Is America a Christian Nation?
If not, we must be a secular Atheistic nation, or perhaps a Muslim nation or Hindu. A recent Newsweek poll shows that 62% of Americans polled still believe that America is a Christian nation. Although that is a strong majority, the numbers are declining. In 2005 71% polled thought that America was a Christian nation.
The reality is that we were founded on basic Judeo-Christian values by men and women who believed that we have a Creator…God. Our system of government is not designed to work outside of a Christian nation. This is why the secular progressive leaders of America want to change America. Yes, there have been societal problems with our laws and practices, but our history proves we are willing to correct our course if it violates the basic unalienable rights of God’s children.
By no means is the idea of a Theocracy being promoted here, but the values that Americans have rallied around were values based on Judeo-Christian teachings. It is unrealistic to believe that values and morals have no origin. It is my opinion that one can believe in another god, however, the prospect of people believing there is no god is frightening.
When citizens take the time to read America’s founding documents, it is obvious the majority of the writers were men of deep faith in God. Their faith was inscribed on many of the federal buildings and monuments in Washington, DC. A large congregation of Christians held their Sunday church services in the Capitol Building for years.
Today some political leaders are determined to remove all Godly influence from our culture. I believe it is a matter of accountability. It appears the goal of our government to be accountable only to itself. In order for this to happen, God must be removed from the political equation. If there is no God, there is no higher authority to which government answers. Government becomes self governing; lording its power over the governed. The Declaration of Independence says that the government gets its power from the governed. When an entity is not accountable beyond itself, it becomes tyrannical and destructive. If the government can render the church and its values powerless, then by default Secular Humanism takes over.
We have not lost the battle; the key players are not even in the game. The Bible believing church has not yet entered the arena. The church has stood silently outside the battleground hoping that government would protect our Judeo-Christian values. It is time for the leaders of the church to rise as did the faith leaders of old and fight for our Christian rights. When the church stands, the secular progressive agenda will fall. “Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered.” Ps. 68:1
Three of our most famous founders said the following;
“As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and His religion as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.” Ben Franklin
“The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man. The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses. I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others." Thomas Jefferson
"We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." James Madison
