SPIRITUAL WAR
Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 5th day of April in the year of our Lord 2024. I will be talking about the Christian High Holy Day of Easter or Resurrection Sunday along with Transgender Visibility Day which tragically this year occurred on the same day thanks to the President of the United States. Yes, my beat is spiritual today although I admit that theology is not my strong suit, I will endeavor to do my best.
Whether or not you are a Christian and whether you are a believer in the biblical account of creation, i.e. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” Genesis 1-1: there is a sentence that humanity has understood throughout man’s time on earth until just a few short years ago. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27. That sentence says there are only two genders in the created order, two sexes, male and female.
Sunday, March 31st was Easter in 2024, the holiest day on the Christian calendar. It is a day that Christians believe Jesus died to pay for the sins of created humanity not to celebrate those sins. It is the day when we Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then he is still buried somewhere and we as Christians are lost and Christianity fails. God saw all of humanity, created in his image, condemned without a way of redemption so he gave his son as the sacrifice for that sin so we would not have to pay it. That, I argue, is the very essence of Christianity.
This past March 31st was doubly tragic because it gave those who reject the created order of God a chance to celebrate that rejection through Transgender Visibility Day. I ponder this because its not as if this tiny section of the population is not already the most visible segment of people in America. The president, who says he is catholic, used the day as a chance to make political points with his base. I tell you right now folks that his base must be a pretty strange group of people if they still support Joe Biden after this.
The president welcomed Transgender Visibility Day by saying “Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you. He went on later to say, “You are made in the image of God, and you are worthy of respect and dignity.” He went on and on about the travails of the group of people he celebrated. His official language concluded with this emphasis, “in the year of our Lord.” Many churches, corporations, and politicians joined him in celebrating his words and his proclamation.
Apparently, the president did not come up with the idea of Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st specifically to insult Christians but he simply chose not to move it or ignore it despite the fact that he would be spitting in the faces of Christians across the world. My understanding is that the day was started 15 years ago by president Obama who chose March 31st to set it apart from the Transgender Day of Remembrance in November and Pride Month which is the entire month of June. He also had to work very hard to keep from bumping into one of the many days already set aside to celebrate that condition. Let me just take a minute to list some of the days of celebration we already have:
January Third Friday: International Fetish Day. February 12: National Freedom to Marry Day. February 25-29: Aeromantic Spectrum Awareness Week. March: Bisexual Health Awareness Month. March 1: Zero Discrimination Day. March 20-24: National LGBT Health Awareness Week. March 31: International Transgender Day of Visibility. April 6: Asexuality Day. April 22: Day of Silence. April 24-30: International Lesbian Visibility Week. April 26: International Lesbian Visibility Day. May 7: International Family Equality Day. May 16: National Honor Our LBGT Elders Day. May 17: International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia. May 19: Agender Pride Day. May 24: Pansexual and Panromantic Visibility Day. June: Pride Month. June 26: Anniversary of Same Sex Marriage Legalization.
July 6: Omnisexual Visibility Day. July 10-16: Nonbinary Awareness Week. July 14: International Non-Binary Day. July 16: International Drag Day. September 17-23: Bisexual Awareness Week. September 23: Bisexual Visibility Day. October: LGBTQ History Month. October 8: International Lesbian Day. October 11: National Coming Out Day. October 18: International Pronoun Day. October 19: Spirit Day. October 22-28: Asexual Awareness Week. October 26: Intersex Awareness Day. November: Trans Awareness Month. November 5: Trans Parent Day or Transgender Parent Day. November 8: Intersex Day of Remembrance or Intersex Solidarity Day. November 12-18: Trans Awareness Week or Transgender Awareness Week. November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance. December 1: World Aids Day. December 8: Pansexual Pride Day. December 10: Homosexual Rights Day.
Mercifully, I am finished with the gender confusion calendar. That doesn’t excuse Joe Biden from bringing forward this lie year after year. He must have known, or at least I’m sure whoever is running things knew that Easter would eventually fall on March 31. His proclamation was designed not to heal but to divide. His spokesperson said that he would never abuse his faith for political purposes, another obvious lie. Christians and those who are just conservative responded with outrage which gave him the opportunity to heal but instead he screamed bigot at them.
There is valid reason for outrage if one is a Christian or even if one remembers the faith from his parents. Jesus told us about those who mock us and hate us for he said they first hated me. Its all about Jesus because these satanic people hate him therefore, they hate us. In Revelation 3:1 Jesus said those people appear alive but they are dead. The lie of the president rubbing our noses in his blasphemous perversion is evidence of a deeper lie.
Did God really make us male and female? Did he really make only two genders? Perhaps God made a mistake and forgot that he made many genders or perhaps these genders evolved over time like the evolutionists believe a lungfish crawled out of primordial ooze. Perhaps Woody Allen was right and God is an underachiever. What did Biden mean when he said you were created in the image of God? How many images does God have? Are they made in the image of God before or after they are surgically mutilated and/or chemically altered? Maybe God realized he made a big mistake so he created doctors with surgery skills and invented chemicals to alter his original creation.
People who choose to advise and counsel others to mutilate and chemically alter themselves are perhaps worse than those who do it. Who is harmed the most by these lies, perhaps children. These unfortunate children are born in the wrong gender apparently due to some mistake by God and the only thing that can help them is a lifetime of surgery and chemical experimentation and they must fight constantly throughout their lives for acceptance into the correct gender. If they were born male but want to be female then women want them off their soccer and swim teams not to mention basketball teams and they are very unwelcome in the locker rooms of female athletes.
So, Christians were outraged when the president declared Easter Sunday the Transgender Day of Visibility. In his press release announcing the proclamation he said, “I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my administration and to have ended the ban on transgender Americans serving openly in our military.” Why would he later disavow the proclamation?
The president’s political opponent called the president’s action disgusting. The speaker of the house told the press that the president had disrespected and insulted Christianity and his actions were “outrageous”. When a reporter called the speaker’s statement to his attention the president said, “he is thoroughly misinformed, I didn’t do that.” Biden’s handlers later explained that President Obama established the day in 2009, thus rendering it a mere coincidence but that explanation strains credulity for Christians and even for Conservatives in general. I suppose it was Easter’s fault that it fell on such an important day.
What does all this mean for our society today and going forward? In practical terms it means a society in which power and force, not self-rule and human rights, or any universally accepted moral principle or universal objective truth, rule the day. The pagan ethos exhibited by this Democrat administration has always been a rejection of reason and objective moral truth. That pagan idea and pagan culture has existed across the span of human existence and has always fought truth for space in ruling our society. The creed can be summed up as nothing is true, and everything is permitted.
The Democrat Party and Joe Biden in particular, it appears, are making war on Christianity and Christians but there are other wars being waged by those people such as the war on law and order. The war against Christians is epitomized by the proclamation of Transgender Day of Visibility on the holiest day of the year for Christians, Easter. The war on law and order is epitomized by the tragic death of 31-year-old New York City Police officer Jonathan Diller. Officer Diller left a widow and infant son after he was murdered by a man who had 21 prior arrests for violent felonies with no sentences to incarceration. He was running around New York, not only free but with a gun and knife.
There was a wake for officer Diller in which former president Donald Trump attended. He went in and spoke to the widow and other family members and gave a generous check to help pay off the family’s mortgage. After the wake he stopped and gave a brief two-minute statement to those present. That two minutes, in would wager, were the finest two minutes of Donald Trump’s public life. No vulgar demeanor, no narcissism, no lack of self-awareness, no mean tweets, and no look at me kind of words. The statement was just compassion, tragedy, concern, and we’ve got to stop this. It was what America should expect from a leader and nothing more.
Outside, waiting officers applauded when he came out and when he was going to his car hundreds of police officers chanted, Trump, Trump. Do you think they chanted Trump because they like all those distasteful traits? No, it was because at that moment in their grief he was there and he was a leader and he was one of them. He was also a compassionate voice to that man’s wife and infant son. What about the other side of the political spectrum, President of the United States, Joe Biden.
Well folks, the difference could not be more stark. The president was across town meeting with Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama for a fundraiser for Biden’s presidential campaign. Tickets cost between 100,000 and 500,000 each depending on the donor with the goal of raising 25 million. Voters know all about Donald Trump because he has been in office and is a known commodity. They know also that he will not change so they either love him or hate him. On the other hand they also know all about Joe Biden who has obviously also served as president. The people who applauded Trump most likely see Biden as a senile, corrupt, incompetent, who doesn’t care about any normal person and who has flooded the nation with illegal immigrants.
Finally, folks, it’s a spiritual war alright, but there are many other wars like the border of the U.S. and the actual war in Ukraine and Gaza. Come to think of it those are probably spiritual as well.
At least that’s the way I see it,
Until next time folks,
This is Darrell Castle,
Thanks for listening.
