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:

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Thank you.

Larry Craig

Monday, December 10, 2018

border security a letter sent to my senators and Congressman


I hope you are doing well.  

There is an important issue that I think Congress is failing to deal with, and that is border security.  Congress promised President Reagan a border wall in 1986, and still nothing has been done.

I am asking that you will support a border wall whenever you have the opportunity in Congress to do so.
1)         We know that Mexico, if not run by drug cartels, is certainly known to have enough of them to warrant calling their presence a problem in that country.  And who is their primary source of revenue?  What nation are they most interested in selling their drugs to?  That would be us. 

Me, I would easily support using our military going into Mexico and eliminating their business. 

But the least we can and should do is to have an impenetrable barrier between our two countries to make the exporting of drugs to our country as difficult as possible.  Anything less than this I think is criminally irresponsible. 

We know the threat; we see the cost (not the wall, but the cost in human lives, crime, and medical care that the drug business has worked in our country).  Well, then, we need to do something.  And we are doing nothing.  That’s shameful.

2)         Any person entering our country should be checked for criminal activity.  If you were a wanted criminal facing serious charges, wouldn’t leaving the country be one of your main options?  Particularly when it is so easy and so easy to blend into that other country. 

We need a wall to funnel all new potential residents to a few places where they can be screened and checked for a criminal background.

Again, I think anything less than this is criminally irresponsible.

3)         And any person coming into our country, particularly from countries known for poverty, should be screened medically for transmittable diseases.  We are seeing many diseases that we had almost forgotten about now making a comeback in our country. 

We can’t screen new immigrants unless we are able, again, to funnel all newcomers to locations that are set up to do that. 

For the reasons I just gave, I believe that not having a impenetrable barrier (wall) between the United States and Mexico is criminally irresponsible, particularly since Congress saw the need for this 50 years ago and has done nothing about it since.  Our government exists to take care of the American people.  Frankly, it’s not doing something that is so basic that I find it astonishing that it can ignore it the way it does.

I hope you will take action on this.
 
Thank you

Larry Craig


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