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Investigating 17 th-19 th-century American history without including the impact of Biblically-based Christian education would be off the mark and counterfactual. What currently is happening regarding American educational learning theories amounts to wall-to-wall rebellion against any kind of Biblical faith and order.
America’s Founders advanced with unflagging resolve the conception that when a Biblically-based culture is lacking, society moves toward “widespread, systemic violations of law, which brings on anarchy, both as its natural consequence and as its fitting punishment.” [1] The backsliding of moral ideas and values in America arises from the changing of gods.
The source of law in any society is invariably the god of that society. Secularism (the religion of the state) has become that god in America, and its chieftains, hostile to Christianity, regulate its culture forthwith. No society can exist without a religious foundation. Public Education, Higher Learning, City Hall, Big Business, the Courts, Hollywood, media, medicine, and politics have largely formulated the morality of the religion of Secularism into the culture.
It is beyond question that Christians founded America and not atheists, pagan freethinkers or nonreligious agnostics. The Founders established Christianity as the official religion of America in their state constitutions. Naysayers need here to be reminded of the words of John Adams: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
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President Trump’s staff evidently did not learn the unpleasant lesson of a ‘broadening’ syncretistic service, but chose to emulate Barack Hussein Obama’s approach: 1) offend Almighty God, and 2) impose multiculturalism on a once Biblically-based people.
Let’s be frank, ‘ syncretism’ is the combining of different, often seemingly contradictory beliefs, melding practices of various schools of thoughts and religions. The Bible strictly forbids syncretistic worship (the mingling of biblical and pagan religions) as it is a violation of the First Commandment – “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Infringement of this commandment brings judgment on a nation.
In today’s America two distinct and immutable religions – Christianity vs. Secularism – are contending for cultural control of the public square. Each worldview is in and of itself expansive and evangelistic, yet one is true and the other is false.
There will be no reconciliation of opposites with God: One will ultimately end in the destruction of the other … for Jesus reigns.
The Book of Joshua provides the key for all subsequent teaching on resurrecting the once Biblically-based culture in America. “On the one hand Canaan was a free gift unto Israel, which they entered by grace alone; and on the other, that they had to fight for every inch of it!” [3] Like ancient Israel, Christians in America will have to engage the battle in the public square or be run out of the land.
Gideons and Rahabs are moving quickly into the public square. This has to happen if America is to survive.
David Lane
American Renewal Project
[1] Michael V. Fox, Proverbs
[2] William J. Federer, Amerisearch.net
[3] A.W. Pink, Gleanings From Joshua