I have been involved in the battle of religious liberties in the last three decades. I have been a fighter in the battles of abortion, same sex marriage, and prayer in the public schools. It is now time to look at what this has accomplished and who has suffered, bled, and lost in this battle.
We failed miserably. We trusted in Republicans and voted for them, but what did they do, they raped and pillaged us morally and spiritually and financially. Before Republicans we trusted Democrats and voted for them. What did that do, bound us to a party who raped us morally and spiritually and financially. We forgot a biblical truth: Be wise as serpents but be as gentle as doves. We have become as wise as doves and as gentle as serpents. We have become what we are supposed to hate and hate what we are supposed to love. We are not loving, we are hating. We are ignorant and clueless that we have been sold a bill of goods and are being laughed at by both political parties as morons and oafs.
If you really want to get down to brass tacks concerning Christianity and public policy, then you are in for a rude awakening. The Old Testament is actually a governmental book on relationships between nation/states. The New Testament is a book on individual to individual relationships. Here is biblical Christian public policy. There is not one. Love is our only public policy. The early church tried meeting all needs of everyone. It was an abject failure. What they did was not God commanded, it was man intending to do good. This is what Communism and Socialism forget: The New Testament commands Christians, not countries to love and care for the poor and needy. After the communistic failure in Acts the New Testament demands that if a person does not work, then they and their family are not to eat or to be given charity from the church. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives forget the work part of the equation and/or the care for the poor part of the equation.
The actions and inactions of Christians alone have destroyed this nation. We have put too much power and authority and resources into the hands of politicians. We should have been spending that money on the poor within our communities of faith. We should have been spending that money to highly educate our children within our communities of faith to be thinkers. We turned over our Christian heritage to Cesar. We have given Caesar what was God’s, our children. We are biblically commanded to training up our children ourselves instead of handing them over to the government to train for us.
As American Christians we are pious and not pure. We are caring, but not loving. We are so easily swayed by philosophies and teachings that we are not biblical Christians. We are American Christians, the kind of Christians who think Jesus should be proud of us. Well, He is not. He hates us for what we have made His name in this country. We have made His name a laughing stock. We have created American Jesus and not biblical Jesus. We have created a Jesus that follows us around the world asking for our permission to do anything on his own. We think that God beckons on our every call or whim. HE DOES NOT!
Christians in America should be tolerant of the views of others. That is what this country was founded upon. Yes, we were founded by a bunch of white Christian guys, but they were tolerant of the views and ideas of others. We are called to love and we do not. We are called to evangelize all people groups (red and yellow, black and white) but we do not. Look at how culturally diverse your church is and tell me you and your church are evangelizing all people groups. We are called to be good citizens of our country, but we have failed there too.
