Please forgive my delay in responding. I have been in the hay fields and underneath some vehicles of late. 18 acres left and we are done for the year, save the hauling.
I share your assessment of the founding of the United States. Somewhere downstairs I have a book from the late 70’s or early 80’s called the Second American Revolution; it was at the time of the awakening of evangelicals that was finding voice in CBN, the Moral Majority, and may have peaked about the time Newt G. orchestrated the Contract with America.
The issue has always been what kind of “bedfellows” can you include in your coalition. I detest homosexuality; it is a first order perversion, a sin punishable by death. Ranks right up there with witchcraft, Satanism, child sexual abuse, etc.
When we seek these days to affect a secular government through popular election we have to make decisions about what or who we can include or tolerate as political allies.
Satan has always sought to join the Church. The Church has always struggled with how involved to become with society and government. I can’t fault the Quakers, for instance, doctrinally. Turning the other cheek is purely scriptural, but not a recipe for success as a nation in this age.
At some point the Cross and the Flag part ways, don’t they?
I appreciate your studied response(s)! You are certainly a serious student of Church and American history.
While in high school, my parents bought 40 acres outside of the small town that I grew up in. 10 of those acres were alfalfa. The fond memories of "bucking bales" in my HS years, clear into adulthood is still with me. I come from working stock (one uncle was a dairy farmer, another a wheat farmer), so I know of what you speak.
The issue has always been what kind of “bedfellows” can you include in your coalition. I detest homosexuality; it is a first order perversion, a sin punishable by death. Ranks right up there with witchcraft, Satanism, child sexual abuse, etc.
Hence all the more reason to keep "active" homosexuals out of a party that is "supposed" to espouse traditional family values. Would you welcome "proud" pornographers into your coalition? How about adulterers that don't have any plans on changing their immoral lifestyle; but even worse "flaunt" it? Incestuous people? I think not. Our job is to educate our fellow American's that conservativism isn't only limiting the scope of government when it comes to financial issues, it's to "stand strong" on moral issues as well. If your household were riddled with abortion, homosexuality, pornography, etc. etc. etc., would you not want to get your moral issues straightened out before you made sure your checkbook balanced? I see our country in the same light. God blessed our nation BECAUSE it was founded upon Christian principles, and He is damning us because we're abandoning them.
I appreciate your studied response(s)! You are certainly a serious student of Church and American history.
Thanks for the kind words. I must say that theology isn't my forte', however, through Scripture I do know the difference between right and wrong.
Thanks for your post, and if you ever need help bringing in the hay, give me a holler.