In a recent conversation with USA Today, Buttigieg characterized conservative Christians as “saying so much about what Christ said so little about, and so little about what he said so much about.” Pete was using the absence of evidence argument, i.e., since Christ didn’t prohibit perversion, then criticism of LGBTQ crowd is wrong; however, that is fallacious since Christ didn’t speak about cannibalism but I assume, though not sure, that Pete would not defend it. Pete is parroting the same silly, shallow argument that Christ’s words are more important than other Scripture but that undercuts scriptural authority. If a statement is in the Bible, it is to be properly interpreted by the context.

If it is biblical, it doesn’t matter whether Christ said it or not. Moses and the Apostle Paul surely made it clear that perversion is an abnormality, an aberration and an abomination.

Pete is said to be a “devoted” Episcopalian. I’m not sure if that means he goes to church three times a week, tithes, and says grace at every meal. Professor Gary Dorrien of Union Theological Seminary said, “In our time, the Episcopal Church is a generally progressive denomination that ordains gay and lesbian bishops, makes room for liberation theology.” The denomination wandered far into left field many years ago as almost all groups do.

Their pews are empty as are their offering plates, sure signs of coming death.

The flagship church in the Episcopalian denomination is the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. One of their leaders invited a hundred Muslims to use the cathedral for Friday prayers and the church staff covered all crosses and anything that might offend the Islamists. Church officials have marched in “gay” pride parades. The church is still in good standing with the denomination and is even the most famous church in that group.

One pro Pete commentator opined, “The Episcopal Church of America accepts gay parishioners, priests, and bishops in churches that recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday and have as authentic a claim to ‘orthodoxy’ as any other church and more than many.”

No, that dog won’t hunt.

Everyone with a modicum of knowledge about history knows that all the mainline denominations give lip service to the Bible but departed from it generations ago. Moreover, Episcopalians of today are far from what they were in George Washington’s day. No denominational official is willing to admit, “As a group, we have departed from our original roots and are occupying church buildings built by people who were narrow-minded fanatics.”

Moreover, after choosing the lifestyle of homosexuals, Pete has taken on all the baggage that most homosexuals possess. Of course, a person may experience homosexual desires, but that does not mean he was created homosexual. Furthermore, because a person reacts to that desire does not make him a homosexual. It only means he is a stupid sinner, like all of us. Even the thought of unmarried sex is wrong whether abnormal or normal. Practicing homosexuals are people who were born heterosexual and are rebelling against the God-ordained plan for his or her life.

If a person has normal or abnormal sexual thoughts, it is wrong and dangerous and indicates a corrupt mind and heart. God says, “for out of it [heart] are the issues of life.” We often do what we think about.

People change all the time so counselors should not tell people they cannot change their sexual desires. Of course, they can.

In February 1992, a cover story for Newsweek featured the face of an infant and the question, “Is This Child Gay?” In July 1993, The New York Times ran a story titled, “Report Suggests Homosexuality Is Linked to Genes.” No, the child was not “gay” and homosexuality is not linked to genes.

Even left-leaning, LGBT-affirming organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association do not make the claim that people are born “gay.” In their view, the causes of same-sex attraction are complex, including both nature and nurture.

Recent research at Johns Hopkins reveals that there is no scientific support for “born that way” origins of perversion. Even some honest homosexuals declare that they were not “born that way.”

During the last twenty years, there have been eight major studies of identical twins in Australia, the U.S., and Scandinavia and all arrived at the same conclusion—homosexuals were not “born that way.” Since identical twins have the same DNA, if one is gay, then both would be. However, that happens only 11% of the time. The report reveals, “If homosexuality is caused by genetics or prenatal conditions and one twin is gay, the co-twin should also be gay.” But the proof is in the testing and the results disprove, or at least do not support “born that way.”

Pete sought to defend his choice of being a homosexual by responding to Vice President Pence saying, “a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me—your quarrel, sir, is with my creator. If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade.”

Pete is wrong. He chose to follow his inclinations, desires, etc., into the dark night of perversion and he chose to “marry” a man. And he chooses to participate is some homosexual activities. If he and other homosexuals can’t change, then how can pedophiles change? And if they can’t change, then how can putting them in jail be justified?

You can bet the farm that no reporter will ask Pete about that.

Pete is also as wrong about abortion as he is about perversion. He averred, “I don’t think we need more restrictions right now,” the mayor said. “I just believe that when a woman is in that situation and when we’re talking about some of those situations covered by that law, extremely difficult, painful, often medically serious situations where life or health of the mother is at stake, the involvement of a male government official like me is not helpful.”

The translation of the above political gobbledygook is—kill the babies. I don’t want a baby killer in the White House.

Pete also said, “Christian faith is going to point you in a progressive direction.” No, that is not found in the only Book that guides Christians. The Bible does not support unlimited government, high taxes, free college tuition, reparations, or climbing in bed with Muslim terrorists.

No, the Christian faith does not point in that direction. I think Mayor Pete needs to stay in South Bend and repair the potholes.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog.)

Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists started the prevailing “war” against Christians so I treat them like enemy soldiers, not gracious gentlemen, and I take any shot at them that I can make and I don’t shoot blanks.

His hatred for religion was displayed when he declared, “I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.” Such statements are the reason many people think Dawkins is despicable, disgusting, and dishonest! He obviously tries to be obstreperous, offensive, and outrageous like an insecure kid throwing a fit to get attention.

He foams at the mouth in his hatred for God and wiping the foam away he wrote, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homo-phobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalo-maniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” He adds that the God of the Old Testament was “an evil monster.”

Dawkins is dishonest in that he misstates and mischaracterizes Christian beliefs in order to take a shot, but then he usually fires a blank as when he declared that if you really take the Bible seriously, you will “strictly observe the Sabbath and think it just and proper to execute anyone who chose not to.” He knows that is an outrageous lie but he continues to parrot it and is too lazy or incompetent to correct it for himself. Or he is too dishonest to admit his lie. Take your choice: lazy, incompetent, or dishonest. Has to be one of the three.

He has antagonized many people who would normally be in his corner. In fact, his brash, bullying, and boisterous comments have embarrassed many of his friends. He is infamous for his hatred of religion, all religion, but especially Christianity. Atheist philosopher Dr. Michael Ruse declared concerning Dawkins’ book The God Delusion: “The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist.” Ruse says of the book, “Don’t judge the rest of us by this pseudointellectual drivel.” O my, sounds like it may be the shootout at the O. K. Corral.

Dawkins seems to have a unique way of dividing his friends and uniting his enemies with his brashness, boast¬ing, and bigotry.

Dawkins was voted one of the world’s three leading intellectuals in the November 2005 issue of Prospect magazine, but things do change. With the publication of The God Delusion, the same magazine declared the book “incurious, dogmatic, rambling, and self-contradictory.” Plus, it is dull, very dull. But then, since it is a real snoozer, it may help with insomnia!

Anthony Flew, who was the Number One Atheist in the World (until he saw light and became a theist!) declared of The God Delusion, “…the contents–or rather lack of contents–of this book show Dawkins himself to have become what he and his fellow secularists typically believe to be an impossibility: namely, a secularist bigot.” Flew made that observation after he flew the atheist coop.

Famous evolutionary biologists H. Allen Orr, David Sloan Wilson, and Massimo Pigliucci now question Dawkins’ intellectualism because of his “elementary errors in The God Delusion.” There is rebellion in the scientific camp!

Dawkins is truth deficient. For sure, he cannot say, “I never told a lie.” Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, reported, “Dawkins attacked me on his website and denied that he and I had ever debated. My office quickly posted the full footage of a two-hour debate.” Of course, Dawkins had “forgotten” about the debate that he lost! Richard also lied about an interview he did with a creationist group from Australia. Google “Dawkins stumped” for an interesting session.

He made a fool of himself when he advocated the arrest of Pope Benedict XVI for “crimes against humanity” during the Pope’s visit to Britain in 2010. I’m no friend of the Pope but Dick seems to be irrational at times. When he has occasional seizures of normalcy, he is rather tolerable. Of course, unless Dawkins is a total idiot outside the realm of biology, he knows the Pope has diplomatic immunity and would not be arrested even if he did not have the immunity. It was simply another publicity stunt drawing much wanted attention to himself. Pity.

Dawkins jumps from one frying pan into another. He calls a rabbi “Hitler” for daring to disagree with him (Dawkins), and then calls others who disagree with him “Holocaust deniers.” Poor Richard has multiple problems. Maybe his atheism has made him delusional. His problem is in his memes!

Dawkins angered everyone except the LGBT, the North American Man/Boy Love Association crowd, and psychiatrists who make a very good living dealing with such abnormalities, abominations, and aberrations when he declared that there are “gentle pedophiles and that way too much is made of pedophilia at times.” Gentle pedophiles! Maybe his next campaign will be to legalize “gentle pedophiles,” or he could be applying for membership in Weirdoes and Whackos of the World. He caused a firestorm in the U.S. and Europe when he said, “Mild paedophilia never did me any harm.”

Dawkins is a spoiled adult brat who will say and do anything to get attention. Must have been the way he was potty trained. Stay tuned for his next tantrum. “Film at eleven.”

He was asked by CNN about permitting children in church and he replied, “I certainly wouldn’t wish to prohibit parents influencing their children.” Even his close associates and acolytes cringed when he gave his answer. No doubt, his fingers were crossed because he believes that teaching children about Hell is child abuse. Dawkins wrote, “We should work to free the children of the world from the religions which, with parental approval, damage minds too young to understand what is happening to them.” The New Atheists all demand that children be removed from biblical teaching and preaching since, to the atheists, it is child abuse. I think the atheists’ books are literary abuse!

He can’t seem to make up his mind whether he is an agnostic or a militant atheist, although he pleads for militant atheism. Does Dawkins have an unstable mind? He is alternately angry, agitated, and amused. A Canadian writer, Robert Fulford, asked, “Why is Richard Dawkins, of all people, acting like a fool?… he’s turned himself into a clown.” Another writer said, “he’s turned himself into a clown, and damaged his reputation.”

Dawkins declared, “By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” Sorry, Dick but I’m afraid you’ve already had that experience! Someone yelled, “Send in the clowns” however, that is not necessary because in walked Richard.

America, Canada, Britain and the free world are in deep trouble when you realize there is still a fool on every corner, a clown in most public offices, and every city has not one, but several idiots along with numerous tyrants and totalitarians lounging down at the Angry Atheist Association.

Copyright 2013, Don Boys, Ph.D.