Should Religion Mix? 9-6-09
There is so much today about how religion shouldn’t be mixed with any other part of our society. I saw a bumper sticker once that summed up the mistaken belief that religion is the problem: “the last time religion and politics were mixed, we got the crusades”. Well, the truth is that the result of divorcing this nation from Godly religion is over thirty million dead babies and a nation in utter disarray. Godly religion is exactly what should be mixed into American society.
But we cannot do that, can we? The moment you raise the issue, someone fervently raises objections disguised as questions, such as: “what about separation of church and state? What about the intolerance and divisiveness? And what religions do we accept as valid?” Questions like this one exist not as an attempt to solicit information and then to make a reasoned argument, but rather to frame the debate in such a way as to keep the ball firmly in their court. Let’s look at these questions.
“What about separation of church and state?” Well, what about it? The phrase comes from the correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and a Baptist church in which Jefferson assures the minister that the newly formed constitutional republic could not possibly interfere with the church because it was limited by the Bill of Rights. Yes, this is the same Bill of Rights that is now used to emasculate churches everywhere. The separation of church and state as a concept exists in the Constitution only in the First Amendment – the one which says that “Congress shall make no law…”
“What about the intolerance and divisiveness?” The intolerance I see most is that from the godless activists who seek to impose their will on the rest of the country through the use of the courts. I see intolerance from the courts, who abuse their power to legislate by judicial proclamation and who demonstrate their corruption constantly by denying justice to victims and showing partiality and hypocrisy at every turn. I see divisiveness in how the homosexual movement infiltrates churches and then rips them apart through controversy and subversion.
“What religions do we accept as valid?” This would be a good question, if it would be asked honestly. Our country was founded on Christian principles and an understanding that a valid religion was a Christian one. Today, the only religion recognized by the government is atheism. If you do not believe me, then what is the only authorized theory of the origin of the universe that can be taught in a public school? It is the one that assumes as its basic premise that there is no supernatural origin and that everything that exists came about through entirely natural means and without any external design or causation. That is a statement of faith, not of science because it cannot be tested or confirmed, but only believed. We were a Christian nation until Christians became ignorant of God; we had better become a Christian nation again, before it is too late.
We must put Christian beliefs and teachings back into American society. We took God out of the courts, and the courts forced the legalization of infanticide and the freeing of bloodthirsty terrorists. We took God out of the classroom and our children were told that there is no God and that they should be having sex of every kind and nature; then children started killing other children. So what do you think is going to happen when we finally let God be taken out of our lives?
Wake up America! God is alive and is active and is the only one who can give your life meaning and direction. Turn back to God before it is too late. And for those who are Christians already, stand up and take a stand for Christ, before Christ spits you from his mouth and ejects you from his kingdom. Declare yourself for Christ. Otherwise, everyone will assume you are in the other camp.
-Charles Peterson