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Using the NAR False Authority Paradigm to Defend United Airlines

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Burton then returns to drawing false equivalencies. He speaks about how he had a trip to Canada where both flights were delayed and he was grumpy. Yes Mr. Burton but you were not asked to deplane after being properly boarded and then had your teeth knocked out. Another flight he mentions was canceled and he missed his daughter's birthday. Terrible story but this has nothing to do with what happened to Mr. Dao. David Dao's flight was not cancelled. If it were and he become irate and refused to deplane then I would agree 100% with what Mr. Burton is selling. That is not what happened here however. Burton continues:

Yes, the man in Chicago who refused to deplane was extremely in the wrong. It's our job as lights in a dark world to smile and reveal the life and love of Jesus in challenging and unfair situations and not grumble and demand that our rights be met. -- John Burton

Burton continues to label Dao a Christian when there has been no evidence of this fact. Secondly, Christians also stand up for what is right and what is just. That too is bringing light to a darkened world. In the mind of John Burton a Christian simply rolls over for anyone and anything in any situation. Somehow I think that misses the true mark of the Bible and how we are to be light in this dark age. If there were someone who needed to board that plane like someone with a disability or a serviceman coming home to be reunited with his family, then I think we are light by offering to give up our seat. Do not lose sight of this beloved. This airline made the mistake of boarding people and then trying to throw people off the plane so their employees could take the flight. It is not unbiblical to think that a company should be better organized than that. Even the pathetic example Burton gave of witnessing another flight where people were asked to give up their seats occurred in the airport, not after people have already been boarded. John Burton goes on for some length along the exact same skewed view of thinking and Bible twisting. Here are just some of the low lights:

We aren't only to submit to authority that is fair or right. We don't turn our submission on and off based on our own analysis of the situation. Regardless of whether David Dao was treated properly or not, he disobeyed a clear and direct order. He was wrong, no matter how important he believed himself to be. Entitlement must go. Humility and submission to authority must find its way into our independent, narcissistic culture. As I said above, I'm stunned at the Christians who are instant in their defense and outright celebration of David's clear indiscretion. In today's society, it seems it's the authority that's always the villain. Corporations, pastors, police officers, parents and others are held in suspicion at best and rebelled against without apology at worst. Airlines absolutely have the right to remove people for any reason. Refusal to comply is against the law. That simply cannot be argued. We are required, per Scripture, to obey. Our supposed "rights" are not more important than our responsibility to submit. -- John Burton

For the sake of time I will try to be brief. It is stunning that Burton does not think right and wrong matter when submitting to authority. Under this bizarre standard the very country he now worships was established based upon rebellion against God and therefore is under His wrath. You cannot have it both ways. Secondly, this is not "entitlement." United Airlines is a company. They sold something Mr. Dao bought and they have responsibilities as well. It is beyond ironic that while Mr. Burton berates Christians for siding with what is right; United Airlines has already apologized and admitted they were wrong. Perhaps the most frightening and revealing statement made by Mr. Burton is found when he lists corporations on par with pastors, police, and parents. Wow. That is not Biblical not Christian. The actual word for it is fascist. Lastly from this section, it is not against the law. If it were, Mr. Dao would have been charged with a crime. Burton is conflating a law about complying with deplaning for legitimate reasons. The law that was broken however is that even in deplaning an individual; it can never be done forcibly. Let me conclude by reviewing four of the final statements made by Burton:

It doesn't matter if United Airlines was wrong (though I personally do not think they were), David's reaction was unacceptable. The airline had the right to do what they did. They had no obligation to explain themselves. They along with the lawmakers write the rules. -- John Burton

It is painfully obvious in the corporatocracy that John Burton desires to live in that United Airlines did nothing wrong. He so values the non human entity of the corporation that he has put them on the same par as lawmakers! The airline had NO right to do what they did and they already have admitted it. They now will be sued for it and guess what Mr. Burton? They will lose that too. We do not live in Stalin's Russia.

Christians are being tortured, raped and murdered as martyrs all over the world, and we think someone being required to vacate a seat on an airplane is a violation of human rights? We'd have to be sick to think such a thing! -- John Burton

The only sicko who thought of this was John Burton. No one compared something as trivial as a plane fare to martyrs. But we are also big boys and girls who can walk and chew gum at the same time. Nice try Burton.

We never speak against or elevate our own opinions above God's established authority. Pastors, prophets, apostles, politicians, policemen, bosses, etc. We humbly support them, unless, and only unless, they were to cause us to violate a clear Scriptural truth. That's it.

And we finally come to it. The false authority paradigm is what is behind all of this and that is not surprising since it is the core of NAR teaching. The notion that we never speak out is completely unbiblical. Paul once rightly rebuked Peter. I might add here that it is not lofting our own opinion above the one in authority but rather God's opinion. We are called to test everything, do the work of a Berean and rebuke what is false. That is all fully supported in Scripture. It is false beliefs such as these espoused by John Burton that holds unimaginable numbers of people captive to false teachers in false churches. Out of all the wrongness in this article by John Burton, I tried to save the worst for last:

We presume God is most interested in right vs. wrong. He is not. He's interested in our response, our reaction.

Says no bible verse anywhere. Beloved, God is most assuredly interested in right versus wrong. I do not understand how someone can read the Bible and not realize that. This is a worldly argument wrapped up in skewed humanistic and carnal thinking. God is a God of justice beloved. Should David Dao have walked off that plane? Certainly it would have made things easier but it would not have made them right. John Burton seems quite an adherent to NAR thinking and as such, he has raised the corporation to the same level as pastors who run the church, police who protect the citizenry, and kings who rule the land. Never mind that his blessed corporation actually tried to lie at first and claim that Mr. Dao was belligerent and disruptive until oops; that darn video came out. Yet the Burtons of the world do not care about that. The sad thing is they use their Christian media platform to eviscerate the Word of God and pretend that God does not care about justice. If you want to believe that Mr. Dao was wrong, or petulant, or should have just complied you have every right to and we can agree to disagree in an agreeable manner. Just do not pretend for one second that the Bible supports that position or that Romans 13 was written so that thousands of years later we would know to bow to the governing will of the Chicago Aviation Police.

Reverend Anthony Wade -- April 23, 2017

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