10 Truths -Christians & Politics - 1 - cont'd

10 Truths – Christians & Politics – l – cont’d
Feast of St. Dominic cinops be gone Friday, Aug. 8, 2008

We continue with Coral Ridge’s classic “Ten Truths about Christians and Politics.”
Government by Guillotine p. 16-19

It is a modern innovation and one, if you consult the French Revolution, that doesn’t work out so well. The short-lived French Revolution (1789-1799) was so thoroughgoing in its rejection of Christianity that it even established a new calendar without Sundays. During its infamous reign of terror, the streets of Paris flowed with blood and ten of thousands of people were guillotined.

As Ernest Renan, a nineteenth century French agnostic, stated:
“If Rationalism wishes to govern the world without regard to the religious needs of the soul, the experience of the French Revolution is there to teach us the consequences of such a blunder.”
And since Renan, Nazi, fascist, and communist regimes, of all of which rejected God and religious belief, have shown, again, that once religion is removed, a door opens into abyss. The death toll from Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and their fellow communist henchmen is nearly 100 million people, according to the Black Book of Communism. Here in America, the court-ordered departure from America’s Christian moral framework has already resulted in the death of more than 48 million people – all of them unborn.

State-Mandated Secularism
Despite this sobering testimony from history, American law and politics have over the past decades moved from this view, as stated by Barry Lynn, executive director of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, that “In the United States, secularism is mandated for the government.” “Mandated” is an aptly chosen word since “we, the people,” have not have any say in the matter. “Many Americans,” as Richard John Neuhaus writes, “feel that they were not consulted by whoever decided that this is a secular society. And they resent that; they resent it very much.”

State-mandated secularism, imposed by the courts and enforced by the ACLU and its allies, is a leading flashpoint in America’s ongoing culture war between competing Christian and secular moral vision for the nation. One side looks to the Christian foundations of this country; the other provides no moral basis for American politics and government at all. It’s a pity that the quarrel exists at all since when you look at the record, not only is religion needed to found and sustain a state but, as we will see in the following chapter, Christianity makes the best foundation by far.

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.