Christian patriots, when the progressive voice of President Barack Obama is heard in the land, the “uncertain sound of the trumpet” may sound in your ears, but does it sound all that discordant in the ears of our Founding Fathers?
“President Barack Obama stated at a press conference in Turkey last week that we Americans ‘do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Muslim nation, but rather, a nation of citizens who are, uh, bound by a set of values.’
“Obama has made similar statements in the past. In June 2007, he told CBS, ‘Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.’ Note the progression. In 2007, he said we are no longer ‘just’ a Christian nation. Now, in 2009, he says we ‘do not consider ourselves a Christian nation’ at all.” (Obama, Not a Christian Nation, John Eidsmoe, April, 2009, New American)
There he goes again – calling our beloved Founding Fathers a bunch of Neo-Pagans. Alas! Is this not perhaps the most egregious accusation leveled within our hallowed halls? Certainly, the shed blood of the framers of our Constitution was spilt on behalf of your freedom to express your ramble rousing but let us assure you, cross the line and that’ll be the last time your liberal use of expression is tolerated. Sooner or later it was inevitable – that sacred company of seven (see below) would be adjudged as naught but enlightened pagans, hardly the stalwart crowd of Christian warriors set about to establish a more perfect union upon a hill – a golden city – a cup in the hand of the Lord – whereby her light would shine into the darkness and her cup held high in celebration of freedom’s fullness. If the Tribnet were to take this cherished historicity from us by acclaiming our origins stepped in the paganism of the Greeks and Romans – having little but “cultural tolerance” for Moses and Jesus – then this revelation that our forebears were naught but a pack of sophisticated pagans would have a deleterious impact upon the American psyche and cause our decline to all the more descend into hedonism and atrophy into civil confusion.
I dare say the “founders” may have been, at best, impressed with the “moral authority” of the Bible’s overall message – but certainly not its absolutes, aside from propounding moral social norms of civility in society. They may have taken, again at best, the Bible’s so-called moral persuasions as general norms of emancipating civilization; however, religion (especially the Christian religion) had not generated the enlightenment that inevitably gave birth to these United States; to the contrary, if anything, Judeo-Christian revelation was a supreme impediment to the creation of man’s mutual covenant with humanity.
The concept that our Founding Fathers had in mind a “Christian Nation” is decidedly a quantum conjecture – at best we are a hybrid, a mixture of deism and natural law wherein some of the Founding Fathers were Christian in name and culture; indeed, the majority of those whose signatures bedeck our Constitution were, as we have so stated, from sundry Christian denominations, but hardly enthralled by any concept that they were giving birth to a “City Set on a Hill.”
But that said, the “influence” upon the founding of this Republic was decisively Deist and, worse yet, was bound to the classic Greeks and Romans in both political and legal frameworks. It is to this deliberation that I wish to address and to the False Prophet’s attempts to proclaim liberty throughout the land under the guise of Christian parlance – i.e. these United States of America were and always have been an amalgamation of Church and State akin to the apostasy aforementioned in this series. This mixture of paganism and Christianity constitutes the foundation of overt apostasy – friends, AMERICA WAS BORN IN APOSTASY! Plain and simple and to the point – this admixture, no matter how contemptuous the sounds thereof to our patriotic brethren, is the wretched truth of the matter…let us illuminate this horrid fact.
