An interesting take. I’m a big believer in the notion that Jesus was the founder of modern democracy. (I don’t know if I read that or if I came up with it on my own – maybe most people think that) Even though the Greeks had a democratic government before Jesus, Jesus introduced the concept that to God, there are no kings or priests or rabbis to whom any man is a subject. We are all subjects only of the Almighty Father. So the next time a tyrant tries to abscond with your individual liberties, you can inform him that your God’s authority trumps his own arrogantly perceived authority.
Whether you believe in God or not, the concept introduced by Jesus was that if we are subjects to anyone, it is to the Father or to no one at all. This concept led directly to the rights and liberties recognized (not bestowed) by our constitution.
If you are a narcissistic politician, and you want to turn the tables and subjugate “your” people, the first thing you have to do is get rid of that pesky religion thing. Otherwise, folks might take offense when you begin to relive them of their individual liberties. That is what the Bolsheviks did. Is that what we are doing now? It seems that with every corner we turn, another lawsuit is filed to push religion, and in particular, that pesky Christianity, further and further from our lives.
What I didn’t even consider was that when you take God and religion away from humans, their natural, hard-wired tendency will be to create a new deity to fill the void. Read this article. It is kinda scary, especially when you take it in the context of statements like “it is everyone’s patriotic duty to pay taxes”.
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The “money sentences from RCP:”
“Social critic Christopher Lasch named the culture of narcissism a generation ago and cited addiction to celebrity as one of the disease’s symptoms — all tied to the decline of the family.”
This clearly stems from the “moral relativism” and secularism of the past 30-40 years. All programs of the left. Get religion out of the schools, the public places, sue the Boy Scouts for daring to do their duty to God and country, eventually culminating slow erosion of basic precepts in the churches themselves, such as sin and resistance to the abomination of casual abortions.
Between the liberal control of the media and schools, and the actions of their ACLU handmaidens, this will continue. Expect it to accelerate under the fine ministrations of Obama, who will appoint liberal judges with little or no obstruction and even less regard for the Judeo Christian origins of this country.
I wonder who will deify Obama? Perhaps he will he just do it to himself.
good grief. As the Jim we hear on the air might say: “That is a must read? THAT is a must read?” Seems like the blog would be better labeled as “DiVicesiveness.” The new administration isn’t even in the front door and you’ve already begun to sow the seeds of dissent and criticism. And, this is the same Jim who, a month or so ago, was still exhorting listeners to be patient and to give Bush’s Iraq strategies a chance. Do you not hear what the people have been clamoring for?
In public school, I walk a fine line to discuss Christianity in any context.
When I taught seventh grade geography, I covered basic tenets of Christianity (as well as Judaism and Islam) while studying the Middle East. Many of my students had never attended church and didn’t like social studies. I was shocked when they started asking me questions and wanted to hear Biblical stories.
I could only conclude that our Creator truly did place in humans a hunger to know Him. It’s a shame, but not surprising, that so many young people render to Obama the adoration that belongs to God.
It’s all a point of view.If you want to see and think religion is being bashed and removed from pubilc life then that is what you will see.More so if all you do is get your news from right wing radio shoes tring to get ratings, I on the other hand see none of this..I can turn on my radio and listen to religious shows and stop at any of the hundreds of churches all my over the local area.I could stop and go a Mosque and stop in a synogog or go to my local scienctlogy recuiting office or head to several Budda temples here in Ct and I can pick up a paper and find any kind of religious class at my local collage or school… There is no war on religion.I am very affraid as a multiy faith follower of all faiths when religions combine to control the people that does seem to be happening in this land of ours and see that America is becoming one of the most religious fundementalist countries in the world and if you do not believe in the current most popular religion of our time then you are a heratic.
You could also view the story of Jesus as a metaphor for totalitarianism. The difference being that jesus asks you are to give all power to an unseen unproven “father” and a totalitarian regime has you put your faith in someone/something tangible.
-Erik
The bottom line is that Judean/ Christian value lost this last election to secular liberalism. Our country was founded on Judean/Christian values not liberal/secularism.
The Bible States that Jesus will rule with a rod of iron (Rev.2:27,12:5, 19:15). That means it’s His way or the Highway. Jesus is The King of kings and Lord of lords. He is Lord. That means he is an absolute Despot in light of the Eternal absolutes and attributes of Almighty God. There is great freedom and liberty to all those who live after these eternal laws and laws of nature. That is what our founding fathers believed.
I feel it is one hundred percent wrong for a person to come on here and never leave a comment but then go on and attack others who are kind enough to comment on Jim’s stories he leaves here for his listeners… So now that have I left a comment I feel it should be ok to comment on a comment and without doing any sort of a personel attack wonder about the statement that America was founded on a Judean/Christian faith..I do believe America was founded as far from this as possible.I also as I understand it the founders were anything but Judean and or Christian and some may have even have been had Islamic views and beliefs.Not that there is much difference in them…I was just at the pilgram monument in some where in cape cod and as far as we were not founded on liberal/secularismviews I have to wonder about the statement on the plague outdoors from the muesum that was a comment from the pilgrams religious leader on the magna carter that something to the affect that we are together as a people to make it better for the indivadual or the whole for the one or something or another like that…I would love to see some experts comment on the truth of our founding.
Opps change magna carter to the Pilgrams compact I think.