[mountn man]

whether anyone has the courage to continue to call the United States a Christian Nation, or not,

Courage???

More like stupidity.

It's obvious and has been for quite awhile that the US hasn't been a Christian nation.

Some might argue, we were never a TRULY Christian nation, but a nation built on laws with Christian foundations and a sizeable Christian population.

I doubt if at any time after 1776 that we ever had a population that was ever 50% or more true Christians.

[Don Corleone]

The opiate of the masses as preached by the Marxists.

[20yearsofinternet]

My order of dependency starts with the Gospels and flows out from there.

I know that to some that makes me a ‘bad Christian’ because I don’t care about preaching the most to get a big mansion, or telling people who God wants them to vote for.

So be it. God will judge me.

[snarkpup]

When politicians talk about their allegiance to God and Country, in that order, most people do not get terribly excited and ignore it as background noise. But people sit up, take notice and resist when politicians exhibit allegiance to a religious mass movement and country, in that order. This is one of Cruz's mistakes. He would be wise to follow the advice of the author of the article and put his church at #4 instead of equating it with God Himself.

[Nifster]

Give to Caesar that which is ceasar’s. Give to God that which is God’s

[Campion]

Ironically, a whole lot of evangelical Christians wouldn't consider voting for John F. Kennedy in 1960 until he said, in essence, that his Catholic faith and his governance lived in two different compartments and wouldn't inform each other.

Precinding from the question of whether it was a good idea to vote for Kennedy anyway -- it wasn't -- this is just wrong. It was wrong for Kennedy to say it and wrong for him to mean it. And it was wrong for evangelicals, who ought to have known better, to require Kennedy to commit to being a hypocrite and to governing like an agnostic in order to earn their support. (Being a Kennedy, this was of course very easy for him.)

Hopefully we've gotten past that sort of thing. I'm a Catholic. Ted Cruz is an evangelical. I wouldn't be supporting him if I thought his Christian faith wouldn't inform his decision making.

[bluejean]

“whether anyone has the courage to continue to call the United States a Christian Nation”

It’s not about courage, it’s about facts. The country has unmoored itself from its founding principals, morals, history, and purpose. It is a secular nation now, where “every man (and woman) does what is right (what feels good) in his own eyes (how he/she sees perceives the world)”. It seems God has removed his lamp from this nation and it is sliding into the abyss.

It may be too late to save it or turn it around. The Obama regime has several months yet to work, like devils that know they have a short time.

[Salvation]

I don’t see a live source to click on.

[amorphous]

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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The People of the United States, at the time, established the Constitution specifically for those things mentioned in its Preamble. It was never intended to subjugate the rights granted to ALL, by Almighty God - including the right to life for those in the womb.

No banner, nor affiliation of men, will long survive in the face of the creator of the universe. So having the good sense to recognize such, unlike many today, the founders based our mutual declaration upon God's natural law. America benefited greatly from their insight. Today, such wisdom is as scarce as hen's teeth in D.C., and we suffer accordingly.

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"if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."

[John Leland 1789]

The federal government's list of churches and religious societies exempted from Obamacare. Provided to us by U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3303tfckb3kdu4k/ReligiousExemptionReport.xls?dl=0