And so we see it playing out right in front of us. For years -- for decades -- we have heard that there would be a confrontation between the believers and non-believers, between secularists and those who believe in the supernatural, between atheists and those who adhere to a single Creator.

It has been steadily gaining momentum, this cause to remove God from His very creation. And now, yes: it plays out in front of us.

We love those who attack us, but we must also stand up for our rights or face what has been prophesied.

Persecution?

Right now it is a confrontation, and it is everywhere. One is hardly surprised that the Ten Commandments aren't allowed at an Alabama courthouse. For years -- especially since the early 1990s -- we have seen case after case where prayer was removed from council meetings, athletic events were stripped of anything akin to Christian invocations, religion has been openly ridiculed on TV, Nativity scenes banished, and Boy Scouts persecuted for upholding Christian values. The other day a witch stopped them from using the Name of Jesus at council meetings in Great Falls, South Carolina!

This is at the same time that homosexual marriage heads for recognition, aberrant sexuality is taught in schools, public buses display racy ads, and due to his Christian beliefs the President is mocked as the Sacred Heart in a magazine. It is also at the same time when a town in Silicon Valley displayed the demonic Aztec god called Quetzalcoatl (the "feathered serpent)."

It's okay to glorify the occult, the New Age, the demonic -- serpents -- while making sure there are no lingering references to Jesus? It is okay to make fun of priests, to demonize the Church in a novel, to scandalize nuns in a movie, but a "hate crime" to oppose sodomy (or make a movie based on Christ's Passion)?

"All the civil governments will have one and the same plan," warned the Virgin at LaSalette, "which will be to abolish and do away with every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism, and vice of all kinds."

And so we see that it is not really an issue of separation of Church from state but separation of men from God -- which had also been the goal of the serpent back at the Garden. It is a face-off between the energies of Christ and anti-christ. It is a great move away from the very founding of this nation -- and if those who seek to remove all references to the Lord win out, then that victory, the movement that started when they banned school prayer in the 1960s, will begin to morph into a persecution.

That was something else prophesied at LaSalette: that there would be persecution, and that the divisions between men would be spawned by the serpent after a failure of Church leadership.

Can it really happen? We are a ways from that. But forces are swiftly institutionalizing anti-Christianity. Recently a Moonie "interfaith" group initiated an effort to get crosses off U.S. churches.

That may not yet be a serious threat, but it is incredible that a nation founded on Christ -- a nation in which 77 percent oppose removal of the Ten Commandments monument, for example -- is sitting back and letting all this happen.

Where are the tens of thousands who should be flooding the public square? Where are all the Christian voters? Where are the voices of "Christian" politicians?

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