HE SAID, "IT'S CREEPY"

In June of 2018, Dan Piepenbring, writing in "The New Yorker," reported that he had spotted a "creepy infiltration" of his city and felt the need to warn the population.

Infiltrate? That's a strong word. I looked it up in the dictionary and found that it means, "to move into (an organization, country, territory, or the like) surreptitiously and gradually, especially with hostile intent." 

Then I looked up "surreptitiously" and saw that it means, "done, made, etc., in a secret or unauthorized or clandestine manner." 

This led to one more excursion into the dictionary--to make certain of the meaning of "clandestine: "characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious." 

"Clandestine," that's a very strong word, a word that implies evil intent. It must be something so terrible that was happening that the erudite reporter needed to warn the citizens of the Big Apple, so I read farther and found that NYC was being infiltrated by a building which housed a commercial venture: Chick-fil-A, the largest one in the world.

Chick-fil-A? Hostile? Subversive? Secretive? Then I looked up the goals of the company based in Atlanta and learned that the corporation has a mission statement: “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us. To have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A.” That's it. 

That's "creepy?" That is its open, not secret, purpose statement. Is glorifying God creepy? Is being a faithful steward creepy? Is having a positive influence on all who come in contact with the company creepy, hostile, and subversive?

Ah, you and I know what's really going on. The writer is hostile to the company because it holds to the absolute moral values and standards (particularly for marriage) in the Bible. 

I felt the need to rush to the dictionary to make sure I understood what "creepy" means and found that it's the, "having or causing a creeping sensation of the skin, as from horror or fear." Holding to the biblical definition of marriage produces a sensation of the skin, a horror, or a fear? From the reporter's article, I suppose it does produce such skin-crawling terror in him. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that he's not being hyperbolic.

Well, this what our educated elite, our mass media, our celebrities have come to--the state of Romans 1:22: "Professing to be wise, they became fools . . ."