Posted on 04/11/2009 3:35:57 PM PDT by presidio9
“One of the great strengths of the United States is ... we have a very large Christian population — we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
— Barack Obama at a press conference in Turkey, April 6, 2009.
We are a nation adrift. As part of the left’s relentless campaign to remove all mention of our nation’s founding Judeo-Christian principles from public life, we are now, as Obama states correctly, a nation devoid of religion. We are instead a nation of citizens bound by a set of flimsy ideals and faux values.
Gone is the American dream, the model of the rugged individualist and the goal of success through hard work. It has been replaced by the ideals of collectivism, entitlement and victim worship.
Honor, sacrifice, honesty, personal responsibility and a culture that believes in the sanctity of human life have been replaced with the false morality of diversity, tolerance, environmentalism and a culture of death.
As a lapsed Catholic, for some time I have felt a void in my life where a certain spirituality should be.
And by spirituality, I don’t mean some goofy Oprah book on the subject; I mean a set of standards that answers to a higher moral authority.
Twenty-five years later, I find myself revisiting those old Catholic values and wishing the Church’s moral authority were still intact and unblemished by the stain of the pedophile priest scandals.
I see society crumbling due to a distinct lack of moral clarity, and the pillars of our new values and new ideals are far too flimsy to prop it up.
It has gotten to the point that if you dare to live your life according to a code of traditional morality, the left will call you a hypocrite unless you are now — and always have been — perfect.
The more publicly you espouse these values, the more zealously they will hunt you down and the more celebrated your downfall will be. This is in hopes that the lesson sinks in to the unconverted — living a life according to a code of traditional morals is futile unless you can do it flawlessly.
And because we are human, that is an all but impossible task.
Charges of hypocrisy are an effective weapon indeed. Indeed, it is the only tool in the left’s arsenal.
Sarah Palin dared to live her life according to a Christian code. So when the left found out about her pregnant teenage daughter, it was a perfect example of exposing the hypocrisy that everyone knows is lurking just beneath the surface of every Christian.
We watched the left gleefully celebrate the downfall of this girl and ridicule her for choosing life instead of abortion. It was, in fact, such a delicious story of justice in the eyes of the morally bankrupt that it still lives more than six months after Sarah Palin herself left the national spotlight.
Yet, a far more egregious campaign scandal barely saw the light of day: John Edwards and Rielle Hunter had an affair during Edwards’s run for the presidency while Edwards himself was exploiting his wife’s battle with cancer to gain as much political mileage as possible.
When Hunter became pregnant and the father of the child was rumored to be Edwards’s, the story gained little play in the media. Rielle was quietly paid off and sent out of the public spotlight, while Edwards performed the required Kabuki Theater of asking for the public’s forgiveness on the eve of what looked like his possible appointment as Barack Obama’s running mate. Rumors of a love child, however, were too much for even Barack Obama’s famously low character standards. Edwards instead dropped out of the public eye and was allowed to return to private life.
Because the Palins dared to live according to a code of ethics dictated by traditional religion, they have been labeled hypocrites because of their very human failings.
John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, however, are not hypocrites because you can’t fall short of your standards if you don’t have any.
This lack of moral clarity infecting our once great nation has thrown us back in time; instead of worshipping a good and just God, we worship the random whims of nature. Gaia is angry; we must ask for forgiveness for the sins of our modern conveniences, and we offer penance with our sacrifices of carbon credits.
We look with contempt upon human beings, seeing them not as part of the Earth’s natural ecosystem, but as an intruder into an otherwise perfect world.
Humans encroach on the habitat of animals; they create pollution; they invade open spaces; and they suck the earth dry of resources.
There are no evil-doers, only misunderstood victims.
Whether it be 19 radical Islamists bent on returning the Caliphate or a random lone gunman opening fire on his colleagues, our obsessions with getting to “root causes” inevitably leads to an explanation of the victimization of the perpetrator and a ready availability of weaponry.
It’s all just a big circle of violence of which we are all a part, and because we have abandoned personal responsibility, the only solution is further curtailment of our freedoms.
You see, it is only OK for the left to tell you how to live your life.
It’s OK for them to force their false values on you and make you comply through rule of law and taxation.
It’s OK for them to indoctrinate your children in our public schools with their false religion, and it’s your duty to pay for it with your taxes.
It’s not only OK to experiment on human embryos, it would be immoral not to because the new gospel says that the potential in destroying an embryo is so much greater that the potential in a fully realized human being.
It’s OK for society to fall into moral decay because none of us are perfect, and therefore, none of us are qualified to judge what moral decay is anyway.
To say otherwise would be hypocrisy.
American has always been considered a Christian nation at least until the far left , the homofacist and the socialist started destroying the family, killing babies and undermining the moral fabric of our society.
The wordview of our government schools is god-less, atheistic, secular humanist, Marxism. Sprinkled in for a little flavor is pagan earth worship.
There are only two possible approaches to education: godless and God-centered.
Government schools are a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination. ALL government schools in this nation are **establishing** a god-less religious wordview in the minds of every child who attends. We the taxpayer get to pay for it.
I regard the USA as dead and in a state of near anarchy. There is no longer any point in investing one’s life in this country unless it means dying to defeat the liberals.
The Sitting President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, the man who raised his right hand and swore on Lincoln’s Bible: in accordance with Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend The Constitution of the United States” has in a news conference in the sovereign Nations of Turkey and Indonesia (which means “on foreign soil”) stated that “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. uh uh... we consider ourselves uh uh a nation of uh citizens.”
From an article found here: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/politics/pg0040.html
When President Harry Truman wrote to Pope Pius XII in 1947 that “This is a Christian nation.”, he certainly did not mean that the United States has an official or legally-preferred religion or church. Nor did he mean to slight adherents of non-Christian religions. But he certainly did mean to recognize that this nation, its institutions and laws, was founded on Biblical principles basic to Christianity and to Judaism from which it flowed. As he told an Attorney General’s Conference in 1950, “The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and Saint Matthew, from Isaiah and Saint Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”
Woodrow Wilson, in his election campaign for President, made the same point: “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.... America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the tenets of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.”
The crucial role of Christianity in this nation’s formation is not without dispute, although as Revolutionary leader Patrick Henry said: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship.”
John Ashcroft was roundly criticized for his “No King but Jesus” speech at Bob Jones University, but he was only reminding us of our colonial and Revolutionary War heritage. In a 1774 report to King George, the Governor of Boston noted: “If you ask an American, who is his master? He will tell you he has none, nor any governor but Jesus Christ.” The pre-war Colonial Committees of Correspondence soon made this the American motto: “No King but King Jesus.” And this sentiment was carried over into the 1783 peace treaty with Great Britain ending that war, which begins “In the name of the most Holy and Undivided Trinity... .”
Samuel Adams, who has been called ‘The Father of the American Revolution’ wrote The Rights of the Colonists in 1772, which stated: “The rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of the Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”
It is frequently asserted by those seeking to minimize Christianity’s central role in our nation’s founding and history, that the founders themselves were not practicing Christians, but rather were Deists or Agnostics. In a 1962 speech to Congress, Senator Robert Byrd noted that of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 29 were Anglicans, 16-18 were Calvinists, and among the rest were 2 Methodists, 2 Lutherans, 2 Roman Catholics, 1 lapsed Quaker-sometimes Anglican, and only 1 open Deist — Benjamin Franklin who attended all Christian worships and called for public prayer.
The last paragraph of this article states:
Can America still be called a Christian nation? It is certainly a more religiously pluralistic and diverse society than it was during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. There are increasing numbers of non-Christians immigrating to this country, and there has been a rapid rise in adherents to Islam among our population. There are millions of Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Shintoists, Unitarians, Hindus, Wiccans, Naturists, Agnostics, and Atheists, but Christians comprise roughly 84% of the population. Our constitutional legal system is still based on the Jewish/Christian Bible, not the Koran or other holy book. We still observe Sunday, the Christian Sabbath, as an official holiday. Easter and Christmas still have a special place in the holiday lexicon. The Ten Commandments are still on the wall behind the Supreme Court Justices when they take the bench. Our coins still display the motto “In God We Trust.” The US is still firmly part of a Western Civilization fashioned by a Judeo-Christian religious ethic and heritage. Alexis de Tocqueville observed more than a century and a half ago, “There is no country in the world, where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.” That is still true today. We live, not under a Christian government, but in a nation where all are free to practice their particular religion, in accommodation with other religions, and in accordance with the basic principles of the nation, which are Christian in origin. It is in that sense that America may properly be referred to as a Christian nation.
Therefore, I respectfully request that the Sitting President, Barack Hussein Obama, retract his statement and apologize to this Nation and to the memory of the Founding Fathers for broadcasting to the world (on more than one occasion) that “we are not a Christian nation.”
May I remind you all that the definition of traitor is “one who leads you to believe something that is not true.” A traitor who betrays his Country commits treason. And treason is an impeachable offence. Is, in your minds, the Sitting President, Barack Hussein Obama, a traitor yet? What will it take for him to so demonstrate?
What do you mean "we" white man?
Errrrrr....half-white man.
Excellent article. She’s right on.
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