Maybe I'm becoming more of a hard-liner by the day because of the insistence by the Left that I should lie back and let cultural erasure happen because my Anglo heritage is evil and needs to be eliminated, but one thing this is all doing is giving me a much clearer view of what is and isn't an unavoidable fact.
One fact about America is that it is, without a doubt, a Christian nation.
As my colleague Eli Shepherd noted, this was made clear by JD Vance while at TPUSA's AmFest, when he said:
"We have been, and by the grace of God, we always will be a Christian nation. Now, I want to be explicit because, of course, the fake news media will twist everything that I say. I'm not saying... Do you feel about them the same way I do? I'm not saying you have to be a Christian to be an American. I'm saying something simpler and truer: Christianity is America's creed. The shared moral language from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Across that history, our country's major debates have always centered on how we could best, as a people, please God. That creed—think about it—that creed motivated our understanding of natural law and rights, our sense of duty to one another, the conviction that the strong must protect the weak, and the belief in individual conscience. Even our famously American idea of religious liberty is a Christian concept, because we're all creatures of God."
Read: 'By the Grace of God': JD Vance Reminds America Who We Are
Vance is correct, and probably more correct than people truly understand.
As he noted, America was based on Christian values, customs, traditions, and civic habits. While the left likes to pretend we aren't a Christian nation and are a more humanist one, they never seem to have an answer for where the "humanist" value originates.
Hint: It's God. He set the standard.
So ingrained is the Christian God in the creation of the United States that we put our rights before His throne, where they cannot be touched. These are not "government-given" rights. They are given to us by the Almighty Father. There is no arguing with Him. What He says goes, and therefore if He says we can speak inconvenient truths to those in power and carry a gun to make sure they never try to force us to shut up, then that's what happens.
But we're such a Christian nation that even those who arrive here from other countries where the Christian faith is not well practiced become, in a way, heavily influenced by Christian culture.
Again, all our civic habits are of a Christian nature, and those who come here, integrate themselves, learn our customs, and adhere to our civic habits are adopting Christian ways. Those who do may never worship Christ, but they do adhere to His social commands.
Notice that those who create such discord often find themselves being rejected by more or less everyone else, whether the people doing the rejecting are Christian, Hindu, or even atheist. The corruption and instability that come from the rejection of Christian civic behaviors show just how integral adherence to Christian beliefs is in this country.
My stance on immigration has become pretty black and white, at least on this subject. If you're planning to come here to work, succeed, and follow our laws, that's fantastic, but if you refuse to adhere to the Judeo-Christian social standards that form the foundations of this country and even seek to crack those foundations so you can slowly insert your own ideological beliefs into the cracks, then you're just not going to work out here.
America is what it is because of Christianity. There is no way around that.
As Will Durant once noted, "Christianity was the moral framework that made Western civilization — including America — possible, even if modern people no longer believe its metaphysics."
Without Christianity, it all falls apart. From this, we can only assume that anyone who wants to eliminate Christianity from its foundations and replace it with something else is, at their core, un-American.
And if that's the case, then the person who wants that doesn't belong here.
