{"id":38501,"date":"2019-11-03T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/getting-on-right-side-of-history\/"},"modified":"2019-11-03T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T17:32:00","slug":"getting-on-right-side-of-history","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/getting-on-right-side-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting on the \u2018Right Side of History\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expression &ldquo;on the right side of history&rdquo; is an important tool today used by the progressive elite to silence biblically faithful Christians. Never mind that it rests on significant religious assumptions. After all, no one can prove that history is inexorably going somewhere. Large segments of the world&#39;s population reject this idea. The majority of the non-Christian world believes that history is circular. Since it can&#39;t be proved that history is going somewhere, it is de facto a religious assumption. By doing so the progressives are acting contrary to their own secular presuppositions.<\/p>\n\n<p>Whenever someone says &quot;I am on the right side of history&quot; they are presuming that their understanding of right and wrong is the same as whoever or whatever is in control of history. Since a large number of those who have adopted this phrase are self-avowed atheists, agnostics, or religious liberals their use of this phrase is fundamental hypocrisy. If there is no personal God, history is going nowhere, or at best it is moving randomly. 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