TOD 01.09.08

Much ink has been spilt over the years by people trying to convince each other that America either was or was not founded as a Christian nation. What if it doesn’t matter?

To those who say Halloween originated as a demonic event, I reply that today it is kids and costumes and candy. To those who say that martial arts started as Eastern spiritualism, I reply that, so long as it is done without meditation, it is just biophysics. To those who say that Christmas trees are druidic idols, I reply that, unless you’re bowing down before them, pretty dying trees are just pretty dying trees, like big smelly flowers.

You can’t evaluate a practice by it’s origins. Instead, you must look at its current reality. Thus, although it seems like an advantage to plant the Christian flag over the founding of this country, the real questions are whether we are today a Christian nation and, more importantly, can you explain why you think we should try to be so regardless of whether we are?
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Anonymous said...

The primary belief structure of most Americans is "Christian" in that our family's ancestry professed a belief system based on the Bible. Our laws were forged on Biblical principles. We as a nation did proclaim that we were endowed by our Creator.

These very things are being brought under attack in order to remove God from political and legal decision making. The leap is not as far as it was when we began in 1776.

Should we try to be a Christian nation? I don't know if that is possible. I am only one. I can say that I will raise my family to know the Lord.

So as your other examples are now a shell of their former meaning, so our Christian nation is becoming devoid of its original meaning. We can only hope that those who do profess the name "Christian", do so without hypocrisy. That we are using the talents and treasure the Lord has given us to glorify Him. We are a remnant.

January 9, 2008 at 6:44 AM

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