Some People Are Still Oblivious to the Obvious

In preparation for a recent doctor’s appointment, I had to complete an online patient intake form. One of the questions dealt with the patient’s sex. In the past, there were two choices — and without necessary clarification. On this form, which apparently is standard these days, I saw this:

MALE

FEMALE

(Sex Assigned at Birth)

Both the American Medical Association and American Psychological Association have endorsed this obvious lunacy, ostensibly in the name of something called “safetyism” (i.e., to err on the side of not hurting anyone’s delicate feelings).

Our Founding Fathers, perhaps inadvertently, caught on to this whole idea of “that which is obvious” when composing the Declaration of Independence. Right out of the gate, they used the phrase, “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” And it was understood that, back in their day, everyone was on board with the ideas that preceded that statement — for example, that “all men are created equal.”

Different Times

Our Founders were merely stating the facts. These men put their blood and treasure on the line in the unknown and dangerous fight ahead. But, almost 250 years after the glorious birth of our nation, many among We the People don’t perceive those truths – or any others – to be “self-evident.”

How did this change?

Could it be that failing to believe in “Nature and Nature’s God” (another of these self-evident truths of yesteryear) has led many in our country down the path of creating their own “truth,” complete with their own “gods”?

And as a natural (or rather unnatural) outcome, is this why a person still in the womb can be labeled a “blob of tissue” and terminated anytime through all nine months of pregnancy — and even after birth?

Does this unreasonable train of thought shed light on why a man can compete against young women in sports because he says he is female (yes, someone different than his “sex assigned at birth”) and the rest of us who are not buffaloed by the obvious are supposed to sit in the bleachers, dutifully cheering him on?

This might also explain why many will champion open borders and still say they are good citizens of America. Never mind that it is self-evident that a country cannot even be defined as an individual nation if it has no borders.

Continue to Stand

Those of us who are Christian have a special opportunity to take a stand against the current madness and say, “Not on our watch.” We must believe that, like the Old Testament hero Queen Esther, who God used to save Israel, we were “born for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14).

Unfortunately, some Christians still sit on the sidelines, claiming that getting involved culturally or politically will “spoil their witness,” or that they have been put on this earth just to “preach the Gospel.”

Even worse, some among the faithful have unashamedly joined the prevailing winds of an off-course culture, are quick to point to Scriptures like “Judge not lest ye be judged” (Matthew 7:1), and claim that making waves is actually un-Christian. They seem to be oblivious to what is happening out in the open, and therefore act with political immaturity.

The Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, beckons believers to get involved and get their hands dirty and their hair mussed in the righteous fight to build the Kingdom of God on Earth.

The Plan is God’s — and is self-evident. We need to prayerfully and humbly be involved whenever and wherever we can in the time so graciously allotted to us.

This is the “mission” that we were “assigned at birth.”

Another version of this article appeared originally at American Thinker.

Albin Sadar is author of Obvious: Seeing the Evil That’s in Plain Sight and Doing Something About It, as well as the children’s book collection Hamster Holmes: Box of Mysteries.