I am all for prayer and worship. Rededicate 250 was that, plus a message: rip down the separation of church and state. I'm not comfortable with that message.
This, 1000%: "But the United States’ motto is “e pluribus unum,” from many, one."
And this line caused me to pause and question how and where we are today: "then perhaps we don’t deserve the kind of government that counts on moral fiber to operate."
Thomas Jefferson: "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
James Madison: "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together. It was the belief of all Sects at one time that the establishment of Religion by law was right & necessary; that the true Religion ought to be established in exclusion of all others; and that the only question to be decided was, which was the true Religon."
From the same letter: "We are teaching the World the great truth, that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson, that Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
From the Treaty of Tripoli, created while Washington was POTUS, ratified by the Senate and signed by John Adams while he was POTUS: "The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish nor a Mohammedan nation; it has not religion established by law, and all religions are upon a perfect equality before the constitution and laws of the country."
Also from the same treaty: "The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Simply put: we are not a Christian nation, we are a nation in which one is free to be Christian. Oppose theocracy, no matter the source.
When you know it was the grace, mercy and protection of God that actually made this country great, it makes perfect sense. Plus, it signals to islamist their theocratic dreams have run into a wall.
Exceptional piece Steve.
This, 1000%: "But the United States’ motto is “e pluribus unum,” from many, one."
And this line caused me to pause and question how and where we are today: "then perhaps we don’t deserve the kind of government that counts on moral fiber to operate."
Thomas Jefferson: "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
James Madison: "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together. It was the belief of all Sects at one time that the establishment of Religion by law was right & necessary; that the true Religion ought to be established in exclusion of all others; and that the only question to be decided was, which was the true Religon."
From the same letter: "We are teaching the World the great truth, that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson, that Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
From the Treaty of Tripoli, created while Washington was POTUS, ratified by the Senate and signed by John Adams while he was POTUS: "The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish nor a Mohammedan nation; it has not religion established by law, and all religions are upon a perfect equality before the constitution and laws of the country."
Also from the same treaty: "The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
Simply put: we are not a Christian nation, we are a nation in which one is free to be Christian. Oppose theocracy, no matter the source.
When you know it was the grace, mercy and protection of God that actually made this country great, it makes perfect sense. Plus, it signals to islamist their theocratic dreams have run into a wall.