What Does It Mean to Have a Christian Government? (part 2), 7-27-2010

 [Continued from What Does It Mean to Have a Christian Government? (part 1), 7-27-2010. sch 2/18/23]

 Why did I write my list means nothing to Americans? Because we have had separation of church and state.

Before you go advocating against our freedom of religion, you need to do the following:

1. Read up on The Thirty Years War.
2. Read up on the English Civil War.
3. Read up on the history of Mormonism.
4. Read about the Cathars.
5. Read about Roger Williams of Rhode Island.

It might be interesting to see how Eire and Israel treat religion in their constitutions. Consider what the New York Times reported on July 24, 2010, under the headline, “Israel Tries to Defuse Crisis Over Proposal on Conversions”: 

The question of "who is a Jew" is as old as the state of Israel. The more libveral forms of Jewish practice advocated by the Reform and Conservative movements, with which most Americans are affiliated, have never taken root here. Israel has left liturgy in the hands of the Orthosox, with most Israwlies leading almso tcompoletely secular lives,s eeking out rabbis only at birth, marriage, and death.

American churches, I seem to have read, retain more of the population than in Europe where there are state churches. Israel seems quite secular. Think on that, those of you thinking of wanting no separation of church and state.

 You should also consider why there are no Amish in Europe, but only in America.

Odd that the conservatives want government out of American life, but government mixing in religion. Are Americans really so ignorant about the history of mixing the religious with the worldly? Take a look at Puritan Massachusetts and Calvin's Geneva, or modern Iran.

The religious need to preach their morality, and then they need to live that morality. Politicians touting their religious bona fides do so to hold onto worldly power. Their cant and humbug diminishes the worth of the truly pious. 

We do no favors to Christianity by wedding it to a temporal political power, and we do much harm.

And, yes, I do understand how peculiar all this must seem coming from the pen of an admitted felon and moral leper. I had these thoughts long before my arrest. I kept them to myself from a fear of damaging my business. Add this silence to my list of cowardly acts. Now I have no reason for being silent. Think about it.

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