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.

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Thank you.

Larry Craig

Sunday, September 18, 2022

So what do we do with thousands of people a day coming into our country?

Sometimes I see an article in the newspapers that seems so absurd, I feel like I have to say something, but then surely the average reader would have seen the absurdity of it, so there is no need for me to point it out.

But then when both Chicago papers say the same thing and more than once, somebody is failing to see the bigger picture.  (trib (Our immigration mess needs an overhaul, not DeSantis’ stunts, September 18) (Time Texas Gov. Abbott sends asylum seekers here to sow chaos, but Illinois is better than that, September 18)

Over 2 million people have entered our country in the last year outside of our visa program.  They just walked right in.  Millions more if you go back a few decades.  We used to call them illegal immigrants, but they have been taught to claim asylum, so that practically speaking, most of them are going to get to stay here.  Court dates are now years away, and most don’t come back to court anyway. 

Most of these have crossed the border through Texas and Arizona.  The border states have asked for help from the federal government for decades to do something to stem the flood of people coming into their states.  And the federal government has done nothing. 

The rest of the country is essentially oblivious to all of this.  It doesn’t affect them directly, and the news media give it very little attention.  Oh, they may show a few short videos of people crossing the border, but they don’t show the impact on the state in which they are entering.

What do you do with thousands of people a day who are entering your state and expecting people to take care of them?

Some governors of the border states have started shipping some of them to areas that seem the least concerned about this massive influx of human beings. 

And so many people are calling all this a stunt, a cheap political trick close to an election. 

A stunt?  A trick?  Hell, no! 

Congress and many politicians around the country don’t see any problem with millions of people whom we don’t even know who they are just walking into our country.  They complain about a couple hundred migrants being dropped off at their door.  Like, what are we supposed to do with them?

I am as compassionate as anybody about the plight of poor, disadvantaged people, but if you don’t see a problem or two here, then you shouldn’t be making our laws or writing editorials in newspapers. 

Sometimes I think we should just annex Mexico and half of Central America.  We would need to give them 10-20 years before granting full statehood, but I think it’s something to consider. 

Whatever Congress decides to do, I think shipping migrants to certain key places around the country may be the only way to get Congress to act.

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