Obama says that we are not a Christian nation. And yet:
Our father's God to, Thee,Maybe we aren’t any more. Let’s define that term:
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing.
It does not, nor has it ever meant, that every citizen is a professing believer in Jesus Christ, or ought to be. Even in the earliest days of westward migration there were Jews amongst the brave souls who ventured to cross the Atlantic. It doesn’t mean that all of the founding fathers were Christians, though the language of their writings, both private and public, would indicate most were.
A Christian country is one saturated with Christian standards, with biblical thinking, with a societal organization that runs close to the precepts of the Mosaic Law. For instance, the “trickle-up” allotment of power -- from family, to village, to county, to state, to federal government –power was intended to be distributed most heavily at the lowest levels, as it was in the fledgling nation of Israel -- family, clan, tribe, nation, God. (Note: no king)
A Christian nation bases its core law close to the Ten Commandments and America’s commitment to that concept can be seen in the monuments bearing those edicts on government buildings from small town to the Supreme Court.....We are a Christian nation -- or we are no nation at all........Read more
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