10 Truths - Introduction & 1

10 Truths – Introduction & 1
cinops be gone Friday, July 18, 2008
It will take 10 years or more to vote out of office all CINOPS. The Friday postings only; of the following classic will inform us for this November election.

10 Truths about Christians & Politics- Coral Ridge Ministries-08 – 1 -800-988-7834

Introduction: Truths about God and Government – Excerpts 9-11

Our aim frankly, is to give historical and biblical perspective that will arm you for action. After all, the need is enormous – the cause of defending the unborn alone could absorb the energies of a lifetime.

At the September 2007 memorial service, Dr. James Dobson noted the passing in recent years of a number of Christian moral leaders, including Adrian Rogers, Jerry Falwell, Bill Bright, and D. James Kennedy. He asked who will fill the void left by these moral leaders.

“Who will defend the unborn child; who will speak for them? Who will speak for those who are older and no longer productive? Who will plead for the Terri Schiavos of the world who can be starved to death legally for having the misfortune of being disabled? Who has the courage to speak up to fight for the institution of marriage … and teach young people the dangers of heterosexual and homosexual promiscuity? Who will, in the next generation, be willing to take the heat when it much safer and comfortable to avoid controversy?”

Today, thankfully, we do not need to enter the gladiatorial arena like Tetramachus to stop the killing, but we do need the moral courage of men like Bright, Falwell, Kennedy, and Rogers if these and other evils in our culture are to be challenged.

We cannot wait for a new generation of leaders to rise up to lead us. Each of us must take responsibility for carrying out our own Christian civic duty in the arena of government and politics. Our prayer is that this booklet will help you understand more clearly some of the basic truths about Christian and politics so that you may, along with many others, enter the arena.

Truth 1 – The Foundation of Government and Politics is Religion 13-14
“Strictly separate.” When it comes to religion and politics, that is the rule announced by the courts and enforced by the American Civil Liberties Union over the past sixty years.

In 1947, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a longstanding American legal tradition and declared that the U.S. Constitution has erected a “high and impregnable” wall of separation between church and state. The ACLU then set out to apply that ruling in the decades to follow, sending threatening letters and going into court to force civic officials to remove the ten Commandments display, crèche scenes, the Bible, and even prayer from public life.

But while the ACLU has been tireless in its effects to purge the Christian religion from public life, the truth is, religion is the foundation on which nations are built. ACLU attorneys may shudder at the thought, the Christian religion provides the surest foundation for the moral, political & social order of ournation.”

“Do not wait for leaders, do it on your own, person to person.” Blessed Mother Teresa.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.