Wednesday, August 1, 2007

2037: Remember the good ole' days of the 1980s?

In thirty years, we will look up from our piles of ash that we till endlessly praying for crops to spring forth from and we will think back on a time when the providence of God was with us because we prayed and worked earnestly to see that it was. Then we will think of the days when the providence of God slowly faded from American society in the name of universalism and equal protection under the law, and we will remember this (and we will weep bitterly):

“An illustrious day for all Americans and a memorable day for us.” So declared Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest from Nevada, after being invited to open the July 12, 2007 session of the United States Senate with a Hindu prayer ...

The architects of American civilization would be aghast. To give credence or credibility to pantheistic religion (“God” is inside the Earth, sky, etc.), that advocates belief in thousands of “gods” while rejecting the one true God of the Bible, would be unthinkable in 1776. It was equally unthinkable for most Americans up until the last 40-50 years ...

It was on June 28, 1787, in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, that one of the least religious of the Founders, Benjamin Franklin, then in his 80s, rose to his feet and made the proposal that Congress open their sessions with prayer. Yet, on that occasion, the God, the religion, and the sacred Scriptures that Franklin had in mind were certainly not the gods, religion, and scripture of Hinduism.


Read Franklin's exact words (chock full of allusions to the one true God and the Bible) in the Apologetics Press article.

I'm sure some senators silently boycotted by not attending the July 12th sesion, but they would get slammed in the press if they said anything that wasn't politically correct or could get labeled as intolerant. I don't blame them. We need good men silently serving and voting the right way; I can speak the truth without fear of the press or losing to a "tolerant" democrat who will destroy our country -- maybe not the geographic features of a continent spanning nation, but certainly the foundation that enabled America to become the preeminent state in the world today.

For sure, the Founders of America desired religious freedom. Technically, by “religious freedom” they meant that all Protestant denominations should have the right to pursue their own interpretation of the Bible and to worship the God and Christ of the Bible according to their own consciences without governmental interference ...

Nevertheless, the Founders were perfectly willing to extend the right of religious freedom to those who did not share the Protestant brand of the Christian religion. They opposed all religious persecution for the simple reason that Christian people love their fellowman and do not mistreat others (Matthew 7:12).

But make no mistake: the Founders believed in the God of the Bible, and the vast majority of them believed in the validity of the Christian religion to the exclusion of all other gods and religions. They would not have countenanced giving non-Christian religions any sort of public endorsement or favorable encouragement.

This is evidenced very clearly in the article. The worst part today is how the democrats are co-opting other religions to tear down Christiantity. They think they can weaken Christian morals and dominance in America by creating an education system that tells children that all religions are equal; Since all are equal we can't listen to any of them because they differ in teaching and policy. The truth is they hate all religions and all morality but they will use the means of promoting cults and false world religions in order to pollute the minds of children, so eventually they can do away with all external moral authority in this country.

This is the morality and rule of law that we are heading for -- one with complete exclusion of external moral authority (article from Town Hall).

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