where religion and politics meet

Everybody has a worldview. A worldview is what you believe about life: what is true, what is false, what is right, what is wrong, what are the rules, are there any rules, what is the meaning of life, what is important, what is not.

If a worldview includes a god/God, it is called a religion. If a bunch of people have the same religion, they give it a name.

Nations have worldviews too, a prevailing way of looking at life that directs government policies and laws and that contributes significantly to the culture. Politics is the outworking of that worldview in public life.

We are being told today that the United States is and has always been a secular nation, which is practical atheism.

But our country could not have been founded as a secular nation, because a secular country could not guarantee freedom of religion. Secular values would be higher than religious ones, and they would supersede them when there was a conflict. Secularism sees religion only as your personal preferences, like your taste in food, music, or movies. It does not see religion, any religion, as being true.

But even more basic, our country was founded on the belief that God gave unalienable rights to human beings. But what God, and how did the Founders know that He had? Islam, for example, does not believe in unalienable rights. It was the God of the Bible that gave unalienable rights, and it was the Bible that informed the Founders of that. The courts would call that a religious opinion; the Founders would call that a fact.

Without Christianity, you don’t have unalienable rights, and without unalienable rights, you don’ have the United States of America.

A secular nation cannot give or even recognize unalienable rights, because there is no higher power in a secular nation than the government.

Unalienable rights are the basis for the American concept of freedom and liberty. Freedom and liberty require a high moral code that restrains bad behavior among its people; otherwise the government will need to make countless laws and spend increasingly larger amounts of money on law enforcement.

God, prayer, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments were always important parts of our public life, including our public schools, until 1963, when the court called supreme ruled them unconstitutional, almost 200 years after our nation’s founding.

As a secular nation, the government now becomes responsible to take care of its people. It no longer talks about unalienable rights, because then they would have to talk about God, so it creates its own rights. Government-given rights are things that the government is required to provide for its people, which creates an enormous expense which is why our federal government is now $22 trillion in debt.

Our country also did not envision a multitude of different religions co-existing in one place, because the people, and the government, would then be divided on the basic questions of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Our Constitution, which we fought a war to be able to enact, states, among other things, that our government exists for us to form a more perfect union, ensure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. It could not do this unless it had a clear vision of what it considers to be true, a vision shared with the vast majority of the people in this country.

I want to engage the government, the culture, and the people who live here to see life again from a Christian perspective and to show how secularism is both inadequate and just plain wrong.

Because religion deals with things like God, much of its contents is not subject to the scientific method, though the reasons why one chooses to believe in God or a particular religion certainly demand serious investigation, critical thinking, and a hunger for what is true.

Science and education used to be valuable tools in the search for truth, but science has chosen to answer the foundational questions of life without accepting the possibility of any supernatural causes, and education generally no longer considers the search to be necessary, possible, or worthwhile.

poligion: 1) the proper synthesis of religion and politics 2) the realization, belief, or position that politics and religion cannot be separated or compartmentalized, that a person’s religion invariably affects one’s political decisions and that political decisions invariably stem from one’s worldview, which is what a religion is.

If you are new to this site, I would encourage you to browse through the older articles. They deal with a lot of the more basic issues. Many of the newer articles are shorter responses to particular problems.

Visit my other websites theimportanceofhealing blogspot.com where I talk about healing and my book of the same name and LarrysBibleStudies.blogspot.com where I am posting all my other Bible studies. Follow this link to my videos on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb-RztuRKdCEQzgbhp52dCw

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Thank you.

Larry Craig

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Three Reasons Why Illinois Should Not Elect J.B. Pritzker as Governor

1          He will raise your taxes. 

He says he won’t, but he wants to change the tax stricture in a way that will make it easier to raise taxes in the future, and they WILL be raised.   That’s what Democrats do.

When everybody pays the same rate, then politicians have to answer to all the voters for any tax increases.  But when there are different rates for different people, like J. B. Pritzker wants, since people only care about their own rates, politicians never face all the voters on any particular tax hike. So, they feel they are safe from the voters when they want to raise them.  People will always vote for tax hikes on other people

He says he won’t raise taxes on the middle class.  It’s only for the rich.  That’s what they said when they first started the federal income tax.  How did that work out?

Democrats always want to spend more money than they have, so if Pritzker doesn’t raise taxes himself, he will have put in place a system that will to make it easier for the next Democratic governor to raise them.

With Illinois’ debt problem, tax increases are inevitable if you don’t cut spending.  And Democrats have no intention or desire to cut spending.  Ever.  On anything

2.         J.B. Pritzker has never said anything about the debt crisis in Illinois.  He either doesn’t have an answer, doesn’t think there is a problem, doesn’t want the public to think about it, thinks the public won’t notice, or just wants to be governor so bad that he doesn’t want to say or do anything that might be considered risky.

He only talks about new programs, more things to spend money on that we don’t have and have to borrow money to pay for.

3.         You need someone who is not a Democrat as governor to act as a counterbalance to the Democrats.

The Democrats have buried Illinois in a mountain of insurmountable debt.  It’s hard to get exact numbers, but $200 billion is a good guess.  They will never cut spending, and they are always, always, looking for more ways to get more of your money. 

We spend a billion dollars a year just for interest on that debt. A billion dollars.  What a waste of your money!

The state is bankrupt, but it cannot legally file for bankruptcy.  The Democrats don’t care how much debt we have.  They will only keep adding to it and let your kids and grandkids face the consequences.

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