The Election of 2008 is going to be an earth-shattering and life-changing experience for American Christianity. For the first time in American history the faith of the Presidential candidates is not being scrutinized; in fact, it's being ignored and pushed aside as irrelevant. The candidates themselves don't want to make a big thing out of it. The only candidate who is touting his Christianity is Mike Huckabee. A Southern Baptist, Gov. Huckabee is not hiding his faith in Jesus Christ. He was a pastor many years ago before he got into politics. If Evangelical Christianity in America is still a force like it was in the election of George W. Bush, then Mike Huckabee will be the next President. But I don't think it is. The election of 2006 proved once and for all that Christians in America are fickle and lukewarm toward their faith.
This is the reality of the 21st Century and the Presidential Election of 2008: American Christianity has never skated on thinner ice. With Islamic Terrorists literally crucifying children in Iraq, the American Christians are looking the other way, turning their attention completely to the US, and allowing atheists to change the American culture to a secular system in which Christianity no longer plays a central role. They are allowing all the Christian manifestations of faith to fall one after another. They can't even protect the name "Christmas Tree" anymore; it must be called "Holiday Tree" now. This is what American Christianity has come to.
The doctrine of "Separation of Church and State" is now equalizing the playing field for all religions: all religions now have equal legitimacy in the eyes of the law. Traditional values based on Christian principles are no longer the basis for the American way. The majority in every instance will decide the choice in what is allowed and what is not. There is no moral code anymore; it's not the Bible anymore, but what the majority in every community and political district decides. Even this wouldn't have been as bad if it weren't for the fact that the atheists now have a field day, because it's the atheists who have the complete freedom now to ridicule all religious traditions as being delusional and undesirable in a free society. The Separation of Church and State thus means that those who follow the rule of law and the wisdom of the State will be the most inline with the secular culture, and those who are religiously inclined will have to keep their beliefs to themselves. The atheists will thrive and the people of faith will dwindle and die.
We're at the crossroads. Up ahead is the road that our founders chose for us as a Christian nation that tolerated all religions and that grew to become the greatest nation in the history of the world in a matter of two hundred years. To the left is the road to isolation that our intellectuals have chosen for us. It's a safe road as long as we're willing to live in mediocrity and fear, playing it safe and ignoring all concerns that are outside of our own personal interests. To the right is the road to kill everyone in our path and fight for prosperity regardless of right and wrong. What we choose now in this election will define us as a nation and decide our destiny.
We have an eclectic field of candidates, some with experience and others with ideas. Our choices depend on what we recognize as the right road for us as a nation. We will ultimately choose our President based on our beliefs in who will lead us in the right path. The question, therefore, that we must all ask ourselves before we vote is which of the three paths are we going to take as a nation?
If we choose Senator John McCain, we will be choosing a man who fought for his country and who was imprisoned but made it back. If we choose him as President, we will be telling the Communists in Vietnam, in fact all those who are our enemies in the world, that we Americans will never allow anyone to defeat us.
Thus we may once again snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Jan. 20, 2008
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