Story telling is a subversive activity. Every culture, every society, has a story to tell of itself. Idolatrous societies tell stories that vindicate their idols, presenting them in the best possible light. You, as Christians, will always be allowed to worship as you please, just so long as you do not do anything to subvert their story. But the gospel story was given to us in just such a way as to subvert every conceivable idolatrous story. The Christian story, told right, throws down every idol. Of course, the idols never like it, but we are not asking their permission for anything.
The particular point at issue in our clash of stories is that egalitarians have told the story of American history so as to justify their shedding rivers of blood to accomplish their ends. Obedience to Scripture, and trust in the Word of God, would have ended chattel slavery in our nation without a bloodbath. Further, that particular carnage, at which secularists are so adept, was the war which established in our nation the myth of neutrality. And so they tell a story which vindicates that doctrine of theirs.
We may deny the doctrine all we please, and they do not care. It is not until we tip over the foundation stone, it is not until we subvert their story, that they become really irate. But let them become irate—that is a small part of what we are after.
Of course, when we do this, they start trying to shout us down. When that doesn’t work, they, equally loudly, start maligning our story. This is a technique they learned from their father, and it is called lying. But rejoice. All this is a sign of a fundamental and profound panic in the minds and hearts of the adversaries of a full gospel.