Whether certain factions of our nation would like to believe it or not, this nation was founded on Christian principles. There is no national religion, beyond that we worship God, in the way we choose, and don't slight someone who chooses not to, and our law is built around that. In our court houses you can (or could, have they removed them yet?) find the Ten Commandments. If you're not familiar with them you can find them in any Christian Bible.
1. You shall have no other gods besides Me.
2. You shall make no graven image of a god, nor worship it.
3. You shall not misuse the name of your God.
4. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
5. Honor your Father and Mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor's belongings.
The first 4 are between you and God. Number 5 is the only one associated with a promise, and you shall live long. The last 5 are for society. Can you imagine a society that didn't obey the last 5 commandments?
I've been thinking about this administration. They have been instilling themselves into religion as of late. I've been wondering why? Progressives have, for a very long time, been trying to take religion out of our government. We have been fighting it, knowing instinctively that it is the foundation of our government. If you remove the Ten Commandments, and you remove Godly principles, how long will it be before these principles will go away? How long will it be before they can justify their own actions as acceptable?
I have to wonder if that is what they're doing. We get indignant at the corruption currently in Washington. BECAUSE we are familiar with godly principles. What would happen if our standards lowered? IF they were successful in erasing from our memories the fact that our founding fathers were men of God, that would be easier.
They launched on a campaign to do just that in the progressive era. I attended college in the early 80's. I remember my textbooks...lots of footnotes. I have to admit, I didn't read the footnotes, but they were there, should you wish to check out where they got their facts. I recently saw one of the "textbooks" that tore apart the founding fathers as not Christian. Someone flipped through the pages...not a footnote one. That screams opinion. Gee, just like Glenn Beck. I wonder why no one dismissed him as opinion, but believed very word he said?
What would be the next step? Have us believe that it's ok to murder if the government is the one to do it? Gee, that sounds like rationing health care. You don't really need that life saving medical treatment, because you're old and your life has been full. Why don't you step down and let the young people have a chance at life? Or your child is really young, you didn't really get a chance to know her anyway, and you could make another one just like her anyway. The money could go to that 20-something man who contributes so much more to society than your child. We know now that it's not a moral decision, so maybe the government needs to change the moral standards in society.
Society doesn't like redistribution of wealth? Well, get involved in the churches and convince them that Jesus didn't like the rich. Pervert the scriptures to mean something else. They did it back in the early 1900's too. They called them social gospellers. They're baaaaack! Using scriptures like "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven." Do you know what the eye of the needle meant? It was the little door beside the big door in the gate into a city. They would close up the city at night. If you came to a city at night, they would only open the little door and let a man in, not the big door. So you had to leave your camel tied outside. This was so that they wouldn't get invaded. This was an analogy of the small path into heaven. A rich man is usually tied to earth by his riches, thus can't reach the small path to heaven. It didn't mean that because he was rich he couldn't get to heaven. It meant that usually he loved money more than God, so he wouldn't leave his money at the door to go through the little door. He would try to bring it with him and squeeze through the little door with him.
Most Christians I've met, things are just things. We've been blessed and that's great, but if we lose it, oh well, God will either give it back, or He won't. That's where I'm at right now. I've seen plenty and I've seen poor. Right now I'm at poor, and if He leaves me here, fine. I'm hoping he won't but if He does, that's His choice. We're waiting for a second house to sell. If it does, we'll be at the fine place. We have lots of things we need...lots of things we'd like to do with that extra money, including ministry opportunities. President Obama, on the other hand, wants to force charity. He believes every person in America doesn't want to leave that camel at the door when we come in. He thinks every person in the world is a "Mine, mine, mine" sort of person. Who did he grow up with? Sad, sad, sad.
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