PASSIVE INDIFFERENCE TOWARD GOD

[choir loft]

It has been said that "passive indifference" is the same as "active malice".  

If the Bible is to be believed, then an attitude of passive indifference toward God is the same as demonic opposition to the Lordship of God Almighty.   What is passive indifference and how does it manifest itself in American culture?

In the 1950's and early 1960's many evangelists, including the well known Rev. Billy Graham, preached against passive indifference toward God.  Some of them, including Rev. Graham, suggested it would lead to a decline in fortune for America.   Indeed it has.  For the rest of the 20th century, books and speeches suggested a connection between passive indifference toward God as a leading cause of political apathy, which in turn led to the decline of the American Republic, the liberties enjoyed by its people and respect for the nation abroad.

Passive indifference is/was manifested in polite but insincere references to God in the news media, Hollywood entertainment and the general population.  Passive indifference was practiced by believers who thought Christmas and Easter were the only holidays they were required to attend worship services (in addition to weddings and funerals).  Passive indifference assumed Christian traditions such as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Halloween witches, church pumpkin sales and the occasional baptism would be sufficient to stamp a personal passport into heaven.  Passive indifference forgot to thank God for our prosperity, our protection as a nation and our personal safety on the street - all of which have been lost amid the smoke and violence and deprivations of the twenty-first century.

For decades, the President of the United States has requested a day of prayer on the part of our people for our nation.  We have asked for healing for the land, but no measurable amount of it has arrived.  Nearly half of the country is on fire as I write and the other half is suffering from flooding, plague and the horrors of natural assaults.  What went wrong?   Why didn't God hear our prayers?

The Bible says God does not hear the prayer of the SINNER, except that of repentance.  The reason our prayers haven't been heard is because we've practiced passive indifference toward God.   We have NOT REPENTED OF OUR SINS AND WICKEDNESS.

Until and unless we repent, our attitude of passive indifference will only be a closet attitude of malice toward God.  

Such malice cannot and will not be blessed.

that's me, hollering from the choir loft...

 

Edited September 13, 2021 by choir loft

[Leonardo Von]

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PASSIVE INDIFFERENCE TOWARD GOD

Passive indifference, for me, is a pleonasm. After all, the indifference toward the Creator is passivity in regard to love Him and seek His will.