Op-ed Published in Western Journal Today
Writing on the Inevitable Problems that Follow in the Wake of Transgenderism
We trust you will read “The Unavoidable Problem Facing Violent Transgender Activists and Christians.” Go to: The Unavoidable Problem Facing Violent Transgender Activists and Christians.
There is one dark menacing cumulation in the foreboding sky. But there are hundreds of maleficent clouds in motion. Each flotilla carries within itself an arsenal of evil and a potential for disaster. The ominous movement of clouds expanded with lethal gases of moral degeneracy portent an unprecedented storm. We are reminded of W. H. Auden’s (1907-1973) closing lines to “The Fall of Rome” (1940): "Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, silently and very fast." Auden’s insightful poetry The reindeer were on the move frighted by the thundering columns of Germanic Visigoth cavalry led by their general, Alaric. Auden employed the sensate experience of that moment on 27 August 410 AD to warn the West of the fate of those who fail to heed the lessons of the collapse of a world power. How did St. Jerome put it in recalling that day? “The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken” (412 AD). But do we feel the rumbling of the earth beneath us?
We are reminded of W. H. Auden’s closing lines to “The Fall of Rome” (1940): "Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, silently and very fast."
Among the forces working to weaken our people from within is one nefarious movement that has distinguished itself in the dangerous axis of absurdity. Within only a few years the insidious nature of so-called “transgenderism” (there is, actually, no transition from one sex to the other nor can there be) has revealed itself as its cloud formation joins with other ungodly powers. What do we do? I have written about this in an opinion editorial piece published this date in the Western Journal. We invite you to read: “The Unavoidable Problem Facing Violent Transgender Activists and Christians.” We thank the Western Journal for the courage to publish it.
There is hope in the storm. That hope is always the message of the Gospel. “Repent and believe” remains the urgent cry of the ridiculed prophets. I pray that message will come through and offer us a glimpse of the light of Jesus Christ that ultimately dispels the darkness. We need His grace and truth now more than ever lest we miss the warnings that carry the possibility of mercy.
Read the opinion editorial in the Western Journal: https://www.westernjournal.com/op-ed-unavoidable-problem-violent-transgender-activists-christians/.
Reference
Jerome. "To Principia." In Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, Vol. 6, 360. Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.
Michael A. Milton, Op-Ed: “The Unavoidable Problem of Violent Transgender Activists for Christians," The Western Journal, April 14, 2023, https://www.westernjournal.com/op-ed-unavoidable-problem-violent-transgender-activists-christians.
W.H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles," in Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Random House, 1976), 334.