America: Not A Christian Nation (Mr. President You Are Right)

Our president made a recent announcement, confession, or apology...I am not sure how the watching world received it or how the president intended for them to receive it. Mr. Obama said recently, "One of the great strengths of the United States is … we have a very large Christian population -- we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."

Let me first agree with our president. America is not a Christian nation. No, in fact America is far from being a Christian nation. You can take a cursory glance at our nation today and you quickly discover that we are not a Christian nation. We are most certainly moving away from any hint of Christian conviction. And our own professed Christian president publicly apologized for any hint of a Christian persuasion in this nation. Interesting to say the least!

Now let me disagree with our president. If we are "...a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values" what ideas and which set of values "bind" us? If we know morally what is right and wrong, is that Christian, Judaism, or Muslim? Who decides? If we have in common some basic convictions as a nation, where did they come from? I am inclined to confess that we are no longer bound by common ideals and values.

I am a Christian, and our nation is not driven by Christian ideals and values. Else, we would not kill innocent children. We would not take the freedoms of one class of citizen and give them to another class without the other class doing what they ought to do to be in the class from which they receive that which is not theirs. If we were a Christian nation, we would promote bigger God and small government. If we were a Christian nation, we would not allow terroists to violate our freedoms without punishment. If we were a Christian nation, we would "value" life, liberty, and justice. If we were a Christian nation we would not apologize to the world for being a Christian nation.

Let me say with full fervor that I have no idea where this nation is headed, but I am confident that we are not headed in the direction of promoting the Christian faith. We no longer value what we once valued. You see, this nation at one time made no apology for having shared values. Once upon time, the people of this nation responded out of moral conviction. And that moral conviction came from the basic tenets espoused in a Judeo-Christian confession. So long morality!