You Can't Cancel God

Last week, the House of Representatives voted to pass the Equality Act which redefines the word "sex" to include transgender individuals and subsequently deprives others from their First Amendment rights. During the debate of this bill, my Democrat colleague Congressman Jerry Nadler from New York declared that there was no place for God and religion in the discussion of the Equality Act.

This sentiment is clearly reflected in the bill as it strips religious freedom protections from doctors who would not participate in abortions or a Catholic high school who would not allow biological males from participating in their girls' sports competitions. The Equality Act and Mr. Nadler's comments are just the latest episode of an increasingly prevalent story called cancel culture.

Over the past several years, Americans have endured calls to tear down our national monuments, shut down any free speech that doesn't fit the media's narrative, sanction Republican members of Congress, and rename schools that honor historical figures such as Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.

The carnage doesn't end with our founders, or even Republicans. Other schools to be renamed include those in San Francisco where city leadership canceled Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein and in my home state of Arkansas where a Little Rock school board member has proposed to rename Fulbright Elementary. That is the same late Democrat senator, J. William Fulbright, whose name is synonymous with perhaps the most prestigious and widely recognized scholarship program in the world.

We have seen this so-called cancel culture reach recently into art and literature. Modern-day book burnings sparked when big business and big tech caved to the mob and torched literary figures like Laura Ingles Wilder and Mark Twain. While disturbing, it should raise all of our ire to see Dr. Seuss tossed in the woke fire.

What could possibly be next? If the goal of cancel culture is to engineer a moral revolution, then we will not only see our faith and commitment to religious freedom targeted but the very object of our faith. Yes, the logical conclusion is that virtue signalers will try to cancel God himself. You can't have a moral revolution when there are moral absolutes. Every religion has morals and rules that could be ultimately deemed too traditional, too conservative, and too absolute to satisfy the new "woke" standard. God is the moral absolute.

If society demonizes moral values to the point where people are afraid to practice their religion as they choose, then religious freedom is effectively canceled from our nation.

Cancel culture is a slippery slope leading us to loss of personal freedom, but it is no match for God.

Just as we know that it is impossible to cancel God, we also understand that there is nothing new under the sun. Ideas of moral relativism and the rejection of truth are not novel, but history has shown us that man is not above God, no matter how hard some may try.

We have seen the failed attempt to cancel God throughout history with those much more powerful than modern-day leftists. Egyptian Pharaohs, Roman Emperors, Nebuchadnezzar, Lennon, Stalin, Hitler, and countless others have tried and failed to erase religious freedom, moral authority, and any sign of God from their world. History has neither been kind to those men, nor will it look fondly on those who seek to gradually strip away anything deemed subjectively offensive from each aspect of public life.