Society is ever falling away from God by rejecting the His call to repentance, hince the need for the Book of Revelation that informs us of the state to which man will fall before God steps in to fix the problem.

Your point about staying seperated from the world is always valid, but even Jesus Christ didn’t come to change the world, He came to save souls! That is the work that Christians can not fail at, for it is not our work, it is us joining Him in His work, and His work will get done perfectly.

I pray to God that it will, though.

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WTH, thanks for this wonderful diary. It proves that we have always been a Christian nation. I pray to God in heaven that we will remain as such even after the age of Obama.

the fact is that the statement is too vague in the affirmative or the negative to have much meaning

but in terms of a sound bite war, we should not concede all that most people will hear

in that context we are a christian nation

I agree with the posters who say American was not founded as a Christian nation, but the Founders knew the people of America had to have Christian values. The Separation of Powers concept was an enshrinement, in a way, of the doctrine of Original Sin: power corrupts, so spread it around.

It’s not that big a deal to me that Obama said America is not a Christian nation. Thomas Jefferson said essentially the same thing to the Barbary Pirates — that they had no religious grounds for a war on the United States.

It is right to say that as the nation declines morally, everything else about it goes as well. We who profess faith in Christ bear a large responsibility for this. We become what we think about; for example, if the 60-86% of Americans who say religion is “very important” in their lives quit consuming television/film/music that attacks their moral views, that stuff would quit being made.

If we want to raise the country, we believers must start raising our thoughts.

(Clue to passerby25: Christians are Christians because they are aware they are not perfect and never will be, and need the grace of God for forgiveness. They believe Jesus died on the cross to allow him to be a sacrficial lamb for our sins which we commit daily. Christains do not believe this makes them or will make them perfect.)

These comments are so boring….
I respectfully am bored with them.

And I believe you miss one major thing about “Our nation being founded on Christian Values”, is that it was founded on Christian VALUES, not Christianity. I know Atheist that are good people, and I know Christians that aren’t. Though Religion obviously has some affect on your values, they are not dependent on each other. Our Founding Fathers realized that, which is why they made it so that government can make “No law Respecting the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof”. To say we are a “Christian Nation” implies that, as a nation, we endorse a single religion, which we do not.

The point is, we were founded on Christian Values, not Christianity, and you don’t need to be a Christian to have Christian Values. (not to mention that it is a bit arrogant to assume that one religion has a monopoly on certain values).

I don’t concede the language to them.

A Nation OF and BY Christians.

Of all the boneheaded statements he made while on his popularity tour in Europe this one hit me in the chest. Now we know who he is and what he will do to gain whatever power and praise from anyone and everyone. Disgusting and oh so arrogant. Rest assured there will be no statement made as to the rage and out-cry from Christians across our nation who were insulted and angered by it. god bless America is on our currency and in our hearts.

Obama representing us in the world is like saying Barney Frank is the example of an average American. Gives me the crawlies.

We now have a political class that holds the American people in contempt.

The political says you can’t being a true orthodox Christians, you can’t be pro-life, you must be for gay marriage, you must support the billionare bankers bailouts, you must support anything labeled as a free trade bill, you must support open borders etc…

The leadership of the Republican party tends to join in with the political class against its own base when push comes to shove.

They want to stamp out religion. They only ally themselves with Islam & other minority (minority in the US at least) religions in order to defeat and bring down Chistianity and candidates who espouse Christian values.

But these Muslims, Jews, etc. need to wake up and realize who the true enemy is, and that is the American liberal who wants to stifle ALL religious thought.

Do muslims really think for one second that the Christian-bashing liberals are in any way sympathetic to muslim religious doctrine?

Do they think that Obama is open to their ideas on abortion, women’s rights (or lack thereof), or homosexuality?

They need to WAKE UP and see that the Godless are just as much a threat to them as to us.

We are like Indians being ruled by Swedes.