Today is Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day and WOW – the response has been phenomenal! Twitter’s been going nuts. Seems every other tweet in my timeline has a picture showing packed restaurants or lines out the doors.
I want to believe that the majority of today’s Chick-fil-A supporters truly understand what’s at stake. Because this is about much more than a stand for traditional marriage. This is about deciding which “shepherd” we will follow.
There’s an insightful post at the Tea Party Tribune by a Mr. Cumudgeon who clearly understands the fundamental roots of this present conflict ~
The radical transformation of society begins with small steps: An underlying religious idea that believes humanity is a work in progress and that wise shepherds (community organizers?) are needed to aid our evolution toward perfection. That evolution, to the shepherd, is continually under threat by those who hold to the old ways – the old religion.
Among the recent remarks made by Dan Cathy, Chick-fil-A’s president, what really provoked the new-age shepherds was the very idea that absolute, non-negotiable truth, as found in holy scripture, might actually exist;
“… As an organization, we can operate on biblical principles, asking God and pleading with God to give us wisdom on decisions we make about people and the programs and partnerships we have. And He has blessed us.”– Dan Cathy
What offends new-age shepherds is not what a fast-food chain thinks of same-sex marriage. It’s that the owners and company officers of Chick-fil-A follow a decidedly different Shepherd. This is heresy to new-agers.
Heresy, for instance, to the mayor of Chicago:
“Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values,” said new-age high priest and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, “And if you’re gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values.”
Sorry Rahm, you are not our shepherd. “Chicago values” are not God’s values.
Francis Schaeffer discusses Christianity’s role in the fall of Rome in his book “How Should We Then Live.” Christians represented a direct threat to Roman syncretism – sort of a multi-god, ever-evolving melting pot of religions – because they worshiped one God. And they were an existential threat to the empire itself because they put God above Caesar.
As Schaeffer rightly says; “no totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.”
Christianity represents universal, objective truth and eternal values. Not values that “evolve” with mankind’s mercurial whims. Not “Chicago values.”
Which is why, as Curmudgeon concludes;
the assaults on Chick-fil-A are part and parcel of a broader “theologically based position” that holds “no gods shall be greater than our new-age gods.”
I think the bovine “grammar” is meant to be in keeping with Chick-fil-A’s ad campaign 
“Eat Mor Chikin!” And follow the Good Shepherd.
Related:
Government’s Campaign to Eclipse God Continues Apace
