"It's Official...USA No Longer a 'Christian Nation'"

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" Even if we expelled every Christian in America, 

whose Christianity would we teach in the schools...

which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?

Should we go with, uhh, Leviticus, which uhh, suggests slavery is ok?

Or we could go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your child

if he strays from the faith.  Or should we just stick to the sermon on the mount, a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own defense department

would survive its application...Now I may be opposed to abortion for

religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice I can't simply point to the teachings of my church

or evoke God's will.  I have to explain why abortion violates some

principle that is accessible to people of all faiths including those

with no faith at all.  Now this is going to be difficult for some who

believe in the inerrancy of the Bible as many evangelicals do, but in a

pluralistic society we have no choice."

 -President Barak Obama 
(bold mine)

 

Beloved, it is REALLY important that you take the necessary time to understand what the new President of The United States believes and teaches.  I implore you to take the necessary time to study and ponder what the above quotation means for the future of the United States.  "If I seek to pass a law...I can't simply point to...or evoke God's will." 

 

The student of United States history will immediately recognize how contrary and divergent these statements are.  Consider the words of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison,

 

"We have staked the whole future of American

civilization...upon the capacity of each and all

of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten

Commandments of God."+

 

And signer of The Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush,

 

"Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion.  This is the most essential part of education.  The great enemy of the salvation of men...never invented a more effectual means of extirpation (removing) Christianity from the world than by persuadingmankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."**

 

"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice,encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful,applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe." -Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1848*

 

"Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose

heart turns away from the Lord...

Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a disgrace to any people...

It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness,

for a throne is established on righteousness...

Loyalty and truth preserve the king, and he upholds his throne by righteousness...

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness."

Jeremiah 17:5; Proverbs 14:34; 16:12; 20:28; 25:5

 

 

*Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman and author.  He did most of his writing during the years just before-and immediately following-the revolution of 1848, a period when France was rapidly turning toward complete Socialism, much like the United States of America today.

 

+James Madison.  1778.  Beliles and McDowell, Providential History, p.221.

 

**Benjamin Rush.  Letters of Benjamin Rush, Princeton, New Jersey:  American Philosophical Society, 1951.