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

Friday, June 3, 2022

Enough is Enough

It’s time.  We have stood by long enough, and it’s enough.  We can’t let this go on any more.  And it’s all our fault in a way.  We put up with it, we said nothing about it all this time, we tolerated it, we were nice about it, but no more.  We just wanted people to like us, so we said nothing.  We went on our way and stayed quiet, hoping that people will think we are nice people.

Now our whole society is falling apart, and we do nothing.

No more.

In the name of tolerance and niceness, our whole nation has turned its back on God, and we stood by and let it happen.  Now our entire moral framework is on the verge of totally collapsing.

We have let the secularists teach our kids that there is no God.  We are all accidents of nature, tiny bits of life in a vast, cold, indifferent universe, where there are no laws of life but what we make them out to be.  We are finding that that is too great a burden for human beings to bear. 

We have totally lost our way as a society, and we are teaching this to our children, and they are confused and increasingly depressed.  They don’t know what to think or believe about anything anymore.  Everything they thought they knew is deemed wrong.  Their parents were wrong, even the very doctors who attended their births were wrong.

This has to end.

There is a God who created this world. 

If you think the world just exploded out of nothing billions of years ago, and just all by itself, all these pieces of inert matter formed themselves into living things that can reproduce and think and have self-awareness, then you’re just not paying attention, and I think much of that is intentional. 

Every nation in human history has acknowledged a Higher Being until the 20th Century, and we think we are so much smarter than all our ancestors.  Look at us. 

The nations that have officially rejected a Divine Being are known as the most evil in all of human history.  How else do explain the tens of millions of people who died at the hands of their own governments as what happened in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia?

Yes, I know, I know, bad things have been done in the name of the Church and God.  People contaminate most things they touch.  It’s called the human condition.  But don’t blame God for that.  That’s now what they were taught. 

Throughout our nation’s history, we taught our children and even in public schools the Ten Commandments, specifically the one that says Thou shalt not kill.  We taught them the Golden Rule, Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.  And the second greatest Commandment, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

We had a civil, moral society.  A perfect one, no.  Those humans again.  But at least we were teaching them to be kind to each other, to care for each other.

Now the best we can do is to tell our kids to tolerate each other, like there is no reason to like them.  Just ignore them if you have to.

But we are empty inside.  We have no bonds with our neighbors, the people we see and meet.  They are all competing against us for our place in the world.  They don’t care about us.  And more and more of us are resorting to violence to vent our rage against a cold world that has no hope or meaning.

Our nation was founded on a belief in God.  But even more than a belief, it was a fact.  The Founders did not say that they believed that God gave human beings inalienable rights and equality.  It was a fact.  It actually happened. 

We were created, not evolved out of swamp matter.  They believed that God gave us rules for life, and because people tried to follow those rules, they could live in freedom.  But we have rejected God and His rules, and now we are finding that freedom to be too free.  We can’t take that responsibility, and our society is crumbling under the weight. 

Thinking that we are wise, we became fools.  We have rejected the wisdom of the ages to try to recreate all the rules of life from scratch, and frankly it’s not working. 

Some people will think I have not been specific enough in detailing the problems and solutions, but these is only one problem and solution in mind here.  We need to restore God to our society and our personal lives, and more than that, we need to talk about Him again as a society.  There will be some differences in opinions, sure, but this is the elephant in the room that we have been ignoring for generations now, and we are all paying the price.

That ends now.

 

  

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