rulers of the earth plot in vain to burst the bonds and the cords that bound them to God and his anointed.
Good.
The vanity and futility like this has been happening in post-World War II America.
A people and their leaders believing that they can thrive and prosper without acknowledging the sovereign lordship of Jesus Christ over their lives and their culture.
He said, Doug Wilson explains it this way.
He says, secularism appeared to work for a long time as it did because it was a heresy that took root in a culture that still retained enormous amounts of Christian capital.
We kind of coasted on this.
We kind of coasted.
On the blessings of previous generations.
He said it worked for as long as it did for the same reason that the prodigal son was able to buy drinks for all of his party friends for more than just a couple of days.
And so that is what he did.
But what he was doing was spending his father's money as though it was money that he had earned himself.
And then when his father's money ran out, and there was a famine, and there he was, staring at the pig food.
And he started to realize that more is required to sustain a free republic than to provide your buddies with free beer.
When we start to focus on prosperity, or we start to focus on culture and winning the culture war, or winning a political contest, we are focused on the wrong thing, and we're not going to win.
But a big part of all of this, I think, goes back to purging God out of public life.
And we have Christians who are afraid of government, And afraid of these pronouncements.
And they will obey men rather than God.
And that's what we saw during the lockdowns.
And that's what this church in Sweden is doing.
They've got their religion of climate stuff that they fear, legitimately fear, I think.
Not that it's legitimate.
I say that they actually fear that as opposed to the government regulations.
I think they really buy into it.
That's what I meant by legitimately.
I think they buy into the climate thing themselves.
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