Voices Crying in the Internet Wildernesses

Written by Rev. Ceasar I. LeFlore

Besides Jesus Christ, John the Baptist is by far one of my most favored and respected heroes of the Christian Bible. His boldness and fearless proclamation of the truth concerning the imminent coming of the Kingdom of Christ, even to a hostile and spiritually blind world, caused him to be identified in New Testament Scripture as “the voice of one crying in the wilderness,” prophesied by the prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament.

John the Baptist was relentless in declaring his message, “Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make His paths straight.” Still, he lived during a time when his options for spreading that truth were limited to only how far his feet could carry him and how many people he could draw out to the wilderness to hear it directly from him. Nevertheless, he was highly successful in delivering his message in the face of steep opposition, and many, many people received his truth and were converted by it.

Even though John lived more than 2,000 years before the advent of the internet and the social media platforms that we enjoy today, I do not doubt that if the internet had been available to him, he would have used it boldly and often to get the Word of Truth out to a lost and dying world.

Today, many modern-day Johns are using social media platforms to try and reach, inform, and emancipate millions of people with truth because they believe people have been taken captive by lies and deception spread by deceptive media, politicians, and the culture.

For more than ten years on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, I have at times envisioned myself as a modern-day John the Baptist, trying to be that “voice crying in the internet wilderness,” using my words to liberate captive minds so they could see and accept what is truth.

Like many of you, I am convinced there is no time more important for pointing out truth and falsehood than during election seasons like this year. Today, the need is greater than ever for more and more voices crying out in the internet wilderness.

The following are excerpts of Facebook postings I have personally shared on some vitally important topics.

On Abortion:

Currently, Kamala Harris is the Democrat nominee for President of the United States, and it is quite clear that her primary issue to justify her election to the highest office in the land is one of the most vile and disgraceful issues of all, abortion.

“The best way to kill an N-word is to kill him before he is born.” – From Maafa 21

The abortion industry was founded by racist eugenics practitioners like Margaret Sanger who sought to control the black population and called us “human weeds.”

Since 1973 more than 23 million black people have been aborted. Black women represent 7% of the population but have 38% of all abortions. Tell me why abortion is something a black woman would run for president to protect! Is abortion really that important to the health, welfare, and prosperity of America…especially black America? What does protecting rights mean to dead babies?

On Democrat hypocrisy on DEI:

Joe Biden: “I will choose a black woman for my running mate, and I will put a black woman on the Supreme Court.”

Joe Biden: “I have created the most diverse cabinet in the history of the nation on every level right up to the Vice-president.”

Some Republicans: “Yes, Kamala was a diversity hire.”

Everybody and their momma: “That’s racist. Republicans are so racist.”

Me: “So, I guess every time you point out what they say and do concerning race, it’s racist.”

On Democrat Hypocrisy Concerning Race:

Apparently to be the leader of the Democrat party you can be black, but not too black. And we don’t get to choose; they are chosen for us by white liberals who have an agenda totally separate from black needs, but totally dependent on black support. Check this out!

I am a black man, raised by a black mother and father with black siblings in a black neighborhood. I went to black schools including an HBCU and became a Christian in a black church (watch someone call me a sellout).

Barack Obama lived NONE of that experience, but white liberals chose him and said, “Here you go, the first black president.” Black people rallied behind him like he was a black messiah and one of the first things he declared once in office was, “he didn’t have a black agenda.” In eight years of his presidency, the only group that really came up was LGBTQ++++.

Now white liberals have chosen an Asian woman married to a white man to be the new black leader and her platform is abortion, the golden calf of liberal white suburban women. Do you really believe that the greatest need in black America is keeping abortion legal?

As District Attorney and Attorney General in California, Kamala locked up thousands of black men for marijuana possession and then laughed about smoking it herself. She did not find a black man worthy of marrying yet now thousands of black men are blindly lining up behind her simply because she was sold to us as being “black.” Not smart, proven, or visionary. Just black.

If you’re going to attack me for this, be specific about what I have said in error. Don’t just call me names.

If you notice, women, and especially black women, are gaining great power in the Democrat party, and the men are falling in line behind them. On the other hand, black men are surging in the Republican party, and black male voters are taking notice. Here’s why:

One of the key pillars among leftist groups like Black Lives Matter was to overthrow and destroy the patriarchy in every space it existed—the church, the home, government, and even in reputation and importance in all those places—and empower feminism. The sad part is that weak, feckless, cowardly men allow themselves to be replaced in leadership roles in the name of inclusion and allow themselves to sulk away in fear of being labeled toxic and misogynistic.

This trend will be exploited to the max this election cycle. It has already started.

Proverbs 14:34 declares: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

If you’ll notice, some people have taken sin and dressed it up, normalized it, and called it a culture that deserves acceptance and protection.

Generations have come up believing that some of the most sinful, immoral, and damaging behaviors imaginable are simply part of the accepted culture of the day, and they will target, label, and defame anyone who refuses to accept or support them in it.

Just observe some of the most popular cultural icons of the day and compare their popularity to some of the icons of the past. Snoop Dog, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, and any openly gay or transgender celebrity are held in much higher esteem than those who espouse a Biblical or traditional set of values.

Now politicians are building platforms based on cultural unrighteousness, and millions of “Christians” are lining up to support them.

Abortion, homosexuality, sexual immorality, and violence are sinful acts, not cultural norms. Racial discrimination is a sin, not culture, and we should not accept it. God created men and women and never endorsed a culture that would create itself sexually as it chooses. Men cannot be women and women cannot be men no matter what the popular culture might insist.

Finally, the messages we hear in hip-hop and other entertainment media should not be what we base our community morality upon.

“Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” ~Andrew Fletcher

We would do well to recognize the effects our culture is having on our communities, our families, and even our politics. The future of the nation depends on us tuning our ears to different “songs.”

Rev. Ceasar I. LeFlore III is the past executive director of The African American Association for Life & Family, and presently sits of the boards of The Illinois Family Institute, The Life Education and Resource Network, and Pro-Life Champions.

Pastor LeFlore has spoken extensively around the nation on issues of Life and Family and has partnered with leading pro-life leaders nation-wide to affect social and policy change towards ending abortion.  He has been a frequent presenter at The National Right to Life Conferences and has been a featured speaker for Democrats for Life, The American Life League, The Pro-life Action League, LEARN, The Bio-Ethics Conference, and more.

Pastor LeFlore is married and is the father of two adult daughters.