God has blessed America--a fact that one of our most important patriotic songs confesses as it pleads for the continuance of God's blessing.
Our Constitution was based almost entirely on the Bible itself. The overwhelming majority of our Framers were devout Protestants, many of whom were elders/pastors in their respective churches. (The Constitutional Convention, which included 55 delegates, had only three delegates that were Deists, plus one Jew.) Benjamin Franklin, although a Deist rather than a Christian, was a close friend of Jonathan Edwards--the Massachusetts revivalist who lit off the Great Awakening that made our nation possible. Franklin delighted to tell the crowned heads of Europe that America's republican constitution was based on the Bible itself.
A Ninteenth Century jurist pointed out in a famous court decision in Massachusetts that our Republic was founded as a Christian nation and that a healthy Christian influence in our Body Politic was necessary for our nation's very survival. Many of our Framers, including the most important Founders, had publicly said the same thing.
Even the Deist Thomas Jefferson, a Founder but not a Framer, repeatedly acknowledged our Creator as the source of and justification for our existence as a nation. Much of Jefferson's most famous language in the Declaration of Independence was even taken directly from the Presybterian's Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775
Now Trump comes along, and today's frightened but otherwise pretty thoughtless folks think Trump is precisely what we need as a kind of savior of our Republic. I submit that this is spiritually stupid, even spiritually insane. Under the circumstances of our nation's birth and survival through Divine providence, we must not now forget or even downplay the fact that our destiny is completely in the hands of the Lord God our Creator. And I flatly submit that our God is extraordinarily offended that our once-Christian society has stooped to promoting or even electing viciously antichristian phonies like Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and Obama. We have been courting disaster as a nation.
More to the point of this post, I say that we are still courting disaster by asking God to give us Trump, another outrageous political and spiritual phony, as POTUS.
(When even today's churchgoers find themselves endorsing and even defending Trump as a Christian, I have to laugh at their Biblical ignorance. Trump is making a mockery of Christianity and thereby making fools out of the churchgoers who are so ardently, fiercely supporting him--and those same churchgoers don't even realize that he is making fools out of them to feed his own ridiculous ego.)
Please don't get me wrong: I do not insist that a POTUS be a Christian. Thomas Jefferson would be just fine, as far as I am concerned. Thomas Jefferson was a man of unimpeachable Constitutional integrity. Trump, on the other hand, does not fit the mold of any of our Framers or Founders. He is the antithesis of our Framers and Founders. They insisted on leaders with integrity, not self-serving narcissistic populists who only rouse the ugly rabble of the Body Politic.
Trump will say anything to get elected. He is an unprincipled, pandering, position-changing populist who is also following Alinsky's tactical rules--precisely because unscrupulous guys such as Trump realize that Alinsky's tactics work wonderfully well when the electorate is dominated by thoughtless, scared fools anyway.
This is ultimately why Rush and Levin have both pointed out that Trump has been acting like a radical progressive Democrat, not a historic Republican. (A lot of Trump supporters are furious with Rush and Mark for saying these things about Trump, but Rush and Mark are correct.)
In the final analysis, I think America may already be beyond hope. Our Creator God is not to be taken so lightly as today's tokenistic churchgoers have been taking Him for quite a few decades. And we must not condone the notion that America's newly awakened fear of ISIS and illegal immigration suggests that we have finally become wise.
The fear of Islam and unregulated influx of immigrants is not even the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10 and Psalm 111:10). The truly wise man will notice that our nation is evidently in much bigger trouble than Trump's supporters realize (Romans 11:22).
Many of today's sober Christians will conscientiously stay home on Election Day if Trump is our Republican nominee (just as many did in 2012). We will trust our Lord God to convey real Christians through the socio-political demise of our largely apostate nation, and that supreme reliance upon our Creator in this monumental mess means that we will never give our support to Trump.
I will support a Constitutionally faithful man of integrity and no one else. Contrary to the vicious lies that have been hurled at him, that man is Ted Cruz.