One Nation Under God?

I am always amazed by the fact that although we call ourselves “a Christian Nation,” and we boast about the fact that we have more churches in the United States than any other country in the world, the teachings of God, the Father, and His Son, Christ Jesus, do not play any role in our policy decisions. Our actions suggest that we do not ask ourselves questions like “What grade would Jesus, who knows what’s honestly in my heart, give me for the policy decision I’ve just made?” “Are my policy decisions in accordance with His teachings?” “Is my conduct in compliance with the example He modeled on Earth? And, "Am I writing and passing legislations that are in the true spirit of His principles (cited in His Bible), which we have incorporated into the two most important documents in our nation ― The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States?”

In fact it appears to be quite the opposite: Our decision-makings are so contradictory to His teachings that they would probably put us in good standing with the other guy ― Satan. Moreover, what I find to be even more amazing is the fact organizations, like the Republican Party, which claim to be the beacon of Christian values and morality, are the worst offenders. Their anti-Christian policies, which are becoming more frequent, are increasingly producing more severe consequences.

The best example of this is the national debt ceiling debate. Essentially, the republicans won all the battles. They won the battle concerning “no new taxes.” They won the battle concerning "the topics of the debates" and the framing of the debates. And most significantly, they won the battle concerning spending; they forced our country to make deeper cuts than it wanted or needed.

On the surface it appears that the republicans won the economic debates because their economic ideologies were better and more effective than those of the democrats. I don’t believe this is true, but even if I did, there is one inescapable fact that all honest God-fearing Christians cannot overlook: Jesus would never cut entitlements, because He knows that cutting entitlements make the poor poorer. This means that death from poverty and other conditions in poverty-stricken neighborhoods increases. God knows that, in a literal sense, cutting entitlements is a death sentence for the poorest Americans. And the majority of poor Americans are children. God knows that the deeper the cuts, the more children you sentence to death.

The bill we passed to raise the debt ceiling might be good, or even great, politics for the republicans, but let there be no doubt in anyone’s mind, their bill makes you and I and every American conspirators in what will be the biggest mass genocide of Americans in the next 10+ years. And most of the victims will be children!


God help us!!!