The WND, sometime referred to as Wing Nut Daily, is the brain child of Joseph Farah who has a less than stellar record in the newspaper business. Anyway he writes that he agrees with something the good Pastor John Hagee, senior pastor of San Antonio’s Cornerstone Church, said recently.
Pastor Hagee - “This nation was not built for atheists or by atheists. It was built by Christian people who believed in the Word of God. To the atheists watching this telecast, if our belief in God offends you, move. There are planes leaving every hour on the hour, going every place on planet earth. Get on one, we don’t want you and we won’t miss you, I promise you.”
Farah writes that he agrees with Hagee saying further “Atheists can’t be real Americans in the truest sense of the word ...”
Referring to the founding fathers and others at that time, he says they “were Christians who believed in the One True God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They weren’t referring to any other god. They rejected Allah. They rejected paganism in all its forms. They rejected atheism.
America was thus founded as a Judeo-Christian nation, tolerant of other views, but with the understanding that only a moral people governing themselves to the best of their ability under God’s eternal laws were capable of maintaining the liberty established uniquely under this covenant.
Likewise, at the end of the day, anyone who doesn’t believe in the Creator God of our founders is, at best, enjoying the blessings established by that national creed without acceptance of it.
There’s an old saying: “America: Love it or leave it.”
Interestingly he goes on to quote Thomas Jefferson, one of the most free thinking founder and the writer of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson didn’t believe in the kind of God Farah or Hagee talk about. Jefferson was a Deist who believed in a God that plays no role in the daily lives of individuals. In fact many of the founding fathers were Deists. Jefferson didn’t think Jesus was anything special. Jefferson went to great pains to separate church and state, not wanting any religious involvement in government. Jefferson would be appalled at what is happening in America today.
Farah conveniently forgets that Madison said specifically in the Treaty of Tripoli that America was NOT a Christian country.
Of course Farah and Hagee and their kind want the U.S. to be just white Christians everywhere. They’ll want to get rid of the blacks, the Jews, definitely the Muslims, the Buddhists, the Hindis, the Atheists and for good measure throw out the gays too! Can you image if that was to take place how long it would be until one Christian faction starts fighting another Christian faction. You’ve seen how nice sectarian wars can be when we “liberated” Iraq. Maybe Sunnis or Shiites could be brought in as consultants? Think about it.
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